Essential Questions (they cover the GPS)

Georgia Studies Comprehensive Study Test

1.     On what hemispheres is Georgia located?

2.     What is the line that separates the Eastern from Western Hemisphere?

3.     What is the line that separates the Northern from Southern Hemisphere?

4.     Name the imaginary lines that circle the globe East to West.

5.     Name the imaginary lines that circle the globe North to South.

6.     What is the location of a place compared to other places called?

7.     What do you call the precise spot of a place on a map?

8.     In what region of the U. S. A. is Georgia located?

9.     Name the five states that border Georgia.

10. What three rivers form parts of Georgia’s borders?

11. What river system in Georgia does NOT begin within the state’s borders?

12. Name the five regions of Georgia.

13. What is the smallest region?

14. What is the largest region?

15. What region has the largest population?

16. What region has the highest elevation?

17. What region is the center of agriculture?

18. What region contains the marble and granite industry?

19. What is the imaginary line that separates the two largest regions?

20. Through what three cities does that line run?

21. Why did people settle along this line?

22. What geographical features protect the coastline from storms and waves?

23. In what region is the Okeefenokee Swamp located?

24. What is the wind current that helped the Europeans come to America?

25. What wind current helped them return to Europe?

26. What ocean current runs north along the Atlantic coast?

27. What is a major windstorm that occurs over water called?

28. A powerful, damaging storm that occurs over land is called a what?

29. What is the white powder mined in Georgia, used to make dishes called?

30. Name five major rivers in Georgia.

31. What is the area called where a river meets the ocean?

32. What is the person called that digs for artifacts called?

33. What is the person called that studies the artifacts for cultural value?

34. What were the oldest known Indians in America called?

35. What landform did they use to come to North America?

36. What is the term used to describe people who travel looking for food?

37. What is the science of cultivating plants called?

38. Name the other three Indian groups not named in Question 33.

39. What were the two major Indian nations located in Georgia?

40. Who developed an alphabet for the Indian nation?

41. What was that “alphabet” called?

42. Who was the first European to explore Georgia?

43. For what was he searching?

44. The system of exporting more that you import is known as what?

45. The 1^st permanent English colony in America was called what?

46. People who agreed to work for passage to America were called what?

47. In what year did slaves first appear in America?

48. What was the name of the Indian who helped the 1^st settlers in Virginia?

49. Who was selected to lead the Georgia colony?

50. Georgia was originally colonized to protect whom from whom?

51. What plant was to be grown by all Georgia colonists?

52. What four groups of people were not allowed in Ga.’s colony?

53. What was the name of the Ship that brought colonists to Georgia?

54. Where did that ship first land in America?

55. What was the name of the Indian that allowed Georgians to land?

56. What were the names of the two translators who helped Oglethorpe?

57. What was the name of Georgia’s first city?

58. Who was allowed to come to Georgia as original colonists?

59. Those that ruled Georgia for the King were called what?

60. What was the name of the town settled by the Saltzburgers?

61. The major cause of discontent among settlers was over what?

62. America’s colonies were divided into what three groups?

63. What was the name given to the Agricultural colonies and what were they?

64. Georgia’s first legislature was made up of how many houses?

65. What was the name of the war that led America to revolt?

66. It was fought among what three groups of people?

67. What did The Proclamation of 1763 established as Georgia’s Southern border.

68.  Name three laws passed by the British that led to the revolution.

69. What allowed British soldiers to live in colonial homes?

70. Who primarily wrote the Declaration of Independence?

71. Name the female colonists known as a war hero.

72. The two sides of the revolutionary issue were called what and what?

73. What was the name of the document that ended the American Revolutionary war?

74. Name three Georgians that signed the Declaration.

75. The document that laid the blueprint for America was the what?

76. The 1^st ten amendments are called the what?

77. The original method of giving settlers Indian land was called what?

78. A bribery scheme involving Georgia legislators and land was called what?

79. What land deal doubled the size of America in 1803?

80. What was the name of the invention and inventor that changed the cotton industry?

81. Same question for the grain industry.

82. What is the name for a period of sharp downturn in the economy?

83. What church name was abbreviated by the letters:  A M E?

84. What was one of Georgia’s leading newspapers at the turn of the century?

85. How did the White House get its name?

86. The removal of the Cherokee Indians was called what?

87. One of the main reasons the Indians were removed was the discovery of what?

88. Most of the Cherokee were moved to what state?

89. The period in American history prior to the Civil War is called what?

90. What three pieces of legislation tried to solve the slavery issue?

91. A tax place of goods imported or exported is called what?

92. Name the 3 slaves that led rebellions in the South.

93. Which of the three was the bloodiest?

94. Name the white abolitionist hanged after his raid on Harper’s Ferry.

95. Isabella Baumfree’s pen name was what?

96. The backbone of southern economy before the Civil War was what crop?

97. Name the Georgia that first used ether as an anesthetic.

98. America’s most famous black abolitionist was who?

99. Where were the 1^st shots of the Civil War fired?

100.        What event led to Georgia’s secession from the Union?

101.        What is the word used ot describe how the Union dealt with Southern ports?

102.        What are 4 major reasons the South lost the war?

103.        What were ironclads?

104.        What was the “General” and where is it located?

105.        What was the largest battle to take place in Georgia?

106.        In What year did President Lincoln free the slaves?

107.        Who was the Union General at the Battle of Atlanta?

108.        Name the infamous Union Prisoner of War camp in Georgia?

109.        The FINAL land battle of the war was fought where.

110.        Where did the Southern surrender take place?

111.        What was the period after the was called?

112.        The northerner who came south to get rich was called a what?

113.        The Southerner that help him was called a what?

114.        What was the woman’s name that formed the Red Cross during the Civil War?

115.        What was the organization formed to help slaves adapt to free life?

116.        Name the  three reconstruction plans.

117.        Who was president following Lincolns’ assassination?

118.        What was the name of the laws passed to restrict rights of blacks?

119.        What was accomplished by the 13^th Amendment?

120.        What was accomplished by the 14^th amendment? (3 Things)

121.        What was accomplished by the 15^th amendment?

122.        Name the white organization that formed to deal with unruly blacks.

123.        Name the players in the Bourbon Triumvirate.

124.        What was the name of the woman that challenged the triumvirate?

125.        A South that is much more industrialized is called the what?

126.        Who was the person behind the Industrialization of the South?

127.        What did Georgia furnish for the funeral?

128.        Name Atlanta’s main newspaper and its Editor.

129.        What is a school called that trains teachers.

130.        What products are included in the development of Naval Stores industry in Ga.?

131.        Name the Author of the Uncle Remus Books.

132.        Who wrote the Song of the Chattahoochee?

133.        What do we call a farm and all of its buildings?

134.        What was the organization of farmers formed in 1870 called?

135.        What is a group that bonds together to lower purchasing prices called?

136.        What is the term used to explain taking away the ability to vote?

137.        What was the name of the book by Upton Sinclair about the meat packing industry?

138.        What were the reporters called that exposed bad conditions in America’s cities?

139.        Name the labor union that was successful during the late 1800s.

140.        What was the movement to do away with alcohol called?

141.        Who was its national leader?

142.        What Constitutional amendment was brought about by these actions?

143.        Name the originator of the Girl Scouts.

144.        What were the women called who sought the right to vote?

145.        Who was the national leader of this movement?

146.        What constitutional amendment came from this movement?

147.        What is the largest college campus in America?

148.        What political party held its nominating convention in Omaha, Nebraska July 1892?

149.        Name 4 of the planks it the party’s platform.

150.        Who was responsible for free mail delivery to farmers?

151.        What was his legislation called?

152.        What Supreme Court decision led to the “Separate but Equal” action?

153.        Who was the dissenting vote on that case?

154.        Who is responsible for the founding of Tuskegee Institute?

155.        What two philanthropists helped him?