1st Semester Study Guide
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Geography
1.Northwest, United States of America,
North America
2.South, southeast, east, sunbelt, deep
south
3. Coastal Plain and Piedmont
4.Coastal Plain, Piedmont, Blue Ridge
Mountains, Ridge and Valley, Appalachian
Plateau
Geography
5. Appalachian Plateau
6. Piedmont
7. Coastal Plain
8. The prehistoric ocean’s shoreline
9. The swiftly moving water could be harnessed
for power.
10.Okefenokee Swamp
11.Appalachian Mountains
12. Chattahoochee River
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Paleo- clovis point and atlatl
pithouses (nomadic)
Archaic-axe
pithouses and rock shelters
Woodland- bow and arrow
villages along stream valleys
Mississippian- perfected the bow and arrows
Wattle and daub houses in a settlement
surrounded by a palisade
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Many died because of his cruelty and
European diseases
To assist in converting the natives to
Christianity
British-mercantilism
Spanish- God, Gold, and Glory
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James Oglethorpe
Charter of 1732
Tomochichi
Mary Musgrove
Savannah
Salzburgers
Highland Scots
malcontents
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Women could inherit land, land could be
passed down to whomever, slavery was
allowed, Georgia was controlled by a
royal governor and John Reynolds
allowed Georgia’s first chance at selfgovernment with a bi-cameral
legislature.
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-Debt from French and Indian War
-dislike of the Proclamation of 1763
-taxes
27. Battle of Lexington and Concord
Intolerable Acts
28. St. Mary’s River became southern boundary
Increased the population of Georgia
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29. Loyalists
30.Elijah Clark
31.Patriots won and received much needed
supplies
32.Austin Dabney
33.Nancy Hart
34.George Walton, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall
35. Loyalists won and maintain control of
Savannah
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36. Too much power to the Legislative
Branch
37.Georgians had had a bad experience with
the Royal Governors
38. Lacked power to tax, to enforce laws, to
regulate trade between states, and
required all 13 states to vote for changes
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39. Abraham Baldwin and William Few
40. To have a stronger central government
so the government could protect western
territories from Indian threat
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41.University of Georgia
42.It was centrally located to the population in
Georgia
43. Baptist and Methodist
44.Population grew because people wanted to take
advantage of free land.
45.The worst political scandal in state history and
Georgia’s western boundary changed to the
Chattahoochee River
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Cotton gin
Railroads
Alexander McGillivray
William McIntosh
He developed a syllabary so the
Cherokee could have written language.
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Dahlonega Gold Rush
John Marshall
Worcester vs. Georgia
John Ross
Andrew Jackson
Trail of Tears
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slavery, states’ rights, nullification,
Missouri Compromise, Compromise of
1850, Georgia Platform, KansasNebraska Act, Dred Scott case, election
of 1860, and secession.
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58. Alexander Stephens
59. Antietam
60. To end civilian support for the war effort
and to shorten the war.