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Midterm Jeopardy Review
Final Jeopardy
GA PIEDMONT ATLANTA CHEROKEE WOODSTK WMS
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$100 Question from GA
What hemispheres is Georgia in?
$100 Answer from GA
Northern & Western
$200 Question from GA
Who was Elijah Clarke?
$200 Answer from GA
GA War Hero - Leader in the Battle of Kettle Creek
$300 Question from GA
Why was the Fall Line important to Georgia’s development?
$300 Answer from GA
Industries first developed along the Fall Line due to fast moving rivers – hydro
electricity
$400 Question from GA
Why are the Blue Ridge mountains important to Georgia?
$400 Answer from GA
The Blue Ridge Mtns are a source of many rivers in GA; Much rain comes from the
Mountains – providing water for the state’s aquifers
$500 Question from GA
What were the Intolerable Acts and why were they passed?
$500 Answer from GA
Intolerable acts were passed by Britain as a response to the Boston Tea Party. They: Closed the Port of Boston until the Tea was paid for; Redid the Quartering Act; Banned Massachusetts from having town
meetings or electing officials.
$100 Question from PIEDMONT
Who was Casmir Pulaski?
$100 Answer from PIEDMONT
GA War Hero - Polish Nobleman who helped GA in the American Revolution. Died in the Siege of
Savannah.
$200 Question from PIEDMONT
Who were the Georgia signers of the Declaration of
Independence?
$200 Answer from PIEDMONT
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George
Walton
$300 Question from PIEDMONT
Describe the importance of the Battle of Kettle
Creek
$300 Answer from PIEDMONT
A moral victory for Georgia patriots because they captured
much needed supplies and gained the support of many
Georgia Loyalists?
$400 Question from PIEDMONT
What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
$400 Answer from PIEDMONT
National Gov’t was weaker than states. Could not tax. Articles could be amended too easily by the states
$500 Question from PIEDMONT
What were the characteristics of the
Georgia Constitution of 1777?
$500 Answer from PIEDMONT
Unicameral legislature which held all the power despite 3
branches of government
$100 Question from ATLANTA
Who were the Georgia signers of the Constitution?
$100 Answer from ATLANTA
Abraham Baldwin and William Few
$200 Question from ATLANTA
North or South?
Lincoln DavisLee Grant Sherman
$200 Answer from ATLANTA
North: Lincoln, Grant & Sherman
South: Davis & Lee
$300 Question from ATLANTA
What was the land lottery system?
$300 Answer from ATLANTA
Plan for distributing Native American land in GA where each person drew a
land lot from a barrel. Land lot size was determined by the quality of land.
$400 Question from ATLANTA
Why was the Yazoo land fraud is considered to be the worst political scandal in Georgia
history?
$400 Answer from ATLANTA
State Legislators were bribed (took money) to
illegally sell GA land to land speculators.
$500 Question from ATLANTA
What were the three things that GA’s Ordinance of Secession said?
$500 Answer from ATLANTA
It repealed the ratification of the US Constitution.
It declared Georgia an independent nation.
It dissolved GA’s membership in the USA.
$100 Question from CHEROKEE
What are the characteristics of the founding of UGA?
$100 Answer from CHEROKEE
1785 – First State chartered university in the country.
Founded by Abraham Baldwin.
$200 Question from CHEROKEE
What incident led colonists to react with the Boston Tea Party?
$200 Answer from CHEROKEE
The British passed a law giving ONE British
company the right to see tea to Americans.
$300 Question from CHEROKEE
Why was Abraham Baldwin important to
the Constitutional Convention?
$300 Answer from CHEROKEE
He cast the tie vote which caused the Congress to come up with the
Great Compromise. GC made a bicameral legislature (House of Reps (pop) & Senate
$400 Question from CHEROKEE
Why were railroads important to Georgia?
$400 Answer from CHEROKEE
Fast & efficient way to transport cotton; many cotton producing
towns were far away from rivers – so they needed railroad to transport
cotton.
$500 Question from CHEROKEE
What was the importance of the Supreme Court
case Worcester v. Georgia?
$500 Answer from CHEROKEE
Missionaries sued the state of GA for jailing them. The Supreme Court ruled that “GA Law
did not apply in Cherokee land and the missionaries should be set free.
$100 Question from WOODSTOCK
Why were whites interested in Cherokee lands?
$100 Answer from WOODSTOCK
Gold had been discovered on Cherokee land.
$200 Question from WOODSTOCK
Why did Creek Indians turn against William McIntosh?
$200 Answer from WOODSTOCK
William McIntosh illegally sold all remaining Creek
land to the state of GA. He was killed by Creek
Warriors.
$300 Question from WOODSTOCK
How did the Cherokee try to avoid being removed
from their land?
$300 Answer from WOODSTOCK
The Cherokee tried to adapt to white culture by writing a Constitution, large scale
agriculture, dressing and living like whites, developing a written
language.
$400 Question from WOODSTOCK
What was the importance of the Missouri Compromise?
$400 Answer from WOODSTOCK
Balanced the power in the Congress between the Slave States and
Free States – allowing Maine as free state and Missouri slave state
to enter the USA.
$500 Question from WOODSTOCK
What was the “Georgia Platform”?
$500 Answer from WOODSTOCK
GA decided that they would not secede and that they
would abide by the Compromise of 1850 as long
as the North did as well.
$100 Question from WMS
Why was the cotton gin important to
growth in Georgia?
$100 Answer from WMS
Cotton gin made it possible to grow and
process cotton well in to the Piedmont Region
$200 Question from WMS
How did Georgia respond to the
Compromise of 1850?
$200 Answer from WMS
The Governor called a convention to discuss
the Compromise of 1850 & Secession.
$300 Question from WMS
What were the results of the Dred Scott case?
$300 Answer from WMS
Dred Scott was property, a slave, and had no rights to sue. Court also said that the Congress could NOT BAN slavery in the new western
territories.
$400 Question from WMS
What were the reasons for establishing the
Georgia colony?
$400 Answer from WMS
1. Defense against Spanish in FL (buffer colony to S.C.)
2. Economics - Mercantilism 3. Religious Freedom for Protestants4. Politics – More power for King of
England
$500 Question from WMS
Why did the southern states secede after Lincoln was
elected?
$500 Answer from WMS
Southerners feared that Lincoln would declare Slavery illegal;
increase National authority over States’ rights & that slavery would
not be allowed in the Western Territories.