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.