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Georgia Studies Review I
Test Description: GPS - 8th Georgia Studies
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) How did the invention of the cotton gin revolutionize the economy of the South?
A
it led to increases in cotton production but decreases in slave labor
B
it led to decreases in cotton production and decreases in the need for slave labor
C
it led to increases in cotton production and white labor
D
it led to increases in cotton production and slave labor
2) Which of the following people is responsible for developing the cotton gin?
A
Samuel Adams
B
Thomas Edison
C
Elijah Clarke
D
Eli Whitney
3) the sale of western land to four land companies after the governor and members of the General Assembly had been bribed
A
Land Lottery System
B
Land Allocation
C
Yazoo Land Fraud
D
Corrupt Bargaining
4) What was the Head Right System?
A
a system of distributing land to white males
B
a system of dividing land between whtie males and their slaves
C
a system of distributing government owned land to all citizens within a state
D
a system of selling land to potential land buyers
5) A set of written characters each one representing a syllable is called
A
Syllabary
B
Cuneiform
C
Ebonics
D
Hieroglyphics
6) Sequoyah, a Cherokee Indian is best known for developing
A
a system of writing for the Woodland language
B
a system of writing for the Iroquois language
C
a system of writing or the Blackfoot language
D
inventing a system for writing the Cherokee language
7) What was the land lottery system?
A
A system that distributed land to white males only
B
A system that distributed land to African slaves who had fought in the American Revolution
C
A system that distributed land by people paying for a ticket and having a name and land lot drawn from two buckets.
D
A system that distributed land to people who had fought in the American Revolution
8) An act that stated that all Native Americans have to move to western territories was called
A
The Creek and Cherokee Removal Act
B
The Migration Act of 2015
C
The Act of Relocating
D
The Indian Removal Act
9) A minister who rode horseback from place to place to preach and perform religious ceremonies.
A
Circuit Rider
B
Region Rider
C
District Rider
D
State Rider
10) Georgia's dominate religious denominations are
A
Baptists and Methodists
B
Catholics and Baptists
C
Methodists and Anglicans
D
Methodists and Presbyterians
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