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What river borders Georgia and South Carolina?
a) Altamaha
b) Savannah
c) Chattahoochee
d) St. Mary's

How many geographic regions are there in Georgia?
a) 7
b) 5
c) 4
d) none

The most populous region in Georgia is?
a) Piedmont
b) Ridge and Valley
c) Coastal Plains
d) Blue Ridge

What physical feature separates the Piedmont from the Coastal Plains?
a) Line of Demarcation
b) Equator
c) Fall Line
d) Hair line

What period in early Georgia history did the Native Americans have first contact with Europeans?
a) Paleo
b) Archaic
c) Woodland
d) Mississippian

This conquistador died of yellow fever after a disappointing exploration for gold in the southeast (Georgia).
a) Hernando Cortes
b) Hernando De Soto
c) Hernando Hernando
d) Mila Hernando

What was James Oglethorpe's reasons for settlement in Georgia?
a) Get away from King George II because he was in debt
b) Philanthropy, Economic, and Defense
c) Money, power, and respect
d) 3 G's (God, Gold, Glory)

What number colony was Georgia?
a) 11th
b) 13th
c) 50th
d) 1st

How many royal governors did Georgia have after Oglethorpe and the trustees left?
a) 5
b) 2
c) 3
d) 99

What was the first form of constitution of the United States called?
a) Constitution
b) Articles of Confederation
c) Law of the land
d) Declaration of Independence

Why was the Articles of Confederation weak?
a) no courts, no leader, no taxes, no national money, and states running like individual nations.
b) Nobody could read the words because it was in a different language.
c) Didn't include slaves.
d) United States was looking over their shoulders for King George III.

How many capitals have Georgia had?
a) 5
b) 4
c) 3
d) 2

It was the first public land grant university (public college) in the United States (1785), established at first for males.
a) Oglethorpe University
b) Georgia State University
c) Savannah State
d) University of Georgia

The Yazoo Land Fraud was a land scandal that involved Georgia’s lawmakers, the Georgia General Assembly. The General Assembly sold land that is in present-day Alabama and Mississippi, near the Yazoo River, for $500,000.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

What was the main cause of the Civil War?
a) Slavery
b) Money
c) Lincoln's beard
d) Battle of Antietam

The Freedmen’s Bureau established schools for African-Americans or blacks to gain them equal access to education and opportunity. Morehouse College and Clarke-Atlanta University developed from the Freedmen's Schools.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

Tom Watson was one of Georgia’s most controversial politicians. He began as a member of the Populist Party, a political party focused on the needs of...
a) people
b) farmers
c) government
d) democrats and republicans

What does the word disenfranchisement mean?
a) discriminate
b) stripped of your franchise
c) take away voting rights
d) disenfranchise

How many troops did Georgia send to World War I?
a) 50,000
b) 100,000
c) 200,000
d) 1 million

For Georgia, the Depression was incredibly difficult due to two major agricultural problems. The boll weevil and...
a) rain
b) drought
c) over farming
d) Great Depression

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