1 st Semester Study Guide Answers

1. 1st Semester Study Guide Answers

2. 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

3. Geography 5. Appalchian 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

4. SS8H1 • 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

5. SS8H1 • Many died because of his cruelty and European diseases • To assist in converting the natives to Christianity • British-mercantilism Spanish- God, Gold, and Glory

6. SS8H2 • James Oglethorpe • Charter of 1732 • Tomochichi • Mary Musgrove • Savannah • Salzburgers • Highland Scots • malcontents

7. SS8H2 • 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 self-government with a bi-cameral legislature.

8. SS8H3 • -Debt from French and Indian War -dislike of the Proclamation of 1763 -taxes 27. Battle of Lexington and Concord Intolerable Acts • St. Mary’s River became southern boundary Increased the population of Georgia

9. SS8H3 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 • Loyalists won and maintain control of Savannah

10. SS8H4 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

11. SS8H4 39. Abraham Baldwin and William Few 40. To have a stronger central government so the government could protect western territories from Indian threat

12. SS8H5 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

13. SS8H5 • Cotton gin • Railroads • Alexander McGillivray • William McIntosh • He developed a syllabary so the Cherokee could have written language.

14. SS8H5 • Dahlonega Gold Rush • John Marshall • Worcester vs. Georgia • John Ross • Andrew Jackson • Trail of Tears

15. SS8H6 • slavery, states’ rights, nullification, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Georgia Platform, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott case, election of 1860, and secession.

16. SS8H6 58. Alexander Stephens 59. Antietam 60. To end civilian support for the war effort and to shorten the war.