UGA History Exemption Test 2020- Georgia
Human history in Georgia dates back to the _______ era which took place ____
years ago. ✔️ Paleoindian, 13,000
The _____ Period took place from AD 800-1600. Complex native cultures
organized as ____ emerged. ✔️ Mississippian, chiefdoms
With the arrival of European explorers and settlers, ______ cultures began to
______. ✔️ Mississippian, decline
The _____ and _____ Indian tribes played significant roles in the colonial history
of Georgia. ✔️ Creek, cherokee
The earliest Europeans in Georgia were the ______. ✔️ Spanish
Established in _____, with settlement in Savannah in _____, Georgia was the
______ of the thirteen colonies to be founded. ✔️ 1732, 1733, last
Georgia was the only colony founded and ruled by a _____ _____ ____ , which was
based in London, England, with no _______ within the colony itself for the first
two decades of its existence ✔️ Board of trustees, governor
Georgia was the only one of the colonies in which ____ was banned at its
beginning, along with _____, _____, and _____. ✔️ Slavery, rum, lawyers,
catholics
Slavery was legalized in Georgia in ____. ✔️ 1751
The colony was governed by ____ _____ instead of the Board of Trustees from
______-______, ending with the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. ✔️ royal
governors, 1752-1776
_______ _____ founded Georgia, and envisioned the colony as a refuge for the
_______ who crowded London prisons; however, no such prisoners were among
the initial settlers. ✔️ James Oglethorpe, debtors
, The British military wanted Georgia to be a buffer zone to protect ____ ___ and
its other southern colonies from the _____ in Florida. ✔️ South Carolina,
Spanish
The Battle of Bloody Marsh on ____ ____ ____ was a conflict between the British
troops (that were commanded and financed by Oglethorpe) and the Spanish,
which ended in a _____ victory. ✔️ St. Simons Island, British
During the Revolutionary war Georgia resisted British trade regulation, but
they tended to _____ with British interests because royal rule had brought
prosperity for many colonists and because they desired the presence of
British troops to stem the threat of ______ attacks. ✔️ sympathize, Indian
At the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, three Georgians— _____
____, _____ _____, and _____ _____ signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4,
1776. ✔️ Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
In _____ two Georgians, ____ ____ and ____ ____ ____, signed the new U.S.
Constitution at the Constitutional Convention. ✔️ 1787, Abraham
Baldwin, William Few Jr.,
The Siege of Savannah in ____ was the most serious military confrontation
between ___ and ___ troops. ✔️ 1779, British, American
In 1779 the capital of Georgia was moved from ____ to ____. ✔️ Savannah,
Augusta
_____ ___ was a female patriot and spy credited with killing several Tory
soldiers at her home. ✔️ Nancy Hart
After the Trustees lifted the ban on slavery, Georgians moved quickly to
establish a coastal plantation economy based on _____ and ___ ____ _____. ✔️
Rice, Sea Island Cotton
In _____, Eli Whitney invented the ____ ____. ✔️ 1793, cotton gin
The invention of the cotton gin led to the development of the ____ _____ region,
a wide geographical strip with a pronounced concentration of _____ and _____
cultivation. ✔️ Black Belt, slaves, cotton
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