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Please select a Team.

• Cherokee
• Creek
• Chickasaw
• Choctaw
• Seminole

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Who represented Georgia at the Constitutional
Convention of 1787?

• John Treutlen, George Matthews
• Wilson Lumpkin, John Hancock
• William Few, Abraham Baldwin
• Thomas Jefferson, George Washington

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What was a major weakness of the Articles of
Confederation?

• The federal government represented all thirteen
  states.
• The Articles of Confederation could be revised.
• The Articles of Confederation was not ratified by
  all the states.
• The federal government had little power.

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What natural boundaries marked the eastern and
western boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase?

• Appalachian and Rocky mountains
• Rocky Mountains and Mississippi River
• Mexican border and Canadian border
• Atlantic Coast and Pacific Coast

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Which branch of state government was the most
powerful under the Georgia constitution adopted
in 1789?

• Executive branch
• Legislative branch
• Judicial branch
• Federal branch

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After the Revolutionary War, Georgias major
crops were

• rice and indigo.
• rice and wheat.
• cotton and peanuts.
• cotton and tobacco.

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In the mid-1800s, Georgias main railroad company
was the

• Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
• Federal Railroad.
• Western and Atlantic Railroad.
• Savannah and Augusta Railroad.

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In the early 1800s, which items were considered
luxuries by settlers living on Georgias frontier
farms?

• Salt and flour
• Ammunition and weapons
• Farm seed and tools
• Eggs and cheese

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What was the purpose of the Constitutional
Convention held in 1787 in Philadelphia?

• To revise the Articles of Confederation
• To select the nations new president
• To draft a Declaration of Independence
• To sign the Treaty of Paris

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With which church was Bishop Richard Allen
associated in the early 1800s?

• Church of the Latter Day Saints
• First African Baptist Church
• Roman Catholic Church
• African Methodist Episcopal Church

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Editor of the first Indian newspaper, The
Cherokee Phoenix

• Andrew Jackson
• Elias Boudinot
• Richard Allen
• George Mathews

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What was the most damaging result of the Yazoo
land fraud in Georgia?

• The legislators who were involved were voted out
  of office.
• Records of land sales were burned in Louisville.
• Georgia lost money as well as lands west of the
  Chattahoochee River.
• Georgia lost national prestige over the
  fraudulent land sales.

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Georgias earliest college for women was

• the University of Georgia.
• Georgia Female College (Wesleyan).
• Franklin College.
• Georgia Womans College.

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President who purchased the Louisiana Territory
from France for 15 million

• Andrew Jackson
• James Madison
• George Mathews
• Thomas Jefferson

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Signed the Treaty of Indian Springs giving the
last Creek lands to the United States government

• Andrew Jackson
• James Madison
• Cyrus McCormick
• Chief William McIntosh

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The most important mechanical invention to
Georgias economy in the early 1800s was the

• mechanical reaper.
• telegraph.
• cotton gin.
• railroad.

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The major reason that the United States declared
war on Great Britain in 1812 was U.S. desire to

• seize lands in the West and Canada.
• side with France in a naval war.
• gain British lands in the South.
• establish an embargo to control trade with
  foreigners.

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Invented the mechanical grain reaper

• Elias Boudinot
• Richard Allen
• Cyrus McCormick
• Chief William McIntosh

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The permanent Cherokee capital was located in

• Stephens County, Georgia.
• Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.
• Phoenix City, Alabama.
• New Echota, Georgia.

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Led U.S. troops to victory in the Battle of New
Orleans

• Andrew Jackson
• James Madison
• William Few
• Thomas Jefferson

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The incident most directly responsible for the
Creek War was the

• discovery of gold in Dahlonega.
• Red Sticks attack on Fort Mims.
• Creek attacks on settlers along the Oconee River.
• federal governments giving tools and farm
  animals to the Creek.

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Founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church

• Andrew Jackson
• Elias Boudinot
• Richard Allen
• George Mathews

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Who was involved in the Oconee War?

• The Cherokee and the Creek
• Settlers and the Creek
• U.S. troops and the Creek
• The Seminole and the Creek

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Who participated in the Treaty of Indian Springs,
which ceded the last Creek lands in Georgia?

• Andrew Jackson and Chief McIntosh
• Andrew Jackson and Chief Menawa
• Governor George Troup and Chief McIntosh
• Governor George Troup and Chief Menawa

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One of Georgias representatives to the
Constitutional Convention of 1787

• James Madison
• Richard Allen
• William Few
• George Mathews

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Benjamin Franklins most famous publication was

• Poor Richards Almanack.
• Ben Franklins Autobiography.
• the New England Courant.
• the Pennsylvania Gazette.

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Georgia governor during the Yazoo land fraud

• Andrew Jackson
• James Madison
• William Few
• George Mathews

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What led to Americas change to a market
economy?

• The growth of industrialization
• The development of commercial agriculture
• The discovery of gold
• The expansion of transportation

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What legislation allowed Georgia to push the
Creek and the Cherokee out of the state and to
seize their lands?

• The Treaty of New York
• The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Worchester v.
  Butler
• The Treaty of Indian Springs
• The Indian Removal Act of 1830

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What national symbol came out of the War of
1812?

• The Star-Spangled Banner
• The nations battle flag
• The Fort McHenry Memorial
• The U.S. White House

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President who led the United States into the War
of 1812

• Andrew Jackson
• James Madison
• George Mathews
• Thomas Jefferson

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