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8th Grade Georgia Studies Milestones
Prep Questions and Answers 100% Pass
What is the oldest prehistoric culture that was found in Georgia? - ANSWER✔✔-Paleo
Which prehistoric culture is responsible for the invention of the Bow and Arrow? - ANSWER✔✔-
Woodland
Which prehistoric culture is responsible for the introduction of farming? - ANSWER✔✔-Archaic
What two regions does the Fall Line divide? - ANSWER✔✔-Piedmont and Coastal Plain
The Savannah River forms a border with which state? - ANSWER✔✔-South Carolina
What purpose do the barrier islands serve? - ANSWER✔✔-The beaches protect the mainland from
damaging winds, erosion and water.
What is the largest inland freshwater wetland in Georgia? - ANSWER✔✔-Okefenokee Swamp
What river forms a portion of Georgia's Western border with Alabama? - ANSWER✔✔-Chattahoochee
River
What physical feature contributes to the relatively high amounts of rainfall enjoyed by people in extreme
northeast Georgia? - ANSWER✔✔-Appalachian Mountains
What river crossing resulted in a town to grow up around it's crossing by the Western & Atlantic Railroad
en route from Chattanooga, TN. to Savannah, GA.? - ANSWER✔✔-The Chattahoochee River
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Which physical feature in Georgia is home to the largest variety of wildlife? - ANSWER✔✔-Okefenokee
Swamp
Which region of Georgia has the largest population and is known for it's red clay? - ANSWER✔✔-
Piedmont
What is the only region of Georgia that contains coal (a fossil fuel)? - ANSWER✔✔-Appalachian Plateau
Where in Georgia can you find all of the 78 miles of the Appalachian Trail that are in our state? -
ANSWER✔✔-Blue Ridge
What region of our nation is Georgia Located? - ANSWER✔✔-Southeast
In what two Hemispheres is Georgia Located? - ANSWER✔✔-North & West
Which States border Georgia? - ANSWER✔✔-Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South
Carolina
Which region of Georgia is well known for the textile manufacturing? - ANSWER✔✔-Valley and Ridge
Which of Georgia's regions include parts of the Appalachian Mountains? - ANSWER✔✔-Blue Ridge
Mountains, Ridge and Valley, Appalachian Plateau
The First African-American students to integrate the University of Georgia - ANSWER✔✔-Charlayne
Hunter and Hamilton Holmes
What strategy did Martin Luther King, Jr. use to encourage social change? - ANSWER✔✔-Nonviolent
protest, Nonviolence, or Civil Disobediance
Jimmy Carter - ANSWER✔✔-The only President of the United States from the State of Georgia Elected in
1976, served from 1977-1981 From Plains, Georgia Former Peanut Farmer
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Headright System - ANSWER✔✔-* Land Distribution system first used to give away land and help
populate Georgia 1733-1790
* If you qualified (were considered the HEAD of a household), you had the RIGHT to land
Land Lottery - ANSWER✔✔-Land Distribution system used to give away land once there were more
people who wanted land than there was land to give away In place after 1790 If you met certain
conditions (widowed, mentally incompetent, war veteran) you could get extra chances.
Yazoo Land Fraud - ANSWER✔✔-1795 GA Governor Matthews and members of the GA General
Assembly were bribed by 4 land companies to sell them cheap land that they could then turn around
and sell for a profit. The land in question became present day Alabama and Mississippi.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) - ANSWER✔✔-4 term President of the U.S. 1932-1945 Guided
Nation during Great Depression and WWII Responsible for the NEW DEAL
Boll Weevil - ANSWER✔✔-Invasive beetle that arrived in Georgia in 1915 By 1921, this insect destroyed
45% of Georgia's Cotton Crop Along with an extended drought, it was responsible for Georgia entering
the Great depression PRIOR to the rest of the country in 1929
New Deal - ANSWER✔✔-FDR's (President Franklin Roosevelt) program during the Great Depression to
get Americans to work because unemployment was very high
Programs included Social Security, CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)
Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence - ANSWER✔✔-Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall,
George Walton
Georgians who signed the United States Constitution - ANSWER✔✔-Abraham Baldwin & William Few
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8th Grade Georgia Studies Milestones
Prep Questions and Answers 100% Pass
What is the oldest prehistoric culture that was found in Georgia? - ANSWER✔✔-Paleo
Which prehistoric culture is responsible for the invention of the Bow and Arrow? - ANSWER✔✔-
Woodland
Which prehistoric culture is responsible for the introduction of farming? - ANSWER✔✔-Archaic
What two regions does the Fall Line divide? - ANSWER✔✔-Piedmont and Coastal Plain
The Savannah River forms a border with which state? - ANSWER✔✔-South Carolina
What purpose do the barrier islands serve? - ANSWER✔✔-The beaches protect the mainland from
damaging winds, erosion and water.
What is the largest inland freshwater wetland in Georgia? - ANSWER✔✔-Okefenokee Swamp
What river forms a portion of Georgia's Western border with Alabama? - ANSWER✔✔-Chattahoochee
River
What physical feature contributes to the relatively high amounts of rainfall enjoyed by people in extreme
northeast Georgia? - ANSWER✔✔-Appalachian Mountains
What river crossing resulted in a town to grow up around it's crossing by the Western & Atlantic Railroad
en route from Chattanooga, TN. to Savannah, GA.? - ANSWER✔✔-The Chattahoochee River
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Which physical feature in Georgia is home to the largest variety of wildlife? - ANSWER✔✔-Okefenokee
Swamp
Which region of Georgia has the largest population and is known for it's red clay? - ANSWER✔✔-
Piedmont
What is the only region of Georgia that contains coal (a fossil fuel)? - ANSWER✔✔-Appalachian Plateau
Where in Georgia can you find all of the 78 miles of the Appalachian Trail that are in our state? -
ANSWER✔✔-Blue Ridge
What region of our nation is Georgia Located? - ANSWER✔✔-Southeast
In what two Hemispheres is Georgia Located? - ANSWER✔✔-North & West
Which States border Georgia? - ANSWER✔✔-Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South
Carolina
Which region of Georgia is well known for the textile manufacturing? - ANSWER✔✔-Valley and Ridge
Which of Georgia's regions include parts of the Appalachian Mountains? - ANSWER✔✔-Blue Ridge
Mountains, Ridge and Valley, Appalachian Plateau
The First African-American students to integrate the University of Georgia - ANSWER✔✔-Charlayne
Hunter and Hamilton Holmes
What strategy did Martin Luther King, Jr. use to encourage social change? - ANSWER✔✔-Nonviolent
protest, Nonviolence, or Civil Disobediance
Jimmy Carter - ANSWER✔✔-The only President of the United States from the State of Georgia Elected in
1976, served from 1977-1981 From Plains, Georgia Former Peanut Farmer
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Headright System - ANSWER✔✔-* Land Distribution system first used to give away land and help
populate Georgia 1733-1790
* If you qualified (were considered the HEAD of a household), you had the RIGHT to land
Land Lottery - ANSWER✔✔-Land Distribution system used to give away land once there were more
people who wanted land than there was land to give away In place after 1790 If you met certain
conditions (widowed, mentally incompetent, war veteran) you could get extra chances.
Yazoo Land Fraud - ANSWER✔✔-1795 GA Governor Matthews and members of the GA General
Assembly were bribed by 4 land companies to sell them cheap land that they could then turn around
and sell for a profit. The land in question became present day Alabama and Mississippi.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) - ANSWER✔✔-4 term President of the U.S. 1932-1945 Guided
Nation during Great Depression and WWII Responsible for the NEW DEAL
Boll Weevil - ANSWER✔✔-Invasive beetle that arrived in Georgia in 1915 By 1921, this insect destroyed
45% of Georgia's Cotton Crop Along with an extended drought, it was responsible for Georgia entering
the Great depression PRIOR to the rest of the country in 1929
New Deal - ANSWER✔✔-FDR's (President Franklin Roosevelt) program during the Great Depression to
get Americans to work because unemployment was very high
Programs included Social Security, CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)
Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence - ANSWER✔✔-Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall,
George Walton
Georgians who signed the United States Constitution - ANSWER✔✔-Abraham Baldwin & William Few
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