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Earlier in statehood GA was made up of what two states? -
Answer-Alabama and Mississippi
First people to settle in Georgia - Answer-Paleoindian
Period: Clovis culture
Woodland Period: Mound builders
Kolomoki Mounds
New Deal in Georgia? - Answer--Aimed at economic
recovery and address Georgia's social conditions as well
-Within a year, 20% of Georgia's urban residents were
receiving some kind of federal relief (increased wages)
-New deal brought $250mm to GA
-Agricultural Adjustment paid farmers to plant less cotton
(decreased
supply of cotton to help with depressed cotton prices)
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-Talmadge opposed New Deal policies
-Failed to improve economic conditions overall
Impact of WWII in GA? Increased or decreased wages? -
Answer--Lifted GA out of the Great Depression
-American farmers were strained by the war effort (left
farms to work at defense factories which paid better)
-Employment increased significantly
-Higher wages overall
-By 1950 more people in manufacturing than farming
Cahokia? - Answer-The most sophisticated pre-historic
Native civilization north of Mexico. Mound state across the
Mississippi River in St. Louis
1st woman to run for vice presidency? - Answer-Geraldine
Ferraro
Which president ended Vietnam War? - Answer-Nixon
"New nationalism" - Answer-Teddy Roosevelt
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-Fed intervention, social justice, under privileged
Why was Andrew Jackson elected? - Answer--Known as
the People's president
-Was a War hero
-Supported individual liberty and forced Native American
migration
Who created the Federalist Party? - Answer-Alexander
Hamilton
-The party elected Adams to the presidency in 1796
Siege of Savannah - Answer--Second deadliest battle of
the Revolutionary War
-Americans unsuccessfully tried to rid the city of British
occupation
-Whig allies lost the battle
Favorite pastime of Antebellum GA? - Answer--
Shakespeare?
-Major reformation movements
-Playrights
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-POLITICS became a great national pastime
Why did Georgians want Indians removed from the state?
- Answer-Indian removal was a product of demand for
arable land during the rampant growth of cotton agriculture
-discovery of gold on Cherokee land
-And racial prejudice against Native Americans
Where was the most inequality in the colonies? - Answer-
Jamaica?
-greatest inequality in terms of land ownership was South
Carolina
French Indian War resulted in? - Answer-The French and
Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of
Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous
territorial gains in North America, but disputes over
subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses
led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American
Revolution.