8th Grade Vocabulary, People, and Places
Unit 1 Connecting Themes in GA Studies
Vocabulary
Conflict/Change
Location
Distribution of Power
Governance
Movement/Migration
Production, Distribution, & Consumption
Individuals, Groups, and Institutions
Rule of Law
Technological Innovation
Unit 2 Understanding Geography
Vocabulary
climate
physical features
region
nation
hemisphere
continent
Places
Blue Ridge Mountains
Ridge and Valley
Appalachian Plateau
Piedmont
Coastal Plain
Fall Line
Okefenokee Swamp
Appalachian Mountains
Chattahoochee River
Savannah River
Barrier Islands
Unit 3 Fiscal Responsibility, Business and Transportation
Vocabulary
Four transportation systems
Domestic goods
International goods
national and international markets
producers and service providers
free trade
transformation of agriculture
personal money- management choices
profit
entrepreneur
incentive
income
spending
credit
saving
investing
People/Groups
Owen Cheatham
Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank
C. E. Woolman
John Pemberton
Asa Candler
Coca-Cola
Delta Airlines
Georgia-Pacific
Home Depot
Places
Interstate Highway System
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
Georgia’s deepwater ports (Savannah and Brunswick)
Railroads
Unit 4 Governance: Citizen Rights and Responsibilities
Vocabulary
Federalism
Sovereignty
Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention
Ratification
Georgia’s reasons for ratifying the U. S. Constitution
United States Constitution
Bill of Rights
basic structure of the Georgia state constitution
Georgia Constitution of 1777
separation of powers
checks and balances
rights of citizens
responsibilities of citizens
voting requirements
general elections in Georgia
political parties
Secretary of State
Independent candidates
Third-party candidates
People/Groups
Abraham Baldwin
William Few
Unit 5 State Government and Juvenile Justice
Vocabulary
role of legislative branch in GA state government
General Assembly
Bill
Law
Veto
organization of the General Assembly with emphasis on leadership & committees
qualifications of members of General Assembly
term of members of General Assembly
election of members of General Assembly
duties of members of General Assembly
House of Representatives
State Senate
role of executive branch in GA state government
governor
organization of the executive branch
major policy areas of state programs
qualifications of the governor
term of the governor
election of the governor
duties of the governor
lieutenant governor
qualifications of the lieutenant governor
term of the lieutenant governor
election of the lieutenant governor
duties of the lieutenant governor
role of judicial branch in GA state government
structure of the court system in Georgia
trial procedures
appellate procedures
judges and how they are selected
criminal law
civil law
plaintiff
defendant
history of the juvenile court
juvenile justice system and process
adult justice system
jurisdictions
rights of juveniles
custody
dispute
juvenile offenders
delinquent behavior
unruly behavior
intake
probable cause hearing
informal adjustment
formal hearing
Unit 6 Local Government and State Revenue Services
Vocabulary
Role of local governments in the state of Georgia
County government
Municipal (city) government
Revenue
Expense
Fees
Fines
Sources of revenues
Sales tax
Grant
Personal income tax
Property tax
Governmental services
Mayor
Weak-mayor council
Strong mayor-council
Council-manager
Special-purpose governments
County seat
Unit 7 Prehistoric Period, Exploration and Colonization
Vocabulary
evolution of Native American cultures
goods and services
reasons for exploration
free trade
colonial period
Charter of 1732
reasons for settlement
(charity, economics, and defense)
debtor
trustee
Spanish threat from Florida
royal governor
Mounds
Mission
Palisades
Diseases
War of Jenkins’ Ear
Paleo Period
Archaic Period
Woodland Period
Mississippian Period
Hernando de Soto
People/Groups
James Oglethorpe
Tomochichi
Mary Musgrove
Salzburgers
Highland Scots
Malcontents
John Reynolds
Henry Ellis
James Wright
Places
Savannah
Unit 8 Statehood
Vocabulary
Goods and Services
Free trade
land policies pursued by Georgia
headright system
land lotteries
Yazoo Land Fraud
Dahlonega Gold Rush
Trail of Tears
Indian Removal Act
Methodist and Baptist
American Revolution
French and Indian War (Seven Years War)
Proclamation of 1763
Stamp Act
Intolerable Acts
Declaration of Independence
Unit 8 Statehood Vocabulary continued (also listed in Unit 4)
United States Constitution
Bill of Rights
Georgia Constitution of 1777
Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention
People/Groups
loyalists
patriots
Elijah Clarke
Austin Dabney
Nancy Hart
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton
Abraham Baldwin
William Few
Creeks
Cherokees
Alexander McGillivray
William McIntosh
Sequoyah
John Ross
Worchester vs. Georgia
Andrew Jackson
John Marshall
Places
Battle of Kettle Creek
Siege of Savannah
Louisville
Milledgeville
University of Georgia
Unit 9 The Civil War
goods and services
free trade
Civil War
slavery
states' rights
nullification
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Georgia Platform
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1860 Election
Georgia’s Decision to Secede
Emancipation Proclamation
Union blockade
Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Reconstruction
Sharecropping
Tenant Farming
Freedmen’s Bureau
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment People/Groups
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Dred Scott Case
William Sherman
Alexander Stephens
Henry McNeal Turner
Ku Klux Klan
Freedmen’s Bureau
Places
Gettysburg
Antietam
Chickamauga
Andersonville
Unit 10 The New South and World War I
Vocabulary
International Cotton Exposition
Atlanta Compromise Speech
New South
Textile Mills
Naval Stores
Georgia’s Wartime Contributions
Populist Party
1906 Atlanta Race Riot
county unit system
Jim Crow laws
Disenfranchisement
Segregation
Suffrage
Rural Free Delivery
Neil Primary Act
racial violence
World War I
Armistice
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
People/Groups
Bourbon Triumvirate
Joseph E. Brown
John B. Gordon
Alfred Colquitt
Plessy v. Ferguson
Henry Grady
Alonzo Herndon
Booker T. Washington
John & Lugenia Burns Hope
Leo Frank
Mary Phagan
Rebecca Latimer Felton
W. E. B. DuBois
Tom Watson
Populists
Places
Atlanta Race Riot of 1906
Unit 11 The 20th century
Vocabulary
boll weevil
drought
Great Depression
New Deal
Civilian Conservation Corps
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Rural Electrification
Social Security
Holocaust
World War II
Lend-Lease Act People/Groups
Eugene Talmadge
Richard Russell
Carl Vinson
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Places
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Savannah and Brunswick Shipyards
military bases
Warm Springs
Bell Aircraft
Unit 12 Post WWII Georgia (also listed in Unit 3)
Vocabulary
free trade
profit
entrepreneur
transformation of agriculture and impact
incentive
economic growth
transportation system
domestic and international goods
national and international markets
producers and service providers
major league sports
William Hartsfield
People/Groups
Ivan Allen, Jr.
Ellis Arnall
Places
Interstate Highway System
Candler Field
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
Georgia’s deepwater ports
Railroads
Unit 13 Civil Rights
Vocabulary
Civil Rights Act
Modern Civil Rights
All-white primary
1956 state flag
Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s
1946 Governor’s Race
People/Groups
Herman Talmadge
Benjamin Mays
Martin Luther King
Brown v. Board of Education
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
Maynard Jackson
Lester Maddox
Ernest Vandiver
Andrew Young
Sibley Commission
SNCC Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Places
Albany Movement
March on Washington
Unit 14 Modern Georgia
Vocabulary
County Unit System
Reapportionment
Two-party system
1996 Olympic Games
New immigrant communities
People/Groups
Jimmy Carter
Coca-Cola
Immigrants