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CRCT REVIEW STUDY GUIDE/FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
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UNIT 1: GEOGRAPHY AND PREHISTORIC CULTURES (Chapters 1-4)
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Name the states that border Georgia.
Name the ocean that borders Georgia
Name the rivers that border Georgia, and tell what state is on the other side of each.
List the major characteristics of the Coastal Plain, Piedmont, Blue Ridge,
Appalachian Plateau, and Ridge and Valley.
Identify Brasstown Bald, Okefenokee Swamp, barrier islands, fall line.
How has climate influenced the development of Georgia (p.33)?
What are characteristics of the Paleo Tradition (10,000-8,000 BC)?
What are characteristics of the Archaic Tradition (8,000-1,000 BC)?
What are characteristics of the Woodland Tradition (1,000 BC – 1,000 AD)?
What are characteristics of the Mississippian Tradition (1,000-1600 AD)?
UNIT 2: COLONIAL GEORGIA (Chapters 5-7)
11. Explain why England, Spain, & France explored & settled the southeast (goals).
12. What was the impact of the following on Native Americans: (a) Spanish missions,
and (b) Hernando de Soto?
13. What was the Georgia charter of 1732? Who granted it? Who asked for it?
14. Name the 4 reasons for founding Georgia. Which one was unofficial?
15. Identify Tomochichi, Mary Musgrove, James Oglethorpe
16. Explain the importance in colonial GA of: Salzburgers, malcontents (why were they
unhappy?), Highland Scots (p.86, 104-105), and the Spanish threat from Florida
17. How did Georgia change when it became a royal colony in 1752 in terms of: (a) land
ownership rules, (b) slavery, (c) government, and (d) the impact of royal governors?
UNIT 3: REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND THE CONSTITUTION (Chapter 8)
18. Identify the following causes of the American Revolution AND their impact on
Georgia: French and Indian War, Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act, Intolerable Acts,
Declaration of Independence
19. Identify Elijah Clarke, Nancy Hart, Austin Dabney, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall,
George Walton
20. Contrast loyalist and patriot.
21. Explain the importance/result of: the Battle of Kettle Creek, Siege of Savannah
22. What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Georgia Constitution of 1777?
23. Why did the Articles of Confederation form a weak central government?
24. Explain the role of Abraham Baldwin and William Few at the Constitutional
Convention.
25. What were Georgia’s interests at the Constitutional Convention? Why did Georgia
ratify the Constitution?
26. Name 3 differences between the Georgia Constitution and the US Constitution (p.
415).
UNIT 4: WESTWARD EXPANSION (Chapters 9-11)
27. Established in 1785, what was the first public university in the United States?
28. What was the result of the Great Revival?
29. Southern Baptist and Methodist churches broke away from their northern
counterparts over what issue?
30. Explain the headright system, land lotteries, and the Yazoo land Fraud.
31. How did the cotton gin and railroads have an impact on Georgia’s growth?
32. Identify the following people and events associated with the removal of the Creeks
and Cherokees: Alexander McGillivray, William McIntosh, Sequoyah, John Ross,
Dahlonega gold rush, Worcester v. Georgia, Andrew Jackson, John Marshall, Trail of
Tears
UNIT 5: ANTEBELLUM/CIVIL WAR (Chapters 11-13)
33. What was the most important crop in the antebellum period?
34. Explain how the following issues led to the Civil War: states’ rights, nullification,
slavery, westward expansion, tariffs, secession
35. Explain the following events that led up to the Civil War: Missouri Compromise,
Compromise of 1850, Dred Scott case, the presidential election of 1860 (Lincoln),
Alexander Stephen’s opinion on secession (p. 203), and the Ordinance of Secession.
36. Identify the following events of the Civil War: Antietam, Emancipation
Proclamation, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the Union blockade of the southern coast,
and Andersonville Prison
37. How were Atlanta and many other Georgia cities destroyed during the Civil War?
38. Why did southern states believe they had the right to secede? What groups of people
were most in favor of secession?
39. Why did southern states object to high tariffs, while northern states wanted them?
UNIT 6: RECONSTRUCTION/NEW SOUTH (Chapters 14-16)
40. Define sharecropping and tenant farming.
41. How did the Freedmen’s Bureau help former slaves and poor whites after the Civil
War?
42. How did Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan differ from the Radical Republicans’ plan?
Identify the 13th, 14th, 15th, 18th, and 19th amendments to the Constitution.
What happened to Henry McNeal Turner and 27 other black legislators in 1868?
What were goals of groups like the Ku Klux Klan?
Identify: Henry Grady, Rebecca Latimer Felton, Tom Watson, Leo Frank
What were the goals of the Bourbon Triumvirate and the New South movement?
Explain: the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, the county unit system, and the International
Cotton Exposition
49. What were Jim Crow laws?
50. Explain the following methods of disfranchising African Americans: white primary,
poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause
51. Identify the contributions and views of John Hope, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B.
Du Bois, and Alonzo Herndon
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UNIT 7: WORLD WAR I , THE GREAT DEPRESSION, WORLD WAR II
(Chapters 17-18)
52. Describe the impact of the boll weevil and drought on Georgia
53. Explain the economic factors that resulted in the Great Depression: laissez faire,
buying on margin, speculating, the stock market crash
54. What were the views and accomplishments of Eugene Talmadge (include his
accomplishments as governor, New Deal views, and the 3 Governors controversy)?
55. Explain the role of the following New Deal programs; Civilian Conservation Corps,
Agricultural Adjustment Act, rural electrification, Social Security.
56. Describe these events leading to WWII; Lend-Lease Act, bombing of Pearl Harbor.
57. Explain the importance of the following to Georgia: Bell Aircraft, military bases, the
Savannah and Brunswick shipyards, Richard Russell, Carl Vinson
58. What was the Holocaust? What was Robert Stephens’s role after WWII?
59. What ties did President Roosevelt have to Georgia? How did this impact the state?
UNIT 8: MODERN ERA AND CIVIL RIGHTS (Chapters 19-22)
60. Explain how the following contributed to Georgia’s growth; changes in agriculture
(technology, decrease in farmers), development of Atlanta, William Hartsfield, Ivan
Allen, Jr., and major league sports.
61. How did Ellis Arnall impact Georgia (what did he do/change)?
62. Explain the significance of: Herman Talmadge, Benjamin Mays, Martin Luther King,
Jr.
63. Explain the following events/issues: the 1946 governor’s race (three governor’s
controversy), end of the white primary, Brown v. Board of Education, the 1956 state
flag controversy (include why it was controversial).
64. Describe the role of these events and prominent Georgians in the Civil Rights
movement: SNCC, Sibley Commission, admission of Hamilton Holmes and
Charlayne Hunter to UGA, Albany Movement, March on Washington, Civil Rights
Act, the election of Maynard Jackson as mayor of Atlanta, the role of Lester Maddox.
65. What was the impact of Andrew Young on Georgia (list ALL accomplishments)?
66. What were the results of the end of the county unit system and reapportionment?
67. What was the role of Jimmy Carter in Georgia?
68. How did Georgia change from a one-party to a two-party state?
69. What was the effect of the 1996 Olympic Games on Georgia?
70. What is the importance of new immigrant communities to the growth and economy of
Georgia?
71. What is an entrepreneur? How is profit a motive for entrepreneurs? How do
entrepreneurs take risks? (p. 378, 451-452)
UNIT 9: CIVICS (Chapters 23-30)
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Explain separation of powers, checks and balances.
What are the rights and responsibilities of citizens?
What are the voting requirements in Georgia?
What is the role of political parties in government?
Contrast primary and general election.
Explain the qualifications, term (how long?), election (how elected?) and duties of
members of the General Assembly, the Governor, and the lieutenant governor (make
a chart)
Describe the organization and structure of the General Assembly.
a. Describe the jobs of the leaders: majority leader, majority whip, minority
leader, minority whip, administrative floor leader, Speaker, committee
chairman
b. What is the role of the lieutenant governor in the General Assembly?
c. What is the purpose of committees?
Describe the organization and structure of the executive branch of GA.
a. List at least 8 departments of the executive branch.
b. How are the department leaders chosen in Georgia?
Describe the organization and structure of judicial system of GA.
a. Explain the purpose of each type of trial and appellate court in Georgia.
b. What is the highest court in Georgia?
How does a bill become a law (include all steps)?
Contrast county and city governments in Georgia.
Who authorizes the creation of counties and cities?
Why are cities created?
Describe the weak mayor-council, the strong mayor-council, and the council-manager
forms of city government.
What is the top way the state takes in revenue? What is the top way counties take in
revenue?
What do governments do with tax money?
Describe the functions of special-purpose governments. Include examples.
List the rights of juveniles when taken into custody.
What age range is served by the juvenile justice system?
Contrast status offense and delinquent behavior.
Explain the steps in the juvenile justice system process: include taking into
custody/intake, intake decision, formal hearing, and possible outcomes