H4 and H5 test study guide
1. What was the tax on all legal and commercial documents called?
Stamp Act
2. What forbid colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains?
Proclamation of 1763
3. Which act forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers?
Quartering Act
4. In what event did three British ships have their cargo thrown overboard?
Boston Tea Party
5. Who was involved in the French and Indian War?
The British vs. the French and their Indian Allies
6. What were Britain’s responses to the Boston Tea Party?
They passed the Intolerable Acts which punished the Boston colonist. This included closing the port of Boston
and passing the Quartering Act.
7. The Battle of Kettle Creek was not a huge battle, however it showed the British that
The Loyalists had little support in the South
8. What happened after the Siege of Savannah
Savannah remained under British control
9. The Patriot leader during the Battle of Kettle Creek was
Elijah Clark
10. What is significant about Nancy Hart?
She was a Patriot spy who killed/capture several loyalist soldiers. She is also the only woman to have a county
named after her.
11. Which three Georgia delegates signed the Declaration of Independence?
Hall, Walton, Gwinnett
12. 1785, the capital of Georgia was moved from Savannah, then to Augusta, and then to…
Louisville
13. What system gave land to white, male Georgians?
Headright system
14. What is significant about the cotton gin?
The Cotton Gin made it easier to separate cotton led to an increase in slavery and made cotton an even more
important cash crop.
15. Which two religious denominations were the most prominent in Georgia after the Revolutionary War?
Baptist and Methodist
16. How did the inventions like the railroad lead to Georgia’s growth?
-Railroads allowed Georgia to trade with other states
-Railroads increased the amount of transportation between states
-Railroads shortened the time a person would spend traveling
17. This man invented the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
18. Who is considered the founder of the University of Georgia?
Abraham Baldwin
19. How did the Baptists and Methodists churches expand their religion during this time?
Tent revivals
20. Who were the Georgia signers of the Constitution?
William Few and Abraham Baldwin
21. What was the nation’s first public university?
University of Georgia
22. In the Headright system how much land was given to the head of the house?
200-1000 acres
23. The spread of Methodist and Baptists earned the south the title of the ____________?
Bible Belt
24. What were some impacts of the Yazoo Land Fraud?
- Land speculators bribed Georgia officials
-Contributed to the Trail of Tears
- Reduced the size of Georgia
- Ended with several government officials resigning
25. A major religious movement that swept through the United States between 1790 and 1830 which helped
increase religion.
The Second Great Awakening
26. A meeting meant to interest people in religion.
Revival
27. For a small fee, any white male twenty-one years of age could win land. Up to 30 million acres of land
were given away through this system.
The land lottery process