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DIRECTIONS: CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWER FOR EACH OF THE FOLLOWING.
1. Which country was the first to settle North America?
(A) England
(B) France
(C) Spain
2. Who were the North and South continents named for?
(A) Amerigo Vespucci
(B) Debalbo Balboa (C) Chris Columbus
3. What is a legal document granting certain rights?
(A) colony
(B) charter
(C) garrison
4. What was the name of the trade policy designed to increase a country’s wealth?
(A) embargo
(B) mercantilism
(C) monopoly
5. What river became Georgia’s western boundary after the settlement of the Yazoo Land Fraud?
(A) Flint
(B) Altamaha
(C) Chattahoochee
6. What was the original name of the city of Atlanta?
(A) Terminus
(B) Marthasville
(C) Atlanta
7. Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?
(A) John Hancock
(B) George Washington
(C) Thomas Jefferson
8. What was Georgia’s official port of entry during the colonial period?
(A) Brunswick
(B) Savannah
(C) Sunbury
9. What was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention held in 1787 in Philadelphia?
(A) To revise the Articles of Confederation.
(C) To draft a Declaration of
Independence.
(B) To select the nation’s new president.
(D) To sign the Treaty of Paris
10. What was a major weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
(A) The federal govt. represented thirteen states.
(C) The Articles of Confederation was not
ratified by all the states.
(B) The Articles of Confederation could be revised.
(D) The federal govt. had little power.
11. Who was the first constitutional governor of the state of Georgia?
(A) John Reynolds
(B) Henry Ellis
(C) John Adam Treutlen
12. After the Revolutionary War, Georgia’s main crops were
(A) rice and indigo
(B) rice and wheat
(C) cotton and tobacco
13. Who were the people who agreed to work for a set number of years in exchange for their
passage to the New World?
(A) slave
(B) indentured servant
(C) trustees
14. Under what name is the Georgia Female College known today?
(A) Wesleyan College
(B) Mercer University
(C) Georgia College
15. Who is Georgia’s most famous Revolutionary War heroine?
(A) George Washington (B) Nancy Hart
(C) Abraham Lincoln
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16. What system of govt. provides to each branch of govt. some power that controls or prevents
some actions of the other two branches?
(A) separation of powers (B) elastic clause
(C) checks and balances
17. The first Sunday School in America was established by
(A) Samuel Nunis
(B) George Whitfield (C) John and Charles Wesley
18. Lines used to determine location north and south of the equator are
(A) longitude lines
(B) grid lines
(C) latitude lines
Choose the best answer.
19. rural D
20. suburban A
21. physiographic province E
22. precipitation B
23. plantation C
geography
(A) residential area near a large city
(B) water that reaches earth’s atmosphere
(C) large farms
(D) area with a low population density
(E) area defined on the basis of similarities in physical
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tides B
erosion D
weather E
elevation C
climate A
(A) average weather conditions over a period of 25 yrs.
(B) the daily rise and fall of the ocean
(C) height of a land formation above sea level
(D) wearing away of soil and rock by natural forces
(E) conditions in the atmosphere on any given day
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Tomochichi E
Mary Musgrove D
Eli Whitney A
Elias Boudinot C
Alexander McGillivray B
(A) invented the cotton gin
(B) Creek chief who fought for Creek land
(C) first editor of the Cherokee newspaper
(D) Oglethorpe’s interpreter
(E)chief of the Yamacraws
Choose the best answer
34. What was Georgia’s first capital city?
(A) Milledgeville
(B) Augusta
(C) Savannah
35. Who was the president when the Indian Removal Act was passed?
(A) George Washington (B) Andrew Jackson (C) Abraham Lincoln
36. What was the forced removal of the Cherokees from Georgia to the western territories
because they wanted their land?
(A) Trail of Sadness
(B)Trail of Crying
(C) Trail of Tears
37. As a member of Parliament’s House of Commons, Oglethorpe was active in bringing about
what reforms in England?
(A) social reforms
(B) debtor reforms
(C) prison reforms
38. Who was the Creek chief who was bribed to sign a treaty giving up all Creek lands?
(A) William McIntosh
(B) Winfield Scott
(C) Alexander McGillivray
39.
(A)
(B)
(C)
Which states touch Georgia’s borders?
Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi
Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama
Alabama, South Carolina, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee
40. Which area of Georgia receives the most precipitation annually?
(A) Southern coastal regions
(B)Central plains area (C) Northern mountain region
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41. How do barrier islands protect Georgia’s mainland?
(A) By blocking much of the wind, sands, and water that could cause erosion
(B) By preventing saltwater from mixing with fresh water
(C) By channeling saltwater away from mainland rivers, creeks, and marshes
42. Which county is the geographic center of Georgia?
(A) Taylor
(B) Twiggs
(C) Treutlen
43. Which location describes one’s location in terms of proximity, or nearness, to some other
place?
(A) absolute
(B) geographical
(C) relative
44. Which physiographic province contains over one-half of the state’s population today?
(A) Piedmont
(B) Appalachian Plateau
(C) Blue Ridge
45. Which physiographic province contains the highest mountains?
(A) Appalachian Plateau
(B) Piedmont
(C) Blue Ridge
46. United States is located in which two hemispheres?
(A) Northern/Eastern
(B) Northern/Western
(C) Southern/Eastern
47. Which type of location refers to the exact spot where a place can be found?
(A) absolute
(B) geographical
(C) relative
48. Georgia’s _______________ is the nation’s largest freshwater wetland.
(A) Tallulah Gorge
(B) Radium Springs
(C) Okefenokee Swamp
49. The northern portion of Georgia has little groundwater because
(A) precipitation doesn’t sink into the bedrock under the shallow surface
(B) northern Georgia has very little annual precipitation
(C) Northern Georgia’s groundwater runs into lake reservoirs
50. Where in Georgia is most kaolin mined?
(A) Mountain regions of northern Georgia
(B) Around the Fall Line in the Coastal Plain
(C) In Outer Coastal Plain area
(D) In Piedmont Plateau
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(A)
(B)
(C)
What percentage of Georgia’s land is forested land?
40 percent
50 percent
60 to 65 percent
52. What was the site of Georgia’s famous gold rush?
(A) Dahlonega
(B) Atlanta
(C) Augusta
53.
(A)
(B)
(C)
What vital function do Georgia’s Coastal Plain aquifers serve?
They store groundwater for later use.
They fill Georgia’s rivers, lakes, and streams.
They store surface water for later use.
54. What three states does Georgia share water and water problems?
(A) Florida, Alabama, South Carolina
(B) Florida, Alabama, North Carolina
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(C) Florida, Alabama, Tennessee
55. What is the name of the 1,000 mile water highway running from New York to Miami?
(A) I-75
(B) Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (C) warm Springs
56. What is the name of the natural “storage tanks” or areas for groundwater?
(A) reservoirs
(B) lakes
(C) aquifers
57. What is the name for surface water stored in manmade tanks?
(A) reservoirs
(B) lakes
(C) aquifers
58.
(A)
(B)
(C)
Those rivers that form part of Georgia’s borders with neighboring states are the
Chattahoochee, Flint, and Altamaha
Flint, Savannah, and Ogeechee
Savannah, Chattahoochee, and St. Mary’s Rivers.
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(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Why did tribes travel so much from place to place?
To unite in confederation with other tribes
To trade with other tribes
To claim new territory or land areas
To obtain food
60. Which prehistoric culture first used the bow and arrow?
(A) Woodland
(B) Mississippian
(C) Archaic
61. Native American used plants
(A) to fight diseases
(B) as cooking and storing
62.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D) Paleo
(C) as trade goods
Why were most Native American villages built on high banks or hills near rivers and streams?
They provided scenic views, fishing and hunting areas, drinking water.
They provided water routes for transportation and drinking and cleaning water.
They provided rich soil for farming, water, fish for food, and a place to defend the village.
63. What was the most advanced Indian cultural period?
(A) Woodland
(B) Paleo
(C) Archaic
64. Who invented the syllabary?
(A) Matoaka
(B) Sequoyah
(C) Tomahawk
65. What is a natural feature of the earth’s surface?
(A) province
(B) shoal
(C) landform
(D) Mississippian
66. What was a series of laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that place import taxes on tea, paper,
glass, and coloring for paints?
(A) Sugar Act
(B) Stamp Act
(C) Townshend Act
67. What is a measure of distances east or west of the prime meridian?
(A) longitude
(B) latitude
(C) Lobbyist
Choose the best answer.
68. D Fall Line
69. B Elijah Clarke
70. C Austin Dabney
71. E July 4, 1776
(A) to change
(B) American commander at Kettle Creek
(C)slave who fought for the patriots
(D) marks the shoreline of the prehistoric ocean
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72. A amend
signed
(E) Date the Declaration of Independence was adopted and
73. Why do Americans describe the United States Constitution as a "living document"?
(A) It was created by men who were planning on living into the 1900’s.
(B) The document was written on living paper and once the paper dried the ink would dry and
live on forever.
(C) The Constitution set standards for whites to live by and had no regards for other races in
which to live by.
(D) The Constitution may be amended without rewriting it completely.
74. At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the Great Compromise was introduced in order to
(A) end the debate over slavery.
(C) maintain peace between England and America.
(B) separate Virginia and West Virginia.
(D) give equal representation to both large and small
states.
75. What made the writers of the Georgia Constitution of 1777 avoid granting too much power to the
governor?
(A) Georgians had bad experiences with past royal governors.
(B) The Continental Congress did not give Georgia self-rule.
(C) Georgians did not want to pay a governor for his services.
(D) There was no citizen at the time who was qualified to be governor.