Georgia History Legislative USG EXAM
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1. Georgia History: Overview - ANSWER ✔ -Georgia was the last of the
thirteen colonies to be founded. Its formation came a half century after the
twelfth British colony.Georgia was the only colony founded and ruled by a
Board of Trustees, which was based in London.
-Georgia was established in 1732, with settlement in Savannah in 1733
-Georgia continues to attract new opportunities for employment. Kia Motors
Corporation, broke ground on a factory in Troup County in 2006
-major employer Delta Airlines emerged successfully from bankruptcy in
2007
-new tax-incentive legislation for the entertainment industry, passed in 2008,
brought numerous film projects to the state
-Georgia's unique landscapes and culture support a thriving tourism industry
as well.
,2. Mississippian Period: Overview - ANSWER ✔ (A.D. 800-1600), complex
native cultures, organized as chiefdoms, emerged and developed lifeways in
response to the particular features of their physical surroundings.
3. Chiefdoms - ANSWER ✔ a specific kind of human social organization with
social ranking as a fundamental part of their structure. In ranked societies
people belonged to one of two groupings, elites or commoners.
4. Difference between elites and commoners in chiefdoms - ANSWER ✔
rested more on ideological and religious beliefs than on such things as
wealth or military power.
5. Purpose of mounds in Mississippian culture - ANSWER ✔ capitals of
chiefdoms, platforms for buildings, as stages for religious and social
activities, and as cemeteries.
6. Hernando de Soto in Georgia - ANSWER ✔ -The first European to explore
the interior of what is now the state of Georgia. Entered the state on two
occasions during the course of his expedition.
-From Spain
-discovered the true way the Indians lived, but devastated their societies with
the plague and small pox
7. Spanish Missions - ANSWER ✔ -Georgia's earliest colonial history is
dominated by the lengthy mission era, extending from 1568 through 1684.
Catholic missions were the primary means by which Georgia's indigenous
Native American chiefdoms were assimilated.
, -Spanish missions were explicitly established for the purpose of religious
conversion and instruction in the Catholic faith.
repartimiento: this system of obligatory wage labor a specified number of
unmarried male Indians were required to go to St. Augustine each year to
work in the Spanish cornfields or to build and maintain Spanish
fortifications.
-Up to 300 mission Indians from across Spanish Florida were drafted
annually for work between March and September, causing considerable
change in the native societies.
-Depopulation, combined with widespread forced resettlements eventually
led to the abandonment of Georgia's interior missions.
8. Boll Weevil - ANSWER ✔ -Feeds on cotton buds and flowers. Decimation
of the cotton industry in the South had implications for the entire region.
-greatly affected Georgia's long history of cotton production between 1915,
when the insect was introduced to Georgia, and the early 1990s, when it was
eliminated as an economic pest
-The pest was a driving force behind the "great migration" of poor tenant
farmers into northern cities, and the state's dependence on cash-crop
production left its soil depleted and prone to erosion.
-reinfestation continues to be a threat to the cotton industry
, 9. Franklin D. Roosevelt in Georgia - ANSWER ✔ -After being elected as the
32nd president of the United States in 1932, he used his new home at Warm
Springs, "The Little White House," as a retreat from the rigors of leading a
nation through the Great Depression
Visited Warm Springs and Georgia forty-one times and died there in 1945
-To Georgians, he was both the president and a trusted friend who could be
seen waving as he passed by in his convertible or rode by in a train on his
way to the nation's capital.
-In 1927 he established the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. Known
today as the Roosevelt Warm Springs Rehabilitation Center, the facility
serves patients suffering from the effects of polio.
10.Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC - ANSWER ✔ -One of
the key organizations in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s.
-Sought to coordinate youth-led nonviolent, direct-action campaigns against
segregation and other forms of racism.
-Emerging from the student-led sit-ins to protest segregated lunch counters
in Greensboro, NC and Nashville, TN
-members played an integral role in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, the 1963 March
on Washington, and such voter education projects as the Mississippi
Freedom Summer.
In Georgia, they concentrated its efforts in Albany and Atlanta.
11.The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- ANSWER ✔ -Started in 1917, this organization has been the most
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QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS ||
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<RECENT VERSION>
1. Georgia History: Overview - ANSWER ✔ -Georgia was the last of the
thirteen colonies to be founded. Its formation came a half century after the
twelfth British colony.Georgia was the only colony founded and ruled by a
Board of Trustees, which was based in London.
-Georgia was established in 1732, with settlement in Savannah in 1733
-Georgia continues to attract new opportunities for employment. Kia Motors
Corporation, broke ground on a factory in Troup County in 2006
-major employer Delta Airlines emerged successfully from bankruptcy in
2007
-new tax-incentive legislation for the entertainment industry, passed in 2008,
brought numerous film projects to the state
-Georgia's unique landscapes and culture support a thriving tourism industry
as well.
,2. Mississippian Period: Overview - ANSWER ✔ (A.D. 800-1600), complex
native cultures, organized as chiefdoms, emerged and developed lifeways in
response to the particular features of their physical surroundings.
3. Chiefdoms - ANSWER ✔ a specific kind of human social organization with
social ranking as a fundamental part of their structure. In ranked societies
people belonged to one of two groupings, elites or commoners.
4. Difference between elites and commoners in chiefdoms - ANSWER ✔
rested more on ideological and religious beliefs than on such things as
wealth or military power.
5. Purpose of mounds in Mississippian culture - ANSWER ✔ capitals of
chiefdoms, platforms for buildings, as stages for religious and social
activities, and as cemeteries.
6. Hernando de Soto in Georgia - ANSWER ✔ -The first European to explore
the interior of what is now the state of Georgia. Entered the state on two
occasions during the course of his expedition.
-From Spain
-discovered the true way the Indians lived, but devastated their societies with
the plague and small pox
7. Spanish Missions - ANSWER ✔ -Georgia's earliest colonial history is
dominated by the lengthy mission era, extending from 1568 through 1684.
Catholic missions were the primary means by which Georgia's indigenous
Native American chiefdoms were assimilated.
, -Spanish missions were explicitly established for the purpose of religious
conversion and instruction in the Catholic faith.
repartimiento: this system of obligatory wage labor a specified number of
unmarried male Indians were required to go to St. Augustine each year to
work in the Spanish cornfields or to build and maintain Spanish
fortifications.
-Up to 300 mission Indians from across Spanish Florida were drafted
annually for work between March and September, causing considerable
change in the native societies.
-Depopulation, combined with widespread forced resettlements eventually
led to the abandonment of Georgia's interior missions.
8. Boll Weevil - ANSWER ✔ -Feeds on cotton buds and flowers. Decimation
of the cotton industry in the South had implications for the entire region.
-greatly affected Georgia's long history of cotton production between 1915,
when the insect was introduced to Georgia, and the early 1990s, when it was
eliminated as an economic pest
-The pest was a driving force behind the "great migration" of poor tenant
farmers into northern cities, and the state's dependence on cash-crop
production left its soil depleted and prone to erosion.
-reinfestation continues to be a threat to the cotton industry
, 9. Franklin D. Roosevelt in Georgia - ANSWER ✔ -After being elected as the
32nd president of the United States in 1932, he used his new home at Warm
Springs, "The Little White House," as a retreat from the rigors of leading a
nation through the Great Depression
Visited Warm Springs and Georgia forty-one times and died there in 1945
-To Georgians, he was both the president and a trusted friend who could be
seen waving as he passed by in his convertible or rode by in a train on his
way to the nation's capital.
-In 1927 he established the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. Known
today as the Roosevelt Warm Springs Rehabilitation Center, the facility
serves patients suffering from the effects of polio.
10.Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC - ANSWER ✔ -One of
the key organizations in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s.
-Sought to coordinate youth-led nonviolent, direct-action campaigns against
segregation and other forms of racism.
-Emerging from the student-led sit-ins to protest segregated lunch counters
in Greensboro, NC and Nashville, TN
-members played an integral role in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, the 1963 March
on Washington, and such voter education projects as the Mississippi
Freedom Summer.
In Georgia, they concentrated its efforts in Albany and Atlanta.
11.The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- ANSWER ✔ -Started in 1917, this organization has been the most
