GCSU GA History Exam (2025/2026) Updated:
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Prehistory periods in Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian
order
During the Prehistory time Indians
period ____________
populated Georgia.
__________________ indians Cherokee
populated North GA. Creek Confederation
___________________ indians Chickasaw
populated other areas.
Small bands of
_________________ were near
Augusta.
time period: 1550s-1775 Colonial
time period: 1775-1788 Revolutionary War/Confederation
time period: 1790's-1820 Early National Period
time period: 1820-1861 Antebellum Period
time period: 1861-1865 Civil War
time period: 1865-1877 Reconstruction
time period: 1870s-WWI Gilded Age/Progressive Era
,time period: 1917-1945 WWI to WWII
time period: 1945-present Post WWII
Colonial period 1525-1646: Spanish expeditions exploring Georgia coast and
What was happening? interior
What happened in the late Spanish Missions along Coastal Georgia
1550s/early 1600s?
1670 Founding of Charleston.
_______________. Indians.
English traders began to
trade with __________ in what
later became Georgia.
1732 ___________ granted to a Charter.
charitable trust.
1. Trust wanted to provide new start for poor of
England and
persecuted Protestants in Europe
Three reasons for colony's 2. English government wanted defense buffer
founding: between Spanish
Florida and English Carolina
3. English government wanted Georgia to fit into
British mercantilism
What happened in 1733? First colonists arrived.
Founding Trustee? James Oglethorpe.
1733-early 1750s is Trustee
considered the ___________
period.
, -Agreements with Indians
-Problems with Trustee policies (including land
policies)
-Problems with "Malcontents"
-Three Laws- 1. No rum 2. No slavery 3. License
Characteristics of the required to trade with Indians
Trustee Period -English and other ethnic groups settle
-War of Jenkins' Ear with Spanish; Battle of Bloody
Marsh
-Abandonment of Trustee policies and laws by late
1740s
-Economic development
What was GA considered Royal Colony
from 1752-1775?
-Dev. of slavery and plantation system
-rice culture along coast
-fur trade in back country
-new gov't w/ royal governor, Governor's Council,
elected Commons House of Assembly
-events leading up to Revolution, including GA's
Characteristics of being a
reaction to events in other colonies
royal colony
-GA was younger, weaker, and had closer ties to
England->slower to action
-only colony with no representative at the 1st
Continental Congress
-attended 2nd Cont. Congress
-3 Georgians signed Dec. Of Independence
1763-1775: opened back Indian Land Cessions
country to farmers
Who signed the George Walton, Lyman Hall, and Button Gwinnett
Declaration of
Independence from
Georgia?
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS |
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Terms in this set (170)
Prehistory periods in Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian
order
During the Prehistory time Indians
period ____________
populated Georgia.
__________________ indians Cherokee
populated North GA. Creek Confederation
___________________ indians Chickasaw
populated other areas.
Small bands of
_________________ were near
Augusta.
time period: 1550s-1775 Colonial
time period: 1775-1788 Revolutionary War/Confederation
time period: 1790's-1820 Early National Period
time period: 1820-1861 Antebellum Period
time period: 1861-1865 Civil War
time period: 1865-1877 Reconstruction
time period: 1870s-WWI Gilded Age/Progressive Era
,time period: 1917-1945 WWI to WWII
time period: 1945-present Post WWII
Colonial period 1525-1646: Spanish expeditions exploring Georgia coast and
What was happening? interior
What happened in the late Spanish Missions along Coastal Georgia
1550s/early 1600s?
1670 Founding of Charleston.
_______________. Indians.
English traders began to
trade with __________ in what
later became Georgia.
1732 ___________ granted to a Charter.
charitable trust.
1. Trust wanted to provide new start for poor of
England and
persecuted Protestants in Europe
Three reasons for colony's 2. English government wanted defense buffer
founding: between Spanish
Florida and English Carolina
3. English government wanted Georgia to fit into
British mercantilism
What happened in 1733? First colonists arrived.
Founding Trustee? James Oglethorpe.
1733-early 1750s is Trustee
considered the ___________
period.
, -Agreements with Indians
-Problems with Trustee policies (including land
policies)
-Problems with "Malcontents"
-Three Laws- 1. No rum 2. No slavery 3. License
Characteristics of the required to trade with Indians
Trustee Period -English and other ethnic groups settle
-War of Jenkins' Ear with Spanish; Battle of Bloody
Marsh
-Abandonment of Trustee policies and laws by late
1740s
-Economic development
What was GA considered Royal Colony
from 1752-1775?
-Dev. of slavery and plantation system
-rice culture along coast
-fur trade in back country
-new gov't w/ royal governor, Governor's Council,
elected Commons House of Assembly
-events leading up to Revolution, including GA's
Characteristics of being a
reaction to events in other colonies
royal colony
-GA was younger, weaker, and had closer ties to
England->slower to action
-only colony with no representative at the 1st
Continental Congress
-attended 2nd Cont. Congress
-3 Georgians signed Dec. Of Independence
1763-1775: opened back Indian Land Cessions
country to farmers
Who signed the George Walton, Lyman Hall, and Button Gwinnett
Declaration of
Independence from
Georgia?
