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Georgia Milestones Vocabulary- Georgia Studies Flashcards

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Garden Cultivation, important in the Mississippian Indian culture.

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Horticulture

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Last Prehistoric Native American Tribe in Georgia, known for their mounds, large scale farming, and NOT being nomads.

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Mississippian Native American Tribe

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Exporting over Importing

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Mercantilism

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Churches set up by the Spanish to try to convert the Native Americans to Christianity.

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Missions

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Gold, God, and Glory was the reason for a certain country to come over to the Americas.

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Spain

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Country that established the early 13 colonies of North America.

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England

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Country interested in serious fur trade with the Native Americans, in early America.

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France

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First known European explorer in Georgia, was directly responsible for the killing and starvation of many Native Americans.

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Hernado De soto

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Time Period where 21 men of Georgia were charted with leading and constructing the colony of Georgia.

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Trustee Period

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Time period where the trustees switched power of the colony over to the King of England.

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Royal Period

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Document created to guide early Georgia. It outlined reasons for settlement and created strict guidelines for the colonist to follow.

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Charter of 1732

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Philanthropy, Economics, and Defense

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3 Foundations of the Georgia Colony

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Crops produced in early Georgia colony, that were known through an acronym.

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W.R.I.S.T

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Credited to be the Founding Father of the Georgia colony.

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James Oglethorpe

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Chief of the Yamacraw Indian. Built a friendship with James Oglethorpe while developing the Georgia colony.

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Tomochichi

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Translator/Interpreter between James Oglethorpe and Tomochichi.

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Mary Musgrove

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Group of Georgia colonist that complained over the regulations in the colony.

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Malcontents

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18
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Rules that the Trustee Period did not allow in their colony.

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Slavery and Alchol

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A conflict that led to war between France and England over land. Known best as the “Seven Years War”.

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French and Indian War

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A Proclamation that was issued to the colonist that forbid them from going west over the Appalachian Mountains.

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Proclamation of 1763

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This act was placed on colonist by the king to directly tax multiple common items like Newspapers and Legal documents.

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Stamp Act

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George Walton, Lyman Hall, Button Gwinnett

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3 men of Georgia that signed the Declaration of Independence. Signing this document made them officially guilty of Treason.

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Preamble, Grievances, Declaration

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3 Parts of the Declaration of Independence

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2 Major battles fought in Georgia during the American Revolution.

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Battle of Kettle Creek and Siege of Savannah

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First draft of the U.S Constitution

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Articles of Confederation

26
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Creator and first president of the University of Georgia.

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Abraham Baldwin

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S.A.L.M.A

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First five state capitals in Georgia. Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, and Atlanta.

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Land policy known for giving away land based on luck by buying a ticket that would enter your name into a drawing.

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Lottery System

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Land Policy fraud found that certain companies bribed the General Assembly to sell the land of Georgia.

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Yazoo Land Fraud

30
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Land policy that gave thousands of acres to soldiers that fought in the American Revolution.

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Head right System

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Invention created to help the economic process and population, by separating the seeds out of cotton.

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Cotton Gin

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Eli Whitney

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Invented the Cotton Gin

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Overall impact of the the creation of the Cotton Gin.

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More Enslaved People to help with production.

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Creek Chief that illegally signed away land, was murdered for his actions.

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William McIntosh

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Cherokee Nation principal chief during 1790-1866. Known for not backing down during the gold rush to give away his peoples land.

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John Ross

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This event sped up the removal of the Cherokee nation from north Georgia.

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Dahlonega Gold Rush

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Supreme Court case 1832 that should have protected the Cherokee nation, but due to President Andrew Jackson not enforcing it, it ultimately led to their removal.

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Worcester v. Georgia

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Event that led the under-supplied Cherokee to lose over 4,000 people to disease and exposure, while being removed from their land to the west.

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Trail of Tears

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The beginning of the Civil War was due to two reason, one more than another.

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Slavery and State’s Rights

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During the Civil War era, a crisis ensued in the early 1830s over Tariffs, this being states rights issue.

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Nullification Crisis

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Within the Compromise of 1850, to try an prevent a Civil War, Northern Congressmen agreed to pass a law where runaway slaves were to be captured an brought back to their owners.

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Fugitive Slave Act

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The response of acceptance to compromises in the North and South, was known as what in Georgia?

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Georgia Platform

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1857 Supreme Court ruling, of a slave suing his master in belief that he should have been freed when he spent time in the free states.

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Dred Scott Case

44
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The breaking point to begin the Civil War in the United States was the election of which president?

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Abraham Lincoln in 1860

45
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The act of separating or breaking away from a nation or state and becoming independent.

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Secession

46
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During the Civil War their were many Union Blockades, but one particular blockade was made in intention to “squeeze” the south.

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Anaconda Plan

47
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Document written by Abraham Lincoln saying, “All enslaved people in the rebellious states are to be freed.”

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Second Bloodiest Battle during the Civil War that happened on the Tennessee/Georgia line.

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Battle of Chickamauga

49
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What two campaigns did General William T. Sherman lead through Georgia during the Civil War?

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Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea

50
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What prison in Georgia, located in Macon county, became known as the most notorious prisoner of war camp due to the terrible conditions within?

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Andersonville Prison

51
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After the Civil War, there are 3 Amendments known as Reconstruction Amendments. What 3 Amendments?

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13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

52
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This U.S Amendment officially ended Slavery.

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13th Amendment

53
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This U.S Amendment made African Americans citizens of the United States and were required to have the same rights as all of the U.S citizens.

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14th Amendment

54
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This U.S Amendment gave African American men the right to vote.

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15th Amendment

55
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During the Reconstruction Era after the Civil war a organization was formed to help the African-American community to adjust to their newly gained freedom.

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The Freedmen’s Bureau

56
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Terrorist organization created to intimidate and prevent freedmen from gaining political power in the South

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The KKK (Ku Klux Klan)

57
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Certain Legislators were removed from office during the Reconstruction Period 1867-1876 for unconstitutional reasons, such as illiteracy.

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Black Legislators

58
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Farmers that agreed to work on landowner’s property in exchange for land, farming equipment, and seed.

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Sharecropping

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Farmers who agree to work on the landowner’s property were required to provide a share of the crop, these farmers usually owned their own equipment, but rented the land to grow crops.

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Tenant Farming

60
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A group of 3 politicians Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon who dominated Georgia politics for of 20 years during the New South Era.

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The Bourbon Triumvirate

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Editor for the Atlanta Journal during the New South Era that promoted the concept of the “New South”

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Henry Grady

62
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Political Party 1892-1908 made up of farmers that were hostile to certain groups. Georgian Tom Watson was a leader and presidential candidate through this party.

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Populist Party, also known as” the Farmers Alliance”

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