Directions: Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following

1ST SEMESTER EXAM

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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

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 (A) residential area near a large city

20. suburban A (B) water that reaches earth’s atmosphere

21. physiographic province E (C) large farms

22. precipitation B (D) area with a low population density

23. plantation C (E) area defined on the basis of similarities in physical geography

24. tides B (A) average weather conditions over a period of 25 yrs.

25. erosion D (B) the daily rise and fall of the ocean

26. weather E (C) height of a land formation above sea level

27. elevation C (D) wearing away of soil and rock by natural forces

28. climate A (E) conditions in the atmosphere on any given day

29. Tomochichi E (A) invented the cotton gin

30. Mary Musgrove D (B) Creek chief who fought for Creek land

31. Eli Whitney A (C) first editor of the Cherokee newspaper

32. Elias Boudinot C (D) Oglethorpe’s interpreter

33. Alexander McGillivray B (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. Which states touch Georgia’s borders?

(A) Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi

(B) Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama

40. Which area of Georgia receives the most precipitation annually?

(A) Southern coastal regions (B)Central plains area (C) Northern mountain region

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

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

50. Where in Georgia is most kaolin mined?

(A) Mountain regions of northern Georgia

(B) Around the Fall Line in the Coastal Plain

(D) In Piedmont Plateau

51. What percentage of Georgia’s land is forested land?

(A) 40 percent

(B) 50 percent

52. What was the site of Georgia’s famous gold rush?

(A) Dahlonega (B) Atlanta (C) Augusta

53. What vital function do Georgia’s Coastal Plain aquifers serve?

(A) They store groundwater for later use.

(B) They fill Georgia’s rivers, lakes, and streams.

54. What three states does Georgia share water and water problems?

(A) Florida, Alabama, South Carolina

(B) Florida, Alabama, North Carolina

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. Those rivers that form part of Georgia’s borders with neighboring states are the

(A) Chattahoochee, Flint, and Altamaha

(B) Flint, Savannah, and Ogeechee

59. Why did tribes travel so much from place to place?

(A) To unite in confederation with other tribes

(B) To trade with other tribes

(D) To obtain food

60. Which prehistoric culture first used the bow and arrow?

(A) Woodland (B) Mississippian (C) Archaic (D) Paleo

61. Native American used plants

(A) to fight diseases (B) as cooking and storing (C) as trade goods

62. Why were most Native American villages built on high banks or hills near rivers and streams?

(A) They provided scenic views, fishing and hunting areas, drinking water.

(B) They provided water routes for transportation and drinking and cleaning water.

63. What was the most advanced Indian cultural period?

(A) Woodland (B) Paleo (C) Archaic (D) Mississippian

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

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 (A) to change

69. B Elijah Clarke (B) American commander at Kettle Creek

70. C Austin Dabney (C)slave who fought for the patriots

71. E July 4, 1776 (D) marks the shoreline of the prehistoric ocean

72. A amend (E) Date the Declaration of Independence was adopted and signed

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.

(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.

(D) There was no citizen at the time who was qualified to be governor.