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8th Grade Georgia Studies Milestones Prep Questions and Answers 100% Pass What is the oldest prehistoric culture that was found in Georgia? - ANSWER-Paleo Which prehistoric culture is responsible for the invention of the Bow and Arrow? - ANSWER- Woodland Which prehistoric culture is responsibl...

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8th Grade Georgia Studies Milestones

Prep Questions and Answers 100% Pass


What is the oldest prehistoric culture that was found in Georgia? - ANSWER✔✔-Paleo


Which prehistoric culture is responsible for the invention of the Bow and Arrow? - ANSWER✔✔-

Woodland


Which prehistoric culture is responsible for the introduction of farming? - ANSWER✔✔-Archaic


What two regions does the Fall Line divide? - ANSWER✔✔-Piedmont and Coastal Plain


The Savannah River forms a border with which state? - ANSWER✔✔-South Carolina


What purpose do the barrier islands serve? - ANSWER✔✔-The beaches protect the mainland from

damaging winds, erosion and water.


What is the largest inland freshwater wetland in Georgia? - ANSWER✔✔-Okefenokee Swamp


What river forms a portion of Georgia's Western border with Alabama? - ANSWER✔✔-Chattahoochee

River


What physical feature contributes to the relatively high amounts of rainfall enjoyed by people in extreme

northeast Georgia? - ANSWER✔✔-Appalachian Mountains


What river crossing resulted in a town to grow up around it's crossing by the Western & Atlantic Railroad

en route from Chattanooga, TN. to Savannah, GA.? - ANSWER✔✔-The Chattahoochee River



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Which physical feature in Georgia is home to the largest variety of wildlife? - ANSWER✔✔-Okefenokee

Swamp


Which region of Georgia has the largest population and is known for it's red clay? - ANSWER✔✔-

Piedmont


What is the only region of Georgia that contains coal (a fossil fuel)? - ANSWER✔✔-Appalachian Plateau


Where in Georgia can you find all of the 78 miles of the Appalachian Trail that are in our state? -

ANSWER✔✔-Blue Ridge


What region of our nation is Georgia Located? - ANSWER✔✔-Southeast


In what two Hemispheres is Georgia Located? - ANSWER✔✔-North & West


Which States border Georgia? - ANSWER✔✔-Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South

Carolina


Which region of Georgia is well known for the textile manufacturing? - ANSWER✔✔-Valley and Ridge


Which of Georgia's regions include parts of the Appalachian Mountains? - ANSWER✔✔-Blue Ridge

Mountains, Ridge and Valley, Appalachian Plateau


The First African-American students to integrate the University of Georgia - ANSWER✔✔-Charlayne

Hunter and Hamilton Holmes


What strategy did Martin Luther King, Jr. use to encourage social change? - ANSWER✔✔-Nonviolent

protest, Nonviolence, or Civil Disobediance


Jimmy Carter - ANSWER✔✔-The only President of the United States from the State of Georgia Elected in

1976, served from 1977-1981 From Plains, Georgia Former Peanut Farmer

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Headright System - ANSWER✔✔-* Land Distribution system first used to give away land and help

populate Georgia 1733-1790


* If you qualified (were considered the HEAD of a household), you had the RIGHT to land


Land Lottery - ANSWER✔✔-Land Distribution system used to give away land once there were more

people who wanted land than there was land to give away In place after 1790 If you met certain

conditions (widowed, mentally incompetent, war veteran) you could get extra chances.


Yazoo Land Fraud - ANSWER✔✔-1795 GA Governor Matthews and members of the GA General

Assembly were bribed by 4 land companies to sell them cheap land that they could then turn around

and sell for a profit. The land in question became present day Alabama and Mississippi.


President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) - ANSWER✔✔-4 term President of the U.S. 1932-1945 Guided

Nation during Great Depression and WWII Responsible for the NEW DEAL


Boll Weevil - ANSWER✔✔-Invasive beetle that arrived in Georgia in 1915 By 1921, this insect destroyed

45% of Georgia's Cotton Crop Along with an extended drought, it was responsible for Georgia entering

the Great depression PRIOR to the rest of the country in 1929


New Deal - ANSWER✔✔-FDR's (President Franklin Roosevelt) program during the Great Depression to

get Americans to work because unemployment was very high


Programs included Social Security, CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)


Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence - ANSWER✔✔-Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall,

George Walton


Georgians who signed the United States Constitution - ANSWER✔✔-Abraham Baldwin & William Few



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