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  1. 3. Laws that were highly popular in the South and were put in place to keep blacks from voting.
  2. 5. 1754-1763 (also known as the 7 years war) France and Native Americans Ally vs Great Britain over control of the Ohio River Valley.
  3. 9. Invasive beetle that arrived in Georgia in 1915 By 1921, this insect destroyed 45% of Georgia's Cotton Crop.
  4. 11. Banned Slavery in the United States of America.
  5. 12. Democrats controlled Georgia's gov't after reconstruction. Founders were Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon.
  6. 13. Opened from mid February 1864 to April 9th 1865 nearly 12,000 union soldiers die out of 45,000 union P.O.W.
  7. 14. The idea that a State can void any national or federal law that it feels is not in its best interests or might be harmful to the State.
  8. 15. Settlers in the Georgia colony who were not happy with conditions in the colony.
  9. 17. The stock market crash of 1929 that resulted in a drastic economic downturn that led to this. Businesses closed, banks declared bankruptcy, and millions of individuals lost jobs and savings.
  10. 20. Gold discovered in North Ga in 1829 by Benjamin Parks.
  11. 21. Creates territories of Kansas and Nebraska Allowed Popular Sovereignty to determine if Slave or Free. Nullifies Missouri Compromise & angers many Northerners/Abolitionists.
  12. 23. Happened in 1954 Overturned Plessy vs Ferguson and said separate but equal was inherently unequal. Led to the integration of public schools all across USA.
  13. 24. Great Britain's punishment to its American colonies for the Boston Tea Party.
  14. 27. Approved 4 July 1776 signers from GA were Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton. Severed ties between Great Britain & its 13 American colonies.
  15. 28. The only President of the United States from the State of Georgia. Former Peanut Farmer.
  16. 29. A system of trade where a large country produces finished goods from materials imported from colonies.
  17. 30. Allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a Slave state. Allowed Maine to enter the Union as a Free state. Forbade slavery north of Missouri's southern border
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  1. 1. Bloodiest battle of the civil war. Took place on September 17, 1862. After the battle Lincoln gave Emancipation Proclamation.
  2. 2. This was a mass civil disturbance which began Sept. 22 1906 and lasted y days. 25-40 African-Americans were killed the cause was the rising competition for jobs between blacks and whites.
  3. 4. The First African-American students to integrate the University of Georgia.
  4. 6. Dred Scott, a slave, sued for his freedom. Scott's case was that he lived in free states while his master was away.
  5. 7. A law requires that Juveniles charged with a number of particularly bad crimes be charged as adults.
  6. 8. Cherokee Chief. 1st Democratically elected leader of the Cherokee.
  7. 10. He is one of Georgia's more controversial governors. He was elected to four terms in total and was well known for stumping the rural parts of the state to obtain the farmer votes.
  8. 16. Signed Treaty of New York in 1790 along with George Washington.
  9. 18. First African American Billionaire. Founder of Atlanta Mutual Life Insurance.
  10. 19. The first laws or constitution of the United States of America Passed and went into effect in 1777 In effect until the Constitution of the United States was written in 1787.
  11. 22. Following the passage of the 13th amendment, this group was established to help newly freed slaves.
  12. 25. Land Distribution system used to give away land once there were more people who wanted land than there was land to give.
  13. 26. He was from Georgia. Known as the father of the two ocean navy.