Georgia Studies Milestone Review

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Across
  1. 3. CROW The name given to laws used to segregate and deny rights to Black citizens after the Civil War.
  2. 5. The complex hierarchical society organized by Mississippian Indians.
  3. 8. WEEVIL, A tiny insect that devastated Georgia’s cotton crops in the early 1900s.
  4. 9. The last major prehistoric Native American culture in Georgia.
  5. 13. German-speaking Protestant refugees who settled in colonial Georgia to escape religious persecution.
  6. 15. A formal charge of a serious crime issued by a grand jury.
  7. 18. To deprive a person of the right to vote or rights of citizenship.
  8. 20. A less serious crime, often handled in State Court, punishable by fines or short jail time
Down
  1. 1. The act of making a law legally void, which caused a national crisis in 1832.
  2. 2. The opening statement of the Georgia Constitution that states its fundamental purposes
  3. 4. An economic policy where a country seeks to export more than it imports.
  4. 6. AND BALANCES The system that ensures no one branch of government becomes too powerful.
  5. 7. The act of a state separating from a nation to become independent.
  6. 10. One of the three reasons for Georgia’s founding, aimed at helping the "worthy poor".
  7. 11. The first capital of Georgia, founded in 1733.
  8. 12. One of the 21 men responsible for governing the colony of Georgia during its first twenty years.
  9. 14. Georgia's military role served as this between South Carolina and Spanish Florida
  10. 16. Another term for corn, the dominant crop for Mississippians.
  11. 17. A formal reading of charges against a suspect in the legal process.
  12. 19. The power of the Governor to reject a bill passed by the General Assembly.