mpcs history of Georgia
8th grade History Test
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- longest river
- Chattahoochee
- what does Piedmont mean
- Pied - foot ; Mont - mountains
- founded Georgia
- James Oglethorpe
- Invented cotton gin
- Eli Whitney
- 1st doctor
- Samuel Nunis
- First French in Georgia
- Jean Ribault
- Type of Climate
- Humid subtropical
- Georgia's first gold rush &year
- Dahlonega 1828
- Vice pres. of Confederacy
- Alexander H. Stephens
- state mammal
- Right Whale
- Biggest state East of Mississippi
- Georgia
- Discovered the use of ether as an anesthetic
- Crawford Long
- 3 reasons Georgia was founded
- silk, debtor colony, buffer state
- state song
- Georgia on my mind
- Translated for Tomo & Olge
- Mary Mussgrove
- What should be state song
- The Devil went down to Georgia
- Georgia's Lt. Govt.
- Cassey Cagle
- Govt. during Rev. War
- James Wright
- state flower
- Cherokee rose
- Georgia's widest river
- Altamaha River
- state fish
- large mouth bass
- Georgia;s senators
- Johnny Isakson
- other offices in executive branch and person holding it
- Attorney Gen. Baker, Sec. of State Handel, Superintendent of edu. Cox, Insurance comm. Oxendine, Agriculture Irvin, Labor Thurmond
- Georgia's name by Indians
- Guale (wall-e)
- state insect
- honey bee
- Georgi's govt.
- Sonny Purdue
- Georgia named after
- King George 2nd
- state Bird
- brown Thrasher
- Created Cherokee alphabet
- Sequoyah
- 1st modern govt. to serve 2 terms
- Busbee
- Georgia counties
- 159
- 1st planned city in USA
- Savannah
- 5 geographic regions in Georgia
- Coastal Plains, Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mt, Ridge & Valley, and Plateau
- Georgia's highest point
- Brasstown Bald
- Ship the settlers came on
- Anne
- First European to get to Georgia
- De Soto
- Georgia govt.
- 21 trusties
- When & where Oglethorpe landed
- Yamacraw Bluff Feb. 12, 1733
- 1st minister in Georgia
- John Wesley
- Local Indian Chief, friends w/ Oglethorpe
- Tomochichi
- state gem
- quartz
- Name of cities as Capital
- Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta
- Separates Coastal Plains & Piedmont
- Fall line - waterfalls and rapids
- Oglethorpe's friend died in prison
- Castell
- discovered Gulf stream
- De soto
- state tree
- living oak (not the "dead" oak)
- Rep. in Hose
- 13
- Georgia's legislature
- General Assembly
- Speaker of House
- Glenn Richardson - son in 9th, goes to Mt. Paran
- Most pop. sec. in Georgia
- Piedmont