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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

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