Georgia Studies GPS Terms/Ideas (By Unit)
Term/Idea
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1) location of GA (region)
2) location of GA (nation)
3) location of GA (continent)
4) location of GA (hemisphere)
5) geographic region
6) Blue Ridge aka Blue Ridge Mountains
7) Ridge and Valley
8) Appalachian Plateau
9) Piedmont
10) Coastal Plain
11) Fall Line
12) Okefenokee Swamp
13) Appalachian Mountains
14) Chattahoochee River
15) Savannah River
16) barrier islands
17) Paleo
18) Archaic
19) Woodland
20) Mississippian
21) Spanish Mission
22) Guale
23) Mocama
24) Hernando De Soto
25) French (exploration/settlement)
26) Spanish (exploration/settlement)
27) British (exploration/settlement)
28) James Oglethorpe
29) Charter of 1732
30) reasons for settling Georgia
31) Tomochichi
32) Mary Musgrove
33) Savannah
34) trustee period
35) Salzburgers
36) Highland Scots
37) malcontents
38) royal governors
39) climate
40) causes of the American Revolution
41) French and Indian War
42) Proclamation of 1763
43) Stamp Act
44) Intolerable Acts
45) Declaration of Independence
46) loyalists
47) patriots
48) Elijah Clarke
49) Austin Dabney
50) Nancy Hart
51) Button Gwinnett
52) Lyman Hall
53) George Walton
54) Battle of Kettle Creek
55) Siege of Savannah
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
2: Georgia Geography and the Prehistoric Period
3: Exploration and Colonization
3: Exploration and Colonization
3: Exploration and Colonization
3: Exploration and Colonization
3: Exploration and Colonization
3: Exploration and Colonization
3: Exploration and Colonization
3: Exploration and Colonization
3: Exploration and Colonization
3: Exploration and Colonization
3: Exploration and Colonization
3: Exploration and Colonization
3: Exploration and Colonization
3: Exploration and Colonization
3: Exploration and Colonization
3: Exploration and Colonization
3: Exploration and Colonization
3: Exploration and Colonization
3: Exploration and Colonization
4: Statehood
4: Statehood
4: Statehood
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4: Statehood
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56) Georgia Constitution of 1777 (strengths and weaknesses)
57) Articles of Confederation (weaknesses)
58) 1787 Constitutional Convention
59) The Great Compromise
60) Abraham Baldwin
61) William Few
62) Constitution of United States (why Georgia ratified it)
63) Bill of Rights
64) establishment of UGA
65) Louisville
66) spread of Baptist/Methodist churches
67) headright system
68) land lottery
69) Yazoo land fraud
70) cotton gin
71) invention of railroads
72) Creek Indians
73) Cherokee Indians
74) Alexander McGillivray
75) William McIntosh
76) Sequoyah
77) John Ross
78) Dahlonega gold rush
79) Worcester vs. Georgia
80) Andrew Jackson
81) John Marshall
82) Trail of Tears
83) structure of the Georgia constitution
84) separation of powers
85) checks and balances
86) rights/responsibilities of citizens
87) voting qualifications in GA
88) elections in GA
89) political parties
90) Pledge of Allegiance to Georgia Flag
91) free trade
92) good
93) service
94) issues that led to the Civil War
95) slavery
96) states’ rights
97) nullification
98) Missouri Compromise
99) Compromise of 1850
100) Georgia Platform
101) Kansas-Nebraska Act
102) Dred Scott Case
103) election of 1860
104) secession
105) Alexander Stephens
106) Antietam
107) Emancipation Proclamation
108) Gettysburg
109) Chickamauga
110) Union Blockade
111) William T. Sherman
112) Atlanta Campaign
113) March to the Sea
114) Andersonville
4: Statehood
4: Statehood
4: Statehood
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4: Statehood
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4: Statehood
4: Statehood
4: Statehood
4: Statehood
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
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115) Reconstruction
116) Freedman’s Bureau
117) sharecropping
118) tenant farming
119) plans for Reconstruction
120) 13th Amendment
121) 14th Amendment
122) 15th Amendment
123) Henry McNeal Turner
124) Ku Klux Klan
125) role of transportation in trade
126) Bourbon Triumvirate
127) International Cotton Exposition
128) Henry Grady
129) Tom Watson
130) Populism
131) Rebecca Latimer Felton
132) 1906 Atlanta Race Riot
133) Leo Frank Case
134) county unit system
135) Jim Crow laws
136) Plessy vs. Ferguson
137) disenfranchisement
138) racial violence
139) Booker T. Washington
140) W.E.B. DuBois
141) John and Lugenia Burns Hope
142) Alonzo Herndon
143) reasons for WWI
144) Allied/Axis
145) Georgia contributions to WWI
146) boll weevil
147) drought
148) Great Depression (economic factors)
149) Eugene Talmadge
150) The New Deal
151) Civilian Conservation Corps
152) Agricultural Adjustment Act
153) Rural Electrification Act
154) Social Security
155) Events leading to WWII
156) Lend Lease
157) Pearl Harbor
158) Bell Aircraft
159) military bases in Georgia
160) shipyards
161) Richard Russell
162) Carl Vinson
163) Holocaust
164) FDR
165) Warm Springs
166) transformation of agriculture
167) Ivan Allen Jr.
168) William B. Hartsfield
169) major league sports
170) Ellis Arnall
171) profit
172) entrepreneur
173) risk
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
5: The Civil War
6: The New South
6: The New South
6: The New South
6: The New South
6: The New South
6: The New South
6: The New South
6: The New South
6: The New South
6: The New South
6: The New South
6: The New South
6: The New South
6: The New South
6: The New South
6: The New South
6: The New South
6: The New South
6: The New South
6: The New South
7: The 20th Century
7: The 20th Century
7: The 20th Century
7: The 20th Century
7: The 20th Century
7: The 20th Century
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7: The 20th Century
7: The 20th Century
7: The 20th Century
7: The 20th Century
8: Post WWII Georgia
8: Post WWII Georgia
8: Post WWII Georgia
8: Post WWII Georgia
8: Post WWII Georgia
8: Post WWII Georgia
8: Post WWII Georgia
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174) Coca-Cola
175) Delta Airlines
176) Georgia-Pacific
177) Home Depot
178) four transportation systems
179) Interstate Highway System
180) Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
181) deepwater ports
182) modern railroads
183) four transportation systems (goods/ markets/jobs)
184) Herman Talmadge
185) Benjamin Mays
186) 1946 governor’s race
187) end of the white primary
188) Brown v. Board of Education
189) Martin Luther King Jr.
190) 1956 state flag
191) Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
192) Sibley Commission
193) Hunter/Holmes UGA integration
194) Albany Movement
195) March on Washington
196) Civil Rights Act
197) Maynard Jackson
198) Lester Maddox
199) Andrew Young
200) end of the county unit system
201) reapportionment
202) Jimmy Carter
203) 1996 Olympic Games
204) immigration
205) legislative branch (role)
206) General Assembly
207) House of Representatives
208) Senate
209) Role of the legislative branch
210) executive branch (role)
211) governor
212) lieutenant governor
213) organization of executive branch
214) education
215) human resources
216) public safety
217) transportation
218) economic development
219) natural resources
220) judicial branch
221) structure of court
222) trial court
223) appeals court
224) criminal law
225) civil law
226) role of local governments
227) county
228) city
229) weak-mayor council
230) strong-mayor council
231) council-manager government
232) special purpose governments
8: Post WWII Georgia
8: Post WWII Georgia
8: Post WWII Georgia
8: Post WWII Georgia
8: Post WWII Georgia
8: Post WWII Georgia
8: Post WWII Georgia
8: Post WWII Georgia
8: Post WWII Georgia
8: Post WWII Georgia
9: Civil Rights
9: Civil Rights
9: Civil Rights
9: Civil Rights
9: Civil Rights
9: Civil Rights
9: Civil Rights
9: Civil Rights
9: Civil Rights
9: Civil Rights
9: Civil Rights
9: Civil Rights
9: Civil Rights
9: Civil Rights
9: Civil Rights
9: Civil Rights
10: Modern Georgia
10: Modern Georgia
10: Modern Georgia
10: Modern Georgia
10: Modern Georgia
11: State and Local Government
11: State and Local Government
11: State and Local Government
11: State and Local Government
11: State and Local Government
11: State and Local Government
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11: State and Local Government
11: State and Local Government
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11: State and Local Government
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11: State and Local Government
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233) revenue
234) sales tax
235) federal grant
236) personal income tax
237) property tax
238) distribution of state revenue
239) prioritizing services
240) adult justice system
241) settling disputes
242) juvenile court system
243) juvenile
244) delinquent behavior
245) unruly behavior
246) rights of juveniles
247) juvenile justice steps
248) seven delinquent behaviors
249) income
250) spending
251) credit
252) saving
253) investing
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12: Adult and Juvenile Justice System
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13: Personal Finance
13: Personal Finance
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13: Personal Finance
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