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How does GA’s railroads benefit the state’s economy?

• Railroads benefit the state's economy because they can move a large amount of goods throughout our state and the nation.

• The railroads benefit the state's economy by linking the interstate highway, deepwater ports, and airport together to move goods and people on both a national and international market.

• By utilizing an intermodal system to move goods and people to destinations throughout our state and the rest of the country.

• All of these

How do interstate highways benefit Georgia’s economy?

• The highways connect to GA's deepwater ports, airport and railroads, which allows goods to be moved quickly and efficiently to national and international markets.

• It doesn't benefit the economy it actually harms it by congesting the roads with big trucks.

• By only allowing the deepwater ports to ship their international goods on them.

• The interstate highways benefit the states economy by localizing all trade.

How does the transportation systems have a local economic impact on the state of Georgia?

• Bring tourists to the state & provide job opportunities for Georgia's citizens

• Help in the development of cities in the state

• Allows the state to trade both domestically and internationally

• All of these

How does Atlanta’s international airport benefit Georgia’s economy?

• By being one of the largest and busiest in the world transporting goods and people.

• Having Delta Airlines headquartered in Atlanta.

• Being able to reach eighty percent of the U. S. markets within a two-hour flight from GA.

• All of these

Who became president after Abraham Lincoln was assasinated? (a)  

• Andrew Jackson

• Andrew Johnson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• James K. Polk

Match the following person with the event they spearheaded...

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Freedom Riders

• Black law student who challenged UT LAW

• Herman Sweatt

• Integration in Little Rock H.S.

• Little Rock Nine

• first African-American baseball player to cross the "color line" and join MLB

• Jackie Robinson

• civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States

• Rosa Parks

Select the location on the map that was annexed in 1845 which started a major war between the United States and Mexico over disputed territory.

Match the following

• abolished slavery

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Ended segregation in public schools

• 13th Amendment

• all persons born or naturalized in U.S. were entitled equal rights

• 15th Amendment

• Allowed "separate but equal" facilities.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• gave people right to vote regardless of race

• 14th Amendment

How did Abraham Lincoln wanted to treat the South? (a)  

• harshly

• leniently

• severely

• rigorously

Match the following

• Treaty of Paris

• convinced the French to join the Americans

• Battle of Saratoga

• Washington's troops survived brutal winter

• Yorktown

• Britain recognizes the independence of The United States of America

• Lexington and Concord

• first shots of the war

• Valley Forge

• British army surrendered to Washington