1. Who were the Regulators? What did they do? What happened to them?

2. Describe the three fires that burned Atlanta during the Civil War.

Who was responsible for starting them?

How were they put out? What did they do?

3. Atlanta was still a very young city at the start of the Civil War. When was it founded? How was it founded? What made it grow?

4. What were the reasons General Sherman gave for torching Atlanta and then destroying a fifty-mile-wide strip from Atlanta to Savannah? Were they good reasons?

5. Who were carpetbaggers? Why did Southerners despise them?

6. Why was a new constitution for Georgia written after the Civil War?

7. What happened to freed blacks in Georgia in the decade after the Civil War? What might happen to Delie and her family?

8. Hannalee often mentions her Cherokee ancestry. Who were the Cherokees...