UGA History Exemption CERTIFICATION
PAPER 2026 FULL SOLUTION GRADED A+
● Georgia was the ________ colony to settle. Answer: 13th
● Georgia was initially founded and ruled by. Answer: a board of
Trustees
● What four things were initially banned in Georgia. Answer: slavery,
rum, lawyers, and catholics
● Rum was legalized in. Answer: 1742
● Slavery was legalized in. Answer: 1751
● From 1752 - 1776, the colony was ruled by. Answer: royally
appointed governors
● 3 royal governors. Answer: John Reynolds, Henry Ellis, James Wright
● The initial impetus behind Georgia's founding came from. Answer:
James E. Oglethorpe
, ● Oglethorpe originally intended GA to be. Answer: a refuge for the
debtors who crowded London's prisons
● Britain wanted Georgia to be. Answer: a buffer between other
southern colonies and the Spanish
● At the Battle of __________ on ___________________,
________________ kept the Spanish at bay. Answer: Bloody Marsh
St. Simon's Island
Oglethorpe
● Georgia was named for. Answer: King George II
● Georgia did not send representative to _______________, but sent 3
representative to ________________. Answer: The First Continental
Congress
The Second Continental Congress
● The 3 reps GA sent to the second continental congress are. Answer:
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton
**signed the Declaration of Independence
PAPER 2026 FULL SOLUTION GRADED A+
● Georgia was the ________ colony to settle. Answer: 13th
● Georgia was initially founded and ruled by. Answer: a board of
Trustees
● What four things were initially banned in Georgia. Answer: slavery,
rum, lawyers, and catholics
● Rum was legalized in. Answer: 1742
● Slavery was legalized in. Answer: 1751
● From 1752 - 1776, the colony was ruled by. Answer: royally
appointed governors
● 3 royal governors. Answer: John Reynolds, Henry Ellis, James Wright
● The initial impetus behind Georgia's founding came from. Answer:
James E. Oglethorpe
, ● Oglethorpe originally intended GA to be. Answer: a refuge for the
debtors who crowded London's prisons
● Britain wanted Georgia to be. Answer: a buffer between other
southern colonies and the Spanish
● At the Battle of __________ on ___________________,
________________ kept the Spanish at bay. Answer: Bloody Marsh
St. Simon's Island
Oglethorpe
● Georgia was named for. Answer: King George II
● Georgia did not send representative to _______________, but sent 3
representative to ________________. Answer: The First Continental
Congress
The Second Continental Congress
● The 3 reps GA sent to the second continental congress are. Answer:
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton
**signed the Declaration of Independence
