GA History Exam UGA Questions and
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James Edward Oglethorpe ✔✔The leader of English Parliament who founded the Georgia
colony, in order to create an effective buffer from the Spanish and Spanish controlled Florida.
James Wright ✔✔Georgia's third, and final, royal governor who fled the colony when the
American Revolution began
Nancy Morgan Hart ✔✔one of the most patriotic women in Georgia, she worked as a spy; she
disguised herself as a man and entered British camps trying to gain information; famous for
holding six British soldiers at gunpoint who tried to pillage her land.
Yazoo Land Fraud ✔✔1795, the sale of western land to four land companies after the governor
and members of the General Assembly had been bribed
Governor James Jackson ✔✔Overturned Yazoo Act; elected to First Congress; lost reelection
Trail of Tears ✔✔Forced journey of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to a region west of the
Mississippi (present day Oklahoma) during which thousands of Cherokees died
,Joseph Brown ✔✔Governor from Georgia who tried at times to keep his own troops apart from
the Confederate forces and insisted on hoarding surplus supplies for his own state's militias. He
believed that his state had seceded so that it didn't have to follow the dictates of a central
government.
Milledgeville ✔✔Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government during the Civil War
Henry L. Benning ✔✔A jurist who became associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia in
the 1850s. He then became a vocal advocate for secession and earned the rank of brigadier
general during the Civil War
Robert Toombs ✔✔A senator and extremist from Georgia who said that the South would never
let the federal government be controlled by the Republican party and threatened secession.
William T. Sherman ✔✔He commanded the Union army in Tennessee. In September of 1864 his
troops captured Atlanta, Georgia. He then headed to take Savannah. This was his famous "march
to the sea.". His troops burned barns and houses, and destroyed the countryside. His march
showed a shift in the belief that only military targets should be destroyed. Civilian centers could
also be targets.
, Rufus Bullock ✔✔He served as the Governor of Georgia from 1868 to 1871 during
Reconstruction and was the first Republican governor of Georgia. After various allegations of
scandal, in 1871 he was obliged by the Ku Klux Klan to resign the governorship.
Tunis Campbell ✔✔Represented McIntosh County as a state senator and served as a justice of
the peace.Insisted on equal representation of blacks in juries and otherwise championed their
rights to the point of making himself an annoyance to the whites. Was sentenced to a year of
hard labor for improper conduct.
Populism ✔✔Farm-based movement of the late 1800s that arose mainly in the area from Texas
to the Dakotas and grew into a joint effort between farmer and labor groups against big business
and machine-based politics. The movement became a third party in the election of 1892.
"New South" Crusade ✔✔Sought to diversify the Georgia economy; eventually led to the
industrialization of the state.
Jim Crow ✔✔The system of racial segregation in the South that was created in the late
nineteenth century following the end of slavery. These laws written in the 1880s and 1890s
mandated segregation in public facilities.
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James Edward Oglethorpe ✔✔The leader of English Parliament who founded the Georgia
colony, in order to create an effective buffer from the Spanish and Spanish controlled Florida.
James Wright ✔✔Georgia's third, and final, royal governor who fled the colony when the
American Revolution began
Nancy Morgan Hart ✔✔one of the most patriotic women in Georgia, she worked as a spy; she
disguised herself as a man and entered British camps trying to gain information; famous for
holding six British soldiers at gunpoint who tried to pillage her land.
Yazoo Land Fraud ✔✔1795, the sale of western land to four land companies after the governor
and members of the General Assembly had been bribed
Governor James Jackson ✔✔Overturned Yazoo Act; elected to First Congress; lost reelection
Trail of Tears ✔✔Forced journey of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to a region west of the
Mississippi (present day Oklahoma) during which thousands of Cherokees died
,Joseph Brown ✔✔Governor from Georgia who tried at times to keep his own troops apart from
the Confederate forces and insisted on hoarding surplus supplies for his own state's militias. He
believed that his state had seceded so that it didn't have to follow the dictates of a central
government.
Milledgeville ✔✔Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government during the Civil War
Henry L. Benning ✔✔A jurist who became associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia in
the 1850s. He then became a vocal advocate for secession and earned the rank of brigadier
general during the Civil War
Robert Toombs ✔✔A senator and extremist from Georgia who said that the South would never
let the federal government be controlled by the Republican party and threatened secession.
William T. Sherman ✔✔He commanded the Union army in Tennessee. In September of 1864 his
troops captured Atlanta, Georgia. He then headed to take Savannah. This was his famous "march
to the sea.". His troops burned barns and houses, and destroyed the countryside. His march
showed a shift in the belief that only military targets should be destroyed. Civilian centers could
also be targets.
, Rufus Bullock ✔✔He served as the Governor of Georgia from 1868 to 1871 during
Reconstruction and was the first Republican governor of Georgia. After various allegations of
scandal, in 1871 he was obliged by the Ku Klux Klan to resign the governorship.
Tunis Campbell ✔✔Represented McIntosh County as a state senator and served as a justice of
the peace.Insisted on equal representation of blacks in juries and otherwise championed their
rights to the point of making himself an annoyance to the whites. Was sentenced to a year of
hard labor for improper conduct.
Populism ✔✔Farm-based movement of the late 1800s that arose mainly in the area from Texas
to the Dakotas and grew into a joint effort between farmer and labor groups against big business
and machine-based politics. The movement became a third party in the election of 1892.
"New South" Crusade ✔✔Sought to diversify the Georgia economy; eventually led to the
industrialization of the state.
Jim Crow ✔✔The system of racial segregation in the South that was created in the late
nineteenth century following the end of slavery. These laws written in the 1880s and 1890s
mandated segregation in public facilities.
