Georgia History Exam Study Guide
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Homer Plessy ✔✔Refused to move from his train seat in the whites-only, he took his lawsuit all
the way to the united States Supreme Court
Henry McNeal Turner ✔✔He was a Georgia senate
Leo Frank ✔✔The murder trial of him resulted in a death sentence. He was pardoned by
Georgia's governor buy was later lynched by an angry mob.
Henry Grady ✔✔The journalist who reintegrated the states into the Union again after the Civil
War.
13-15 amendments ✔✔13- 1865, abolished slavery; 14- 1868, 1868 Citizenship given to ex-
slaves. Three-fifths clause abolished. Leading ex-Confederates denied office. Ex-Confederates
forced to repudiate their debts and pay pensions to their own (CSA) veterans, plus taxes for the
pensions of Union veterans; 15- 1870, suffrage given to black males.
, Freedman's Bureau ✔✔The bureau's focus was to provide food, medical care, administer justice,
manage abandoned and confiscated property, regulate labor, and establish schools.
Enlisted ✔✔enrolled in the armed services.
Neighborhood Union ✔✔Provided African American in Atlanta with services such as medical
employment and educational services.
Sharecropping ✔✔A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers
worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
Jim Crow Laws ✔✔Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
Crystal Palace ✔✔A fugitive slave named Alonzo Herndon Made the crystal palace barber shop
1906 Race Riot ✔✔Newspaper reports of black violence against white led to this
Populist ✔✔a supporter of the rights and power of the people
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Homer Plessy ✔✔Refused to move from his train seat in the whites-only, he took his lawsuit all
the way to the united States Supreme Court
Henry McNeal Turner ✔✔He was a Georgia senate
Leo Frank ✔✔The murder trial of him resulted in a death sentence. He was pardoned by
Georgia's governor buy was later lynched by an angry mob.
Henry Grady ✔✔The journalist who reintegrated the states into the Union again after the Civil
War.
13-15 amendments ✔✔13- 1865, abolished slavery; 14- 1868, 1868 Citizenship given to ex-
slaves. Three-fifths clause abolished. Leading ex-Confederates denied office. Ex-Confederates
forced to repudiate their debts and pay pensions to their own (CSA) veterans, plus taxes for the
pensions of Union veterans; 15- 1870, suffrage given to black males.
, Freedman's Bureau ✔✔The bureau's focus was to provide food, medical care, administer justice,
manage abandoned and confiscated property, regulate labor, and establish schools.
Enlisted ✔✔enrolled in the armed services.
Neighborhood Union ✔✔Provided African American in Atlanta with services such as medical
employment and educational services.
Sharecropping ✔✔A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers
worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
Jim Crow Laws ✔✔Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
Crystal Palace ✔✔A fugitive slave named Alonzo Herndon Made the crystal palace barber shop
1906 Race Riot ✔✔Newspaper reports of black violence against white led to this
Populist ✔✔a supporter of the rights and power of the people
