GA History Exam UGA COMPLETE
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
James Edward Oglethorpe - ANSWER -founded the Georgia colony, in order to create
an effective buffer from the Spanish and Spanish controlled Florida.
James Wright - ANSWER -Georgia's third and final, royal governor who fled the colony
when the American Revolution began
Nancy Morgan Hart - ANSWER -Very patriotic woman in GA, worked as a spy by
disguising herself as a man, and entering British camps to gain info. famous for holding
6 British soldiers at gunpoint when they tried to pillage her land
Yazoo Land Fraud - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -Overturned Yazoo Act; elected to First
Congress; lost re-election
Trail of Tears - ANSWER -Forced removal of Cherokee Indians from GA to a region
west of the Mississippi(present OK). Thousands of Cherokee died.
Joseph Brown - ANSWER -Governor from GA who tried to keep his troops apart from
Confederate forces & insisted on hoarding supplies for the state militia. He believed that
because GA had seceded it didn't have to follow the central government.
Milledgeville - ANSWER -GA's fourth capital and seat of the state government during
the Civil War
Robert Toombs - ANSWER -Senator & extremist from Ga who said the South would
not allow the federal government to be controlled by the republican party & threatened
secession. Secretary of State.
William T. Sherman - ANSWER -Commander of the Union army in Tennessee. In
September 1864 his troops captured Atlanta. They then headed to Savannah in
"Sherman's march to the Sea". His troops burned barns and homes, and destroyed the
countryside. He showed a shift in the belief that only military targets should be
destroyed.
Henry L. Benning - ANSWER -A jurist who became an associate justice of the GA
Supreme Court in the 1850s. He then became a vocal advocate of secession and
earned the rank of Confederate brigadier general during the Civil War. There is a fort
named after him.
, Rufus Bullock - ANSWER -GA governor(1868-1871) during reconstruction and was the
first Republican governor of GA. Brought industry to GA. After various false allegations
of scandal, he was obliged by the KKK to resign.
Tunis Campbell - ANSWER -Prominent black politician, who represented McIntosh
County as 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
being disliked by whites. He was sentenced to a year of hard labor for improper
conduct.
Populism - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -Purpose was to diversify the GA economy. It
eventually led to the industrialization of the state.
Jim Crow - ANSWER -De sure segregation
-System of racial segregation in the south that was created in the late 19th century
following the end of slavery. The laws written in 1880s and 1890s mandated public
facility segregation.
-Meant that blacks had unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and
government.
W. E. B. Du Bois - ANSWER -First black American to earn a doctorate from Harvard.
Civil rights activist, wrote 'souls of black folk'; demanded full racial equality; co-founder
of NAACP.
Rebecca Latimer Felton - ANSWER -Supported women's suffrage and temperance.
also strongly disagreed with the convict lease system.
-first woman to serve in the US senate.
Leo Frank - ANSWER -Jewish factory manager in Atlanta who was convinced of
murdering a female employee; a mob lynched him in his jail cell.
County-unit System - ANSWER -It gave each county or district a certain number of
votes without regard to population size. The bigger the district, the more votes. This
inacurately stated what people wanted and gave rural areas more votes, which did not
represent what most people would prefer.
Agricultural Adjustment Administration - ANSWER Restricted agricultural production in
the New Deal era by paying farmers to reduce crop area. Its purpose was to reduce
crop surplus so as to effectively raise the value of crops, thereby giving farmers relative
stability again.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
James Edward Oglethorpe - ANSWER -founded the Georgia colony, in order to create
an effective buffer from the Spanish and Spanish controlled Florida.
James Wright - ANSWER -Georgia's third and final, royal governor who fled the colony
when the American Revolution began
Nancy Morgan Hart - ANSWER -Very patriotic woman in GA, worked as a spy by
disguising herself as a man, and entering British camps to gain info. famous for holding
6 British soldiers at gunpoint when they tried to pillage her land
Yazoo Land Fraud - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -Overturned Yazoo Act; elected to First
Congress; lost re-election
Trail of Tears - ANSWER -Forced removal of Cherokee Indians from GA to a region
west of the Mississippi(present OK). Thousands of Cherokee died.
Joseph Brown - ANSWER -Governor from GA who tried to keep his troops apart from
Confederate forces & insisted on hoarding supplies for the state militia. He believed that
because GA had seceded it didn't have to follow the central government.
Milledgeville - ANSWER -GA's fourth capital and seat of the state government during
the Civil War
Robert Toombs - ANSWER -Senator & extremist from Ga who said the South would
not allow the federal government to be controlled by the republican party & threatened
secession. Secretary of State.
William T. Sherman - ANSWER -Commander of the Union army in Tennessee. In
September 1864 his troops captured Atlanta. They then headed to Savannah in
"Sherman's march to the Sea". His troops burned barns and homes, and destroyed the
countryside. He showed a shift in the belief that only military targets should be
destroyed.
Henry L. Benning - ANSWER -A jurist who became an associate justice of the GA
Supreme Court in the 1850s. He then became a vocal advocate of secession and
earned the rank of Confederate brigadier general during the Civil War. There is a fort
named after him.
, Rufus Bullock - ANSWER -GA governor(1868-1871) during reconstruction and was the
first Republican governor of GA. Brought industry to GA. After various false allegations
of scandal, he was obliged by the KKK to resign.
Tunis Campbell - ANSWER -Prominent black politician, who represented McIntosh
County as 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
being disliked by whites. He was sentenced to a year of hard labor for improper
conduct.
Populism - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -Purpose was to diversify the GA economy. It
eventually led to the industrialization of the state.
Jim Crow - ANSWER -De sure segregation
-System of racial segregation in the south that was created in the late 19th century
following the end of slavery. The laws written in 1880s and 1890s mandated public
facility segregation.
-Meant that blacks had unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and
government.
W. E. B. Du Bois - ANSWER -First black American to earn a doctorate from Harvard.
Civil rights activist, wrote 'souls of black folk'; demanded full racial equality; co-founder
of NAACP.
Rebecca Latimer Felton - ANSWER -Supported women's suffrage and temperance.
also strongly disagreed with the convict lease system.
-first woman to serve in the US senate.
Leo Frank - ANSWER -Jewish factory manager in Atlanta who was convinced of
murdering a female employee; a mob lynched him in his jail cell.
County-unit System - ANSWER -It gave each county or district a certain number of
votes without regard to population size. The bigger the district, the more votes. This
inacurately stated what people wanted and gave rural areas more votes, which did not
represent what most people would prefer.
Agricultural Adjustment Administration - ANSWER Restricted agricultural production in
the New Deal era by paying farmers to reduce crop area. Its purpose was to reduce
crop surplus so as to effectively raise the value of crops, thereby giving farmers relative
stability again.
