Georgia History Exemption Exam Questions And Answers Verified 100% Correct

Georgia History Exemption Exam Questions And Answers Verified 100% Correct Georgia Gold Rush - ANSWER The discovery of gold near the Georgia city Dahlonega led to the forced removal of the Cherokee Indians (known as the Trail of Tears) Trail of Tears - ANSWER In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. Devastating effects, More than 4,000 perished Winfield Scott - ANSWER United States general who was a hero of the War of 1812 and who defeated Santa Anna in the Mexican War (); in 1838, removed the Cherokee from their homes and lead them west during the Trail of Tears; became the Whigs' last presidential candidate in 1852. Western and Atlantic Railroad - ANSWER The only real railroads left operational after the Civil War Georgia Platform - ANSWER Georgia's reaction to the Compromise of 1850 - that is would support California becoming a free state as long as northern states abided by the fugitive slave act. Alexander Stephens - ANSWER Georgia Congressman who supported the Georgia Platform in 1850 and fought against secession in 1861 but eventually became the Vice President of the Confederate States of America. Eli Whitney - ANSWER A mechanical genius who invented the cotton gin, which was machine that separated the cotton from the seed. This greatly improved efficiency, and the South was able to clear more acres of cotton fields, which also increased the demand for slaves. Battle of Chickamauga - ANSWER Fought September 19-20, 1863, marked the end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia called the Chickamauga Campaign. The battle was the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater of the American Civil War and involved the second highest number of casualties in the war following the Battle of Gettysburg. It was the first major battle of the war that was fought in Georgia. Battle of Kennesaw Mountain - ANSWER Fought on June 27, 1864, during the Atlanta Campaign of the civil War. It was the most significant frontal assault launched by Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman against the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, ending in a tactical defeat for the Union forces. William T. Sherman - ANSWER Union General, forever immortalized by being the first general to use total war. He marched from Atlanta to the sea, pillaging and burning everything they came across. This march demoralized the South Atlanta Campaign - ANSWER was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta, Georgia, during the summer of 1864, leading to the eventual fall of Atlanta and hastening the end of the American Civil War March to the Sea - ANSWER The name commonly given to the Savannah Campaign conducted in late 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army during the American Civil War. The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 15 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 22. Andersonville - ANSWER One of the most brutal prison camps in the Civil War. Union prisoner of war camp near Andersonville, Georgia. Estimated 12,000 Union soldiers died there from disease and starvation. Liberated in 1865 Special Field Order 15 - ANSWER An order by General William T. Sherman in January 1865 to set aside abandoned land (forty acres and a mule) along the southern Atlantic coast for forty-acre grants to freedmen. It was rescinded by President Andrew Johnson later that year. Henry Grady - ANSWER Editor of the Atlanta Constitution, preached about economically diversified "New South" with industries and small farms, and absent of the influence of the pre-war planter elite in the political world. Bourbon Triumvirate - ANSWER - Joseph E. Brown (ex-Confederate governor), John B. Gordon and Alfred H. Colquitt (ex-Confederate generals) - maintained power from - focused on industrializing the stated for their own profit, and white-supremacist racial doctrine Thomas Watson - ANSWER A politician, attorney, newspaper editor, and writer from Georgia. In the 1890's Watson championed poor farmers as a leader of the Populist Party, articulating an agrarian political viewpoint while attacking business, bankers, railroads, Democratic President Grover Cleveland, and the Democratic Party. Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 - ANSWER Mass civil disturbance in Atlanta, September 2224, 1906 characterized at the time by Le Petit Journal and other media outlets as a "racial massacre of negroes". The death toll of the conflict was at least 25 African Americans along with 2 confirmed European Americans Albany Movement - ANSWER Desegregation coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, quickly became a broad-front nonviolent attack on every aspect of segregation within the city. Bus stations, libraries, and lunch counters reserved for White Americans were occupied by African Americans, boycotts were launched, and hundreds of protesters marched on City Hall. County unit system - ANSWER affected primary elections only (where we narrow down what candidate from which party will run for a particular office) the 121 smallest counties had the ability to control elections even though 67% of voters lived in the 38 largest counties Leo Frank - ANSWER A Jewish man charged with the murder of MARY PHAGAN. Originally sentenced to death but Governor reduced to life in prison. Tom Watson led a public outcry and a group of angry men kidnapped him from jail and lynched him. His case led to rebirth of KKK in GA Booker T. Washington - ANSWER Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was head of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. His book "Up from Slavery." Atlanta Compromise - ANSWER Argument put forward by Booker T. Washington that African-Americans should not focus on civil rights or social equality but concentrate on economic self-improvement Martin Luther King, Jr. - ANSWER U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. He opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964) William B. Hartsfield - ANSWER Longest serving of the progressive mayors. He purchased a racetrack that became Atlanta's first airport (Hartsfield International Airporttoday is the busiest airport in the world). "Father of Atlanta Aviation". City too Busy to Hate - ANSWER atlanta was too busy making money from all its new companies that it didn't have time for racial hate Ivan Allen, Jr. - ANSWER Allowed AA police to arrest whites and allowed AA's to serve as firefighters. By 1964 he desegregated all public facilities (including schools) in ATL.