GSU GEORGIA HISTORY EXAM QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS
Atlanta Compromise Speech - Answer --September 18 1895**
-Booker T Washington (African American)
-Conservative
-@ cotton states and international exposition in ATL
-5 Fingers to the hand****
- his speech responded to the negro problem
What Jobs did Booker T Washington encourage the blacks to become proficient in
during Atlanta compromise speech? - Answer --agriculture
-mechanics
-commerce
-domestic service
Who served as an advisor to US presidents Theodore Roosevelt, and William Taft (Both
with deep racial Biases) - Answer -Booker T Washington
W E B Du Bois - Answer --Radical
-Talented Tenth
-Against Booker T
Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 - Answer --September 22-24 1906
-White mobs killed dozens of blacks ( damaged a lot of property)
-Job competition between whites and blacks
Cherokee Removal - Answer --1838 and 1839
-Robert Lindneux painting Cherokee Trail of Tears
-US troops, prompted by the state of Georgia, expelled the Cherokee Indians from the
homeland in the Southeast and removed them to the Indian Territory in what is now
Oklahoma
-Divided land up into parcels- offered parcels in a lottery to white Georgians
The Cherokee syllabary - Answer --Sequoyah
-Enabled the Cherokee's to read, write, record their laws, and publish newspapers in
their language**********
Civil Rights Movement - Answer --One of the most significant and successful social
movements in the modern world
-Black Georgians formed part of this southern movement for full civil rights and the
wider national struggle for racial equality.
-Brown vs Board of Education (1954)***** separation of schools
, Civil War in Georgia - Answer --1861-1865
What was special field order #15***(when slaves were freed, they were promised land
and a mule but they never got it)
Jimmy Carter(1924) - Answer --the only Georgian elected president of the United
States that held the office for one term, 1977-81
-he founded the Carter Center, a nonpartisan public policy center in Atlanta
KKK in the 20th Century - Answer --Stone Mountain
Leo Frank Case - Answer --one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in
the legal annals of Georgia
-Jewish man in Atlanta was placed on trial and convicted of raping and murdering a
thirteen-year-old girl who worked for the National Pencil Company, which he managed
-Hung in Marietta
Mary Phagan - Answer --13 year old girl raped by Leo Frank Case
-Milledgeville
Lester Maddox - Answer --1915-2003
-States most unliked governor****
-Brought to office in 1966 by widespread dissatisfaction with desegregation
Martin Luther King Jr. - Answer --1929-1968
-a Baptist minister and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- most prominent African American leader in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and
1960s.
Olympic Games in 1996 - Answer --July 19- August 4 Atlanta hosted the Centennial
Summer Olympic Games
-Largest Event in the cities History
-Preparations took 6 years and 5.14 billion dollars
-2 Million visitors over 14 days
-Billy Payne
-Traffic Problems
-Pipe bomb in centennial park(2 dead-100 injured)*****
Populist Party - Answer --1892 Georgia politics was shaken by the arrival of the
Populist Party
-Led by Thomas E. Watson
Reconstruction in Georgia - Answer --As a defeated Confederate state, Georgia
underwent Reconstruction from 1865, when the Civil War (1861-65) ended, until 1871,
when Republican government and military occupation in the state ended
1865-1871( around the civil war)******
ANSWERS
Atlanta Compromise Speech - Answer --September 18 1895**
-Booker T Washington (African American)
-Conservative
-@ cotton states and international exposition in ATL
-5 Fingers to the hand****
- his speech responded to the negro problem
What Jobs did Booker T Washington encourage the blacks to become proficient in
during Atlanta compromise speech? - Answer --agriculture
-mechanics
-commerce
-domestic service
Who served as an advisor to US presidents Theodore Roosevelt, and William Taft (Both
with deep racial Biases) - Answer -Booker T Washington
W E B Du Bois - Answer --Radical
-Talented Tenth
-Against Booker T
Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 - Answer --September 22-24 1906
-White mobs killed dozens of blacks ( damaged a lot of property)
-Job competition between whites and blacks
Cherokee Removal - Answer --1838 and 1839
-Robert Lindneux painting Cherokee Trail of Tears
-US troops, prompted by the state of Georgia, expelled the Cherokee Indians from the
homeland in the Southeast and removed them to the Indian Territory in what is now
Oklahoma
-Divided land up into parcels- offered parcels in a lottery to white Georgians
The Cherokee syllabary - Answer --Sequoyah
-Enabled the Cherokee's to read, write, record their laws, and publish newspapers in
their language**********
Civil Rights Movement - Answer --One of the most significant and successful social
movements in the modern world
-Black Georgians formed part of this southern movement for full civil rights and the
wider national struggle for racial equality.
-Brown vs Board of Education (1954)***** separation of schools
, Civil War in Georgia - Answer --1861-1865
What was special field order #15***(when slaves were freed, they were promised land
and a mule but they never got it)
Jimmy Carter(1924) - Answer --the only Georgian elected president of the United
States that held the office for one term, 1977-81
-he founded the Carter Center, a nonpartisan public policy center in Atlanta
KKK in the 20th Century - Answer --Stone Mountain
Leo Frank Case - Answer --one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in
the legal annals of Georgia
-Jewish man in Atlanta was placed on trial and convicted of raping and murdering a
thirteen-year-old girl who worked for the National Pencil Company, which he managed
-Hung in Marietta
Mary Phagan - Answer --13 year old girl raped by Leo Frank Case
-Milledgeville
Lester Maddox - Answer --1915-2003
-States most unliked governor****
-Brought to office in 1966 by widespread dissatisfaction with desegregation
Martin Luther King Jr. - Answer --1929-1968
-a Baptist minister and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- most prominent African American leader in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and
1960s.
Olympic Games in 1996 - Answer --July 19- August 4 Atlanta hosted the Centennial
Summer Olympic Games
-Largest Event in the cities History
-Preparations took 6 years and 5.14 billion dollars
-2 Million visitors over 14 days
-Billy Payne
-Traffic Problems
-Pipe bomb in centennial park(2 dead-100 injured)*****
Populist Party - Answer --1892 Georgia politics was shaken by the arrival of the
Populist Party
-Led by Thomas E. Watson
Reconstruction in Georgia - Answer --As a defeated Confederate state, Georgia
underwent Reconstruction from 1865, when the Civil War (1861-65) ended, until 1871,
when Republican government and military occupation in the state ended
1865-1871( around the civil war)******
