UGA HISTORY EXEMPTION FULL SOLUTION
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◉ James Jackson.
Answer: -1819 - 1887.
-US representative from GA
-judge advocate American Civil War
-chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia
-He nullified the yazoo sale and destructed records connected with
the state...Later the Yazoo lands was given to the Federal Goverment.
-against the yazoo sale
◉ Iroquois League.
Answer: -Known as the haudenosaunee of the "People of the
Longhouse"
,-league of several nations and tribes of indigenous people of North
America
◉ Yazoo Fraud.
Answer: -a massive fraud perpetrated from 1794-1803 by several
Georgia governers and the state legislature.
-land was owned by 4 big companies, then those companies sold the
land and bribed georgia legislature
-sold the Yazoo lands for insanely cheap to government insiders
◉ James Gunn.
Answer: -Arranged the distribution of money of the Yazoo fraud and
land to legislators, state officials, newspaper editors and cries of
bribery and corruption.
-the culprit of the yazoo land fraud?
-supported the yazoo sale
-received compensation
,◉ Trail of Tears.
Answer: -Forced relocation and movement of Native American
nations from southeastern parts of the US
-following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
-included many members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole,
Chickasaw and Choctaw nations, among others in the US, from their
homelands to Indian territory
-From Georgia to Oklahoma
◉ Hernan Cortes.
Answer: -1st Marquis (nobleman) of the Valley of Oaxaca (1485 -
December 2, 1547)
-was a Spanish Conquistador
-led an expedition that CAUSED THE FALL OF THE AZTEC EMPIRE
-brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the
King of Castile in the early 16th Century
, ◉ The Stono Rebellion.
Answer: -Slave rebellion that commenced on September 9 1739
-colony of South Carolina.
-largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the
American Revolution
-resulted in better education for black slaves
-caused the Negro Act which said that for every 1 white man, there
could only be 10 black men (slaves)
◉ William Penn.
Answer: -1644 - 1718.
-English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher and founder of the
Province of Pennsylvania
-Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
-associated with Quakers: religion that believed in "internal light"
and to be entirely governed by God
STUDY GUIDE
◉ James Jackson.
Answer: -1819 - 1887.
-US representative from GA
-judge advocate American Civil War
-chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia
-He nullified the yazoo sale and destructed records connected with
the state...Later the Yazoo lands was given to the Federal Goverment.
-against the yazoo sale
◉ Iroquois League.
Answer: -Known as the haudenosaunee of the "People of the
Longhouse"
,-league of several nations and tribes of indigenous people of North
America
◉ Yazoo Fraud.
Answer: -a massive fraud perpetrated from 1794-1803 by several
Georgia governers and the state legislature.
-land was owned by 4 big companies, then those companies sold the
land and bribed georgia legislature
-sold the Yazoo lands for insanely cheap to government insiders
◉ James Gunn.
Answer: -Arranged the distribution of money of the Yazoo fraud and
land to legislators, state officials, newspaper editors and cries of
bribery and corruption.
-the culprit of the yazoo land fraud?
-supported the yazoo sale
-received compensation
,◉ Trail of Tears.
Answer: -Forced relocation and movement of Native American
nations from southeastern parts of the US
-following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
-included many members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole,
Chickasaw and Choctaw nations, among others in the US, from their
homelands to Indian territory
-From Georgia to Oklahoma
◉ Hernan Cortes.
Answer: -1st Marquis (nobleman) of the Valley of Oaxaca (1485 -
December 2, 1547)
-was a Spanish Conquistador
-led an expedition that CAUSED THE FALL OF THE AZTEC EMPIRE
-brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the
King of Castile in the early 16th Century
, ◉ The Stono Rebellion.
Answer: -Slave rebellion that commenced on September 9 1739
-colony of South Carolina.
-largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the
American Revolution
-resulted in better education for black slaves
-caused the Negro Act which said that for every 1 white man, there
could only be 10 black men (slaves)
◉ William Penn.
Answer: -1644 - 1718.
-English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher and founder of the
Province of Pennsylvania
-Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
-associated with Quakers: religion that believed in "internal light"
and to be entirely governed by God
