GA HISTORY EXEMPTION EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

GA HISTORY EXEMPTION EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Philanthropic Military Economic - ANS Three reasons for the establishment of Georgia Restrictions on land ownership Prohibition of hard liquor Prohibition of slavery - ANS Strict rules established by the Trustees for the colony James Oglethorpe - ANS de facto leader and one of the Trustees of the first settlers in Georgia. helped establish Savannah, Augusta, and Fort Frederica James Wright - ANS longest serving, most influential governor of the Royal Colony. Expanded and opened Georgia's frontier to farmers by obtaining peaceful land cessions from the Native Americans Tomochichi - ANS Allowed Oglethorpe to settle on Yamacraw Bluff; advised Oglethorpe on Indian affairs, chief of the Yamacraw The Rules and Regulations - ANS first governing document of independent Georgia put into place by Provincial Congress (Whigs) John Treutlen - ANS first governor of GA Yazoo Land Fraud - ANS in 1795, Georgia legislators sold over 40 acres of land to 4 land companies for 1.5 cents per acre; they were voted out of office and deal nullified by James Jackson Fletcher v. Peck (1810) - ANS Supreme Court rule stating the state couldn't nullify the Yazoo Land deal George Walton Lyman Hall Button Gwinnett - ANS Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence Savannah - Augusta - Louisville - Milledgeville - Atlanta - ANS Capitals of Georgia Worcester v. Georgia - ANS Supreme Court decision that ruled that Georgia had no right to interfere with the Cherokees controlled land