GA HISTORY EXEMPTION EXAM QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
2024/2025 | VERIFIED
Three reasons for the establishment of Georgia - ✔️✔️Philanthropic
Military
Economic
Strict rules established my the Trustees for the colony - ✔️✔️Restrictions on land ownership
Prohibition of hard liquor
Prohibition of slavery
defacto leader and one of the Trustees of the first settlers in Georgia. helped establish Savannah,
Augusta, and Fort Frederica - ✔️✔️James Oglethorpe
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 - ✔️✔️James Wright
Allowed Oglethorpe to settle on Yamacraw Bluff; advised Oglethorpe on Indian affairs, chief of the
Yamacraw - ✔️✔️Tomochichi
first governing document of independent Georgia put into place by Provincial Congress (Whigs) -
✔️✔️The Rules and Regulations
first governor of GA - ✔️✔️John Treutlen
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 - ✔️✔️Yazoo Land Fraud
Supreme Court rule stating the state couldn't nullify the Yazoo Land deal - ✔️✔️Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence - ✔️✔️George Walton
Lyman Hall
Button Gwinnett
, Capitals of Georgia - ✔️✔️Savannah - Augusta - Louisville - Milledgeville - Atlanta
Supreme Court decision that ruled that Georgia had no right to interfere with the Cherokees controlled
land - ✔️✔️Worcester v. Georgia
the trek of Native Americans, particularly the Cherokee, to Indian Territory - ✔️✔️Trail of Tears
author of the Georgia Platform- a proclamation that endorsed the Compromise of 1850; appointed
justice as the Supreme Court of GA; governor of GA during reconstruction; he refused to allow state
funds to be used for a racially integrated state constitutional convention - ✔️✔️Charles Jenkins
governor of Ga in 1857 and 1859; he campaigned as a champion of non-slaveholding upcountry masses
but also had ties to fireeaters; he worked to strengthen state defenses for the war - ✔️✔️Joseph E.
Brown
Vice President of the Confederacy (1861-65), elected to US Senate and served as governor of GA from
'82-'83 - ✔️✔️Alexander Stephens
Athens lawyer instrumental in drafting the Confederate constitution - ✔️✔️Thomas R. R. Cobb
What did Georgia contribute to the war? - ✔️✔️Manpower (12,000 men), Money, Supplies
(ammunition and clothing)
Union General who destroyed South during "march to the sea" from Atlanta to Savannah, completely
burned down Atanta - ✔️✔️William Sherman
When did reconstruction of Georgia end/state redeemed? - ✔️✔️1871
laws that restricted African Americans' rights and opportunities in order to keep them in a condition as
close to slaves, blacks weren't allowed to vote, serve on juries, or testify against whites - ✔️✔️The Black
Code
2024/2025 | VERIFIED
Three reasons for the establishment of Georgia - ✔️✔️Philanthropic
Military
Economic
Strict rules established my the Trustees for the colony - ✔️✔️Restrictions on land ownership
Prohibition of hard liquor
Prohibition of slavery
defacto leader and one of the Trustees of the first settlers in Georgia. helped establish Savannah,
Augusta, and Fort Frederica - ✔️✔️James Oglethorpe
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 - ✔️✔️James Wright
Allowed Oglethorpe to settle on Yamacraw Bluff; advised Oglethorpe on Indian affairs, chief of the
Yamacraw - ✔️✔️Tomochichi
first governing document of independent Georgia put into place by Provincial Congress (Whigs) -
✔️✔️The Rules and Regulations
first governor of GA - ✔️✔️John Treutlen
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 - ✔️✔️Yazoo Land Fraud
Supreme Court rule stating the state couldn't nullify the Yazoo Land deal - ✔️✔️Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence - ✔️✔️George Walton
Lyman Hall
Button Gwinnett
, Capitals of Georgia - ✔️✔️Savannah - Augusta - Louisville - Milledgeville - Atlanta
Supreme Court decision that ruled that Georgia had no right to interfere with the Cherokees controlled
land - ✔️✔️Worcester v. Georgia
the trek of Native Americans, particularly the Cherokee, to Indian Territory - ✔️✔️Trail of Tears
author of the Georgia Platform- a proclamation that endorsed the Compromise of 1850; appointed
justice as the Supreme Court of GA; governor of GA during reconstruction; he refused to allow state
funds to be used for a racially integrated state constitutional convention - ✔️✔️Charles Jenkins
governor of Ga in 1857 and 1859; he campaigned as a champion of non-slaveholding upcountry masses
but also had ties to fireeaters; he worked to strengthen state defenses for the war - ✔️✔️Joseph E.
Brown
Vice President of the Confederacy (1861-65), elected to US Senate and served as governor of GA from
'82-'83 - ✔️✔️Alexander Stephens
Athens lawyer instrumental in drafting the Confederate constitution - ✔️✔️Thomas R. R. Cobb
What did Georgia contribute to the war? - ✔️✔️Manpower (12,000 men), Money, Supplies
(ammunition and clothing)
Union General who destroyed South during "march to the sea" from Atlanta to Savannah, completely
burned down Atanta - ✔️✔️William Sherman
When did reconstruction of Georgia end/state redeemed? - ✔️✔️1871
laws that restricted African Americans' rights and opportunities in order to keep them in a condition as
close to slaves, blacks weren't allowed to vote, serve on juries, or testify against whites - ✔️✔️The Black
Code
