GCSU GA HISTORY COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS
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Braxton Bragg - career United States Army officer, and then a general in the
Confederate States Army—a principal commander in the Western Theater of the
American Civil War and later the military adviser to the Confederate President Jefferson
Davis
Joseph E. Johnston - a career U.S. Army officer, serving with distinction in the Mexican-
American War and Seminole Wars, and was also one of the most senior general
officers in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
William Tecumseh Sherman - served as a General in the Union Army during the
American Civil War (1861-65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding
command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched
earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate
States
Henry Wirz - a Swiss-born Confederate officer in the American Civil War; best known for
his command of Camp Sumter, the Confederate prisoner of war camp near
Andersonville, Georgia; he was tried and executed after the war for conspiracy and
murder relating to his command of the camp
Charles J. Jenkins - one of the authors of the "Georgia Platform" endorsing the
Compromise of 1850; unsuccessful vice presidential candidate; served on the Georgia
Supreme Court and later as governor of Georgia
Rufus Bullock - first Republican governor; became the most hated man in the state
during Reconstruction and was forced from office by the Ku Klux Klan; later he became
president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and master of ceremonies at the Atlanta
Cotton States and International Exposition in 1895
John B. Gordon - one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted Confederate generals during the
American Civil War; after the war, he was a strong opponent of Reconstruction and is
thought by some to have been the titular leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia during
the late 1860s
Alfred Terry - strong opponent of the Ku Klux Klan after being assigned as the last
military governor of the Third Military District, based in Atlanta
Jefferson Long - Georgia's first African American congressman and the first African
American to speak on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives
William Jefferson White - an Augusta Baptist minister, cabinetmaker and journalist who
founded the Augusta Theological Institute
, Bishop Henry McNeal Turner - a pioneering church organizer and missionary for the
African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in Georgia, later rising to the rank of bishop;
also an active politician and Reconstruction-era state legislator from Macon & he
became an outspoken advocate of back-to-Africa emigration
Gustavus J Orr - early proponent of the public education system of Georgia; his work
promoting a state system of education eventually became the framework for the
Georgia School Law of 1870
Sidney Lanier - contributed significantly to the arts in nineteenth-century America; his
accomplishments as a poet, novelist, composer, and critic reflect his eclectic interests,
and his melodic celebrations of Georgia's terrain are among his most widely read
poems
William Felton - an American politician, army surgeon, and Methodist minister
Rebecca Latimer Felton - first woman to serve on the United States Senate, albeit only
for one day
Hoke Smith - trial attorney and publisher of the Atlanta Journal, was most influential as
the leader of Georgia's Progressive movement during his years as governor (1907-9,
1911) and as a U.S. senator (1911-21)
Thomas E. Watson - in his early years he was characterized as a liberal but he
emerged as a force for white supremacy and anti-Catholic rhetoric; elected to the
Georgia General Assembly (1882), the U.S. House of Representatives (1890), and the
U.S. Senate (1920)
John Marshall Slaton - Georgia's sixtieth governor, serving two terms, in 1911-12 and
1913-15; he was also a state representative and state senator, and he practiced law in
Atlanta
Leo Frank - Jewish-American factory superintendent whose murder conviction and
extrajudicial hanging in 1915 by a lynch mob planned and led by prominent citizens in
Marietta, Georgia, drew attention to questions of antisemitism in the United States
Joel Chandler Harris - gained national prominence for his numerous volumes of Uncle
Remus folktales; hid long-standing legacy as a "progressive conservative" New South
journalist, folklorist, fiction writer, and children's author continues to influence our society
today
Henry Grady - rose to prominence as a journalist, eventually becoming managing editor
of the Atlanta Constitution; encouraged industrial growth and more diverse farming for
the "New South" following the Civil War; deliverd famous "New South" speech in New
York in 1886
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Braxton Bragg - career United States Army officer, and then a general in the
Confederate States Army—a principal commander in the Western Theater of the
American Civil War and later the military adviser to the Confederate President Jefferson
Davis
Joseph E. Johnston - a career U.S. Army officer, serving with distinction in the Mexican-
American War and Seminole Wars, and was also one of the most senior general
officers in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
William Tecumseh Sherman - served as a General in the Union Army during the
American Civil War (1861-65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding
command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched
earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate
States
Henry Wirz - a Swiss-born Confederate officer in the American Civil War; best known for
his command of Camp Sumter, the Confederate prisoner of war camp near
Andersonville, Georgia; he was tried and executed after the war for conspiracy and
murder relating to his command of the camp
Charles J. Jenkins - one of the authors of the "Georgia Platform" endorsing the
Compromise of 1850; unsuccessful vice presidential candidate; served on the Georgia
Supreme Court and later as governor of Georgia
Rufus Bullock - first Republican governor; became the most hated man in the state
during Reconstruction and was forced from office by the Ku Klux Klan; later he became
president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and master of ceremonies at the Atlanta
Cotton States and International Exposition in 1895
John B. Gordon - one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted Confederate generals during the
American Civil War; after the war, he was a strong opponent of Reconstruction and is
thought by some to have been the titular leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia during
the late 1860s
Alfred Terry - strong opponent of the Ku Klux Klan after being assigned as the last
military governor of the Third Military District, based in Atlanta
Jefferson Long - Georgia's first African American congressman and the first African
American to speak on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives
William Jefferson White - an Augusta Baptist minister, cabinetmaker and journalist who
founded the Augusta Theological Institute
, Bishop Henry McNeal Turner - a pioneering church organizer and missionary for the
African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in Georgia, later rising to the rank of bishop;
also an active politician and Reconstruction-era state legislator from Macon & he
became an outspoken advocate of back-to-Africa emigration
Gustavus J Orr - early proponent of the public education system of Georgia; his work
promoting a state system of education eventually became the framework for the
Georgia School Law of 1870
Sidney Lanier - contributed significantly to the arts in nineteenth-century America; his
accomplishments as a poet, novelist, composer, and critic reflect his eclectic interests,
and his melodic celebrations of Georgia's terrain are among his most widely read
poems
William Felton - an American politician, army surgeon, and Methodist minister
Rebecca Latimer Felton - first woman to serve on the United States Senate, albeit only
for one day
Hoke Smith - trial attorney and publisher of the Atlanta Journal, was most influential as
the leader of Georgia's Progressive movement during his years as governor (1907-9,
1911) and as a U.S. senator (1911-21)
Thomas E. Watson - in his early years he was characterized as a liberal but he
emerged as a force for white supremacy and anti-Catholic rhetoric; elected to the
Georgia General Assembly (1882), the U.S. House of Representatives (1890), and the
U.S. Senate (1920)
John Marshall Slaton - Georgia's sixtieth governor, serving two terms, in 1911-12 and
1913-15; he was also a state representative and state senator, and he practiced law in
Atlanta
Leo Frank - Jewish-American factory superintendent whose murder conviction and
extrajudicial hanging in 1915 by a lynch mob planned and led by prominent citizens in
Marietta, Georgia, drew attention to questions of antisemitism in the United States
Joel Chandler Harris - gained national prominence for his numerous volumes of Uncle
Remus folktales; hid long-standing legacy as a "progressive conservative" New South
journalist, folklorist, fiction writer, and children's author continues to influence our society
today
Henry Grady - rose to prominence as a journalist, eventually becoming managing editor
of the Atlanta Constitution; encouraged industrial growth and more diverse farming for
the "New South" following the Civil War; deliverd famous "New South" speech in New
York in 1886
