GA HISTORY EXEMPTION KSU STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) - ✔✔Civil rights leader; opposed discrimination
against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations
✔✔Sibley Commission - ✔✔Investigated by John Sibley to determine what should be
done about integration in the state
60% of GA residents claimed they would rather closed public schools than integrate
Sibley recommended that public schools desegregate on a limited basis
✔✔Ellis Arnall (1907-1992) - ✔✔GA Governor who reformed GA by removing board of
regents from governor's office, lowering voting age to 18, abolishing poll tax in Ga
Revising state constitution and paying off state debt
First governor to serve a 4 year term
✔✔Eugene Talmadge (1884-1946) - ✔✔GA governor during great depression ; served
2 terms
Popular among rural farmers, county unit system helped get him elected
White supremacist who tried to fire those who supported integration of schools
Against new deal, his opposition to it was that it hurt the rural farmers
✔✔Three Governors Controversy - ✔✔Eugene Talmadge had served two terms as
governor and could not run again.
- Ellis Arnall was elected and served only one term
- Eugene ran, again, against him and won, but died before he was inaugurated.
- Newly elected Lt. governor Melvin Thompson believed he was to be governor since
the new state constitution stated the Lt. governor was to take over if the governor could
not
- Herman Talmadge (Eugene's son) was placed in office by the General Assembly.
- Ellis Arnall refused to leave office until the matter was settled.
- State supreme court stated General Assembly's action was unconstitutional, and
Thompson was placed in office until a special election was held.
- Herman Talmadge won the special election
✔✔Lester Maddox (1915-2003) - ✔✔Restaurant owner and segregationist who went on
to become governor→ closed restaurant instead of desgregating
Little people days: he met with citizens at governors mansion
Went on to do more for a.a than all other governors before him; including appointing
more a.a to gov't positions and raised teacher salaries
✔✔Malcontents - ✔✔Georgia settlers that petitioned for slavery in GA
✔✔Tomochichi (ca. 1644-1739) - ✔✔Gave Oglethorpe permission to settle Yamacraw
bluff
, ✔✔Revolutionary War in Georgia - ✔✔Whigs could not come to a consensus on the
future of GA apathy and division among general populace
Could not finance war
✔✔Button Gwinnett (1735-1777) - ✔✔Signed declaration of independence
✔✔Lachlan McIntosh (1727-1806) - ✔✔killed button gwinnett
✔✔Gold Rush 2 - ✔✔Gold found in Dahlonega → sped up Indian removal as they
wanted to discover more gold and be firsts
✔✔Howell Cobb (1815-1868 - ✔✔During negotiations for a compromise in 1849-50, he
was a moderate that called for said compromise
✔✔Land Lottery System - ✔✔GA distributed land like this through the federa gov't after
Yazoo fraud
✔✔Georgia in 1860 - ✔✔GA became a more radical force, while previously a more
moderate force
✔✔Joseph E. Brown (1821-1894) - ✔✔State governor elected in 1857 that worked to
strengthen GA state defenses for war he believed would come
Convinced non slave holders that they had interest in maintaining slavery bc of job
competition , small white farmers would have to pay for emancipation through taxes
✔✔Georgia History: Overview - ✔✔Last of 13 colonies to be founded
Only colony founded and ruled by a board of trustees
✔✔Mississippian Period: Overview - ✔✔Complex native cultures, organized as
chiefdoms, emerged & developed lifeways in response to particular features of their
physical surroundings
✔✔Yamacraw Indians - ✔✔Small group that existed from late 1720s to mid 1740s in
Savannah area; first led by Tomochichi and then by his nephew , they consisted of
about 200 people and contained a mix of Lower Creeks and Yamasees
✔✔Royal Georgia, 1752-1776 - ✔✔Period b/w termination of Trustee governance of GA
and the colony's declaration of independence at the beginning of the American
Revolution
✔✔Rice - ✔✔GA first staple crop
✔✔Mary Musgrove (ca. 1700-ca. 1763) - ✔✔Coosaponakeesa
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) - ✔✔Civil rights leader; opposed discrimination
against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations
✔✔Sibley Commission - ✔✔Investigated by John Sibley to determine what should be
done about integration in the state
60% of GA residents claimed they would rather closed public schools than integrate
Sibley recommended that public schools desegregate on a limited basis
✔✔Ellis Arnall (1907-1992) - ✔✔GA Governor who reformed GA by removing board of
regents from governor's office, lowering voting age to 18, abolishing poll tax in Ga
Revising state constitution and paying off state debt
First governor to serve a 4 year term
✔✔Eugene Talmadge (1884-1946) - ✔✔GA governor during great depression ; served
2 terms
Popular among rural farmers, county unit system helped get him elected
White supremacist who tried to fire those who supported integration of schools
Against new deal, his opposition to it was that it hurt the rural farmers
✔✔Three Governors Controversy - ✔✔Eugene Talmadge had served two terms as
governor and could not run again.
- Ellis Arnall was elected and served only one term
- Eugene ran, again, against him and won, but died before he was inaugurated.
- Newly elected Lt. governor Melvin Thompson believed he was to be governor since
the new state constitution stated the Lt. governor was to take over if the governor could
not
- Herman Talmadge (Eugene's son) was placed in office by the General Assembly.
- Ellis Arnall refused to leave office until the matter was settled.
- State supreme court stated General Assembly's action was unconstitutional, and
Thompson was placed in office until a special election was held.
- Herman Talmadge won the special election
✔✔Lester Maddox (1915-2003) - ✔✔Restaurant owner and segregationist who went on
to become governor→ closed restaurant instead of desgregating
Little people days: he met with citizens at governors mansion
Went on to do more for a.a than all other governors before him; including appointing
more a.a to gov't positions and raised teacher salaries
✔✔Malcontents - ✔✔Georgia settlers that petitioned for slavery in GA
✔✔Tomochichi (ca. 1644-1739) - ✔✔Gave Oglethorpe permission to settle Yamacraw
bluff
, ✔✔Revolutionary War in Georgia - ✔✔Whigs could not come to a consensus on the
future of GA apathy and division among general populace
Could not finance war
✔✔Button Gwinnett (1735-1777) - ✔✔Signed declaration of independence
✔✔Lachlan McIntosh (1727-1806) - ✔✔killed button gwinnett
✔✔Gold Rush 2 - ✔✔Gold found in Dahlonega → sped up Indian removal as they
wanted to discover more gold and be firsts
✔✔Howell Cobb (1815-1868 - ✔✔During negotiations for a compromise in 1849-50, he
was a moderate that called for said compromise
✔✔Land Lottery System - ✔✔GA distributed land like this through the federa gov't after
Yazoo fraud
✔✔Georgia in 1860 - ✔✔GA became a more radical force, while previously a more
moderate force
✔✔Joseph E. Brown (1821-1894) - ✔✔State governor elected in 1857 that worked to
strengthen GA state defenses for war he believed would come
Convinced non slave holders that they had interest in maintaining slavery bc of job
competition , small white farmers would have to pay for emancipation through taxes
✔✔Georgia History: Overview - ✔✔Last of 13 colonies to be founded
Only colony founded and ruled by a board of trustees
✔✔Mississippian Period: Overview - ✔✔Complex native cultures, organized as
chiefdoms, emerged & developed lifeways in response to particular features of their
physical surroundings
✔✔Yamacraw Indians - ✔✔Small group that existed from late 1720s to mid 1740s in
Savannah area; first led by Tomochichi and then by his nephew , they consisted of
about 200 people and contained a mix of Lower Creeks and Yamasees
✔✔Royal Georgia, 1752-1776 - ✔✔Period b/w termination of Trustee governance of GA
and the colony's declaration of independence at the beginning of the American
Revolution
✔✔Rice - ✔✔GA first staple crop
✔✔Mary Musgrove (ca. 1700-ca. 1763) - ✔✔Coosaponakeesa
