GA HISTORY EXEMPTION EXAM
Philanthropic
Military
Economic - Answer-Three reasons for the establishment of Georgia
Restrictions on land ownership
Prohibition of hard liquor
Prohibition of slavery - Answer-Strict rules established my the Trustees for the colony
James Oglethorpe - Answer-defacto leader and one of the Trustees of the first settlers in Georgia.
helped establish Savannah, Augusta, and Fort Frederica
James Wright - Answer-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 - Answer-Allowed Oglethorpe to settle on Yamacraw Bluff; advised Oglethorpe on Indian
affairs, chief of the Yamacraw
The Rules and Regulations - Answer-first governing document of independent Georgia put into place by
Provincial Congress (Whigs)
, John Treutlen - Answer-first governor of GA
Yazoo Land Fraud - Answer-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) - Answer-Supreme Court rule stating the state couldn't nullify the Yazoo Land
deal
George Walton
Lyman Hall
Button Gwinnett - Answer-Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence
Savannah - Augusta - Louisville - Milledgeville - Atlanta - Answer-Capitals of Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia - Answer-Supreme Court decision that ruled that Georgia had no right to interfere
with the Cherokees controlled land
Trail of Tears - Answer-the trek of Native Americans, particularly the Cherokee, to Indian Territory
Charles Jenkins - Answer-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
Joseph E. Brown - Answer-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
Alexander Stephens - Answer-Vice President of the Confederacy (1861-65), elected to US Senate and
served as governor of GA from '82-'83
Philanthropic
Military
Economic - Answer-Three reasons for the establishment of Georgia
Restrictions on land ownership
Prohibition of hard liquor
Prohibition of slavery - Answer-Strict rules established my the Trustees for the colony
James Oglethorpe - Answer-defacto leader and one of the Trustees of the first settlers in Georgia.
helped establish Savannah, Augusta, and Fort Frederica
James Wright - Answer-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 - Answer-Allowed Oglethorpe to settle on Yamacraw Bluff; advised Oglethorpe on Indian
affairs, chief of the Yamacraw
The Rules and Regulations - Answer-first governing document of independent Georgia put into place by
Provincial Congress (Whigs)
, John Treutlen - Answer-first governor of GA
Yazoo Land Fraud - Answer-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) - Answer-Supreme Court rule stating the state couldn't nullify the Yazoo Land
deal
George Walton
Lyman Hall
Button Gwinnett - Answer-Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence
Savannah - Augusta - Louisville - Milledgeville - Atlanta - Answer-Capitals of Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia - Answer-Supreme Court decision that ruled that Georgia had no right to interfere
with the Cherokees controlled land
Trail of Tears - Answer-the trek of Native Americans, particularly the Cherokee, to Indian Territory
Charles Jenkins - Answer-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
Joseph E. Brown - Answer-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
Alexander Stephens - Answer-Vice President of the Confederacy (1861-65), elected to US Senate and
served as governor of GA from '82-'83
