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GA History Exam UGA
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Question: James Edward Oglethorpe
Ans: The leader of English Parliament who founded the Georgia colony, in order to
create an effective buffer from the Spanish and Spanish controlled Florida.
Question: James Wright
Ans: Georgia's third, and final, royal governor who fled the colony when the
American Revolution began
Question: Nancy Morgan Hart
Ans: one of the most patriotic women in Georgia, she worked as a spy; she disguised
herself as a man and entered British camps trying to gain information; famous for
holding six British soldiers at gunpoint who tried to pillage her land.
Question: Yazoo Land Fraud
Ans: 1795, the sale of western land to four land companies after the governor and
members of the General Assembly had been bribed
Question: Governor James Jackson
Ans: Overturned Yazoo Act; elected to First Congress; lost reelection
Question: Trail of Tears
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Ans: Forced journey of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to a region west of the
Mississippi (present day Oklahoma) during which thousands of Cherokees died
Question: Joseph Brown
Ans: Governor from Georgia who tried at times to keep his own troops apart from
the Confederate forces and insisted on hoarding surplus supplies for his own state's
militias. He believed that his state had seceded so that it didn't have to follow the
dictates of a central government.
Question: Milledgeville
Ans: Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government during the Civil War
Question: Henry L. Benning
Ans: A jurist who became associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia in the
1850s. He then became a vocal advocate for secession and earned the rank of
brigadier general during the Civil War
Question: Robert Toombs
Ans: A senator and extremist from Georgia who said that the South would never let
the federal government be controlled by the Republican party and threatened
secession.
Question: William T. Sherman
Ans: He commanded the Union army in Tennessee. In September of 1864 his troops
captured Atlanta, Georgia. He then headed to take Savannah. This was his famous
"march to the sea.". His troops burned barns and houses, and destroyed the
countryside. His march showed a shift in the belief that only military targets should
be destroyed. Civilian centers could also be targets.
Question: Rufus Bullock
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Ans: He served as the Governor of Georgia from 1868 to 1871 during
Reconstruction and was the first Republican governor of Georgia. After various
allegations of scandal, in 1871 he was obliged by the Ku Klux Klan to resign the
governorship.
Question: Tunis Campbell
Ans: Represented McIntosh County as a state senator and served as a justice of the
peace.Insisted on equal representation of blacks in juries and otherwise
championed their rights to the point of making himself an annoyance to the whites.
Was sentenced to a year of hard labor for improper conduct.
Question: Populism
Ans: Farm-based movement of the late 1800s that arose mainly in the area from
Texas to the Dakotas and grew into a joint effort between farmer and labor groups
against big business and machine-based politics. The movement became a third
party in the election of 1892.
Question: "New South" Crusade
Ans: Sought to diversify the Georgia economy; eventually led to the
industrialization of the state.
Question: Jim Crow
Ans: The system of racial segregation in the South that was created in the late
nineteenth century following the end of slavery. These laws written in the 1880s
and 1890s mandated segregation in public facilities.
Question: W. E. B. Du Bois
Ans: American civil rights activist; wrote the Souls of Black Folk and demanded full
racial equality; helped found the NAACP
Question: Rebecca Latimer Felton
GA History Exam UGA
Questions and Verified
Answers
Question: James Edward Oglethorpe
Ans: The leader of English Parliament who founded the Georgia colony, in order to
create an effective buffer from the Spanish and Spanish controlled Florida.
Question: James Wright
Ans: Georgia's third, and final, royal governor who fled the colony when the
American Revolution began
Question: Nancy Morgan Hart
Ans: one of the most patriotic women in Georgia, she worked as a spy; she disguised
herself as a man and entered British camps trying to gain information; famous for
holding six British soldiers at gunpoint who tried to pillage her land.
Question: Yazoo Land Fraud
Ans: 1795, the sale of western land to four land companies after the governor and
members of the General Assembly had been bribed
Question: Governor James Jackson
Ans: Overturned Yazoo Act; elected to First Congress; lost reelection
Question: Trail of Tears
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Ans: Forced journey of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to a region west of the
Mississippi (present day Oklahoma) during which thousands of Cherokees died
Question: Joseph Brown
Ans: Governor from Georgia who tried at times to keep his own troops apart from
the Confederate forces and insisted on hoarding surplus supplies for his own state's
militias. He believed that his state had seceded so that it didn't have to follow the
dictates of a central government.
Question: Milledgeville
Ans: Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government during the Civil War
Question: Henry L. Benning
Ans: A jurist who became associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia in the
1850s. He then became a vocal advocate for secession and earned the rank of
brigadier general during the Civil War
Question: Robert Toombs
Ans: A senator and extremist from Georgia who said that the South would never let
the federal government be controlled by the Republican party and threatened
secession.
Question: William T. Sherman
Ans: He commanded the Union army in Tennessee. In September of 1864 his troops
captured Atlanta, Georgia. He then headed to take Savannah. This was his famous
"march to the sea.". His troops burned barns and houses, and destroyed the
countryside. His march showed a shift in the belief that only military targets should
be destroyed. Civilian centers could also be targets.
Question: Rufus Bullock
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Ans: He served as the Governor of Georgia from 1868 to 1871 during
Reconstruction and was the first Republican governor of Georgia. After various
allegations of scandal, in 1871 he was obliged by the Ku Klux Klan to resign the
governorship.
Question: Tunis Campbell
Ans: Represented McIntosh County as a state senator and served as a justice of the
peace.Insisted on equal representation of blacks in juries and otherwise
championed their rights to the point of making himself an annoyance to the whites.
Was sentenced to a year of hard labor for improper conduct.
Question: Populism
Ans: Farm-based movement of the late 1800s that arose mainly in the area from
Texas to the Dakotas and grew into a joint effort between farmer and labor groups
against big business and machine-based politics. The movement became a third
party in the election of 1892.
Question: "New South" Crusade
Ans: Sought to diversify the Georgia economy; eventually led to the
industrialization of the state.
Question: Jim Crow
Ans: The system of racial segregation in the South that was created in the late
nineteenth century following the end of slavery. These laws written in the 1880s
and 1890s mandated segregation in public facilities.
Question: W. E. B. Du Bois
Ans: American civil rights activist; wrote the Souls of Black Folk and demanded full
racial equality; helped found the NAACP
Question: Rebecca Latimer Felton
