GA HISTORY EXAM UGA STUDY GUIDE
James Edward Oglethorpe - Answer -The leader of English Parliament who founded
the Georgia colony, in order to create an effective buffer from the Spanish and Spanish
controlled Florida.
James Wright - Answer -Georgia's third, and final, royal governor who fled the colony
when the American Revolution began
Nancy Morgan Hart - Answer -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.
Yazoo Land Fraud - Answer -1795, the sale of western land to four land companies
after the governor and members of the General Assembly had been bribed
Governor James Jackson - Answer -elected to First Congress; lost reelection by fraud
to his former commander Wayne; helped bring GA in to the Jeffersonian Republican
Party; came back from being a Senator to use grand juries and the media to REPEAL
YAZOO ACT
Trail of Tears - Answer -Forced journey of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to a
region west of the Mississippi (present day Oklahoma) during which thousands of
Cherokees died (1838-1839 by President Andrew Jackson)
Joseph Brown - Answer -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. Consistent dissident of Jefferson Davis
Milledgeville - Answer -Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government during
the Civil War
Henry L. Benning - Answer -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
Robert Toombs - Answer -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; major architect of the constitution of 1877; chosen as first
secretary of state for Confederacy; critic of Davis; first a unionist then a radical
secessionist
, William T. Sherman - Answer -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.
Rufus Bullock - Answer -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. Believed in racial equality. Did not actually commit scandals.
Tunis Campbell - Answer -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. African-American.
Populism - Answer -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.
The Farmers' Alliance also called for banking reform, government ownership of the
railroads, and the direct election of U.S. senators.
"New South" Crusade - Answer -Sought to diversify the Georgia economy; eventually
led to the industrialization of the state.
Jim Crow - Answer -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.
W. E. B. Du Bois - Answer -American civil rights activist; wrote the Souls of Black Folk
and demanded full racial equality; helped found the NAACP
Rebecca Latimer Felton - Answer -She was a civic leader that supported women's
suffrage and temperance as well as strongly disagree with the convict lease system.
She was also the first woman to serve in the US Senate
Leo Frank - Answer -Jewish factory manager in Atlanta who was convicted of
murdering a female employee. A mob lynched him in his jail cell.
Agricultural Adjustment Administration - Answer -Restricted agricultural production in
the New Deal era by paying farmers to reduce crop area. Its purpose was to reduce
crop surplus so as to effectively raise the value of crops, thereby giving farmers relative
stability again.
James Edward Oglethorpe - Answer -The leader of English Parliament who founded
the Georgia colony, in order to create an effective buffer from the Spanish and Spanish
controlled Florida.
James Wright - Answer -Georgia's third, and final, royal governor who fled the colony
when the American Revolution began
Nancy Morgan Hart - Answer -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.
Yazoo Land Fraud - Answer -1795, the sale of western land to four land companies
after the governor and members of the General Assembly had been bribed
Governor James Jackson - Answer -elected to First Congress; lost reelection by fraud
to his former commander Wayne; helped bring GA in to the Jeffersonian Republican
Party; came back from being a Senator to use grand juries and the media to REPEAL
YAZOO ACT
Trail of Tears - Answer -Forced journey of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to a
region west of the Mississippi (present day Oklahoma) during which thousands of
Cherokees died (1838-1839 by President Andrew Jackson)
Joseph Brown - Answer -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. Consistent dissident of Jefferson Davis
Milledgeville - Answer -Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government during
the Civil War
Henry L. Benning - Answer -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
Robert Toombs - Answer -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; major architect of the constitution of 1877; chosen as first
secretary of state for Confederacy; critic of Davis; first a unionist then a radical
secessionist
, William T. Sherman - Answer -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.
Rufus Bullock - Answer -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. Believed in racial equality. Did not actually commit scandals.
Tunis Campbell - Answer -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. African-American.
Populism - Answer -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.
The Farmers' Alliance also called for banking reform, government ownership of the
railroads, and the direct election of U.S. senators.
"New South" Crusade - Answer -Sought to diversify the Georgia economy; eventually
led to the industrialization of the state.
Jim Crow - Answer -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.
W. E. B. Du Bois - Answer -American civil rights activist; wrote the Souls of Black Folk
and demanded full racial equality; helped found the NAACP
Rebecca Latimer Felton - Answer -She was a civic leader that supported women's
suffrage and temperance as well as strongly disagree with the convict lease system.
She was also the first woman to serve in the US Senate
Leo Frank - Answer -Jewish factory manager in Atlanta who was convicted of
murdering a female employee. A mob lynched him in his jail cell.
Agricultural Adjustment Administration - Answer -Restricted agricultural production in
the New Deal era by paying farmers to reduce crop area. Its purpose was to reduce
crop surplus so as to effectively raise the value of crops, thereby giving farmers relative
stability again.
