GCSU GA HISTORY ACTUAL EXAM 2026 FULL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
ALREADY PASSED
◉ During the Prehistory time period ____________ populated Georgia.
Answer: Indians
◉ __________________ indians populated North GA.
___________________ indians populated other areas.
Small bands of _________________ were near Augusta. Answer:
Cherokee
Creek Confederation
Chickasaw
◉ time period: 1550s-1775. Answer: Colonial
◉ time period: 1775-1788. Answer: Revolutionary War/Confederation
◉ time period: 1790's-1820. Answer: Early National Period
◉ time period: 1820-1861. Answer: Antebellum Period
,◉ time period: 1861-1865. Answer: Civil War
◉ time period: 1865-1877. Answer: Reconstruction
◉ time period: 1870s-WWI. Answer: Gilded Age/Progressive Era
◉ time period: 1917-1945. Answer: WWI to WWII
◉ time period: 1945-present. Answer: Post WWII
◉ Colonial period 1525-1646: What was happening. Answer: Spanish
expeditions exploring Georgia coast and interior
◉ What happened in the late 1550s/early 1600s. Answer: Spanish
Missions along Coastal Georgia
◉ 1670 Founding of _______________.
English traders began to trade with __________ in what later became
Georgia. Answer: Charleston.
Indians.
◉ 1732 ___________ granted to a charitable trust. Answer: Charter.
,◉ Three reasons for colony's founding:. Answer: 1. Trust wanted to
provide new start for poor of England and
persecuted Protestants in Europe
2. English government wanted defense buffer between Spanish
Florida and English Carolina
3. English government wanted Georgia to fit into British mercantilism
◉ What happened in 1733?
Founding Trustee. Answer: First colonists arrived.
James Oglethorpe.
◉ 1733-early 1750s is considered the ___________ period. Answer:
Trustee
◉ Characteristics of the Trustee Period. Answer: -Agreements with
Indians
-Problems with Trustee policies (including land policies)
-Problems with "Malcontents"
-Three Laws- 1. No rum 2. No slavery 3. License required to trade with
Indians
-English and other ethnic groups settle
-War of Jenkins' Ear with Spanish; Battle of Bloody Marsh
, -Abandonment of Trustee policies and laws by late 1740s
-Economic development
◉ What was GA considered from 1752-1775. Answer: Royal Colony
◉ Characteristics of being a royal colony. Answer: -Dev. of slavery and
plantation system
-rice culture along coast
-fur trade in back country
-new gov't w/ royal governor, Governor's Council, elected Commons
House of Assembly
-events leading up to Revolution, including GA's reaction to events in
other colonies
-GA was younger, weaker, and had closer ties to England->slower to
action
-only colony with no representative at the 1st Continental Congress
-attended 2nd Cont. Congress
-3 Georgians signed Dec. Of Independence
◉ 1763-1775: opened back country to farmers. Answer: Indian Land
Cessions
◉ Who signed the Declaration of Independence from Georgia. Answer:
George Walton, Lyman Hall, and Button Gwinnett
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
ALREADY PASSED
◉ During the Prehistory time period ____________ populated Georgia.
Answer: Indians
◉ __________________ indians populated North GA.
___________________ indians populated other areas.
Small bands of _________________ were near Augusta. Answer:
Cherokee
Creek Confederation
Chickasaw
◉ time period: 1550s-1775. Answer: Colonial
◉ time period: 1775-1788. Answer: Revolutionary War/Confederation
◉ time period: 1790's-1820. Answer: Early National Period
◉ time period: 1820-1861. Answer: Antebellum Period
,◉ time period: 1861-1865. Answer: Civil War
◉ time period: 1865-1877. Answer: Reconstruction
◉ time period: 1870s-WWI. Answer: Gilded Age/Progressive Era
◉ time period: 1917-1945. Answer: WWI to WWII
◉ time period: 1945-present. Answer: Post WWII
◉ Colonial period 1525-1646: What was happening. Answer: Spanish
expeditions exploring Georgia coast and interior
◉ What happened in the late 1550s/early 1600s. Answer: Spanish
Missions along Coastal Georgia
◉ 1670 Founding of _______________.
English traders began to trade with __________ in what later became
Georgia. Answer: Charleston.
Indians.
◉ 1732 ___________ granted to a charitable trust. Answer: Charter.
,◉ Three reasons for colony's founding:. Answer: 1. Trust wanted to
provide new start for poor of England and
persecuted Protestants in Europe
2. English government wanted defense buffer between Spanish
Florida and English Carolina
3. English government wanted Georgia to fit into British mercantilism
◉ What happened in 1733?
Founding Trustee. Answer: First colonists arrived.
James Oglethorpe.
◉ 1733-early 1750s is considered the ___________ period. Answer:
Trustee
◉ Characteristics of the Trustee Period. Answer: -Agreements with
Indians
-Problems with Trustee policies (including land policies)
-Problems with "Malcontents"
-Three Laws- 1. No rum 2. No slavery 3. License required to trade with
Indians
-English and other ethnic groups settle
-War of Jenkins' Ear with Spanish; Battle of Bloody Marsh
, -Abandonment of Trustee policies and laws by late 1740s
-Economic development
◉ What was GA considered from 1752-1775. Answer: Royal Colony
◉ Characteristics of being a royal colony. Answer: -Dev. of slavery and
plantation system
-rice culture along coast
-fur trade in back country
-new gov't w/ royal governor, Governor's Council, elected Commons
House of Assembly
-events leading up to Revolution, including GA's reaction to events in
other colonies
-GA was younger, weaker, and had closer ties to England->slower to
action
-only colony with no representative at the 1st Continental Congress
-attended 2nd Cont. Congress
-3 Georgians signed Dec. Of Independence
◉ 1763-1775: opened back country to farmers. Answer: Indian Land
Cessions
◉ Who signed the Declaration of Independence from Georgia. Answer:
George Walton, Lyman Hall, and Button Gwinnett
