GA HISTORY EXEMPTION EXAM
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
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