Ga History Exemption Exam Questions And Answers 100% Pass

GA HISTORY EXEMPTION EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS Philanthropic Military Economic - Three reasons for the establishment of Georgia Restrictions on land ownership Prohibition of hard liquor Prohibition of slavery - Strict rules established my the Trustees for the colony James Oglethorpe - defacto leader and one of the Trustees of the first settlers in Georgia. helped establish Savannah, Augusta, and Fort Frederica James Wright - 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 2Brittie Donald, All Rights Reserved © 2025 Tomochichi - Allowed Oglethorpe to settle on Yamacraw Bluff; advised Oglethorpe on Indian affairs, chief of the Yamacraw The Rules and Regulations - first governing document of independent Georgia put into place by Provincial Congress (Whigs) John Treutlen - first governor of GA Yazoo Land Fraud - 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) - Supreme Court rule stating the state couldn't nullify the Yazoo Land deal George Walton Lyman Hall Button Gwinnett - Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence Savannah - Augusta - Louisville - Milledgeville - Atlanta - Capitals of Georgia Worcester v. Georgia - Supreme Court decision that ruled that Georgia had no right to interfere with the Cherokees controlled land Trail of Tears - the trek of Native Americans, particularly the Cherokee, to Indian Territory 3Brittie Donald, All Rights Reserved © 2025 Charles Jenkins - 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 - 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 - Vice President of the Confederacy (1861-65), elected to US Senate and served as governor of GA from '82-'83 Thomas R. R. Cobb - Athens lawyer instrumental in drafting the Confederate constitution Manpower (12,000 men), Money, Supplies (ammunition and