GSU georgia history exam
Atlanta Compromise Speech Correct answers -September 18 1895**
-Booker T Washington (African American)
-Conservative
-@ cotton states and international exposition in ATL
-5 Fingers to the hand****
- his speech responded to the negro problem
What Jobs did Booker T Washington encourage the blacks to become
proficient in during Atlanta compromise speech? Correct answers -
agriculture
-mechanics
-commerce
-domestic service
Who served as an advisor to US presidents Theodore Roosevelt, and William
Taft (Both with deep racial Biases) Correct answers Booker T Washington
W E B Du Bois Correct answers -Radical
-Talented Tenth
-Against Booker T
Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 Correct answers -September 22-24 1906
-White mobs killed dozens of blacks ( damaged a lot of property)
-Job competition between whites and blacks
Cherokee Removal Correct answers -1838 and 1839
-Robert Lindneux painting Cherokee Trail of Tears
-US troops, prompted by the state of Georgia, expelled the Cherokee
Indians from the homeland in the Southeast and removed them to the
Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma
-Divided land up into parcels- offered parcels in a lottery to white Georgians
The Cherokee syllabary Correct answers -Sequoyah
-Enabled the Cherokee's to read, write, record their laws, and publish
newspapers in their language**********
Civil Rights Movement Correct answers -One of the most significant and
successful social movements in the modern world
-Black Georgians formed part of this southern movement for full civil
rights and the wider national struggle for racial equality.
-Brown vs Board of Education (1954)***** separation of schools
, Civil War in Georgia Correct answers -1861-1865
What was special field order #15***(when slaves were freed, they were
promised land and a mule but they never got it)
County Unit System Correct answers when the Georgia legislature
dominated by the Democratic Party, passed the Neill Primary Act.
- How were the counties divided (Urban town rural)******
-When was the unit system abandoned**** 1962
Henry W. Grady Correct answers -1850-1889
-Spokesman of the New South
-Managing Editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution
-What town did he become popular in?*** MACON
-Someone that he helped (Joseph E. Brown- Senator) (Henry McDaniel-
Governor)***
James Oglethorpe Correct answers -1696-1785
-conceived of and implemented his plan to establish the colony of Georgia
-he led the expedition of colonists that landed in Savannah early in 1733
- From England****
Jimmy Carter(1924) Correct answers -the only Georgian elected president of
the United States that held the office for one term, 1977-81
-he founded the Carter Center, a nonpartisan public policy center in Atlanta
KKK in the 20th Century Correct answers -Stone Mountain
Leo Frank Case Correct answers -one of the most notorious and highly
publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia
-Jewish man in Atlanta was placed on trial and convicted of raping and
murdering a thirteen-year-old girl who worked for the National Pencil
Company, which he managed
-Hung in Marietta
Mary Phagan Correct answers -13 year old girl raped by Leo Frank Case
-Milledgeville
Lester Maddox Correct answers -1915-2003
-States most unliked governor****
-Brought to office in 1966 by widespread dissatisfaction with desegregation
Martin Luther King Jr. Correct answers -1929-1968
-a Baptist minister and president of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference
- most prominent African American leader in the civil rights movement of
the 1950s and 1960s.
Olympic Games in 1996 Correct answers -July 19- August 4 Atlanta
hosted the Centennial Summer Olympic Games
Atlanta Compromise Speech Correct answers -September 18 1895**
-Booker T Washington (African American)
-Conservative
-@ cotton states and international exposition in ATL
-5 Fingers to the hand****
- his speech responded to the negro problem
What Jobs did Booker T Washington encourage the blacks to become
proficient in during Atlanta compromise speech? Correct answers -
agriculture
-mechanics
-commerce
-domestic service
Who served as an advisor to US presidents Theodore Roosevelt, and William
Taft (Both with deep racial Biases) Correct answers Booker T Washington
W E B Du Bois Correct answers -Radical
-Talented Tenth
-Against Booker T
Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 Correct answers -September 22-24 1906
-White mobs killed dozens of blacks ( damaged a lot of property)
-Job competition between whites and blacks
Cherokee Removal Correct answers -1838 and 1839
-Robert Lindneux painting Cherokee Trail of Tears
-US troops, prompted by the state of Georgia, expelled the Cherokee
Indians from the homeland in the Southeast and removed them to the
Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma
-Divided land up into parcels- offered parcels in a lottery to white Georgians
The Cherokee syllabary Correct answers -Sequoyah
-Enabled the Cherokee's to read, write, record their laws, and publish
newspapers in their language**********
Civil Rights Movement Correct answers -One of the most significant and
successful social movements in the modern world
-Black Georgians formed part of this southern movement for full civil
rights and the wider national struggle for racial equality.
-Brown vs Board of Education (1954)***** separation of schools
, Civil War in Georgia Correct answers -1861-1865
What was special field order #15***(when slaves were freed, they were
promised land and a mule but they never got it)
County Unit System Correct answers when the Georgia legislature
dominated by the Democratic Party, passed the Neill Primary Act.
- How were the counties divided (Urban town rural)******
-When was the unit system abandoned**** 1962
Henry W. Grady Correct answers -1850-1889
-Spokesman of the New South
-Managing Editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution
-What town did he become popular in?*** MACON
-Someone that he helped (Joseph E. Brown- Senator) (Henry McDaniel-
Governor)***
James Oglethorpe Correct answers -1696-1785
-conceived of and implemented his plan to establish the colony of Georgia
-he led the expedition of colonists that landed in Savannah early in 1733
- From England****
Jimmy Carter(1924) Correct answers -the only Georgian elected president of
the United States that held the office for one term, 1977-81
-he founded the Carter Center, a nonpartisan public policy center in Atlanta
KKK in the 20th Century Correct answers -Stone Mountain
Leo Frank Case Correct answers -one of the most notorious and highly
publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia
-Jewish man in Atlanta was placed on trial and convicted of raping and
murdering a thirteen-year-old girl who worked for the National Pencil
Company, which he managed
-Hung in Marietta
Mary Phagan Correct answers -13 year old girl raped by Leo Frank Case
-Milledgeville
Lester Maddox Correct answers -1915-2003
-States most unliked governor****
-Brought to office in 1966 by widespread dissatisfaction with desegregation
Martin Luther King Jr. Correct answers -1929-1968
-a Baptist minister and president of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference
- most prominent African American leader in the civil rights movement of
the 1950s and 1960s.
Olympic Games in 1996 Correct answers -July 19- August 4 Atlanta
hosted the Centennial Summer Olympic Games
