GA HISTORY EXAM UGA QUESTIONS
WITH ALL CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+
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.
Leo Frank - Answer-American Jew lynched in Atlanta for the murder of a white girl
superintendent of a pencil factory
Mary Phagan - Answer-girl who was supposedly raped by leo Frank
the county-unit system - Answer-allotted votes by county, with little regard for population
differences, or example, three rural counties with a combined population of 7,000 just as
much clout in statewide elections as Fulton County, with its 550,000 inhabitants
Robert Elliott Burns - Answer-wrote about his torturous imprisonment exposes abuses
in the Georgia prison system
I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang - Answer-book by Robert Elliott Burns
chronicling his imprisonment and escape
convict lease system - Answer-allowed private companies to rent persons convicted of
serious crimes
Tobacco Road - Answer-A novel from the 1930s by Erskine Caldwell, about a family of
sharecroppers from Georgia and their many tragedies ; a "Tobacco Road" is a poor
shantytown, usually in the rural South, and usually populated by whites.
God's Little Acre - Answer-A novel from the 1930s by Erskine Caldwell, about a family
of sharecroppers from Georgia and their many tragedies.
boll weevil - Answer-grayish weevil that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the
cotton
Great Depression - Answer-the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in
1929 and continuing through the 1930s
Franklin D. Roosevelt - Answer-President of the US during Great Depression and World
War II
, New Deal - Answer-the historic period (1933-1940) in the U.S. during which President
Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies were implemented
Agricultural Adjustment Administration - Answer-Paid farmers to destroy surplus and
limit production ; An unintended consequence of the policy, however, was to put farmers
out of work, causing even greater numbers to seek other means of employment.
Warm Springs - Answer-natural wonders visited by FDR to treat his polio
Ben Epps - Answer-considered to be the father of aviation in the state
Athens - Answer-Ben Epps field 1907
Charles Lindbergh - Answer-1923 flew his first solo flight at Souther Field in Americus
William B. Hartsfield - Answer-mayor of Atlanta from 1936 to 1961; targeted Democrats
and Blacks and offered improvements
Hartsfield Airport - Answer-It is named after William Hartsfield, father of atlanta aviation,
and (later)Maynard Jackson, the first black mayor. It increases trade and international
businesses can travel to Atlanta.
Eastern Air Lines - Answer-used Hartsfield as a major hub
Delta Air Lines - Answer-moved its headquarters to Atlanta in 1941
Empire State of the South - Answer-title given to largest slaveholding state in the south
Joseph E Brown Governor - Answer-disliked centralized Federal and Confederate
power
Robert Toombs - Answer-secretary of state, strong advocate for secession
Alexander Stephens - Answer-Vice president of the confedacy
1861 - Answer-When the Georgia Secession Convention held in Milledgeville
Cobb Brothers - Answer-Howell presided over Confederacy's organizing ; Thomas
authored the constitution
Henry L. Benning - Answer-lawyer, legislator, judge on the Georgia Supreme Court, and
a Confederate general during the American Civil War. He is also noted for the U.S.
Army's fort named in his honor
William T. Sherman - Answer-general who burned Georgia marching thru Atlanta to
Savannah, 1864
WITH ALL CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+
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.
Leo Frank - Answer-American Jew lynched in Atlanta for the murder of a white girl
superintendent of a pencil factory
Mary Phagan - Answer-girl who was supposedly raped by leo Frank
the county-unit system - Answer-allotted votes by county, with little regard for population
differences, or example, three rural counties with a combined population of 7,000 just as
much clout in statewide elections as Fulton County, with its 550,000 inhabitants
Robert Elliott Burns - Answer-wrote about his torturous imprisonment exposes abuses
in the Georgia prison system
I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang - Answer-book by Robert Elliott Burns
chronicling his imprisonment and escape
convict lease system - Answer-allowed private companies to rent persons convicted of
serious crimes
Tobacco Road - Answer-A novel from the 1930s by Erskine Caldwell, about a family of
sharecroppers from Georgia and their many tragedies ; a "Tobacco Road" is a poor
shantytown, usually in the rural South, and usually populated by whites.
God's Little Acre - Answer-A novel from the 1930s by Erskine Caldwell, about a family
of sharecroppers from Georgia and their many tragedies.
boll weevil - Answer-grayish weevil that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the
cotton
Great Depression - Answer-the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in
1929 and continuing through the 1930s
Franklin D. Roosevelt - Answer-President of the US during Great Depression and World
War II
, New Deal - Answer-the historic period (1933-1940) in the U.S. during which President
Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies were implemented
Agricultural Adjustment Administration - Answer-Paid farmers to destroy surplus and
limit production ; An unintended consequence of the policy, however, was to put farmers
out of work, causing even greater numbers to seek other means of employment.
Warm Springs - Answer-natural wonders visited by FDR to treat his polio
Ben Epps - Answer-considered to be the father of aviation in the state
Athens - Answer-Ben Epps field 1907
Charles Lindbergh - Answer-1923 flew his first solo flight at Souther Field in Americus
William B. Hartsfield - Answer-mayor of Atlanta from 1936 to 1961; targeted Democrats
and Blacks and offered improvements
Hartsfield Airport - Answer-It is named after William Hartsfield, father of atlanta aviation,
and (later)Maynard Jackson, the first black mayor. It increases trade and international
businesses can travel to Atlanta.
Eastern Air Lines - Answer-used Hartsfield as a major hub
Delta Air Lines - Answer-moved its headquarters to Atlanta in 1941
Empire State of the South - Answer-title given to largest slaveholding state in the south
Joseph E Brown Governor - Answer-disliked centralized Federal and Confederate
power
Robert Toombs - Answer-secretary of state, strong advocate for secession
Alexander Stephens - Answer-Vice president of the confedacy
1861 - Answer-When the Georgia Secession Convention held in Milledgeville
Cobb Brothers - Answer-Howell presided over Confederacy's organizing ; Thomas
authored the constitution
Henry L. Benning - Answer-lawyer, legislator, judge on the Georgia Supreme Court, and
a Confederate general during the American Civil War. He is also noted for the U.S.
Army's fort named in his honor
William T. Sherman - Answer-general who burned Georgia marching thru Atlanta to
Savannah, 1864
