GCSU GA History Exam questions with verified
answers
13th Amendment (1865) Ans✓✓✓ Abolition of slavery
14th Amendment (1868) Ans✓✓✓ Grants citizenship to "all persons
born or naturalized in the US"
15th Amendment (1870) Ans✓✓✓ Right to vote for all men
Abraham Baldwin and William Few Ans✓✓✓ Georgia signers of the
United States Constitution
Alexander McGillvray Ans✓✓✓ Creek chief who played off European
powers to protect Creek interests, initiated nationalist reforms within
Creek society, and used trade to increase his own position on the
southern frontier (controversial)
Alice Walker Ans✓✓✓ Author of "Everyday Use" and "the color
purple"
Alonzo Herndon Ans✓✓✓ by the time of his death in he was the
wealthiest African American in Atlanta. Atlanta Mutual insurance
Association (now Atlanta Life Insurance Company). Largest African
American-owned businesses in the United States
,Andrew Young Ans✓✓✓ Aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. GA's first
black representative to the House of Representatives since
Reconstruction. US Ambassador to the United Nations. Succeeded
Jackson as mayor. Brought the Democratic Convention to Georgia and
the 1996 Olympics to Atlanta.
Antebellum Period (1820-1861) Ans✓✓✓ Political: party development
over issues of tariff, Mexican War, states' rights, secession; Whigs (more
moderate) and Democrats (more radical and advocated secession);
Compromise of 1850, increasing sectional tensions in the 1850s, rise of
the Republican Party led to more radical feelings in GA, Capital moved
to Louisville in 1795 and to Milledgeville in 1804
Antebellum Period (continued 2) Ans✓✓✓ Social and cultural
development: social groups (Planter elite, small planters, yeomen
farmers (majority of white population), poor whites, free African
Americans, enslaved African Americans), education: limited, academies
and private schools, tutors on plantations, poor schools in some towns,
Franklin College (UGA) and colleges founded by religious
denominations (Emory, Oglethorpe, Mercer, Wesleyan (for women),
Medical College of Georgia), social reforms (academy for the blind,
academy for the deaf, mental asylum)
Antebellum Period (continued) Ans✓✓✓ Economic development:
cotton in piedmont, rice on coast, food crop production (corn),
development of transportation: roads, railroads (Georgia RR, Central of
Georgia, Western and Atlanta and smaller lines), limited development of
manufacturing (cotton mills was primary, also had tanneries, quarries,
turpentine distilleries, lumber)
, Antebellum Period (treatment of Natives) Ans✓✓✓ Indian Removal
(Creeks and Cherokees), Civilization program (assimilation into white
male society), demand for native land, Cherokee Nation v Georgia
(ruled that the Cherokee nation was sovereign), Treaty of Indian Springs
(agreement between the federal government and a minority of Creek
Indians, led by William McIntosh, which sold the remaining Creek land
in Georgia for $200,000.), Trail of Tears
Archaic Period (second prehistoric period) Ans✓✓✓ Early: covered
with oak forests, hunters and gatherers, stone spear points
Middle: pine forests replace oak due to climate changes, increasing
population, less movement, natives relied more on local resources
Late: traveled long distances, more permanent settlements, wattle-daub
houses, people often settled near rivers, cooking technology
Arthur Raper Ans✓✓✓ one of the first scholars to criticize the
damaging institutions of lynching, sharecropping, and tenancy, exposed
Georgia's racial and economic inequities at a time when it could be
professionally risky to oppose southern practices and customs
Asa Candler Ans✓✓✓ bought the Coca-Cola stock in 1888 and in 1892
formed the Coca-Cola factory
Battle of Bloody Marsh Ans✓✓✓ Victory for Oglethorpe over the
Spanish on St. Simons Island in 1742
answers
13th Amendment (1865) Ans✓✓✓ Abolition of slavery
14th Amendment (1868) Ans✓✓✓ Grants citizenship to "all persons
born or naturalized in the US"
15th Amendment (1870) Ans✓✓✓ Right to vote for all men
Abraham Baldwin and William Few Ans✓✓✓ Georgia signers of the
United States Constitution
Alexander McGillvray Ans✓✓✓ Creek chief who played off European
powers to protect Creek interests, initiated nationalist reforms within
Creek society, and used trade to increase his own position on the
southern frontier (controversial)
Alice Walker Ans✓✓✓ Author of "Everyday Use" and "the color
purple"
Alonzo Herndon Ans✓✓✓ by the time of his death in he was the
wealthiest African American in Atlanta. Atlanta Mutual insurance
Association (now Atlanta Life Insurance Company). Largest African
American-owned businesses in the United States
,Andrew Young Ans✓✓✓ Aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. GA's first
black representative to the House of Representatives since
Reconstruction. US Ambassador to the United Nations. Succeeded
Jackson as mayor. Brought the Democratic Convention to Georgia and
the 1996 Olympics to Atlanta.
Antebellum Period (1820-1861) Ans✓✓✓ Political: party development
over issues of tariff, Mexican War, states' rights, secession; Whigs (more
moderate) and Democrats (more radical and advocated secession);
Compromise of 1850, increasing sectional tensions in the 1850s, rise of
the Republican Party led to more radical feelings in GA, Capital moved
to Louisville in 1795 and to Milledgeville in 1804
Antebellum Period (continued 2) Ans✓✓✓ Social and cultural
development: social groups (Planter elite, small planters, yeomen
farmers (majority of white population), poor whites, free African
Americans, enslaved African Americans), education: limited, academies
and private schools, tutors on plantations, poor schools in some towns,
Franklin College (UGA) and colleges founded by religious
denominations (Emory, Oglethorpe, Mercer, Wesleyan (for women),
Medical College of Georgia), social reforms (academy for the blind,
academy for the deaf, mental asylum)
Antebellum Period (continued) Ans✓✓✓ Economic development:
cotton in piedmont, rice on coast, food crop production (corn),
development of transportation: roads, railroads (Georgia RR, Central of
Georgia, Western and Atlanta and smaller lines), limited development of
manufacturing (cotton mills was primary, also had tanneries, quarries,
turpentine distilleries, lumber)
, Antebellum Period (treatment of Natives) Ans✓✓✓ Indian Removal
(Creeks and Cherokees), Civilization program (assimilation into white
male society), demand for native land, Cherokee Nation v Georgia
(ruled that the Cherokee nation was sovereign), Treaty of Indian Springs
(agreement between the federal government and a minority of Creek
Indians, led by William McIntosh, which sold the remaining Creek land
in Georgia for $200,000.), Trail of Tears
Archaic Period (second prehistoric period) Ans✓✓✓ Early: covered
with oak forests, hunters and gatherers, stone spear points
Middle: pine forests replace oak due to climate changes, increasing
population, less movement, natives relied more on local resources
Late: traveled long distances, more permanent settlements, wattle-daub
houses, people often settled near rivers, cooking technology
Arthur Raper Ans✓✓✓ one of the first scholars to criticize the
damaging institutions of lynching, sharecropping, and tenancy, exposed
Georgia's racial and economic inequities at a time when it could be
professionally risky to oppose southern practices and customs
Asa Candler Ans✓✓✓ bought the Coca-Cola stock in 1888 and in 1892
formed the Coca-Cola factory
Battle of Bloody Marsh Ans✓✓✓ Victory for Oglethorpe over the
Spanish on St. Simons Island in 1742
