US & GA History Exemption Exam (UGA) 2025 Summer Questions and Answers Graded A+

US & GA History Exemption Exam (UGA) 2025 Summer Questions and Answers Graded A+ In what year was Georgia established? -CORRECT ANS1732 When did settlement take place in Savannah? -CORRECT ANS1733 How long was Georgia in existence before there was a governor or governing body within the colony itself? -CORRECT ANSTwo decades Who ruled Georgia in the beginning? -CORRECT ANSBoard of Trustees Define: Board of Trustees -CORRECT ANSThe governing body of Georgia in London England. King George signed a charter establishing the colony and creating its governing board What years is Georgia referred to as "Trustee Georgia"? -CORRECT ANS What were four things that were outlawed when Georgia was founded? -CORRECT ANSslavery, rum, lawyers, and Catholics Who was the impetus behind Georgia's founding? -CORRECT ANSJames Edward Ogelthorpe Battle of Bloody Marsh -CORRECT ANSOn St. Simons Island between the English and the Spanish. It was an attempt of the Spanish to invade Georgia Who from Georgia signed the Declaration of Independence? -CORRECT ANSButton Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton Who from Georgia signed the US Constitution? -CORRECT ANSAbraham Baldwin and William Few Jr. Which state was Georgia to enter the Union when it ratified the Constitution in 1788? -CORRECT ANSFourth What was the most serious military confrontation between British and American troops? -CORRECT ANSSiege of Savannah in 1779 Where was the capital moved to and from in 1779? -CORRECT ANSSavannah to Augusta Battle of Kettle Creek -CORRECT ANSTook place in Wilkes County Nancy Hart -CORRECT ANSa female patriot and spy credited with killing several Tories at her home When was the ban on slavery in Georgia lifted? -CORRECT ANS1752 Eli Whitney -CORRECT ANSinventor of the cotton gin Yazoo land fraud -CORRECT ANS1795, the sale of western land to four land companies after the governor and members of the General Assembly had been bribed / land companies bribed GA leaders to sell land cheaply; resulted in U.S. take-over of disputed land James Edward Oglethorpe -CORRECT ANSThe leader of English Parliament who founded the Georgia colony, in order to create an effective buffer from the Spanish and Spanish controlled Florida. University of Georgia -CORRECT ANSFounded in 1785, first university in the nation established by a state government Wesleyan College -CORRECT ANSEstablished in Macon in 1836, the first degree-granting women's college in the world Trail of Tears -CORRECT ANSThe Cherokees forced exile from the states northwestern territory in . It became a symbol of the trauma and suffering all experienced What was Georgia referred to as by the 1860s? -CORRECT ANS"Empire State of the South" Which state was Georgia out of all the states to secede from the Union? -CORRECT ANSfifth Howell Cobb -CORRECT ANSin control of the Confederacy's organizing convention Thomas R. R. Cobb -CORRECT ANSprimary author of the Confederate Constitution William T. Sherman -CORRECT ANSknown for his military campaign "March to the Sea" in which he marched from Atlanta to Savannah for his final siege. His troops burned barns and houses, and destroyed the countryside. His march showed a shift in the belief that only military targets should be destroyed. Civilian centers could also be targets Reconstruction -CORRECT ANSthe period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union Freedmen's Bureau -CORRECT ANSestablished by Congress to aid African Americans undergoing the transition from slavery to freedom in the aftermath of the Civil War Klu Klux Klan -CORRECT ANSTerrorist organization devoted to racial inequality, suffering and evil, established 1868 Governor James Jackson -CORRECT ANSOverturned the Yazoo Act; elected to First Congress; lost reelection Joseph Brown -CORRECT ANSGovernor from Georgia who tried at times to keep his own troops apart from the Confederate forces and insisted on hoarding surplus supplies for his own state's militias. He believed that his state had seceded so that it didn't have to follow the dictates of a central government. Milledgeville -CORRECT ANSGeorgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government during the Civil War Henry L. Benning -CORRECT ANSA jurist who became associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia in the 1850s. He then became a vocal advocate for secession and earned the rank of brigadier general during the Civil War Robert Toombs -CORRECT ANSA senator and extremist from Georgia who said that the South would never let the federal government be controlled by the Republican party and threatened secession. Rufus Bullock -CORRECT ANSHe served as the Governor of Georgia from 1868 to 1871 during Reconstruction and was the first Republican governor of Georgia. After various allegations of scandal, in 1871 he was obliged by the Ku Klux Klan to resign the governorship. Tunis Campbell -CORRECT ANSRepresented McIntosh County as a state senator and served as a justice of the peace. Insisted on equal representation of blacks in juries and otherwise championed their rights to the point of making himself an annoyance to the whites. Was sentenced to a year of hard labor for improper conduct. the crop-lien system -CORRECT ANSa way for farmers to get credit before the planting season by borrowing against the value for anticipated harvests ; guess how well this worked for farmers Populism -CORRECT ANSFarm-based movement of the late 1800s that arose mainly in the area from Texas to the Dakotas and grew into a joint effort between farmer and labor groups against big business and machine-based politics. The movement became a third party in the election of 1892. "New South" Crusade -CORRECT ANSSought to diversify the Georgia economy; eventually led to the industrialization of the state.