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Georgia History Exemption Exam Questions
with Detailed Verified Answers
Fall Line
⼀Answer:⼀ - the point on a river where there is an abrupt drop in
elevation of the land and where numerous waterfalls occur.
- it is the ancient coastline of the southern tier of North America when
sea-levels wer higher
- Navigation up-stream beyond this feature stops
- ultimately towns located just beyond this natural boundary were
important river ports (like Macon)
- The line in the eastern US is located where streams pass from harder
to softer rocks.[E - M.Y.]
Georgia capitals
⼀Answer:⼀ Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta
Atlanta
⼀Answer:⼀ - Largest city in Georgia and the Deep South
- Capital of modern Georgia
- originally named Terminus, as it became the South's most important
rail hub and manufacturing center;
- set ablaze by General Sherman
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James Wright
⼀Answer:⼀ Georgia's 3rd (and last) Royal Governor. He was
extremely popular and successful
Indigo, Silk
⼀Answer:⼀ - Brought to GA by Europeans
- became a new major cash crop
Hernando de Soto
⼀Answer:⼀ Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first
European expedition deep into the modern-day Southeastern United
States (Florida, Georgia, Alabama and most likely Arkansas) in 1540,
and the first documented European to have crossed the Mississippi
River.
Salzburgers
⼀Answer:⼀ Some of the first immigrants to the new Georgia colony
in the 1730's From Austria came to Georgia to escape religious
persecution (they were protestants, not Catholics) settled
Ebenezer/New Ebenezer opposed slavery
James Oglethorpe
⼀Answer:⼀ Founder of Savannah (1733), and governor of the
Georgia colony. He ran a tightly-disciplined, military-like colony.
Slaves, alcohol, and Catholicism were forbidden in his colony. Many
colonists felt that he was a dictator, and that (along with the colonist's
dissatisfaction over not being allowed to own slaves) caused the
colony to break down and he to lose his position as governor.
Georgia Trustees
Georgia History Exemption Exam Questions
with Detailed Verified Answers
Fall Line
⼀Answer:⼀ - the point on a river where there is an abrupt drop in
elevation of the land and where numerous waterfalls occur.
- it is the ancient coastline of the southern tier of North America when
sea-levels wer higher
- Navigation up-stream beyond this feature stops
- ultimately towns located just beyond this natural boundary were
important river ports (like Macon)
- The line in the eastern US is located where streams pass from harder
to softer rocks.[E - M.Y.]
Georgia capitals
⼀Answer:⼀ Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta
Atlanta
⼀Answer:⼀ - Largest city in Georgia and the Deep South
- Capital of modern Georgia
- originally named Terminus, as it became the South's most important
rail hub and manufacturing center;
- set ablaze by General Sherman
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James Wright
⼀Answer:⼀ Georgia's 3rd (and last) Royal Governor. He was
extremely popular and successful
Indigo, Silk
⼀Answer:⼀ - Brought to GA by Europeans
- became a new major cash crop
Hernando de Soto
⼀Answer:⼀ Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first
European expedition deep into the modern-day Southeastern United
States (Florida, Georgia, Alabama and most likely Arkansas) in 1540,
and the first documented European to have crossed the Mississippi
River.
Salzburgers
⼀Answer:⼀ Some of the first immigrants to the new Georgia colony
in the 1730's From Austria came to Georgia to escape religious
persecution (they were protestants, not Catholics) settled
Ebenezer/New Ebenezer opposed slavery
James Oglethorpe
⼀Answer:⼀ Founder of Savannah (1733), and governor of the
Georgia colony. He ran a tightly-disciplined, military-like colony.
Slaves, alcohol, and Catholicism were forbidden in his colony. Many
colonists felt that he was a dictator, and that (along with the colonist's
dissatisfaction over not being allowed to own slaves) caused the
colony to break down and he to lose his position as governor.
Georgia Trustees
