Georgia History Exam Study Guide
Questions and Answers
What were the top reasons for economic growth in Atlanta? - ANSWER-Railroad,
manufacturing (cotton textiles), financial trade, import/export, political center
James Oglethorpe - ANSWER-1. One of trustees who helped secure the land grant.
2. Established the first British colony town in Georgia
3. Made commander in chief of British forces in SC and GA
Battle of Kettle Creek - ANSWER-1779, Whig defeat of 700 Tory forces at Kettle
Creek in Wilkes County.
Battle of Bloody Marsh - ANSWER-Defeat of Spanish forces in 1740 by Oglethorpe's
forces, securing GA for the British
Sir James Wright - ANSWER-1763, third and final royal governor; Largest planter in
colony with 500+ slaves.
Populist - ANSWER-Led by Thomas Watson, spin off from Democrats in 1892, but
never elected governor, congressman or majority of legislature. "Wool hat boys"
Robert Toombs - ANSWER-Nominated for president on cessation, but ended as sec
of state; Former Whig, helped during reconstruction with focus on good government
at low cost
Alexander H. Stephens - ANSWER-Backed congressional Compromise of 1850; VP
during cessation; us senator after
Howell Cobb - ANSWER-Speaker in 1850, president of confederacy electoral
convention, leader of confederate forces
Fletcher v Peck - ANSWER-Yazoo lands case heard in front of Supreme Court
Henry Grady - ANSWER-Editor of Atlanta Constitution and peacemaker between a
Bourbons sections in late 1800s reconstruction
Worcester v Georgia - ANSWER-Supreme Court case in 1831 that stated Cherokee
Nation was not a state and had no right to sue against the state forbidding them to
exercise tribe law.
Eugene Talmadge - ANSWER-US Senator 1932, Governor "dictator," against the
New Deal, martial law against textile strike, white supremacist who lost GA
universities accreditation
Sidney Lanier - ANSWER-Poet, musician, writer- mid/late 1800s
Questions and Answers
What were the top reasons for economic growth in Atlanta? - ANSWER-Railroad,
manufacturing (cotton textiles), financial trade, import/export, political center
James Oglethorpe - ANSWER-1. One of trustees who helped secure the land grant.
2. Established the first British colony town in Georgia
3. Made commander in chief of British forces in SC and GA
Battle of Kettle Creek - ANSWER-1779, Whig defeat of 700 Tory forces at Kettle
Creek in Wilkes County.
Battle of Bloody Marsh - ANSWER-Defeat of Spanish forces in 1740 by Oglethorpe's
forces, securing GA for the British
Sir James Wright - ANSWER-1763, third and final royal governor; Largest planter in
colony with 500+ slaves.
Populist - ANSWER-Led by Thomas Watson, spin off from Democrats in 1892, but
never elected governor, congressman or majority of legislature. "Wool hat boys"
Robert Toombs - ANSWER-Nominated for president on cessation, but ended as sec
of state; Former Whig, helped during reconstruction with focus on good government
at low cost
Alexander H. Stephens - ANSWER-Backed congressional Compromise of 1850; VP
during cessation; us senator after
Howell Cobb - ANSWER-Speaker in 1850, president of confederacy electoral
convention, leader of confederate forces
Fletcher v Peck - ANSWER-Yazoo lands case heard in front of Supreme Court
Henry Grady - ANSWER-Editor of Atlanta Constitution and peacemaker between a
Bourbons sections in late 1800s reconstruction
Worcester v Georgia - ANSWER-Supreme Court case in 1831 that stated Cherokee
Nation was not a state and had no right to sue against the state forbidding them to
exercise tribe law.
Eugene Talmadge - ANSWER-US Senator 1932, Governor "dictator," against the
New Deal, martial law against textile strike, white supremacist who lost GA
universities accreditation
Sidney Lanier - ANSWER-Poet, musician, writer- mid/late 1800s
