James Edward Oglethorpe - ANSWER The leader of English Parliament who founded
the Georgia colony, in order to create an effective buffer from the Spanish and Spanish
controlled Florida.
James Wright - ANSWER Georgia's third, and final, royal governor who fled the colony
when the American Revolution began
Nancy Morgan Hart - ANSWER one of the most patriotic women in Georgia, she
worked as a spy; she disguised herself as a man and entered British camps trying to gain
information; famous for holding six British soldiers at gunpoint who tried to pillage her land.
Yazoo Land Fraud - ANSWER 1795, the sale of western land to four land companies
after the governor and members of the General Assembly had been bribed
Governor James Jackson - ANSWER Overturned Yazoo Act; elected to First Congress;
lost reelection
Trail of Tears - ANSWER Forced journey of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to a
region west of the Mississippi (present day Oklahoma) during which thousands of Cherokees
died
Joseph Brown - ANSWER Governor 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.
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, Milledgeville - ANSWER Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government
during the Civil War
Henry L. Benning - ANSWER A 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 - ANSWER A 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.
William T. Sherman - ANSWER He commanded the Union army in Tennessee. In
September of 1864 his troops captured Atlanta, Georgia. He then headed to take Savannah.
This was his famous "march to the sea.". 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.
Rufus Bullock - ANSWER He 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 - ANSWER Represented 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.
Populism - ANSWER Farm-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 - ANSWER Sought to diversify the Georgia economy; eventually
led to the industrialization of the state.
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the Georgia colony, in order to create an effective buffer from the Spanish and Spanish
controlled Florida.
James Wright - ANSWER Georgia's third, and final, royal governor who fled the colony
when the American Revolution began
Nancy Morgan Hart - ANSWER one of the most patriotic women in Georgia, she
worked as a spy; she disguised herself as a man and entered British camps trying to gain
information; famous for holding six British soldiers at gunpoint who tried to pillage her land.
Yazoo Land Fraud - ANSWER 1795, the sale of western land to four land companies
after the governor and members of the General Assembly had been bribed
Governor James Jackson - ANSWER Overturned Yazoo Act; elected to First Congress;
lost reelection
Trail of Tears - ANSWER Forced journey of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to a
region west of the Mississippi (present day Oklahoma) during which thousands of Cherokees
died
Joseph Brown - ANSWER Governor 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.
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, Milledgeville - ANSWER Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government
during the Civil War
Henry L. Benning - ANSWER A 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 - ANSWER A 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.
William T. Sherman - ANSWER He commanded the Union army in Tennessee. In
September of 1864 his troops captured Atlanta, Georgia. He then headed to take Savannah.
This was his famous "march to the sea.". 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.
Rufus Bullock - ANSWER He 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 - ANSWER Represented 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.
Populism - ANSWER Farm-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 - ANSWER Sought to diversify the Georgia economy; eventually
led to the industrialization of the state.
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