Georgia Southern- GA History Legislative Exemption Exam Test Questions And Answers Verified 100% Correct

Georgia Southern- GA History Legislative Exemption Exam Test Questions And Answers Verified 100% Correct When did northern states begin the process of emancipation? - ANSWER the 1790s Compromise of 1850 - ANSWER Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, Made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War Kansas-Nebraska Act - ANSWER 1854 law that divided the Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska giving each territory the right to decide whether or not to allow slavery. Building of a transcontinental railroad Original Republican Party - ANSWER Was against slavery. Did not exist in the south Dred Scott Decision - ANSWER A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen. Uncle Tom's Cabin - ANSWER a novel published by harriet beecher stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry - ANSWER (1859) John Brown led a raid on Harper's Ferry. He hoped to start a rebellion against slaveholders by arming enslaved African Americans. Brown was quickly defeated by citizens and federal troops. Brown became a villain to southerners who now thought northerners would use violence to end slavery as well as a martyr to some northerners who saw Brown as someone who sacrificed himself for the ideal of freedom for all. Who did the National Democratic party nominate for president in 1860? - ANSWER Stephen Douglas and Herschel V Johnson as VP Who was elected governor of GA in 1857? - ANSWER Joseph E. Brown What order was GA in state secession? - ANSWER 5th Confederate States of America (CSA) - ANSWER confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union First and Only president of the Confederacy - ANSWER Jefferson Davis April 12, 1861 - ANSWER confederate forces attacked fort Sumter, beginning the civil war Major forms of transportation during the Antebellum period? - ANSWER Rivers, poor roads, savannah river When was Fort Pulaski captured? - ANSWER April 1862 Battle of Chickamauga - ANSWER 1863 Confederate army defeated the Union forces and forced the Union Army back into TN; Unable to halt the Union advance into GA led by General Sherman When did the Union Army capture Atlanta? - ANSWER September 1864. Significance- Atlanta was the hub of southern railroad system. Lincoln would be reelected President and the Union would continue the war Sherman's March to the Sea - ANSWER during the civil war, a devastating total war military campaign, led by union general William Sherman, that involved marching 60,000 union troops through Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah and destroying everything along there way. What year did the Civil War end? - ANSWER 1865 Reconstruction lasted from... - ANSWER The end of the war in What amendment abolished slavery? - ANSWER 13th The Freedmen's Bureau - ANSWER aided former slaves through education, health care, and employment Who did the General Assembly elect to the U.S. Senate after the Civil War and during reconstruction? - ANSWER Alexander Stephens Black Codes - ANSWER Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War Tunis Campbell - ANSWER prominent African American politician, fought for equality and justice. Organized an African American militia for protection from the KKK Military Reconstruction Act - ANSWER 1867; divided the South into five districts and placed them under military rule; required Southern States to ratify the 14th amendment; guaranteed freedmen the RIGHT TO VOTE in convention to write new state constitutions Constitution of 1868 - ANSWER Included specific wording giving African Americans the Right to vote What year were African Americans expelled from the Assembly because the Constitution didnt "explicitly" give them the right to hold office? - ANSWER Sep 1868 Camilla Massacre - ANSWER General election of 1868 where 9 black republicans were murdered. Returned GA back to reconstruction (March 1869) What year was GA redeemed a second time and allowed back into the Union? - ANSWER 1871, by ratifying the 15th amendment Sharecropping - ANSWER A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops. Tenant Farming - ANSWER A system in which farm workers supply their own tools and rent farmland for cash In what ways did GA serve the Confederacy? - ANSWER Manpower, money, supplies, munitions, clothing Which georgians commanded troops in the Confederacy? - ANSWER Joseph Johnson and John Bell Hood What groups made up the Republican Coalition? - ANSWER African Americans, white businessmen carpetbaggers, and small white farmers from northern mountain counties 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. Constitution of 1877 GA - ANSWER Characterized by its extreme conservatism and its anti-industry/business restrictions County Unit System - ANSWER Voting method that gave rural (sparsely populated) areas more power in GA than larger urban counties; violated the 14th Amendment; made unconstitutional in 1962. Henry Grady - ANSWER Journalist from Georgia who coined the phrase "New South".