US & GA History Exemption Exam (UGA) 2023

In what year was Georgia established? - 1732 When did settlement take place in Savannah? - 1733 How long was Georgia in existence before there was a governor or governing body within the colony itself? - Two decades Who ruled Georgia in the beginning? - Board of Trustees Define: Board of Trustees - The 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"? - What were four things that were outlawed when Georgia was founded? - slavery, rum, lawyers, and Catholics Who was the impetus behind Georgia's founding? - James Edward Ogelthorpe Battle of Bloody Marsh - On 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? - Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton Who from Georgia signed the US Constitution? - Abraham Baldwin and William Few Jr. Which state was Georgia to enter the Union when it ratified the Constitution in 1788? - Fourth What was the most serious military confrontation between British and American troops? - Siege of Savannah in 1779 Where was the capital moved to and from in 1779? - Savannah to Augusta Battle of Kettle Creek - Took place in Wilkes County Nancy Hart - a female patriot and spy credited with killing several Tories at her home When was the ban on slavery in Georgia lifted? - 1752 Eli Whitney - inventor of the cotton gin Yazoo land fraud - 1795, 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 Ogelthorpe - The 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 - Founded in 1785, first university in the nation established by a state government Wesleyan College - Established in Macon in 1836, the first degree-granting women's college in the world Trail of Tears - The Cherokees forced exile from the states northewestern territory in . It became a symbol of the trauma and suffering all experienced What was Georgia referred to as by the 1860s? - "Empire State of the South" Which state was Georgia out of all the states to secede from the Union? - fifth Howell Cobb - in control of the Confederacy's organizing convention Thomas R. R. Cobb - primary author of the Confederate Constitution William T. Sherman - known 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 - the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union Freedmen's Bureau - established by Congress to aid African Americans undergoing the transition from slavery to freedom in the aftermath of the Civil War Klu Klux Klan - Terrorist organization devoted to racial inequality, suffering and evil, established 1868 Governor James Jackson - Overturned the Yazoo Act; elected to First Congress; lost reelection