History Exemption: Georgia History, KSU GA History Exemption test, GA HISTORY EXEMPTION EXAM | latest 2023/24

History Exemption: Georgia History, KSU GA History Exemption test, GA HISTORY EXEMPTION EXAM | latest 2023/24 Who founded Georgia and what was his position? - James Edward Oglethorpe, leader of English Parliament When was Georgia founded and what was its purpose? - -1732 -To serve as a buffer between colonies and Spanish controlled Florida Who was James Wright? - -Georgia's third and final royal Governor who fled the colony when the American Revolution began -Battle of Rice Boats Yazoo Land Fraud: When did it happen, what happened, and how was it fixed? - -1795 -Sale of land in Mississippi to four companies way below market value bc they bribed the government -Fletcher v Peck, Government rescinded act and returned the money to the companies Governor James Jackson (2 things)? - -Overturned Yazoo Land Fraud -Helped bring GA into the Jeffersonian Republican Party -- built states 1st true political party Trail of Tears? - -thousands of Cherokees died after removed from GA and forced on the trail of tears - by pres Andrew Jackson Joseph Brown 4 things? - -42nd gov of GA. Leading secessionist that took GA out of Union and into the Confederacy -Tried to protect Georgia from getting pulled into the war -Only Gov that served 4 terms (other than Talmadge) 2 facts about Milledgeville? - -GA's 4th capital -Seat of State Gov during the civil war 3 things about Henry Benning? - -Ft. Benning named after him -Lawyer, legislator, jurist (became associate justice of the supreme court in the 1850's) -Vocal advocate for secession and earned rank of brigadier general during Civil War Who was Robert Toombs (3 things)? - -Founding father of the Confederacy (said the south would secede if the federal government was ever controlled by the Republican party) -Confederate political leader, whig party senator -1st Confederate Secretary of State William T. Sherman - -March to sea - general of union army in civil war -Captured ATL in Sep 1864 Rufus Bullock 3 facts? - -1st Republican governor of GA -46th gov of GA -Most hated him bc he supported African American equality -Forced out of office by KKK, never committed any scandals Tunis Campbell 5 things? - -Prominent African American politician of the 19th century, and a major figure in Reconstruction -Represented McIntosh County as state senator and served as justice of peace -Insisted on equal representation of black juries -Sentenced a year of hard labor for improper conduct -Freedman's Bureau "New South" Crusade 2 things? - -Sought to diversify the Georgia economy and promote prosperity -Eventually led to industrialization of the state Who was Henry Grady and what was he associated with? - -The spokesman of the South -Associated with the "New South" Crusade Both of these assisted GA in the economic recovery after the Civil war Jim Crow laws? - -Late 1800's that mandated segregation in public facilities WEB DuBois 3 facts? - -First African American to get his Doctorate -Wrote "Souls of the Black Folk" and demanded racial equality -Helped found the NAACP in 1909 Rebecca Latimer Felton four things? - -1st Woman to serve in the US Senate (woman's suffrage) -Disagreed with convict lease system -In favor of lynching -One of the few prominent women in GA in Progressive Era Leo Frank (2)? - -Jewish factory manager in ATL -Convicted of murdering female employee Battle of Bloody Marsh 3 things? - -July 7, 1742 -English vs. Spanish on St. Simon's Island -Only attempt by Spanish to invade GA during War of Jenkins Ear (significant English Victory) -Oglethorpe Redeemed reputation from defeat in St. Augustine State 3 facts about GA from ? - -Period between Rev and Civil War -Slavery increased dramatically -Land region increased as well 4 facts about GA from ? - -After fall of confederacy (reconstruction began) -Democrats controlled state gov -White Georgians controlled and disfranchised black Georgians -Loss of millions in slave capital Georgia Populism 2 things? - -1892 led by Thomas Watson -Directly challenged dominance of Democratic party, presented threat to split white vote in GA -White farmers 4 facts about GA ? - -Increased racial discrimination developed after reconstruction (Jim Crow & segragation) -Restrictions on black voting increase -Cotton prices plummet because of the Great Depression -State's e