US & GA History Exemption Exam (UGA) Questions With 100% Correct Answers

US & GA History Exemption Exam (UGA) Questions With 100% Correct Answers In what year was Georgia established? - CORRECT ANSWER- 1732 When did settlement take place in Savannah? - CORRECT ANSWER- 1733 How long was Georgia in existence before there was a governor or governing body within the colony itself? - CORRECT ANSWER- Two decades Who ruled Georgia in the beginning? - CORRECT ANSWER- Board of Trustees Define: Board of Trustees - CORRECT ANSWER- 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"? - CORRECT ANSWER- 1732 - 1752 What were four things that were outlawed when Georgia was founded? - CORRECT ANSWER- slavery, rum, lawyers, and Catholics Who was the impetus behind Georgia's founding? - CORRECT ANSWER- James Edward Ogelthorpe Battle of Bloody Marsh - CORRECT ANSWER- 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? - CORRECT ANSWERButton Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton Who from Georgia signed the US Constitution? - CORRECT ANSWER- Abraham Baldwin and William Few Jr. Which state was Georgia to enter the Union when it ratified the Constitution in 1788? - CORRECT ANSWER- Fourth What was the most serious military confrontation between British and American troops? - CORRECT ANSWER- Siege of Savannah in 1779 Where was the capital moved to and from in 1779? - CORRECT ANSWER- Savannah to Augusta Battle of Kettle Creek - CORRECT ANSWER- Took place in Wilkes County Nancy Hart - CORRECT ANSWER- a female patriot and spy credited with killing several Tories at her home When was the ban on slavery in Georgia lifted? - CORRECT ANSWER- 1752 Eli Whitney - CORRECT ANSWER- inventor of the cotton gin Yazoo land fraud - CORRECT ANSWER- 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 - CORRECT 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. University of Georgia - CORRECT ANSWER- Founded in 1785, first university in the nation established by a state government Wesleyan College - CORRECT ANSWER- Established in Macon in 1836, the first degree-granting women's college in the world Trail of Tears - CORRECT ANSWER- The Cherokees forced exile from the states northwestern territory in . It became a symbol of the trauma and suffering all experienced What was Georgia referred to as by the 1860s? - CORRECT ANSWER- "Empire State of the South" Which state was Georgia out of all the states to secede from the Union? - CORRECT ANSWER- fifth Howell Cobb - CORRECT ANSWER- in control of the Confederacy's organizing convention Thomas R. R. Cobb - CORRECT ANSWER- primary author of the Confederate Constitution William T. Sherman - CORRECT ANSWER- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER- the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union Freedmen's Bureau - CORRECT ANSWER- established by Congress to aid African Americans undergoing the transition from slavery to freedom in the aftermath of the Civil War Klu Klux Klan - CORRECT ANSWER- Terrorist organization devoted to racial inequality, suffering and evil, established 1868 Governor James Jackson - CORRECT ANSWER- Overturned the Yazoo Act; elected to First Congress; lost reelection Joseph Brown - CORRECT 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. Milledgeville - CORRECT ANSWER- Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government during the Civil War Henry L. Benning - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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. Rufus Bullock - CORRECT 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