GA HISTORY EXEMPTION EXAM
Questions and Verified answers 2024
Three reasons for the establishment of Georgia - (answers)Philanthropic
Military
Economic
Strict rules established my the Trustees for the colony - (answers)Restrictions on land ownership
Prohibition of hard liquor
Prohibition of slavery
defacto leader and one of the Trustees of the first settlers in Georgia. helped establish Savannah,
Augusta, and Fort Frederica - (answers)James Oglethorpe
longest serving, most influential governor of the Royal Colony. Expanded and opened Georgia's
frontier to farmers by obtaining peaceful land cessions from the Native Americans -
(answers)James Wright
Allowed Oglethorpe to settle on Yamacraw Bluff; advised Oglethorpe on Indian affairs, chief of
the Yamacraw - (answers)Tomochichi
first governing document of independent Georgia put into place by Provincial Congress (Whigs)
- (answers)The Rules and Regulations
first governor of GA - (answers)John Treutlen
in 1795, Georgia legislators sold over 40 acres of land to 4 land companies for 1.5 cents per acre;
they were voted out of office and deal nullified by James Jackson - (answers)Yazoo Land Fraud
, Supreme Court rule stating the state couldn't nullify the Yazoo Land deal - (answers)Fletcher v.
Peck (1810)
Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence - (answers)George Walton
Lyman Hall
Button Gwinnett
Capitals of Georgia - (answers)Savannah - Augusta - Louisville - Milledgeville - Atlanta
Supreme Court decision that ruled that Georgia had no right to interfere with the Cherokees
controlled land - (answers)Worcester v. Georgia
the trek of Native Americans, particularly the Cherokee, to Indian Territory - (answers)Trail of
Tears
author of the Georgia Platform- a proclamation that endorsed the Compromise of 1850;
appointed justice as the Supreme Court of GA; governor of GA during reconstruction; he refused
to allow state funds to be used for a racially integrated state constitutional convention -
(answers)Charles Jenkins
governor of Ga in 1857 and 1859; he campaigned as a champion of non-slaveholding upcountry
masses but also had ties to fireeaters; he worked to strengthen state defenses for the war -
(answers)Joseph E. Brown
Vice President of the Confederacy (1861-65), elected to US Senate and served as governor of
GA from '82-'83 - (answers)Alexander Stephens
Questions and Verified answers 2024
Three reasons for the establishment of Georgia - (answers)Philanthropic
Military
Economic
Strict rules established my the Trustees for the colony - (answers)Restrictions on land ownership
Prohibition of hard liquor
Prohibition of slavery
defacto leader and one of the Trustees of the first settlers in Georgia. helped establish Savannah,
Augusta, and Fort Frederica - (answers)James Oglethorpe
longest serving, most influential governor of the Royal Colony. Expanded and opened Georgia's
frontier to farmers by obtaining peaceful land cessions from the Native Americans -
(answers)James Wright
Allowed Oglethorpe to settle on Yamacraw Bluff; advised Oglethorpe on Indian affairs, chief of
the Yamacraw - (answers)Tomochichi
first governing document of independent Georgia put into place by Provincial Congress (Whigs)
- (answers)The Rules and Regulations
first governor of GA - (answers)John Treutlen
in 1795, Georgia legislators sold over 40 acres of land to 4 land companies for 1.5 cents per acre;
they were voted out of office and deal nullified by James Jackson - (answers)Yazoo Land Fraud
, Supreme Court rule stating the state couldn't nullify the Yazoo Land deal - (answers)Fletcher v.
Peck (1810)
Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence - (answers)George Walton
Lyman Hall
Button Gwinnett
Capitals of Georgia - (answers)Savannah - Augusta - Louisville - Milledgeville - Atlanta
Supreme Court decision that ruled that Georgia had no right to interfere with the Cherokees
controlled land - (answers)Worcester v. Georgia
the trek of Native Americans, particularly the Cherokee, to Indian Territory - (answers)Trail of
Tears
author of the Georgia Platform- a proclamation that endorsed the Compromise of 1850;
appointed justice as the Supreme Court of GA; governor of GA during reconstruction; he refused
to allow state funds to be used for a racially integrated state constitutional convention -
(answers)Charles Jenkins
governor of Ga in 1857 and 1859; he campaigned as a champion of non-slaveholding upcountry
masses but also had ties to fireeaters; he worked to strengthen state defenses for the war -
(answers)Joseph E. Brown
Vice President of the Confederacy (1861-65), elected to US Senate and served as governor of
GA from '82-'83 - (answers)Alexander Stephens
