Georgia History Exam Study Guide Questions and
Correct Answers GRADED A+
1.Homer Plessy: Refused to move from his train seat in the whites-
only, he took his lawsuit all the way to the united States Supreme
Court
2.Henry McNeal Turner: He was a Georgia senate
3.Leo Frank: The murder trial of him resulted in a death sentence. He
was pardoned by Georgia's governor buy was later lynched by an angry
mob.
4.Henry Grady: The journalist who reintegrated the states into the Union
again after the Civil War.
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, 5.13-15 amendments: 13- 1865, abolished slavery; 14- 1868, 1868
Citizenship given to ex-slaves. Three-fifths clause abolished. Leading
ex-Confederates denied office. Ex-Confederates forced to repudiate their
debts and pay pensions to their own (CSA) veterans, plus taxes for the
pensions of Union veterans; 15- 1870, suffrage given to black males.
6.Freedman's Bureau: The bureau's focus was to provide food, medical
care, administer justice, manage abandoned and confiscated property,
regulate labor, and establish schools.
7.Enlisted: enrolled in the armed services.
8.Neighborhood Union: Provided African American in Atlanta with
services such as medical employment and educational services.
9.Sharecropping: A system used on southern farms after the Civil War
in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a
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Correct Answers GRADED A+
1.Homer Plessy: Refused to move from his train seat in the whites-
only, he took his lawsuit all the way to the united States Supreme
Court
2.Henry McNeal Turner: He was a Georgia senate
3.Leo Frank: The murder trial of him resulted in a death sentence. He
was pardoned by Georgia's governor buy was later lynched by an angry
mob.
4.Henry Grady: The journalist who reintegrated the states into the Union
again after the Civil War.
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10
, 5.13-15 amendments: 13- 1865, abolished slavery; 14- 1868, 1868
Citizenship given to ex-slaves. Three-fifths clause abolished. Leading
ex-Confederates denied office. Ex-Confederates forced to repudiate their
debts and pay pensions to their own (CSA) veterans, plus taxes for the
pensions of Union veterans; 15- 1870, suffrage given to black males.
6.Freedman's Bureau: The bureau's focus was to provide food, medical
care, administer justice, manage abandoned and confiscated property,
regulate labor, and establish schools.
7.Enlisted: enrolled in the armed services.
8.Neighborhood Union: Provided African American in Atlanta with
services such as medical employment and educational services.
9.Sharecropping: A system used on southern farms after the Civil War
in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a
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