GA HISTORY EXEMPTION KSU TEST 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔4 facts about GA from 1865 - 1890? - ✔✔-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 1890 - 1940? - ✔✔-Increased racial discrimination developed after
reconstruction (Jim Crow & segragation)
-Restrictions on black voting increase
-Cotton prices plummet because of the Great Depression
-State's economic and Ag problems increase
✔✔Who founded the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (1933) and what was it
designed to do? - ✔✔-Franklin Roosevelt was founder
-Designed to boost ag prices by reducing surpluses
✔✔Georgia 1940 - Present 5 things? - ✔✔-During and after WW2
-Agriculture became less central to State's Economy, industry, manufacturing and
urbanization greatly increased
-Segregation ended - blacks gained opportunity to gain political power
-More whites voted for Republican party
-Atlanta hosted Olympics
✔✔GA writers (3)? - ✔✔-Alice Walker
-Carson McCullers
-Flannery O'Connor
✔✔GA artists (2)? - ✔✔-Jasper Johns
-Kara Walker
✔✔GA musicians (4)? - ✔✔-James Brown
-Ray Charles
-REM
-Trisha Yearwood
✔✔Herman Talmadge (3 things)? - ✔✔-GA gov
,-In reaction to Brown v Board of Education he declared GA will not tolerate the mix of
races in public schools
-Forcibly took over Governors mansion until it was announced he lost election
✔✔What did Robert Elliot Burns write about? - ✔✔Imprisonment and abuses in the
Georgia prison system
✔✔What was the Convict Lease System? - ✔✔Allowed private companies to rent
persons convicted of serious crimes for labor
✔✔Who wrote God's Little Acre and what was it about? - ✔✔-By Erskine Caldwell
(1930's)
-About a family of sharecroppers from GA, "tobacco road" is a poor shantytown, usually
in the rural South, populated by mostly whites
✔✔Who was Ben Epps? - ✔✔-Father of Aviation in GA
-Epps Bridge Parkway in Athens
✔✔What did Charles Lindbergh do? - ✔✔-1923 flew his first solo flight at Southern Field
in Americus, GA
✔✔Who is Hartsfield-Jackson named after? - ✔✔-William Hartsfield: mayor of GA 1936-
1961, father of aviation in ATL, targeted blacks/democrats and offered improvements
-Maynard Jackson: first black mayor in GA
✔✔What was the title given to the largest slave holding state of the South? -
✔✔"Empire State of the South"
✔✔Who was Alexander Stephens? - ✔✔Vice President of the Confederacy
✔✔When was Georgia's secession Convention held in Milledgeville? - ✔✔1861
✔✔What did the two Cobb brothers do? - ✔✔-Howell: presided over the the
Confederacy's organizing
-Thomas: authored the state constitution
✔✔What was Field Order 15? - ✔✔-Sherman's special order granting 400,000 acres of
land to newly freed black families (40 acre increments)
-Likely origin of the phrase "40 acres and a mule"
✔✔What is significant about Anderson, GA? - ✔✔Horrific POW camp infamous for
atrocities and prisoner mistreatment
✔✔How many slaves were freed during/after war? - ✔✔460,000
, ✔✔When was GA readmitted to the Union? - ✔✔1870
✔✔What 3 people from GA signed the Declaration of Independence? - ✔✔-Button
Gwinnett
-Lyman Hall
-George Walton
✔✔Who signed the US Constitution from GA? - ✔✔Abraham Baldwin and William Few
Jr.
✔✔GA Gold Rush - ✔✔Largest discovery of gold East of the Mississippi
✔✔Three facts about Henry Ellis? - ✔✔-2nd Governor in GA
-Most popular royal governor
-Wore a thermometer
✔✔Who was the first gov of GA in 1752? - ✔✔John Reynolds
✔✔What tribe helped the original settlers in GA and what city did they influence them to
build? - ✔✔-Yamacraw
-Yamacraw Bluff encouraged James Oglethorpe to build Savannah
✔✔Who were the Georgia Salzburgers? - ✔✔-Group of German speaking protestant
colonists who founded the town of Ebenezer (Effingham County now)
✔✔Who was Mary Musgrove? - ✔✔GA's chief translator for Indian tribes
✔✔Royal Governors in order - ✔✔-John Reynolds
-Henry Ellis -- most popular
-James Wright --fled colony when Rev. began
✔✔What does the boll weevil eat? - ✔✔Cotton
✔✔What was so important about Georgia's decision to secede? - ✔✔At the time it was
the most populous Southern State and the one with the most slaves
✔✔When did GA add the confederate flag to their state flag? - ✔✔1956
✔✔When did GA take the confederate flag off it's state flag? - ✔✔2003
✔✔When did James Oglethorpe arrive in GA? When was GA founded as a state? - ✔✔-
Oglethorpe 1733
-1788
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔4 facts about GA from 1865 - 1890? - ✔✔-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 1890 - 1940? - ✔✔-Increased racial discrimination developed after
reconstruction (Jim Crow & segragation)
-Restrictions on black voting increase
-Cotton prices plummet because of the Great Depression
-State's economic and Ag problems increase
✔✔Who founded the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (1933) and what was it
designed to do? - ✔✔-Franklin Roosevelt was founder
-Designed to boost ag prices by reducing surpluses
✔✔Georgia 1940 - Present 5 things? - ✔✔-During and after WW2
-Agriculture became less central to State's Economy, industry, manufacturing and
urbanization greatly increased
-Segregation ended - blacks gained opportunity to gain political power
-More whites voted for Republican party
-Atlanta hosted Olympics
✔✔GA writers (3)? - ✔✔-Alice Walker
-Carson McCullers
-Flannery O'Connor
✔✔GA artists (2)? - ✔✔-Jasper Johns
-Kara Walker
✔✔GA musicians (4)? - ✔✔-James Brown
-Ray Charles
-REM
-Trisha Yearwood
✔✔Herman Talmadge (3 things)? - ✔✔-GA gov
,-In reaction to Brown v Board of Education he declared GA will not tolerate the mix of
races in public schools
-Forcibly took over Governors mansion until it was announced he lost election
✔✔What did Robert Elliot Burns write about? - ✔✔Imprisonment and abuses in the
Georgia prison system
✔✔What was the Convict Lease System? - ✔✔Allowed private companies to rent
persons convicted of serious crimes for labor
✔✔Who wrote God's Little Acre and what was it about? - ✔✔-By Erskine Caldwell
(1930's)
-About a family of sharecroppers from GA, "tobacco road" is a poor shantytown, usually
in the rural South, populated by mostly whites
✔✔Who was Ben Epps? - ✔✔-Father of Aviation in GA
-Epps Bridge Parkway in Athens
✔✔What did Charles Lindbergh do? - ✔✔-1923 flew his first solo flight at Southern Field
in Americus, GA
✔✔Who is Hartsfield-Jackson named after? - ✔✔-William Hartsfield: mayor of GA 1936-
1961, father of aviation in ATL, targeted blacks/democrats and offered improvements
-Maynard Jackson: first black mayor in GA
✔✔What was the title given to the largest slave holding state of the South? -
✔✔"Empire State of the South"
✔✔Who was Alexander Stephens? - ✔✔Vice President of the Confederacy
✔✔When was Georgia's secession Convention held in Milledgeville? - ✔✔1861
✔✔What did the two Cobb brothers do? - ✔✔-Howell: presided over the the
Confederacy's organizing
-Thomas: authored the state constitution
✔✔What was Field Order 15? - ✔✔-Sherman's special order granting 400,000 acres of
land to newly freed black families (40 acre increments)
-Likely origin of the phrase "40 acres and a mule"
✔✔What is significant about Anderson, GA? - ✔✔Horrific POW camp infamous for
atrocities and prisoner mistreatment
✔✔How many slaves were freed during/after war? - ✔✔460,000
, ✔✔When was GA readmitted to the Union? - ✔✔1870
✔✔What 3 people from GA signed the Declaration of Independence? - ✔✔-Button
Gwinnett
-Lyman Hall
-George Walton
✔✔Who signed the US Constitution from GA? - ✔✔Abraham Baldwin and William Few
Jr.
✔✔GA Gold Rush - ✔✔Largest discovery of gold East of the Mississippi
✔✔Three facts about Henry Ellis? - ✔✔-2nd Governor in GA
-Most popular royal governor
-Wore a thermometer
✔✔Who was the first gov of GA in 1752? - ✔✔John Reynolds
✔✔What tribe helped the original settlers in GA and what city did they influence them to
build? - ✔✔-Yamacraw
-Yamacraw Bluff encouraged James Oglethorpe to build Savannah
✔✔Who were the Georgia Salzburgers? - ✔✔-Group of German speaking protestant
colonists who founded the town of Ebenezer (Effingham County now)
✔✔Who was Mary Musgrove? - ✔✔GA's chief translator for Indian tribes
✔✔Royal Governors in order - ✔✔-John Reynolds
-Henry Ellis -- most popular
-James Wright --fled colony when Rev. began
✔✔What does the boll weevil eat? - ✔✔Cotton
✔✔What was so important about Georgia's decision to secede? - ✔✔At the time it was
the most populous Southern State and the one with the most slaves
✔✔When did GA add the confederate flag to their state flag? - ✔✔1956
✔✔When did GA take the confederate flag off it's state flag? - ✔✔2003
✔✔When did James Oglethorpe arrive in GA? When was GA founded as a state? - ✔✔-
Oglethorpe 1733
-1788
