GA HISTORY EXEMPTION MAIN EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Trial where a Northern Jewish pencil factory manager was accused of murdering 13
year old Mary Phagan; found guilty of the crime and sentenced to death, his sentence
was later reduced to life due to additional evidence. However, a group of men calling
themselves "the Knights of Mary Phagan" took him out of his prison cell and lynched
him in Marietta. - ✔✔Leo Frank Case
✔✔movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities
between 1914 and 1920 - ✔✔Great Migration
✔✔first governor (1931-33) to deal with the depression, reorganized the government
and mde it more efficent, then was elected as a US Senator - ✔✔Richard Russell
✔✔very conservative that disagreed with FDR's New Deal program, supported the
common man except for textile workers
Also, tried to fire UGA and Georgia Teachers College because of false intergration
claims, as a result both lost accreditation - ✔✔Eugene Talmadge
✔✔Georgia governor (1937-1941) that brought New Deal programs to GA and reformed
education - ✔✔E.D. Rivers
✔✔one of most influential New Deal programs in Georgia, took aim at overproduction of
cotton by subsidizing farmers for reducing their cotton crops, benefited larger farmers
and landowners - ✔✔Agricultural Adjustment Act
✔✔Georgia military base that was the largest and viewed as the best infantry training
facility in country during WWII - ✔✔Fort Benning
✔✔established in Marietta during WWII, airplane plant that provie around 20,000 jobs to
the area, including women - ✔✔Bell Aircraft Corporation
✔✔GA governer (1943-1947) that restored accreditation to Georgia's college and
university system, also revised Constitution of 1877, elimanted chain gang, reformed
the prison system, and because first state to grant 18 year olds the right to vote -
✔✔Ellis Arnall
✔✔formed in 1910 to gain constitutional rights and protections for African Americans
from racial oppression, carried their fights to the courts by filing lawsuits against
discriminatory practices, focused on challenging institution of separate but equal -
✔✔National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
, ✔✔Supreme Court declared that separate educational facilities were unequal and
unconstitutional - ✔✔Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
✔✔parents focused on keeping schools open for children not on integration, which
threatened to close because of Supreme Court ruling - ✔✔HOPE (Help Our Public
Education)
✔✔longest tenured mayor of Atlanta (1937-41, '42-62) that crowned the city "too busy to
hate" - ✔✔William Hartsfield
✔✔First African Americans at UGA in 1961 - ✔✔Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton
Holmes
✔✔prohibitted discrimination based on race, color, sex, or national origin in public
facilities such as schools, employment, and other public accomodations - ✔✔Civil
Rights Act of 1964
✔✔outlawed discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states such as
literacy tests; committed the government to provide federal examiners in counties with
histories of discrimination; basically prohibitted racial discrimination in voting - ✔✔Voting
Rights Act of 1965
✔✔was a African American civil writes leader who was elected in 1965 to the Georgia
House Of representatives; he helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC). - ✔✔Julian Bond
✔✔First African American Mayor of Atlanta. Fought to make sure that minority
businesses received their fair share of city contracts. Started MARTA, expanded
Hartsfield Airport and helped bring Olympics to ATL. - ✔✔Maynard Jackson
✔✔First African American since Reconstruction to be elected to Congress from
Georgia, served as mayor of Atlanta (1982-1990) - ✔✔Andrew Young
✔✔Supreme Court declared county-unit system (candidate who received most votes in
a county would get all of the county's votes) unconstitutional, - ✔✔Gray v. Sanders
(1963)
✔✔Georgia's first New South governor, who provided progressive leadership for the
state from 1963 to 1967; pursued industrial development and economic growth, he
greatly enhanced Georgia's national image - ✔✔Carl Sanders
✔✔1st black in legislature - ✔✔Leroy Johnson
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Trial where a Northern Jewish pencil factory manager was accused of murdering 13
year old Mary Phagan; found guilty of the crime and sentenced to death, his sentence
was later reduced to life due to additional evidence. However, a group of men calling
themselves "the Knights of Mary Phagan" took him out of his prison cell and lynched
him in Marietta. - ✔✔Leo Frank Case
✔✔movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities
between 1914 and 1920 - ✔✔Great Migration
✔✔first governor (1931-33) to deal with the depression, reorganized the government
and mde it more efficent, then was elected as a US Senator - ✔✔Richard Russell
✔✔very conservative that disagreed with FDR's New Deal program, supported the
common man except for textile workers
Also, tried to fire UGA and Georgia Teachers College because of false intergration
claims, as a result both lost accreditation - ✔✔Eugene Talmadge
✔✔Georgia governor (1937-1941) that brought New Deal programs to GA and reformed
education - ✔✔E.D. Rivers
✔✔one of most influential New Deal programs in Georgia, took aim at overproduction of
cotton by subsidizing farmers for reducing their cotton crops, benefited larger farmers
and landowners - ✔✔Agricultural Adjustment Act
✔✔Georgia military base that was the largest and viewed as the best infantry training
facility in country during WWII - ✔✔Fort Benning
✔✔established in Marietta during WWII, airplane plant that provie around 20,000 jobs to
the area, including women - ✔✔Bell Aircraft Corporation
✔✔GA governer (1943-1947) that restored accreditation to Georgia's college and
university system, also revised Constitution of 1877, elimanted chain gang, reformed
the prison system, and because first state to grant 18 year olds the right to vote -
✔✔Ellis Arnall
✔✔formed in 1910 to gain constitutional rights and protections for African Americans
from racial oppression, carried their fights to the courts by filing lawsuits against
discriminatory practices, focused on challenging institution of separate but equal -
✔✔National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
, ✔✔Supreme Court declared that separate educational facilities were unequal and
unconstitutional - ✔✔Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
✔✔parents focused on keeping schools open for children not on integration, which
threatened to close because of Supreme Court ruling - ✔✔HOPE (Help Our Public
Education)
✔✔longest tenured mayor of Atlanta (1937-41, '42-62) that crowned the city "too busy to
hate" - ✔✔William Hartsfield
✔✔First African Americans at UGA in 1961 - ✔✔Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton
Holmes
✔✔prohibitted discrimination based on race, color, sex, or national origin in public
facilities such as schools, employment, and other public accomodations - ✔✔Civil
Rights Act of 1964
✔✔outlawed discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states such as
literacy tests; committed the government to provide federal examiners in counties with
histories of discrimination; basically prohibitted racial discrimination in voting - ✔✔Voting
Rights Act of 1965
✔✔was a African American civil writes leader who was elected in 1965 to the Georgia
House Of representatives; he helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC). - ✔✔Julian Bond
✔✔First African American Mayor of Atlanta. Fought to make sure that minority
businesses received their fair share of city contracts. Started MARTA, expanded
Hartsfield Airport and helped bring Olympics to ATL. - ✔✔Maynard Jackson
✔✔First African American since Reconstruction to be elected to Congress from
Georgia, served as mayor of Atlanta (1982-1990) - ✔✔Andrew Young
✔✔Supreme Court declared county-unit system (candidate who received most votes in
a county would get all of the county's votes) unconstitutional, - ✔✔Gray v. Sanders
(1963)
✔✔Georgia's first New South governor, who provided progressive leadership for the
state from 1963 to 1967; pursued industrial development and economic growth, he
greatly enhanced Georgia's national image - ✔✔Carl Sanders
✔✔1st black in legislature - ✔✔Leroy Johnson
