GA HISTORY EXEMPTION PRACTICE EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Trail of Tears - ✔✔In 1835 the latter group, led by Major Ridge, John Ridge, and
Elias Boudinot, signed the Treaty of New Echota. The indians left and 5000 died
including ridge and his wife
✔✔gold rush - ✔✔late 1829 north Georgia, known at the time as the Cherokee Nation,
was flooded by thousands of prospectors lusting for gold. Niles' Register reported in the
spring of 1830 that there were four thousand miners working along Yahoola Creek
alone.
✔✔cotton - ✔✔From the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century, there was no
more important single factor in Georgia's agricultural economy
✔✔William Harris Crawford - ✔✔A two-time U.S. presidential nominee and the only
Georgian to run for the presidency prior to Jimmy Carter
best known nationally for his 1824 bid for the presidency, the most controversial
presidential election
served as a U.S. senator, cabinet member under two presidents, and foreign diplomat.
John Ross
✔✔john ross - ✔✔principal chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1827, following the
establishment of a government modeled on that of the United States
✔✔Wilson Lumpkin - ✔✔his major accomplishment was his cardinal role in the removal
of the Cherokee Indians from north Georgia. one of Georgia's most prominent political
leaders of the antebellum period. After early service in local government and the state
legislature, he was elected to Congress four times, serving 1815-17 and 1827-31; he
resigned before serving his fourth term to run for the governorship of Georgia. he did
not believe two cultures could live together peacefully and was an advocate for trains
✔✔Sequoyah - ✔✔the legendary creator of the Cherokee syllabary.
✔✔Howell Cobb - ✔✔served as congressman, Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives, governor of Georgia, and secretary of the treasury.
Following Georgia's secession from the Union in 1861, he served as president of the
Provisional Confederate Congress and a major general of the Confederate army.
✔✔Robert Toombs - ✔✔one of the most ardent secessionists in the U.S. Senate,
helped to lead Georgia out of the Union on the eve of the Civil War
✔✔Alexander Stephens - ✔✔the vice president of the Confederacy during the Civil War
(1861-65),
, ✔✔Crawford Long - ✔✔a north Georgia physician credited with the discovery of
anesthesia.
✔✔William and Ellen Craft - ✔✔Slaves from Macon who gained celebrity after a daring,
novel, and very public escape in December 1848. She was mixed and passed as a
white slave owner to her husband that was full black.
✔✔Mark Anthony Cooper - ✔✔best remembered as an industrialist whose ironworks
was one of the leading businesses in antebellum northwest Georgia. involved with
railroads owned and operated the Western Insurance and Trust Company. bacon
scandal
✔✔roswell king - ✔✔was in his seventies when he founded his namesake town
(Roswell). He established textile mills in the late 1830s and enticed wealthy coastal
families to join his enterprise, thus changing the economy and the population mix of
northern Fulton County.
✔✔Land Lottery System - ✔✔public lands in the interior of the state were dispersed to
small yeoman farmers (i.e., farmers who cultivate their own land) based on a system of
eligibility and chance.
✔✔Worcester v. Georgia (1832) - ✔✔A Supreme Court ruling that declared a state did
not have the power to enforce laws on lands that were not under state jurisdiction; John
Marshall wrote that the state of Georgia did not have the power to remove Indians; this
ruling was largely ignored by President Andrew Jackson
✔✔gerogia in 1860 - ✔✔Georgia, uniquely situated among southern states on the eve
of the Civil War (1861-65), played a vital part in the formation of the Confederacy. In
population, slave and free, Georgia was the largest in the Deep South.
✔✔Georgia and the Sectional Crisis - ✔✔led to the outbreak of the Civil War (1861-65).
Southern politicians struggled during the crisis to prevent northern abolitionists from
weakening constitutional protections for slavery. During this period, however, and for
much of the antebellum era, Georgians maintained a relatively moderate political
course, often frustrating the schemes of southern radicals. The passage in 1850 of the
Georgia Platform, which endorsed the Compromise of 1850, helped to avert secession
for a decade.
✔✔Battle of Kennesaw Mountain - ✔✔(July 27, 1864)- Confederate victory; battle
during Sherman's Atlanta Campaign; only Union loss during the campaign
✔✔Sherman's March to the Sea - ✔✔the most destructive campaign against a civilian
population during the Civil War (1861-65), began in Atlanta on November 15, 1864, and
concluded in Savannah on December 21, 1864.
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Trail of Tears - ✔✔In 1835 the latter group, led by Major Ridge, John Ridge, and
Elias Boudinot, signed the Treaty of New Echota. The indians left and 5000 died
including ridge and his wife
✔✔gold rush - ✔✔late 1829 north Georgia, known at the time as the Cherokee Nation,
was flooded by thousands of prospectors lusting for gold. Niles' Register reported in the
spring of 1830 that there were four thousand miners working along Yahoola Creek
alone.
✔✔cotton - ✔✔From the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century, there was no
more important single factor in Georgia's agricultural economy
✔✔William Harris Crawford - ✔✔A two-time U.S. presidential nominee and the only
Georgian to run for the presidency prior to Jimmy Carter
best known nationally for his 1824 bid for the presidency, the most controversial
presidential election
served as a U.S. senator, cabinet member under two presidents, and foreign diplomat.
John Ross
✔✔john ross - ✔✔principal chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1827, following the
establishment of a government modeled on that of the United States
✔✔Wilson Lumpkin - ✔✔his major accomplishment was his cardinal role in the removal
of the Cherokee Indians from north Georgia. one of Georgia's most prominent political
leaders of the antebellum period. After early service in local government and the state
legislature, he was elected to Congress four times, serving 1815-17 and 1827-31; he
resigned before serving his fourth term to run for the governorship of Georgia. he did
not believe two cultures could live together peacefully and was an advocate for trains
✔✔Sequoyah - ✔✔the legendary creator of the Cherokee syllabary.
✔✔Howell Cobb - ✔✔served as congressman, Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives, governor of Georgia, and secretary of the treasury.
Following Georgia's secession from the Union in 1861, he served as president of the
Provisional Confederate Congress and a major general of the Confederate army.
✔✔Robert Toombs - ✔✔one of the most ardent secessionists in the U.S. Senate,
helped to lead Georgia out of the Union on the eve of the Civil War
✔✔Alexander Stephens - ✔✔the vice president of the Confederacy during the Civil War
(1861-65),
, ✔✔Crawford Long - ✔✔a north Georgia physician credited with the discovery of
anesthesia.
✔✔William and Ellen Craft - ✔✔Slaves from Macon who gained celebrity after a daring,
novel, and very public escape in December 1848. She was mixed and passed as a
white slave owner to her husband that was full black.
✔✔Mark Anthony Cooper - ✔✔best remembered as an industrialist whose ironworks
was one of the leading businesses in antebellum northwest Georgia. involved with
railroads owned and operated the Western Insurance and Trust Company. bacon
scandal
✔✔roswell king - ✔✔was in his seventies when he founded his namesake town
(Roswell). He established textile mills in the late 1830s and enticed wealthy coastal
families to join his enterprise, thus changing the economy and the population mix of
northern Fulton County.
✔✔Land Lottery System - ✔✔public lands in the interior of the state were dispersed to
small yeoman farmers (i.e., farmers who cultivate their own land) based on a system of
eligibility and chance.
✔✔Worcester v. Georgia (1832) - ✔✔A Supreme Court ruling that declared a state did
not have the power to enforce laws on lands that were not under state jurisdiction; John
Marshall wrote that the state of Georgia did not have the power to remove Indians; this
ruling was largely ignored by President Andrew Jackson
✔✔gerogia in 1860 - ✔✔Georgia, uniquely situated among southern states on the eve
of the Civil War (1861-65), played a vital part in the formation of the Confederacy. In
population, slave and free, Georgia was the largest in the Deep South.
✔✔Georgia and the Sectional Crisis - ✔✔led to the outbreak of the Civil War (1861-65).
Southern politicians struggled during the crisis to prevent northern abolitionists from
weakening constitutional protections for slavery. During this period, however, and for
much of the antebellum era, Georgians maintained a relatively moderate political
course, often frustrating the schemes of southern radicals. The passage in 1850 of the
Georgia Platform, which endorsed the Compromise of 1850, helped to avert secession
for a decade.
✔✔Battle of Kennesaw Mountain - ✔✔(July 27, 1864)- Confederate victory; battle
during Sherman's Atlanta Campaign; only Union loss during the campaign
✔✔Sherman's March to the Sea - ✔✔the most destructive campaign against a civilian
population during the Civil War (1861-65), began in Atlanta on November 15, 1864, and
concluded in Savannah on December 21, 1864.
