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History Exemption: Georgia History, KSU GA
History Exemption test, GA HISTORY
EXEMPTION EXAM Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
Who founded Georgia and what was his position?
⼀Answer:⼀ James Edward Oglethorpe, leader of English Parliament
When was Georgia founded and what was its purpose?
⼀Answer:⼀ -1732
-To serve as a buffer between colonies and Spanish controlled Florida
Who was James Wright?
⼀Answer:⼀ -Georgia's third and final royal Governor who fled the
colony when the American Revolution began
-Battle of Rice Boats
Yazoo Land Fraud: When did it happen, what happened, and how
was it fixed?
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⼀Answer:⼀ -1795
-Sale of land in Mississippi to four companies way below market value
bc they bribed the government
-Fletcher v Peck, Government rescinded act and returned the money to
the companies
Governor James Jackson (2 things)?
⼀Answer:⼀ -Overturned Yazoo Land Fraud
-Helped bring GA into the Jeffersonian Republican Party -- built states
1st true political party
Trail of Tears?
⼀Answer:⼀ -thousands of Cherokees died after removed from GA
and forced on the trail of tears
-1838-1839 by pres Andrew Jackson
Joseph Brown 4 things?
⼀Answer:⼀ -42nd gov of GA. Leading secessionist that took GA out
of Union and into the Confederacy
-Tried to protect Georgia from getting pulled into the war
-Only Gov that served 4 terms (other than Talmadge)
2 facts about Milledgeville?
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⼀Answer:⼀ -GA's 4th capital
-Seat of State Gov during the civil war
3 things about Henry Benning?
⼀Answer:⼀ -Ft. Benning named after him
-Lawyer, legislator, jurist (became associate justice of the supreme
court in the 1850's)
-Vocal advocate for secession and earned rank of brigadier general
during Civil War
Who was Robert Toombs (3 things)?
⼀Answer:⼀ -Founding father of the Confederacy (said the south
would secede if the federal government was ever controlled by the
Republican party)
-Confederate political leader, whig party senator
-1st Confederate Secretary of State
William T. Sherman
⼀Answer:⼀ -March to sea - general of union army in civil war
-Captured ATL in Sep 1864
Rufus Bullock 3 facts?
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⼀Answer:⼀ -1st Republican governor of GA
-46th gov of GA
-Most hated him bc he supported African American equality
-Forced out of office by KKK, never committed any scandals
Tunis Campbell 5 things?
⼀Answer:⼀ -Prominent African American politician of the 19th
century, and a major figure in Reconstruction
-Represented McIntosh County as state senator and served as justice of
peace
-Insisted on equal representation of black juries
-Sentenced a year of hard labor for improper conduct
-Freedman's Bureau
"New South" Crusade 2 things?
⼀Answer:⼀ -Sought to diversify the Georgia economy and promote
prosperity
-Eventually led to industrialization of the state
Who was Henry Grady and what was he associated with?
History Exemption: Georgia History, KSU GA
History Exemption test, GA HISTORY
EXEMPTION EXAM Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
Who founded Georgia and what was his position?
⼀Answer:⼀ James Edward Oglethorpe, leader of English Parliament
When was Georgia founded and what was its purpose?
⼀Answer:⼀ -1732
-To serve as a buffer between colonies and Spanish controlled Florida
Who was James Wright?
⼀Answer:⼀ -Georgia's third and final royal Governor who fled the
colony when the American Revolution began
-Battle of Rice Boats
Yazoo Land Fraud: When did it happen, what happened, and how
was it fixed?
, Page | 2
⼀Answer:⼀ -1795
-Sale of land in Mississippi to four companies way below market value
bc they bribed the government
-Fletcher v Peck, Government rescinded act and returned the money to
the companies
Governor James Jackson (2 things)?
⼀Answer:⼀ -Overturned Yazoo Land Fraud
-Helped bring GA into the Jeffersonian Republican Party -- built states
1st true political party
Trail of Tears?
⼀Answer:⼀ -thousands of Cherokees died after removed from GA
and forced on the trail of tears
-1838-1839 by pres Andrew Jackson
Joseph Brown 4 things?
⼀Answer:⼀ -42nd gov of GA. Leading secessionist that took GA out
of Union and into the Confederacy
-Tried to protect Georgia from getting pulled into the war
-Only Gov that served 4 terms (other than Talmadge)
2 facts about Milledgeville?
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⼀Answer:⼀ -GA's 4th capital
-Seat of State Gov during the civil war
3 things about Henry Benning?
⼀Answer:⼀ -Ft. Benning named after him
-Lawyer, legislator, jurist (became associate justice of the supreme
court in the 1850's)
-Vocal advocate for secession and earned rank of brigadier general
during Civil War
Who was Robert Toombs (3 things)?
⼀Answer:⼀ -Founding father of the Confederacy (said the south
would secede if the federal government was ever controlled by the
Republican party)
-Confederate political leader, whig party senator
-1st Confederate Secretary of State
William T. Sherman
⼀Answer:⼀ -March to sea - general of union army in civil war
-Captured ATL in Sep 1864
Rufus Bullock 3 facts?
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⼀Answer:⼀ -1st Republican governor of GA
-46th gov of GA
-Most hated him bc he supported African American equality
-Forced out of office by KKK, never committed any scandals
Tunis Campbell 5 things?
⼀Answer:⼀ -Prominent African American politician of the 19th
century, and a major figure in Reconstruction
-Represented McIntosh County as state senator and served as justice of
peace
-Insisted on equal representation of black juries
-Sentenced a year of hard labor for improper conduct
-Freedman's Bureau
"New South" Crusade 2 things?
⼀Answer:⼀ -Sought to diversify the Georgia economy and promote
prosperity
-Eventually led to industrialization of the state
Who was Henry Grady and what was he associated with?
