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Who founded Georgia and what was his position? James Edward Oglethorpe, leader of English Parliament When was Georgia founded and what was its purpose? -1732 -To serve as a buffer between colonies and Spanish controlled Florida Who was James Wright? -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? -1795 -Sale of land in Missi...

. Georgia History: Overview - Answer Georgia was the last of the thirteen colonies to be founded. Its formation came a half century after the twelfth British colony.Georgia was the only colony founded and ruled by a Board of Trustees, which was based in London. Mississippian Period: Overview - Answer (A.D. 800-1600), complex native cultures, organized as chiefdoms, emerged and developed lifeways in response to the particular features of their physical surroundings. Chiefdoms - Answer a ...

UGA History Exemption Test He was a Spanish explorer who marched across Mexico and conquered the Aztecs - Hernan Cortes He explored deep in USA, first to discover and cross the Mississippi River and claim it for Spain - Hernando de Soto This man was a member of the English Parliament who founded the colony of Georgia. - James Edward Oglethorpe Who was Georgia's 3rd and final royal governor who fled the colony after the start of the American Revolution? - James Wright In what ...

Georgia History Exam Study Guide Questions and Answers 100% Pass Homer Plessy - Answer ️️ -Refused to move from his train seat in the whites-only, he took his lawsuit all the way to the united States Supreme Court Henry McNeal Turner - Answer ️️ -He was a Georgia senate Leo Frank - Answer ️️ -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. Henry Grady - Answer ️️ -The journalist who reinteg...

UGA History Exemption Test Questions and Answers Already Passed Earlier in statehood GA was made up of what two states? - Answer ️️ -Alabama and Mississippi First people to settle in Georgia - Answer ️️ -Paleoindian Period: Clovis culture Woodland Period: Mound builders Kolomoki Mounds New Deal in Georgia? - Answer ️️ --Aimed at economic recovery and address Georgia's social conditions as well -Within a year, 20% of Georgia's urban residents were receiving some kind of fed...

UGA History Exemption Exam: Post 1877 Questions and Answers 100% Pass Robert Smalls - Answer ️️ -Enslaved African American who, during and after the American Civil War, became a ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician; freed himself, his crew and their families from slavery on May 13, 1862, by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, the CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, and sailing it to freedom beyond the blockade Helped convince Lincoln to accept African-American soldiers int...

UGA History Exemption Test Questions and Answers 100% Pass Pre-Columbian Peoples of the American Southwest - Answer ️️ --Agriculturally focused groups that developed powerful and complex societies -Became increasingly dependent on the cultivation of maize Pre-Columbian economy in Great Basin and the western Great Plains - Answer ️️ -- Migratory because of limited resources Pre-Columbian economy in the Northeast and along the Atlantic Seaboard - Answer ️️ -- Another Group of t...

US & GA History Exemption Exam (UGA) Already Passed In what year was Georgia established? - Answer ️️ -1732 When did settlement take place in Savannah? - Answer ️️ -1733 How long was Georgia in existence before there was a governor or governing body within the colony itself? - Answer ️️ -Two decades Who ruled Georgia in the beginning? - Answer ️️ -Board of Trustees Define: Board of Trustees - Answer ️️ -The governing body of Georgia in London England. King George sign...

GA History Exam UGA Questions and Answers Already Passed James Edward Oglethorpe - Answer ️️ -The leader of English Parliament who founded the Georgia colony, in order to create an effective buffer from the Spanish and Spanish controlled Florida. James Wright - Answer ️️ -Georgia's third, and final, royal governor who fled the colony when the American Revolution began Nancy Morgan Hart - Answer ️️ -one of the most patriotic women in Georgia, she worked as a spy; she disguise...

Georgia History Exemption Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Fall Line - Answer ️️ -- the point on a river where there is an abrupt drop in elevation of the land and where numerous waterfalls occur. - it is the ancient coastline of the southern tier of North America when sea-levels wer higher - Navigation up-stream beyond this feature stops - ultimately towns located just beyond this natural boundary were important river ports (like Macon) - The line in the eastern US is located wh...

UGA History Exemption Test 2024 Yazoo Lands - Answer ️️ -The sparsely-populated central and western areas of the US state of GA, when its western border stretched to the Mississippi River. James Jackson - Answer ️️ -October 18, 1819 - January 13, 1887. It was a US representative from GA, a judge advocate American Civil War, and a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. He nullified the yazoo sale and destructed records connected with the state. Later the Yazoo lands was give...