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Georgia History Exam Q&A: Key Events and Figures, Exams of History

Explore georgia's rich history with this comprehensive set of exam questions and answers. Covering key periods from reconstruction to the civil war, this resource is designed to help students master important facts and events. Delve into the roles of significant figures like button gwinnett, lyman hall, and george walton, as well as pivotal moments such as the founding of savannah and the yazoo land fraud. Perfect for exam preparation, this guide offers a concise and effective way to review georgia's historical timeline and its impact on american history. Understand the political, social, and economic transformations that shaped the state, from its colonial beginnings to its role in the civil rights movement. This study aid is an invaluable tool for students seeking to excel in their georgia history courses.

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GSU GEORGIA HISTORY Exam Questions
With 100% Correct Answers Latest Versions
2025 Graded A+
Reconstruction in Georgia - Correct Answer--As a defeated Confederate state, Georgia
underwent Reconstruction from 1865, when the Civil War (1861-65) ended, until 1871,
when Republican government and military occupation in the state ended
1865-1871( around the civil war)******
Georgia was founded - Correct Answer--Established in 1732***
-Settlement in Savannah in 1733***
When was Savannah Captured
-Last of the 13 colonies founded
What three Georgians signed the declaration of independence? - Correct Answer--
Button Gwinnett
-Lyman Hall
-George Walton
Eli Whitney - Correct Answer--Invention of the Cotton Gin*****
The construction of railroads - Correct Answer--connecting Athens, Augusta, Macon,
and Savannah during the 1830s******
What was atlanta originally named? - Correct Answer--Terminus
-Founded in 1837 as the end of the rail system's line
by 1860, Georgia was known as the - Correct Answer--Empire state of the south
Slavery in Antebellum Georgia - Correct Answer--When the Georgia Trustees first
envisioned their colonial experiment in the early 1730s, they banned slavery in order to
avoid the slave-based plantation economy that had developed in other colonies in the
American South
The original group of settlers were - Correct Answer--125
the original site for settlement - Correct Answer--Yamacraw Bluff****
the charter of the original group of trustees was to last for - Correct Answer--20 years
The Indian chief with whom the first settlers made their agreement wias - Correct
Answer--Tomo-chi-chi*****
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GSU GEORGIA HISTORY Exam Questions

With 100% Correct Answers Latest Versions

2025 Graded A+

Reconstruction in Georgia - Correct Answer--As a defeated Confederate state, Georgia underwent Reconstruction from 1865, when the Civil War (1861-65) ended, until 1871, when Republican government and military occupation in the state ended 1865 - 1871( around the civil war)****** Georgia was founded - Correct Answer--Established in 1732***

  • Settlement in Savannah in 1733*** When was Savannah Captured
  • Last of the 13 colonies founded What three Georgians signed the declaration of independence? - Correct Answer-- Button Gwinnett
  • Lyman Hall
  • George Walton Eli Whitney - Correct Answer--Invention of the Cotton Gin***** The construction of railroads - Correct Answer--connecting Athens, Augusta, Macon, and Savannah during the 1830s****** What was atlanta originally named? - Correct Answer--Terminus
  • Founded in 1837 as the end of the rail system's line by 1860, Georgia was known as the - Correct Answer--Empire state of the south Slavery in Antebellum Georgia - Correct Answer--When the Georgia Trustees first envisioned their colonial experiment in the early 1730s, they banned slavery in order to avoid the slave-based plantation economy that had developed in other colonies in the American South The original group of settlers were - Correct Answer-- 125 the original site for settlement - Correct Answer--Yamacraw Bluff**** the charter of the original group of trustees was to last for - Correct Answer--20 years The Indian chief with whom the first settlers made their agreement wias - Correct Answer--Tomo-chi-chi*****

who was the first republican governor since reconstruction - Correct Answer--Sonny Perdue

  • 2003 who won a surprising gubernatorial victory in Georgia, clearly demonstrating that many whites in the state continued to resist the social and political transformations of the era?
  • Correct Answer--segregationist Lester Maddox who carried the state and the nation in 1976? - Correct Answer--Jimmy Carter
  • Democrat Who did Jimmy Carter lose the election to? - Correct Answer--Republican Ronald Reagan****** Who were the two black students that were ordered to admission at UGA in January 1961? - Correct Answer--Hamilton Holmes
  • Charlayne Hunter Who established Hartsfield Airport - Correct Answer-- William B. Hartsfield Who built and flew the first plane in Georgia in 1907? - Correct Answer-- Ben Epps In the selection of the original colonists, which ideas predominated? - Correct Answer-- Economic improvement When governor Richard B Russell decided to run for US senate in 1932, he was succeeded by - Correct Answer--Eugene Talmadge Prior to the settlement of the colony, it was pointed out that Georgia could produce all of the following except - Correct Answer--Ivory Boll Weevil - Correct Answer--Insect that caused a drop in production of cotton Siege of Savannah - Correct Answer-- 1779
  • was the most serious military confrontation between British and American troops James Wright - Correct Answer--the third and last royal governor of Georgia, serving from 1760 to 1782,
  • James Wright replaced Henry Ellis as royal governor of Georgia
  • Wright was a popular and able administrator and servant of the crown. He played a key role in retarding the flame of revolution in Georgia long after it had flared violently in every other colony Nancy Morgan Hart - Correct Answer--a rebel heroine of the American Revolutionary War noted for her exploits against Loyalists in the northeast Georgia backcountry.
  • He wrote some of his best-known works in Georgia. Rebecca Latimer Felton - Correct Answer--died at 94
  • A writer and tireless campaigner for Progressive Era reforms, especially women's rights, she was the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration - Correct Answer--was a federal law passed in 1933 as part of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal
  • The law offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops Herman Talmadge - Correct Answer--democrat
  • son of Eugene Talmadge, served as governor of Georgia took the governor's office briefly in 1947, and again after a special election in 1948.
  • an opponent of civil rights legislation, but he began to reach out to black voters in the 1970s
  • In 1979 the Senate officially denounced Talmadge for financial misconduct. English claims to Georgia were first made in - Correct Answer- 1663 Georgia's first law school was established in - Correct Answer-Athens The national elections of 1860 saw the Georgia vote go to - Correct Answer-John c. Breckenridge With reconstruction in June 1865 - Correct Answer-James Johnson was appointed provis. Gov. In Nov 1865 an election under the new Georgia Constitution was held with the Gov office going to - Correct Answer-Charles Jenkins Among Georgia's leaders only one of the following strongly urged acceptance of the Congressional plan of reconstruction - Correct Answer-Former Gov. Joe Brown Native white southerners who decided to accept Congressional recon. were known as - Correct Answer-Scalawags/carpet baggers***** In 1868 under the reconstruction Constitutions who was elected governor of Georgia - Correct Answer-Rufus Bullock Of all Georgia's cities, who garnered the most national headlines because of the involvement of Martin Luther King Jr. in a mass protest campaign during 1961-62, called the Albany Movement. - Correct Answer-Albany . Georgia occupies a unique position both geographically and geologically, encompassing the - Correct Answer--Blue Ridge Mountains
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Gulf of Mexico Georgia was the only colony founded and ruled by a Board of Trustees, which was based in - Correct Answer-London, England Georgia was the only one of the North American colonies in which slavery was explicitly banned at the outset, along with rum, lawyers, and Catholics. - Correct Answer-True Rum was eventually legalized in - Correct Answer- 1742 Slavery was legalized in Georgia in - Correct Answer-- 1751 when did the capital move from Savannah to Augusta? - Correct Answer- 1779 - Savannah was captured******** Three major geo regions which Georgia was divided included: - Correct Answer- Applachian Mountains Coastal Plain Poedmont Plateau The first European settlers in Georgia were - Correct Answer-Spanish soldiers from St. Augustine In the propaganda campaign all of the following expected benefits were emphasized except - Correct Answer-establishment of iron mines Prior to the settlement of the colony it was pointed out that Georgia could produce all of the following products except - Correct Answer-Ivory The Trustees of the new colony - Correct Answer-Received no compensation The charter of the original group of Trustees was to last for - Correct Answer-20 years In the selection of the original colonists which of the following ideas predominated - Correct Answer-Economic Improvment The Indian chief with whom the first settlers made their agreement was - Correct Answer-Tomo Chi Chi In colonial Georgia, the most important national group by number were the - Correct Answer-Germans Georgia chiefly objected to the Sugar Act of 1764 cause - Correct Answer-it would hurt her trade in lumber products

In religious affairs following the Civil War - Correct Answer-Black worship became separate from white Immediately after the Civil War the best crops were produced in - Correct Answer- Southwest and Northern GA With regard to business after the Civil War there was an immediate expansion with the greatest activity in - Correct Answer-Atlanta In 1867 under the Congressional plan of recon. Georgia was made a part of the - Correct Answer-Third Military District under Gen. John Pope In Nov 1865 an election under the new Georgia Constitution was held with the Gov office going to - Correct Answer-C KKK - Correct Answer-William J Simmons Who was J M Slanton? - Correct Answer-Governor during the Leo Frank Case What did Jimmy Carter Grow up doing? - Correct Answer-- Wrote a lot In between 1900s and 1910 how much did the population grow - Correct Answer- 89,000-150,000***** Who was McNeal Turner and Tunis Campbell? - Correct Answer-Two black republicans***** How many state representatives went to the convention? - Correct Answer-0 or 1***** Georgia was established - Correct Answer-1732******* Sons of Liberty***** - Correct Answer- What did the slaves law enact? - Correct Answer-******* What was the temperance movement? - Correct Answer-Restrict the sales of alcohol*** Cherokees had a written constitution (1827)************* - Correct Answer- Warchester Vs. Georgia passed - Correct Answer-special treaty talking about relationship between US and Cherokees( Sovereign Status)********* John Ross and Charles Hicks Cherokee - Correct Answer-Treaty of 1819********* Cherokee Removal

What was true about Andrew Jackson(president) and the Cherokees - Correct Answer- He did not like them********* He wanted them gone stagflation - Correct Answer-Reason why Jimmy Carter didn't get re elected ****** civil war reconstruction ****** chronological order - Correct Answer- Georgia was originally supposed to be a colony for debters and prisoners from england****** - Correct Answer- Farmers Alliance - Correct Answer-laws against everyone becoming a farmer***** Carl Sanders - Correct Answer-Elected governor in 1962 Atlanta Compromise Speech - Correct Answer--September 18 1895**

  • Booker T Washington (African American)
  • Conservative
  • @ cotton states and international exposition in ATL
  • 5 Fingers to the hand****
  • his speech responded to the negro problem What Jobs did Booker T Washington encourage the blacks to become proficient in during Atlanta compromise speech? - Correct Answer--agriculture
  • mechanics
  • commerce
  • domestic service Who served as an advisor to US presidents Theodore Roosevelt, and William Taft (Both with deep racial Biases) - Correct Answer-Booker T Washington W E B Du Bois - Correct Answer--Radical
  • Talented Tenth
  • Against Booker T Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 - Correct Answer--September 22-24 1906
  • White mobs killed dozens of blacks ( damaged a lot of property)
  • Job competition between whites and blacks Cherokee Removal - Correct Answer--1838 and 1839
  • Robert Lindneux painting Cherokee Trail of Tears
  • US troops, prompted by the state of Georgia, expelled the Cherokee Indians from the homeland in the Southeast and removed them to the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma
  • Divided land up into parcels- offered parcels in a lottery to white Georgians The Cherokee syllabary - Correct Answer--Sequoyah
  • Brought to office in 1966 by widespread dissatisfaction with desegregation Martin Luther King Jr. - Correct Answer-- 1929 - 1968
  • a Baptist minister and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  • most prominent African American leader in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Olympic Games in 1996 - Correct Answer--July 19- August 4 Atlanta hosted the Centennial Summer Olympic Games
  • Largest Event in the cities History
  • Preparations took 6 years and 5.14 billion dollars
  • 2 Million visitors over 14 days
  • Billy Payne
  • Traffic Problems
  • Pipe bomb in centennial park(2 dead-100 injured)***** Populist Party - Correct Answer--1892 Georgia politics was shaken by the arrival of the Populist Party
  • Led by Thomas E. Watson