UGA HISTORY EXEMPTION EXAM LATEST

UGA HISTORY EXEMPTION EXAM LATEST

ACTUAL EXAM 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT

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Define: Board of Trustees - ANSWER- The governing body of Georgia in London

England. King George signed a charter establishing the colony and creating its governing board

What years is Georgia referred to as "Trustee Georgia"? - ANSWER- 1732 - 1752

What were four things that were outlawed when Georgia was founded? - ANSWER- slavery, rum, lawyers, and Catholics

Who was the impetus behind Georgia's founding? - ANSWER- James Edward Ogelthorpe

Battle of Bloody Marsh - ANSWER- On St. Simons Island between the English and the Spanish. It was an attempt of the Spanish to invade Georgia

Who from Georgia signed the Declaration of Independence? - ANSWER- Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton

Who from Georgia signed the US Constitution? - ANSWER- Abraham Baldwin and William Few Jr.

Which state was Georgia to enter the Union when it ratified the Constitution in 1788? - ANSWER- Fourth

What was the most serious military confrontation between British and American troops? - ANSWER- Siege of Savannah in 1779

Where was the capital moved to and from in 1779? - ANSWER- Savannah to Augusta

Battle of Kettle Creek - ANSWER- Took place in Wilkes County

Nancy Hart - ANSWER- a female patriot and spy credited with killing several Tories at her home 1 / 3

When was the ban on slavery in Georgia lifted? - ANSWER- 1752

Eli Whitney - ANSWER- inventor of the cotton gin

Yazoo land fraud - ANSWER- 1795, the sale of western land to four land companies after the governor and members of the General Assembly had been bribed / land companies bribed GA leaders to sell land cheaply; resulted in U.S.take-over of disputed land

James Edward Ogelthorpe - 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.

University of Georgia - ANSWER- Founded in 1785, first university in the nation established by a state government

Wesleyan College - ANSWER- Established in Macon in 1836, the first degree- granting women's college in the world

Trail of Tears - ANSWER- The Cherokees forced exile from the states northewestern territory in 1838 - 1839. It became a symbol of the trauma and suffering all experienced

What was Georgia referred to as by the 1860s? - ANSWER- "Empire State of the South"

Which state was Georgia out of all the states to secede from the Union? - ANSWER- fifth

Howell Cobb - ANSWER- in control of the Confederacy's organizing convention

Thomas R. R. Cobb - ANSWER- primary author of the Confederate Constitution

William T. Sherman - ANSWER- known for his military campaign "March to the Sea" in which he marched from Atlanta to Savannah for his final siege. His troops burned barns and houses, and destroyed the countryside. His march showed a shift in the belief that only military targets should be destroyed. Civilian centers could also be targets

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Reconstruction - ANSWER- the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union

Freedmen's Bureau - ANSWER- established by Congress to aid African Americans undergoing the transition from slavery to freedom in the aftermath of the Civil War

Klu Klux Klan - ANSWER- Terrorist organization devoted to racial inequality, suffering and evil, established 1868

Governor James Jackson - ANSWER- Overturned the Yazoo Act; elected to First Congress; lost reelection

Joseph Brown - ANSWER- Governor from Georgia who tried at times to keep his own troops apart from the Confederate forces and insisted on hoarding surplus supplies for his own state's militias. He believed that his state had seceded so that it didn't have to follow the dictates of a central government.

Milledgeville - ANSWER- Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government during the Civil War

Henry L. Benning - ANSWER- A jurist who became associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia in the 1850s. He then became a vocal advocate for secession and earned the rank of brigadier general during the Civil War

Robert Toombs - ANSWER- A senator and extremist from Georgia who said that the South would never let the federal government be controlled by the Republican party and threatened secession.

Rufus Bullock - ANSWER- He served as the Governor of Georgia from 1868 to 1871 during Reconstruction and was the first Republican governor of Georgia.After various allegations of scandal, in 1871 he was obliged by the Ku Klux Klan to resign the governorship.

Tunis Campbell - ANSWER- Represented McIntosh County as a state senator and served as a justice of the peace.Insisted on equal representation of blacks in juries and otherwise championed their rights to the point of making himself an annoyance to the whites. Was sentenced to a year of hard labor for improper conduct.

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