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GA History Exam UGA Q&AJames Edward Oglethorpe - ✔️ 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 - ✔️ Georgia's third, and final, royal governor who fled the
colony when the American Revolution began
Nancy Morgan Hart - ✔️ one of the most patriotic women in Georgia, she
worked as a spy; she disguised herself as a man and entered British camps
trying to gain information; famous for holding six British soldiers at gunpoint
who tried to pillage her land.
Yazoo Land Fraud - ✔️ 1795, the sale of western land to four land companies
after the governor and members of the General Assembly had been bribed
Governor James Jackson - ✔️ Overturned Yazoo Act; elected to First
Congress; lost reelection
Trail of Tears - ✔️ Forced journey of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to a
region west of the Mississippi (present day Oklahoma) during which
thousands of Cherokees died
Joseph Brown - ✔️ 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 - ✔️ Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government
during the Civil War
Henry L. Benning - ✔️ 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 - ✔️ 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.
William T. Sherman - ✔️ He commanded the Union army in Tennessee. In
September of 1864 his troops captured Atlanta, Georgia. He then headed to
take Savannah. This was his famous "march to the sea.". 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.
Rufus Bullock - ✔️ 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 - ✔️ 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.
Populism - ✔️ Farm-based movement of the late 1800s that arose mainly in
the area from Texas to the Dakotas and grew into a joint effort between
farmer and labor groups against big business and machine-based politics. The
movement became a third party in the election of 1892.
"New South" Crusade - ✔️ Sought to diversify the Georgia economy;
eventually led to the industrialization of the state.
Jim Crow - ✔️ The system of racial segregation in the South that was created
in the late nineteenth century following the end of slavery. These laws written
in the 1880s and 1890s mandated segregation in public facilities.
W. E. B. Du Bois - ✔️ American civil rights activist; wrote the Souls of Black
Folk and demanded full racial equality; helped found the NAACP
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