GA History Exam UGA 2023 Actual Exam Questions With All Correct Answers

GA History Exam UGA 2023 Actual Exam Questions With All Correct Answers James Edward Oglethorpe - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER- Georgia's third, and final, royal governor who fled the colony when the American Revolution began Nancy Morgan Hart - CORRECT ANSWER- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER- Overturned Yazoo Act; elected to First Congress; lost reelection Trail of Tears - CORRECT ANSWER- 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER- Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government during the Civil War Henry L. Benning - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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. William T. Sherman - CORRECT ANSWER- 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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. Populism - CORRECT ANSWER- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER- Sought to diversify the Georgia economy; eventually led to the industrialization of the state Jim Crow - CORRECT ANSWER- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER- American civil rights activist; wrote the Souls of Black Folk and demanded full racial equality; helped found the NAACP Rebecca Latimer Felton - CORRECT ANSWER- She was a civic leader that supported women's suffrage and temperance as well as strongly disagree with the convict lease system She was also the first woman to serve in the US Senate Leo Frank - CORRECT ANSWER- Jewish factory manager in Atlanta who was convicted of murdering a female employee. A mob lynched him in his jail cell. County-unit System - CORRECT ANSWER- It gave each county or district a certain number of votes. The bigger the district, the more votes This inaccurately stated what people wanted and gave rural areas more votes, which did not represent what most people would prefer. Agricultural Adjustment Administration - CORRECT ANSWER- Restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers to reduce crop area Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus so as to effectively raise the value of crops, thereby giving farmers relative stability again. Herman Talmadge - CORRECT ANSWER- GA governor; in reaction to Brown vs. BOE he declared that GA will 'not tolerate the mixing of races in public schools or any other tax supported instutions." Forcibly took over the Governor's mansion until it was officially announced he had lost the election. Martin Luther King, Jr. - CORRECT ANSWER- U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize Winner(1964) 1996 Olympic Games - CORRECT ANSWER- Put georgia on a national stage, and made Atlanta a world known city. Jimmy Carter - CORRECT ANSWER- 39th President who stressed human rights. Because of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, he enacted an embargo on grain shipments to USSR and boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow; former Georgia governor. Reconstruction - CORRECT ANSWER-