GEORGIA HISTORY EXAM STUDY
GUIDE AND ANSWERS
Homer Plessy - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER-He was a
Georgia senate
Leo Frank - CORRECT ANSWER...
Homer Plessy - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER-He was a
Georgia senate
Leo Frank - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER-The journalist who
reintegrated the states into the Union again after the Civil War.
13-15 amendments - CORRECT ANSWER-13- 1865,
abolished slavery; 14- 1868, 1868 Citizenship given to ex-
slaves. Three-fifths clause abolished. Leading ex-Confederates
denied office. Ex-Confederates forced to repudiate their debts
and pay pensions to their own (CSA) veterans, plus taxes for
the pensions of Union veterans; 15- 1870, suffrage given to
black males.
Freedman's Bureau - CORRECT ANSWER-The bureau's focus
was to provide food, medical care, administer justice, manage
, abandoned and confiscated property, regulate labor, and
establish schools.
Enlisted - CORRECT ANSWER-enrolled in the armed services.
Neighborhood Union - CORRECT ANSWER-Provided African
American in Atlanta with services such as medical employment
and educational services.
Sharecropping - CORRECT ANSWER-A system used on
southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land
owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the
crops.
Jim Crow Laws - CORRECT ANSWER-Laws designed to
enforce segregation of blacks from whites
Crystal Palace - CORRECT ANSWER-A fugitive slave named
Alonzo Herndon Made the crystal palace barber shop
1906 Race Riot - CORRECT ANSWER-Newspaper reports of
black violence against white led to this
Populist - CORRECT ANSWER-a supporter of the rights and
power of the people
Colquitt - CORRECT ANSWER-Member of the Bourbon
Triumvirate. Held positions of State Senator, U.S. Senator and
governor. Attended GA's secession convention.
Rebecca Latimer Felton - CORRECT ANSWER-Leader in
suffrage, temperance movement, and helped get rid of the
Convict Lease System. Oldest and First woman U.S. senator
(honorary position).
Kansas-Nebraska Act - CORRECT ANSWER-1854 - Created
Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those
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