USG Georgia History Legislative Requirement Exam Questions With Revised Answers
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Georgia History
USG Georgia History Legislative
Requirement Exam Questions With Revised
Answers
James Oglethorpe - answerConceived of and implemented his plan to establish the colony of
Georgia. Led the expedition of colonists that landed in Savannah early in 1733.
Battle of Bloody Marsh - answerJuly 7, 1742,...
USG Georgia History Legislative
Requirement Exam Questions With Revised
Answers
James Oglethorpe - answer✔✔Conceived of and implemented his plan to establish the colony of
Georgia. Led the expedition of colonists that landed in Savannah early in 1733.
Battle of Bloody Marsh - answer✔✔July 7, 1742, English and Spanish forces skirmished on St.
Simons Island. Only Spanish attempt to invade Georgia during the War of Jenkins' Ear
Henry W. Grady - answer✔✔"Spokesman of the New South," served as managing editor for the
Atlanta Constitution in the 1880s
Leo Frank Case - answer✔✔A Jewish man in Atlanta was placed on trial and convicted of raping
and murdering a thirteen-year-old girl who worked for the National Pencil Company.
Atlanta Compromise Speech - answer✔✔September 18, 1895, the African American educator
and leader Booker T. Washington delivered his famous this speech. Widely regarded as one of
the most significant speeches in American history.
Hernando de Soto in Georgia - answer✔✔The first European to explore the interior of what is
now the state of Georgia. Entered the state on two occasions during the course of his expedition.
Spanish Missions - answer✔✔Georgia's earliest colonial history is dominated by the lengthy
mission era, extending from 1568 through 1684. Catholic missions were the primary means by
which Georgia's indigenous Native American chiefdoms were assimilated
Yamacraw Indians - answer✔✔Small band of Native Americans that existed from the late 1720s
to the mid-1740s in the Savannah area. First led by Tomochichi
Malcontents - answer✔✔Among those to voice displeasure with the policies of General James
Oglethorpe and the Georgia Trustees during the early years of Georgia's settlement. Made their
objections heard in 1735
Tomochichi - answer✔✔Chief of the Yamacraw Indians. Principal mediator between the native
population and the new English settlers during the first years of settlement
Royal Georgia - answer✔✔Refers to the period between the termination of Trustee governance
of Georgia and the colony's declaration of independence at the beginning of the American
Revolution (1775-83)
James Wright - answer✔✔Third and last royal governor of Georgia, serving from 1760 to 1782,
with a brief interruption early in the American Revolution (1775-83)
Salzburgers - answer✔✔Group of German-speaking Protestant colonists, founded the town of
Ebenezer in what is now Effingham County. Arriving in 1734
Rice - answer✔✔Georgia's first staple crop, was the most important commercial agricultural
commodity in the Lowcountry from the middle of the eighteenth century until the early twentieth
century
Revolutionary War in Georgia - answer✔✔Though Georgians opposed British trade regulations,
many hesitated to join the revolutionary movement. Georgia did not send representatives to the
First Continental Congress that met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1774.
Button Gwinnett - answer✔✔One of three Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Served in Georgia's colonial legislature, in the Second Continental Congress, and as president of
Georgia's Revolutionary Council of Safety.
Lachlan McIntosh - answer✔✔A member of a prominent eighteenth-century Scottish Highland
family that was among the earliest settlers of the Georgia colony, played an important role in the
cause of American independence.
Mary Musgrove - answer✔✔Known as Coosaponakeesa among the Creek Indians and served as
a cultural liaison between colonial Georgia and Native American community in the mid-
eighteenth century.
Yazoo Land Fraud - answer✔✔Scheme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in 1795 to sell
most of the land now making up the state of Mississippi to four land companies for the sum of
$500,000, far below its potential market value.
Major Ridge - answer✔✔Known for signing the Treaty of New Echota (1835), which led to the
Trail of Tears. Was one of the most prominent leaders of the Cherokee nation.
Eli Whitney - answer✔✔Invented the cotton gin in 1793
Nancy Hart - answer✔✔Patriot spy and participant during the Revolutionary War. Gained
notoriety during the revolution for efforts to rid the area of Tories, English soldiers, and British
sympathizers.
Slavery in Revolutionary Georgia - answer✔✔The disruption of the war offered the prospect of
freedom to many thousands of slaves, but ultimately the reestablishment of the plantation
economy after 1782 ensured that general emancipation remained a hope rather than a reality.
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