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GCSU GA HISTORY EXAM FULL Questions With Revised Answers Abraham Baldwin - answermoved to Georgia in 1784, held many political offices, and was very instrumental in obtaining the charter for the University of Georgia; played a pivotal role in the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and was one o...

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GCSU GA HISTORY EXAM FULL
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Abraham Baldwin - answer✔✔moved to Georgia in 1784, held many political offices, and was
very instrumental in obtaining the charter for the University of Georgia; played a pivotal role in
the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and was one of the two Georgians to sign the final
document

William Few - answer✔✔fought in the Battle of Burke County Jail, served in the state legislative
sessions, and took part in the 1777 constitutional convention; in 1780 he was elected to the
Continental Congress

George Mathews - answer✔✔veteran of the Continental army during the Revolutionary War
(1775-83); after moving to Georgia he quickly rose to service as a state legislator, governor, and
member of the U.S. Congress

George Troup - answer✔✔served in both the Georgia and U.S. House of Representatives; twice
elected to the U.S. Senate; also served as governor of Georgia

Josiah Meigs - answer✔✔an American academic, journalist and government official; president
of UGA from 1801 - 1810

Eli Whitney - answer✔✔American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin (one of the
key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South)

John Milledge - answer✔✔held positions as governor, congressman for four terms in the U.S.
House of Representatives, and president pro tempore in the U.S. Senate; principal figure in the
organization of the University of Georgia (on the committee that decided the location of the
institution, and he later purchased and donated the land on which the university and the town of
Athens now stand)

William Harris Crawford - answer✔✔prepared one of the early digests of Georgia law; elected
to the Georgia State Senate, then the U.S. Senate - where he rose to the position of President pro
tempore; also served as minister to France and Secretary of War under President James Madison,
then was appointed Secretary of the Treasury

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John Forsyth - answer✔✔attorney general of Georgia; served in the United States House of
Representatives and Senate on two separate occasions; governor of Georgia; minister to Spain;
U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren

George Gilmer - answer✔✔fought in the War of 1812 and concurrent Indian campaigns; served
in the Georgia and U.S. House of Representatives; governor of Georgia during the Cherokee
Indian Removal (Trail of Tears)

Wilson Lumpkin - answer✔✔served in both the Georgia and U.S. House of Representatives, as
governor of Georgia, and as a U.S. Senator; acted as U.S. Commissioner to the Cherokee
Indians, and member of the commission to finalize Georgia/Florida boundary; one of the
founders of the Western and Atlantic Railroad

Howell Cobb - answer✔✔served as congressman, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives,
governor of Georgia, and secretary of the treasury; following Georgia's secession from the Union
in 1861, he served as president of the Provisional Confederate Congress (1861-62) and a major
general of the Confederate army

Herschel Johnson - answer✔✔twice served as a judge in Georgia; served one term each as a U.S.
Senator and as governor of Georgia; unsuccessful candidate for Vice President in 1860; served as
a Georgia Senator in the Confederate Congress

Alexander Stephens - answer✔✔play a pivotal role in many of the political crises of his time,
including the Civil War; while personally opposed to slavery (calling it "that abominable human
tragedy"), he was also an ardent supporter of states' rights -- which led him to defend slavery
when other politicians attacked the institution

Robert Toombs - answer✔✔one of the most ardent secessionists in the U.S. Senate, helped to
lead Georgia out of the Union on the eve of the Civil War

Joseph Brown - answer✔✔Civil War governor of Georgia; one of the most successful politicians
in the state's history

John Ross - answer✔✔principal chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1827; presided over the nation
during the apex of its development in the Southeast, the tragic Trail of Tears, and the subsequent
rebuilding of the nation in Indian Territory

Major and John Ridge - answer✔✔led the Cherokee "Treaty Party," which signed a removal
agreement at New Echota in 1835; all four leaders were marked for execution by members of the
John Ross party in 1839

Sequoyah - answer✔✔creator of the Cherokee syllabary

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Elias Boudinot - answer✔✔formally educated Cherokee who became the editor of the Cherokee
Phoenix, the first Native American newspaper in the United States

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet - answer✔✔published Georgia's first important literary work,
Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, Etc. in the First Half Century of the Republic

Crawford W. Long - answer✔✔first to perform surgeries using sulfuric ether anesthesia

Braxton Bragg - answer✔✔career United States Army officer, and then a general in the
Confederate States Army—a principal commander in the Western Theater of the American Civil
War and later the military adviser to the Confederate President Jefferson Davis

Joseph E. Johnston - answer✔✔a career U.S. Army officer, serving with distinction in the
Mexican-American War and Seminole Wars, and was also one of the most senior general
officers in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War

William Tecumseh Sherman - answer✔✔served as a General in the Union Army during the
American Civil War (1861-65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command
of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he
implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States

Henry Wirz - answer✔✔a Swiss-born Confederate officer in the American Civil War; best
known for his command of Camp Sumter, the Confederate prisoner of war camp near
Andersonville, Georgia; he was tried and executed after the war for conspiracy and murder
relating to his command of the camp

Charles J. Jenkins - answer✔✔one of the authors of the "Georgia Platform" endorsing the
Compromise of 1850; unsuccessful vice presidential candidate; served on the Georgia Supreme
Court and later as governor of Georgia

Rufus Bullock - answer✔✔first Republican governor; became the most hated man in the state
during Reconstruction and was forced from office by the Ku Klux Klan; later he became
president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and master of ceremonies at the Atlanta Cotton
States and International Exposition in 1895

John B. Gordon - answer✔✔one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted Confederate generals during the
American Civil War; after the war, he was a strong opponent of Reconstruction and is thought by
some to have been the titular leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia during the late 1860s

Alfred Terry - answer✔✔strong opponent of the Ku Klux Klan after being assigned as the last
military governor of the Third Military District, based in Atlanta

Jefferson Long - answer✔✔Georgia's first African American congressman and the first African
American to speak on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives

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