GA HISTORY EXEMPTION EXAM [Questions with verified answers]
Philanthropic
Military
Economic -Answers- Three reasons for the establishment of Georgia
Restrictions on land ownership
Prohibition of hard liquor
Prohibition of slavery -Answers- Strict rules established my the Trustees for the colony
James Oglethorpe -Answers- defacto leader and one of the Trustees of the first settlers in Georgia.
helped establish Savannah, Augusta, and Fort Frederica
James Wright -Answers- longest serving, most influential governor of the Royal Colony. Expanded and
opened Georgia's frontier to farmers by obtaining peaceful land cessions from the Native Americans
Tomochichi -Answers- Allowed Oglethorpe to settle on Yamacraw Bluff; advised Oglethorpe on Indian
affairs, chief of the Yamacraw
The Rules and Regulations -Answers- first governing document of independent Georgia put into place by
Provincial Congress (Whigs)
John Treutlen -Answers- first governor of GA
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, Yazoo Land Fraud -Answers- in 1795, Georgia legislators sold over 40 acres of land to 4 land companies
for 1.5 cents per acre; they were voted out of office and deal nullified by James Jackson
Fletcher v. Peck (1810) -Answers- Supreme Court rule stating the state couldn't nullify the Yazoo Land
deal
George Walton
Lyman Hall
Button Gwinnett -Answers- Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence
Savannah - Augusta - Louisville - Milledgeville - Atlanta -Answers- Capitals of Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia -Answers- Supreme Court decision that ruled that Georgia had no right to interfere
with the Cherokees controlled land
Trail of Tears -Answers- the trek of Native Americans, particularly the Cherokee, to Indian Territory
Charles Jenkins -Answers- author of the Georgia Platform- a proclamation that endorsed the
Compromise of 1850; appointed justice as the Supreme Court of GA; governor of GA during
reconstruction; he refused to allow state funds to be used for a racially integrated state constitutional
convention
Joseph E. Brown -Answers- governor of Ga in 1857 and 1859; he campaigned as a champion of non-
slaveholding upcountry masses but also had ties to fireeaters; he worked to strengthen state defenses
for the war
Alexander Stephens -Answers- Vice President of the Confederacy (1861-65), elected to US Senate and
served as governor of GA from '82-'83
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Philanthropic
Military
Economic -Answers- Three reasons for the establishment of Georgia
Restrictions on land ownership
Prohibition of hard liquor
Prohibition of slavery -Answers- Strict rules established my the Trustees for the colony
James Oglethorpe -Answers- defacto leader and one of the Trustees of the first settlers in Georgia.
helped establish Savannah, Augusta, and Fort Frederica
James Wright -Answers- longest serving, most influential governor of the Royal Colony. Expanded and
opened Georgia's frontier to farmers by obtaining peaceful land cessions from the Native Americans
Tomochichi -Answers- Allowed Oglethorpe to settle on Yamacraw Bluff; advised Oglethorpe on Indian
affairs, chief of the Yamacraw
The Rules and Regulations -Answers- first governing document of independent Georgia put into place by
Provincial Congress (Whigs)
John Treutlen -Answers- first governor of GA
1
, Yazoo Land Fraud -Answers- in 1795, Georgia legislators sold over 40 acres of land to 4 land companies
for 1.5 cents per acre; they were voted out of office and deal nullified by James Jackson
Fletcher v. Peck (1810) -Answers- Supreme Court rule stating the state couldn't nullify the Yazoo Land
deal
George Walton
Lyman Hall
Button Gwinnett -Answers- Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence
Savannah - Augusta - Louisville - Milledgeville - Atlanta -Answers- Capitals of Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia -Answers- Supreme Court decision that ruled that Georgia had no right to interfere
with the Cherokees controlled land
Trail of Tears -Answers- the trek of Native Americans, particularly the Cherokee, to Indian Territory
Charles Jenkins -Answers- author of the Georgia Platform- a proclamation that endorsed the
Compromise of 1850; appointed justice as the Supreme Court of GA; governor of GA during
reconstruction; he refused to allow state funds to be used for a racially integrated state constitutional
convention
Joseph E. Brown -Answers- governor of Ga in 1857 and 1859; he campaigned as a champion of non-
slaveholding upcountry masses but also had ties to fireeaters; he worked to strengthen state defenses
for the war
Alexander Stephens -Answers- Vice President of the Confederacy (1861-65), elected to US Senate and
served as governor of GA from '82-'83
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