Georgia History Exam Study Guide Latest Update Rated A+

Georgia History Exam Study Guide Latest Update Rated A+ Homer Plessy 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 He was a Georgia senate Leo Frank 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 The journalist who reintegrated the states into the Union again after the Civil War. 13-15 amendments 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 The bureau's focus was to provide food, medical care, administer justice, manage abandoned and confiscated property, regulate labor, and establish schools. Enlisted enrolled in the armed services. Neighborhood Union Provided African American in Atlanta with services such as medical employment and educational services. Sharecropping 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 Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites Crystal Palace A fugitive slave named Alonzo Herndon Made the crystal palace barber shop 1906 Race Riot Newspaper reports of black violence against white led to this Populist a supporter of the rights and power of the people Colquitt Member of the Bourbon Triumvirate. Held positions of State Senator, U.S. Senator and governor. Attended GA's secession convention. Rebecca Latimer Felton 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 1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. Andersonville Prison Southern prison which treated Union soldiers so harshly that an average of 100 died each day Dred Scott American slave who sued his master for keeping him enslaved in a territory where slavery was banned under the missouri Compromise Battle of Chickamauga 1863 Confederate army defeated the Union forces and forced the Union Army back into TN; Confederates did not follow up on Union retreat and they lost Chattanooga to the Union a short time later. States' Rights the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government. Sherman's March through georgia-burned atlanta- to destroy all of the south Slave Code Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights. Trustees Elected officials whose obligation is to act in accordance with their own consciences at to what policies are in the best interest of the public. The Anne The dominant issue in the election of 1844 was the Georgia the colony named to honor King George Alonzo Herndon When he died he was the wealthiest AA in Atlanta. Atlanta Mutual insurance Association (now Atlanta Life Insurance Company). Largest AA-owned businesses in US W.E.B. DuBois 1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910 Paleo Old, ancient Woodland climax tree - perhaps pine or oak Archaic ancient; old-fashioned Mississippians What mound builders made some of the earliest cities in North America? Tenant Farmers People who rent land to grow crops. Atlanta Life Insurance Co. Business owned by Alonso Herndon The New South What does Stanley's character probably represent in Streetcar? Blockade a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy Antienam Bloodiest 1 day war; not a winner to the war Emancipation Proclamation Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free Missouri Compromise A series of agreements passed by Congress in to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states Alexander Stephens Vice president of the Confederacy under indictment for treason Fugitive Slave Act an 1850 law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves Election of 1860 President Lincoln elected with 59% of the electoral vote and 41% of the popular vote Popular Sovereignity the idea that political authority belongs to the people Cotton Gin A machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 Abolitionist A person who wanted to end slavery Tariff A tax on imported goods Tomochichi Chief of the Yamacraw Indians; allowed Georgia colonists to build the city of Savannah on Yamacraw bluff Mary Musgrove Interpreter between James Oglethorpe and Chief of the Yamacraw Indians. James Oglethorpe Founder of the Georgia Colony Charter of 1732 officially sanctioned the founding of Georgia Charity showing kindness by giving money or gifts to organizations that need them Economic The study of how people seek to satisfy their needs and wants by making choices Defense mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations Separate but Equal Plessy v. Ferguson Malocontent Someone who is rebellious Ku Klux Klan A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights. Disenfranchisement Condition of being deprived of the right to vote Vocational Education Education that prepares/trains you for jobs/the workforce Populist a supporter of the rights and power of the people Lusitania British liner torpedoed by a German submarine in May 1915