Georgia History Exam Study Guide Questions and Answers 100% Pass

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Georgia History Exam Study Guide Questions and Answers 100% Pass Homer Plessy ✔✔Refused to move from his train seat in the whites-only, he took his lawsuit all the way to the united States Supr... eme 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 exslaves. 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 1820-1821 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 [Show More]

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