Georgia History Exam Study Guide Questions and Answers Graded 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
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Georgia History Exam Study Guide Questions and Answers Graded 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
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