UGA History Exemption Test 2022/2023 Georgia Already Passed

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UGA History Exemption Test 2022/2023 Georgia Already Passed Human history in Georgia dates back to the _______ era which took place ____ years ago. Paleoindian, 13,000 The _____ Period took place ... from AD 800-1600. Complex native cultures organized as ____ emerged. Mississippian, chiefdoms With the arrival of European explorers and settlers, ______ cultures began to ______. Mississippian, decline The _____ and _____ Indian tribes played significant roles in the colonial history of Georgia. Creek, cherokee The earliest Europeans in Georgia were the ______. Spanish Established in _____, with settlement in Savannah in _____, Georgia was the ______ of the thirteen colonies to be founded. 1732, 1733, last Georgia was the only colony founded and ruled by a _____ _____ ____ , which was based in London, England, with no _______ within the colony itself for the first two decades of its existence Board of trustees, governor Georgia was the only one of the colonies in which ____ was banned at its beginning, along with _____, _____, and _____. Slavery, rum, lawyers, catholics Slavery was legalized in Georgia in ____. 1751 The colony was governed by ____ _____ instead of the Board of Trustees from ______-______, ending with the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. royal governors, 1752-1776 _______ _____ founded Georgia, and envisioned the colony as a refuge for the _______ who crowded London prisons; however, no such prisoners were among the initial settlers. James Oglethorpe, debtors The British military wanted Georgia to be a buffer zone to protect ____ ___ and its other southern colonies from the _____ in Florida. South Carolina, Spanish The Battle of Bloody Marsh on ____ ____ ____ was a conflict between the British troops (that were commanded and financed by Oglethorpe) and the Spanish, which ended in a _____ victory. St. Simons Island, British During the Revolutionary war Georgia resisted British trade regulation, but they tended to _____ with British interests because royal rule had brought prosperity for many colonists and because they desired the presence of British troops to stem the threat of ______ attacks. sympathize, Indian At the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, three Georgians— _____ ____, _____ _____, and _____ _____ signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton In _____ two Georgians, ____ ____ and ____ ____ ____, signed the new U.S. Constitution at the Constitutional Convention. 1787, Abraham Baldwin, William Few Jr., The Siege of Savannah in ____ was the most serious military confrontation between ___ and ___ troops. 1779, British, American In 1779 the capital of Georgia was moved from ____ to ____. Savannah, Augusta _____ ___ was a female patriot and spy credited with killing several Tory soldiers at her home. Nancy Hart After the Trustees lifted the ban on slavery, Georgians moved quickly to establish a coastal plantation economy based on _____ and ___ ____ _____. Rice, Sea Island Cotton In _____, Eli Whitney invented the ____ ____. 1793, cotton gin The invention of the cotton gin led to the development of the ____ _____ region, a wide geographical strip with a pronounced concentration of _____ and _____ cultivation. Black Belt, slaves, cotton The ___ ___ ___ dominated state politics for much of the 1790's. Yazoo Land Fraud The ____ ___ in the North Georgia Mountains spanned the 1830's. gold rush In 1785, the state chartered the very first university in the nation to be established by a state government- the ____ ____ ______. University of Georgia Wesleyan College was established in _____ as the first degree-granting _____ college in the world. 1836, women's The forced exile of the ____ from Georgia from 1838-1839 was known as the ___ ___ ___. Cherokees, Trail of Tears In 1832, Georgia became the only southern state challenged over Indian sovereignty in a U.S. Supreme Court case, ______ __ _____. Worcester v. Georgia The construction of ______ was another important development in Georgia during the 1830s, and by the ______ Georgia had more miles of rail lines than any of its southern neighbors. railroads, 1850's Atlanta, originally named _______, was founded in _____ as the end of the rail system's line. Terminus, 1837 As both an Atlantic seaboard state and a Deep South state, Georgia played an integral role in _____ and the formation of the _______. It has the largest ____ and the largest number of both ____ and _____. secession, confederacy, population, slaves, slaveholders _____ ___ served as vice president of the Confederacy. Alexander Stephens _____ _____ was the secretary of state for the confederacy. Robert Toombs The most decisive military incursion into the Deep South occurred during Union general _____ ___ _____ "March to the Sea" from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Atlanta in the spring and summer of 1864. William T. Sherman Located in Georgia during the civil war was the largest of the Confederate prison camps, ______. Andersonville Reconstruction for Georgia was filled with _____ _____, struggles over federal occupation, and _____ _____. political tension, racial violence ____ _____ _____, an entity created by the US congress, was the first organization of its kind, a federal agency established solely for the purpose of ______ ____ . It was under the direction of _____ ______. The Freedmen's Bureau, social welfare, Oliver Howard The ___ ___ ___ functioned as a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists. Their goals included the political defeat of the _____ ___ and the maintenance of absolute ____ ______. Ku Klux Klan, Republican Party, white supramacy I ___ the Georgia General Assembly expelled 27 elected black republican legislators. 1868 The ___ ____ which occurred in ____ left about a dozen black protestors dead and thirty wounded. Camilla Massacre, 1868 Because of the General Assembly expulsion and the Camilla Massacre, the US congress reimposed _____ _____ to the state. military rule Georgia was the ___ of the confederate states to be readmitted to the _____. last, union Atlanta replaced ____ as the new capital of Georgia in ____. Milledgeville, 1868 In the 1880's, ______ ______, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, spearheaded a crusade to build a prosperous "______ ______" centered around Atlanta. Henry Grady, New South The _____ ____ ____ was a credit system that became widely used by cotton farmers from the 1860s to the 1930s. _________ and _____ farmers, who did not own the land they worked, obtained supplies and food on credit from local merchants. crop-lien system, sharecroppers, tenant Formally organized in 1892, the _____ _____, offered a platform of banking and railroad reform, as well as cooperative farm exchange. It is known for ____ ____ , as black farmers were encouraged to participate in the new third-party movement. Populist Party, racial inclusiveness Who was the leader of the Populist party? Thomas E. Watson Thomas Watson earned the Populist Party nomination for _____ ____ in ____, making him the first Georgian to run on a national ticket since 1824 vice president, 1896 In ____, an amendment to the state constitution established literary and property requirements to supplement the ___ ___, which basically barred blacks and many poor whites from ____. 1908, poll tax, voting The ___ ___ __ was a time of curtailing black political power and formalizing the convention of segregation. Jim Crow Era The most notorious lynching occurred in ____. ___ ___, was a jewish man taken from prison and hanged near Marietta after being convicted of murdering ____ ____. 1915, Leo Frank, Mary Phagan The 3 best selling books which tarnished Georgia's image in the 1930's 1. I Am A Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang 2. Tobacco Road 3. God's Little Acre In ____, the boll weevil became a major problem that led to a detrimental decrease in cotton production. Between 1910 and 1930, nearly ____ the state's agricultural workers abandoned farming. 1915, half The ____ ____ ___ was a federal law passed in 1933 as part of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt's ____ ____. The law offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops. Agricultural Adjustment Act, New Deal President _____ ___ ______ New Deal brought advances in rural electrification, education, health care, housing, and highway construction. Franklin D. Roosevelt's ___ ___ is considered to be the father of aviation in Georgia. He built and flew the first plane in Georgia on a field in _____ in _____. Ben Epps, Athens, 1907 In 1923 acclaimed aviator ____ _____ flew his first solo flight at Souther Field in Americus, and two years later _____ ______, who later became mayor of Atlanta, established Hartsfield Airport Charles Lindbergh, William Hartsfield WWII brought the Great Depression to an end, and Georgia in particular felt major ____ _____ from Fort Benning, Bell Bomber, and the ports of Savannah and Brunswick. economic benefits After the war, Georgia continued to prosper, with Atlanta in particular experiencing a growth in _____ and _______. The city was well positioned to accommodate this growth with the development of ____ ____ into a national airport. industry, population, Hartsfield Airport The Civil rights era took place in the ____ and _____. 1950's, 1960's The ___ ____ ___ system of allotting votes by county, with little regard for population differences, allowed rural counties to control Georgia elections by minimizing the impact of the growing urban centers, particularly Atlanta. County Unit System ____ ____ won the governorship four times in the 1930's and 1940's and he dominated Georgia's political scene until he died as governor-elect in 1946. Eugene Talmadge In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that the "____ ____ ____" laws governing public education in Georgia and other southern states were unconstitutional. separate but equal, The inclusion of the ______ flag into the state flag of Georgia occurred in 1956. Confederate Racial moderate ____ ____ was elected governor in 1962 and worked during his term in office to bring Georgia into compliance with federal ____ ____ ___. Carl Sanders, civil rights laws Born in Atlanta, and President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, ____ ____ ___ ___, was the most prominent African American Leader in the ____ ____ ___ of the 1950's and 1960's. Martin Luther King Jr, civil rights movement The Voting Rights Act of ____, was signed by President Lyndon Johnson. 1965 In 1966, ____ ___ won the election for governor which indicated a shift toward the Republican Party. Lester Maddox In subsequent Presidential elections a majority of Georgia voters cast ballots for ______ candidates with the exception of _____ _____ who won the election in 1976, and carried the state but lost to Ronal Reagan in 1980. Republican, Jimmy Carter _____ ____ won the majority of Georgia's black votes but not white in 1992. Bill Clinton During the last 3 decades of the 20th century ____ moved its headquarters to Atlanta, and other companies which began in Georgia (_____ ___ , ____ ___ ___ , and _____ ____ ) thrived and expanded beyond the state. UPS, Coca Cola, The Hope Depot, Turner Broadcasting In 1996 Atlanta hosted the ____ ___ ___ ___ . Centennial Summer Olympic Games In the late 20th century, the _____ and _____ industries of north Georgia achieved national prominence as well, while the agricultural regions in the southern counties maintained the state's reputation as a major producer of ____, ____, and ____ ____. carpet, poultry, peaches, peanuts, Vidalia onions. In 2003 ____ _____ became the first Republican governor since Reconstruction, and he easily won reelection in 2006. Sonny Perdue By 2009 the ______ Party controlled both houses of the Georgia General Assembly, and both of the state's U.S. senators were Republican, as were seven of its thirteen members of the U.S. House of Representatives. 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