Georgia History Test GCSU – Flashcards
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First non-British group?
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Germans
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Where were the Spanish defeated?
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Battle of Bloody Marsh
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Most profitable?
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lumber, cattle, Indian trade
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Royal people?
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Reynolds, Ellis, and Wright
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Major exports
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Food and Lumber
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Major imports
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slaves, sugar, molasses, rum
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Sugar Act
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South Carolina stopped trade with Georgia because American liberty with Georgia. Revenue raising act
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Wilkes County
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militia developed with Elijah Clark - guerilla warfare against Tories. first county in Georgia. battle of kettle creek took place here
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Creeks
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gave up land between Ogeechee and Oconee Rivers by Treaty of NY
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what was the population from 1800-1830
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up from 162,000 to 691,000
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Capitals of GA
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Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta
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Troup Party
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states rights - Whigs - George Troup, William Crawford, James Jackson
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Clark Party
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union, democrats - John Clark
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Steamboats
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1830
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Where was the GA canal?
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Savannah, Ogeechee River
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Railroads
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1833, after Civil War there was only one left stable
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Cotton Production
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lead world in 1825
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Biggest Church
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Baptist
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Colleges in 1830
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Emory @ Oxford - Methodist Mercer @ Penfield - Baptists Oglethorpe - Milly - Presbyterian
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Antebellum Authors
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Francis Goulding, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, William Tappan Thompson
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Missouri Compromise
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helped settle the slave problem
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Whig Party
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1854, ended and most leaders became democrats
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1860s
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GA succeeded from the Union. met in Montgomery, AL and the southern confederation president was Jefferson Davis
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how many terms did Governor Brown serve
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3
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Leading periodical
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Southern Field and Fireside
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Southern Cultivator
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did not have to suspend publication during the war. most interesting - countryman
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James Johnson
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given duty to restore GA in Union
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Governor Bullock
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GA reconstructed for a 2nd time and he tried to keep state republican
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Reconstruction Act
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must ratify the 15th amendment to be readmitted to the union, GA reconstructed 3 times
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Morrill Land Grant
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set up agriculture and mechanical school
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Atlantic University
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1867, school for blacks
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Writers
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Charles Smith, Richard Malcolm Johnson, Paul Hamilton Hayne
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Charles C. Jones Jr
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wrote A History of GA
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Henry Grady
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editor of Atlanta Constitution, believed in the New South
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Thomas Watson
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most influential leader. alliance man, GA congressman, populist party leader
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share cropping
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dominated agriculture until the 20th century, produced cotton but hurt the land
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Gustav Orr
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state school commissioner, "father of the common school system"
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Hoke Smith
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rival for governor against Clark Howell - was a controversial election
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Grandfather clause
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qualifications for voting and few blacks met them. Allowed whites to implement literacy tests, poll taxes, and other things to prevent blacks from being able to vote
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Leo Frank
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Jewish man convicted of assault, dragged out of prison and hung by the KKK
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Talmadge
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thought that less government was better, was governor 4 times, county unit system is what kept getting him revoted. he stayed in the rural counties and got their votes
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Senators
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George, Russell, Rivers (put GA into debt)
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1964
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Senator Barry Godwater was a GA republican Howard Calloway was the 1st Republican congressman
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Jimmy Carter
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1st GA president
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Woodrow Wilson
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raised in GA
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Post WWII crops
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cotton was the major crop, all time high over 2 million bales in 1911. Depression - bowl weevil
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radio and television
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1922 - WSB in Atlanta was the first radio station 1948 - first TV station
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Churches today
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mainly Protestant
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who wrote Uncle Remus
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Joel Chandler Harris
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Poet
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Frank Stanton
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Georgia Authors
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Faulkner, Margaret Mitchell, Caroline Miller, Lillian Smith, Erskine Caldwell
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First black in legislature
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Leroy Johnson
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3/5 of GA families owned...
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slaves *******
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Which Georgians signed the Declaration of Independence
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Gwinnett, Walton, Hall
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VP of Confederacy
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Alexander Stephens
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Secretary of State
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Toombs
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President
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Davis
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Current Staff
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Cathy Cox (Sec. of State) Sonny Perdue (Rep Gov) Saxby Chambliss (Rep Senator) Zell Miller (Dem Senator)
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NOT in GA
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Iroquois
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Disenfranchise
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segregation of voting in the late 1800s
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Massive Resistance
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segregation of schools in the 1930s
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What part of the state didn't support the Revolution?
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Mountains
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British controlled the coast
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Patriots controlled the backcountry
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NOT a reason for GA entering the revolution
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family ties to England
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New Deal
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made more jobs
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Freedman's Bureau
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created jobs, schools, etc.
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Oglethorpe
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made the biggest influence
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Georgia was a trustee colony
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true
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20th century writers
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O'Connor, Caldwell, Harris MITCHELL IS NOT
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Bloody March
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Spanish
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Miller
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Education Governor
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Populist Party
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farmers and Watson was the head of this party
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Cash crop
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Cotton or rice
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Yazoo Land Fraud
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Alabama and Mississippi
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Founding religion of Georgia
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Methodist
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who caused the fall of Georgia
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Sherman
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Antebellum capital of GA
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Milledgeville
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NOT established before the civil war
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Morehouse college
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Ku Klux Klan
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restarted?
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civil war government
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was not weak
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Agreement for land made by
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Tomochichi. Chief of the Yamacraw Indians.
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royal governors of the colony in order
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Reynolds, Ellis, Wright
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Gwinnett and McIntosh argument
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received national attention
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who captured Charleston
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Henry Clinton of NY
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who desegregated UGA?
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Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter as they were the two black students to come there
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Who was a president from GA besides Jimmy Carter?
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no one?????
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What did Gov Brown do?
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pg 51 52
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Fight segregation w
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defensive violence
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80s generation ME generation
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less materials
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Who started the interstate highway
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Eisenhower
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Where was everyone?
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Farmers - Virginia Craftsmen - NY Planters - GA
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19th amendment
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ended women's suffrage in 1933
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The French and Indian War was a fight over?
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Pan-Atlantic Territory
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