ga history 3

Abraham Baldwin

moved to Georgia in 1784, held many political offices, and was very instrumental in obtaining the charter for the University of Georgia; played a pivotal role in the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and was one of the two Georgians to sign the final document

William Few

fought in the Battle of Burke County Jail, served in the state legislative sessions, and took part in the 1777 constitutional convention; in 1780 he was elected to the Continental Congress

Eli Whitney

American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin (one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South)

John Milledge

held positions as governor, congressman for four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, and president pro tempore in the U.S. Senate; principal figure in the organization of the University of Georgia (on the committee that decided the location of the institution, and he later purchased and donated the land on which the university and the town of Athens now stand)

William Harris Crawford

prepared one of the early digests of Georgia law; elected to the Georgia State Senate, then the U.S. Senate - where he rose to the position of President pro tempore; also served as minister to France and Secretary of War under President James Madison, then was appointed Secretary of the Treasury

Howell Cobb

served as congressman, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, governor of Georgia, and secretary of the treasury; following Georgia's secession from the Union in 1861, he served as president of the Provisional Confederate Congress (1861-62) and a major general of the Confederate army

Herschel Johnson

twice served as a judge in Georgia; served one term each as a U.S. Senator and as governor of Georgia; unsuccessful candidate for Vice President in 1860; served as a Georgia Senator in the Confederate Congress

Alexander Stephens

play a pivotal role in many of the political crises of his time, including the Civil War; while personally opposed to slavery (calling it "that abominable human tragedy"), he was also an ardent supporter of states' rights -- which led him to defend slavery when other politicians attacked the institution

Robert Toombs

one of the most ardent secessionists in the U.S. Senate, helped to lead Georgia out of the Union on the eve of the Civil War

Joseph Brown

Civil War governor of Georgia; one of the most successful politicians in the state's history

John Ross

principal chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1827; presided over the nation during the apex of its development in the Southeast, the tragic Trail of Tears, and the subsequent rebuilding of the nation in Indian Territory

Major and John Ridge

led the Cherokee "Treaty Party," which signed a removal agreement at New Echota in 1835; all four leaders were marked for execution by members of the John Ross party in 1839

Sequoyah

creator of the Cherokee syllabary

Elias Boudinot

formally educated Cherokee who became the editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first Native American newspaper in the United States

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

published Georgia's first important literary work, Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, Etc. in the First Half Century of the Republic

Crawford W. Long

first to perform surgeries using sulfuric ether anesthesia

Joseph E. Johnston

a career U.S. Army officer, serving with distinction in the Mexican-American War and Seminole Wars, and was also one of the most senior general officers in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War

William Tecumseh Sherman

served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States

Charles J. Jenkins

one of the authors of the "Georgia Platform" endorsing the Compromise of 1850; unsuccessful vice presidential candidate; served on the Georgia Supreme Court and later as governor of Georgia

Rufus Bullock

first Republican governor; became the most hated man in the state during Reconstruction and was forced from office by the Ku Klux Klan; later he became president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and master of ceremonies at the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition in 1895

John B. Gordon

one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted Confederate generals during the American Civil War; after the war, he was a strong opponent of Reconstruction and is thought by some to have been the titular leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia during the late 1860s

Sidney Lanier

contributed significantly to the arts in nineteenth-century America; his accomplishments as a poet, novelist, composer, and critic reflect his eclectic interests, and his melodic celebrations of Georgia's terrain are among his most widely read poems

Thomas E. Watson

in his early years he was characterized as a liberal but he emerged as a force for white supremacy and anti-Catholic rhetoric; elected to the Georgia General Assembly (1882), the U.S. House of Representatives (1890), and the U.S. Senate (1920)

Henry Grady

rose to prominence as a journalist, eventually becoming managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution; encouraged industrial growth and more diverse farming for the "New South" following the Civil War; deliverd famous "New South" speech in New York in 1886

Booker T. Washington

African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States; dominant leader in the African-American community as a part of the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery; became the leading voice of the disfranchised former slaves newly oppressed by the discriminatory laws enacted in the post reconstruction Southern states

WEB DuBois

African American educator, historian, sociologist, and social activist who poignantly addressed the issues of racial discrimination, black social problems, and world peace during the first half of the twentieth century

Walter George

served Georgia as a Democratic United States Senator; became one of the most influential senators of his time, even gracing the cover of Time magazine; while he opposed Franklin D. Roosevelt's nomination for President in 1932, he supported several of his early New Deal programs

Eugene Talmadge

during his three terms as state commissioner of agriculture and three terms as governor, his personality and actions polarized voters in the state's one-party politics of that era (leading critic of the New Deal in the South)

Caroline Miller

first Georgian to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction

Ellis Arnall

his four years as governor of Georgia (1943-47) are considered to be among the most progressive and effective in the modern history of the state; he undertook an ambitious ten-point reform program that was approved by the legislature within twenty-four days of his assuming the governorship (a record still unequalled in Georgia); he also paid off a state debt of $36 million

Carl Sanders

Georgia's first New South governor, who provided progressive leadership for the state from 1963 to 1967; by implementing an array of reforms during a turbulent period, he greatly enhanced Georgia's national image

Jimmy Carter (President)

served as the 39th President of the United States (1977-1981) and created the Department of Energy and the Department of Education; was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office

Jimmy Carter (Governor)

governor (1971-1975); proponent of desegregation and the end of discrimination, improved government efficiency by merging about 300 state agencies into 30 agencies, and proposed the end of the death penalty in Georgia (changing it to life in prison)

Howard "Bo"Calloway

first Republican congressman from Georgia since 1875

Flannery O'Connor

an American writer and essayist; an important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries; wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters while reflecting her own Roman Catholic faith, and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics

Maynard Jackson

the first African American mayor of Atlanta, serving three terms

Andrew Young

an American politician, diplomat, activist and pastor; served as the Mayor of Atlanta, a Congressman from Georgia's 5th congressional district, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations

Cathy Cox

former Secretary of State of Georgia and a candidate for Governor of Georgia in 2006; also was chosen as the 21st president of Young Harris College

Majority of native American Indians in Georgia at the time of English colonization were:

creek

Which was NOT an important reason for the founding of Georgia in 1733

to provide a place to send debtors and other convicts to get them out of britain

Significance of battle of Bloody March in 1740's during War of Jenkins' Ear was that it ended in chances for

Spanish

Georgia was founded by

King Charles II

Most influential person in founding and settling of GA

James Oglethrope

Raw materials that the English government wanted colonial Georgia to produce

Silk

Which is true of Georgia in American Revolution

Savannah fell to British by end of 1778

During earlier phase of American Revolution, Georgia unsuccessfully tried to launch attacks against

Royal governor in savannah

Georgia lost its western land, now Alabama and Mississippi, because of

Yazoo Land Fraud

Major croup introduced in Georgia back country about the Revolution

Rice

After 1803, most Georgia's land was granted by

Headright system

Georgia Indians who began to adopt Euro American civilization in the 1800 were:

Cherokee

In antebellum period Georgia decided to base most of its transportations system on

Railroads

One of the few emerging industries in antebellum Georgia was

Textiles

Before the Civil War three-fifths of Georgia's families owned

At least one slave

Which towns were founded because of their location at the fall lines of major rivers:

Macon and Augusta

Free blacks in Georgia before the Civil war worked in all the following occupations except

Seamstresses

All the colleges were founded in pre-civil war era except

Morehouse

The capital of Georgia in the antebellum period was

Millidgeville

During Civil war, all were in Georgia except

The confederate capital

During the first two years of Civil War most union military efforts in Georgia aimed at:

Controlling coastal area

The Georgia who served as vice president of the confederacy was

Alexander Stephens

Support for the Civil War in Georgia was weakest in

Mountains

The northern general who finally brought Georgia's defeat was

William T. Sherman

Statement about Reconstruction in Georgia is true:

State was under military control at times

Georgia Republicans in the reconstruction era included all except

Redeemers

During Reconstruction period, Freedmen's Bureau:

Helped Georgians with jobs, food, education

Attiancemen and Populist refer to the political movement favoring

Farmers

The populist in Georgia call for all except

A gold and silver money standard

A leading populist in Georgia

Thomas E. Waston

Voting system that maintained dominant political power for rural areas of Georgia:

The county- unit system

Henry Grady was known for

Being an advocate for the new south philosophy

Segregation of African Americans in the late 1800s/early 1900s was known as

Jim Crowism

Georgia used all the following to disfranchise African American voters except

Secret ballots

Georgia act associated with early 20th century movement called progressivism

Passage of Jim crow laws

Which is true of the 1920's in Georgia

Boll weevil devastated cotton crops

Main political strengths of Eugene Tallmadge in Georgia politics:

Towns and cities

Major boost to Georgia's economy in the WWII period came because:

Military bases were built in the state

The two-governor controversy in the mid 1940 that got national attention in Georgia involved

Ellis Arnall and Herman Tallmadge

WWII and post war era, Georgia's Richard Russell was most known for

His work in the US senate

Movement founded in Atlanta to try to keep public schools when the governor's office threatened to privatize rather than desegregate them

Massive resistance

One of the two Georgians who desegregated UGA:

Charlayne Hunter

All were Georgians who became recognized literary figures in 20th century except:

Joel Chandler Harris

Declining as a major industry in Georgia but the late 20th century

Garment making

All are changes in Georgia in the post WWII period except

First major decline in cotton as the main agriculture product

Alexander Stephens

vice president - other problem with Stephens as choice choose Toombs as answer

Crop questions

Rice, silk

Tribe not in Georgia

Iroquois

What was segregation of voting in the late 1800's called?

Disenfranchise

What was segregation of schools called in 1930's?

Massive resistance

Which part of the state didn't support the revolution?

Mountain

British controlled the ______ in the American Revolution

coast

Patriots controlled

backcountry

Not a reason for GA not entering the revolution

Family ties to england

New deal

made more jobs

Freedman's Bureau created

jobs, schools, etc

Olgethrope

made biggest influence (didnt have title like pres or gov)

Georgia was

trustee colony

20th century writes which was not one? O'conner, caldwell, mitchell, harris

Harris

main reason for founding georgia

served as barrier against spanish expansion from florida

Question about the bloody marsh

Spanish

Republican governor

perdue