Georgia History Exam Study Guide Questions and Answers 100% Pass
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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...
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Georgia History Exemption Exam
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Fall Line ✔✔- the point on a river where there is an abrupt drop in elevation of the land and
where numerous waterfalls occur.
- it is the ancient coastline of the southern tier of North America when sea-levels wer higher
- Navigation up-stream beyond this feature stops
- ultimately towns located just beyond this natural boundary were important river ports (like
Macon)
- The line in the eastern US is located where streams pass from harder to softer rocks.[E - M.Y.]
Georgia capitals ✔✔Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta
Atlanta ✔✔- Largest city in Georgia and the Deep South
- Capital of modern Georgia
- originally named Terminus, as it became the South's most important rail hub and manufacturing
center;
- set ablaze by General Sherman
, James Wright ✔✔Georgia's 3rd (and last) Royal Governor. He was extremely popular and
successful
Indigo, Silk ✔✔- Brought to GA by Europeans
- became a new major cash crop
Hernando de Soto ✔✔Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition
deep into the modern-day Southeastern United States (Florida, Georgia, Alabama and most likely
Arkansas) in 1540, and the first documented European to have crossed the Mississippi River.
Salzburgers ✔✔Some of the first immigrants to the new Georgia colony in the 1730's From
Austria came to Georgia to escape religious persecution (they were protestants, not Catholics)
settled Ebenezer/New Ebenezer opposed slavery
James Oglethorpe ✔✔Founder of Savannah (1733), and governor of the Georgia colony. He ran
a tightly-disciplined, military-like colony. Slaves, alcohol, and Catholicism were forbidden in his
colony. Many colonists felt that he was a dictator, and that (along with the colonist's
dissatisfaction over not being allowed to own slaves) caused the colony to break down and he to
lose his position as governor.
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