GA History Exemption Exam Questions With Correct Answers
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Georgia History
GA History Exemption Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
Georgia History: overview - answerGeorgia was the last of the thirteen colonies to be
founded. Its formation came a half century after the twelfth British colony.Georgia was the only
colony founded and ruled by a Board of Trustees, which ...
GA History Exemption Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
Georgia History: overview - answer✔✔Georgia was the last of the thirteen colonies to be
founded. Its formation came a half century after the twelfth British colony.Georgia was the only
colony founded and ruled by a Board of Trustees, which was based in London.
Mississippian Period: overview - answer✔✔(A.D. 800-1600), complex native cultures,
organized as chiefdoms, emerged and developed lifeways in response to the particular features of
their physical surroundings.
chiefdoms - answer✔✔a specific kind of human social organization with social ranking as a
fundamental part of their structure. In ranked societies people belonged to one of two groupings,
elites or commoners.
elites vs commoners - answer✔✔rested more on ideological and religious beliefs than on such
things as wealth or military
Purpose of mounds in Mississippian culture - answer✔✔capitals of chiefdoms, platforms for
buildings, as stages for religious and social activities, and as cemeteries.
Who was Georgia named after? - answer✔✔King George II
Hernando de soto in georgia - answer✔✔The first European to explore the interior of what is
now the state of Georgia
discovered the true way the Indians lived, but devastated their societies with the plague and small
pox
spanish missions - answer✔✔Located on Georgia's barrier islands established to convert Native
Americans to Christianity Located near Native American village centers (where the most people
were) required Native Americans to provide labor to the Spanish
James Oglethorpe - answer✔✔Founder 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 Oglethorpe 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
Oglethorpe to lose his position as governor.
What did oglethrop envision georgia to be - answer✔✔a refuge for the debtors who crowded
london prisons
Yamacraw Indians - answer✔✔a small band that existed from the late 1720s to the mid-1740s in
the Savannah area. First led by Tomochichi and then by his nephew and heir Toonahowi, they
consisted of about 200 people and contained a mix of Lower Creeks and Yamasees. worked with
oglethorpe
malcontents - answer✔✔Among those to voice displeasure with the policies of General James
Oglethorpe and the Georgia Trustees during the early years of Georgia's settlement
Led by:Patrick Tailfer Thomas Stephens.
Tomochichi - answer✔✔cheif of the yamacraw indians and acted as a mediator between the
native people and the new english settlers
Royal Georgia - answer✔✔refers to the period between the termination of Trustee governance of
Georgia and the colony's declaration of independence at the beginning of the American
Revolution (1775-83).
Battle of Bloody Marsh - answer✔✔On July 7, 1742, English and Spanish forces skirmished on
St. Simons Island in an encounter later known as the Battle of Bloody Marsh.
This event was the only Spanish attempt to invade Georgia during the War of Jenkins' Ear, and it
resulted in a significant English victory. General James Oglethorpe redeemed his reputation from
his defeat at St. Augustine, Florida
First three royal governors of georgia - answer✔✔John Reynolds, Henry Ellis, James Wright
James Wright - answer✔✔The third and LAST royal governor of Georgia. Played a key role in
retarding the flame of revolution in Georgia long after it had flared violently in every other
colony.
Salzburgers - answer✔✔a group of Protestants from Austria who were invited to settle in
Georgia due to religious persecution they were experiencing in Europe; established the towns of
Ebenezer and New Ebenezer; were some of the most successful colonists.
a group of German-speaking Protestant colonists, founded the town of Ebenezer in what is now
Effingham County.
rice - answer✔✔Georgia's first staple crop, the most important commercial agricultural
commodity in the Lowcountry from the middle of the eighteenth century until the early twentieth
century.
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