GCSU GA HISTORY EXAM FULL Questions with 100% Correct and Accurate Answers.
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Abraham Baldwin Correct Answer 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
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GCSU GA HISTORY EXAM FULL Questions with 100% Correct and Accurate Answers. Abraham Baldwin Correct Answer 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 Correct Answer 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
George Mathews Correct Answer veteran of the Continental army during the Revolutionary War (1775-83); after moving to Georgia he quickly rose to service as a state legislator, governor, and member of the U.S. Congress
George Troup Correct Answer served in both the Georgia and U.S. House of Representatives; twice elected to the U.S. Senate; also served as governor of Georgia
Josiah Meigs Correct Answer an American academic, journalist and government official;
president of UGA from 1801 - 1810
Eli Whitney Correct Answer 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 Correct Answer 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 Correct Answer 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
John Forsyth Correct Answer attorney general of Georgia; served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate on two separate occasions; governor of Georgia;
minister to Spain; U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren George Gilmer Correct Answer fought in the War of 1812 and concurrent Indian campaigns; served in the Georgia and U.S. House of Representatives; governor of Georgia during the Cherokee Indian Removal (Trail of Tears)
Wilson Lumpkin Correct Answer served in both the Georgia and U.S. House of Representatives, as governor of Georgia, and as a U.S. Senator; acted as U.S. Commissioner to the Cherokee Indians, and member of the commission to finalize Georgia/Florida boundary; one of the founders of the Western and Atlantic Railroad
Howell Cobb Correct Answer 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 Correct Answer 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 Correct Answer 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 Correct Answer 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 Correct Answer Civil War governor of Georgia; one of the most successful politicians in the state's history
John Ross Correct Answer 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 Correct Answer 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 Correct Answer creator of the Cherokee syllabary
Elias Boudinot Correct Answer formally educated Cherokee who became the editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first Native American newspaper in the United States
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Correct Answer published Georgia's first important literary
work, Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, Etc. in the First Half Century of the Republic Crawford W. Long Correct Answer first to perform surgeries using sulfuric ether anesthesia
Braxton Bragg Correct Answer career United States Army officer, and then a general in the Confederate States Army—a principal commander in the Western Theater of the American Civil War and later the military adviser to the Confederate President Jefferson
Davis
Joseph E. Johnston Correct Answer 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 Correct Answer 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
Henry Wirz Correct Answer a Swiss-born Confederate officer in the American Civil War;
best known for his command of Camp Sumter, the Confederate prisoner of war camp near Andersonville, Georgia; he was tried and executed after the war for conspiracy and
murder relating to his command of the camp
Charles J. Jenkins Correct Answer 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 Correct Answer 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 Correct Answer 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
Alfred Terry Correct Answer strong opponent of the Ku Klux Klan after being assigned as the last military governor of the Third Military District, based in Atlanta
Jefferson Long Correct Answer Georgia's first African American congressman and the first African American to speak on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives
William Jefferson White Correct Answer an Augusta Baptist minister, cabinetmaker and journalist who founded the Augusta Theological Institute
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