Georgia History Exam Study Guide Questions and Answers Graded A

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Georgia History Exam Study Guide Questions and Answers Graded A Homer Plessy -✔✔ Refused to move from his train seat in the whites-only, he took his lawsuit all the way to the united States Supre... me 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 lynched by an angry mob. Henry Grady -✔✔ The journalist who reintegrated the states into the Union again after the Civil War. 13-15 amendments -✔✔ 13- 1865, abolished slavery; 14- 1868, 1868 Citizenship given to ex-slaves. Three-fifths clause abolished. Leading ex-Confederates denied office. Ex-Confederates forced to repudiate their debts and pay pensions to their own (CSA) veterans, plus taxes for the pensions of Union veterans; 15- 1870, suffrage given to black males. Freedman's Bureau -✔✔ The bureau's focus was to provide food, medical care, administer justice, manage abandoned and confiscated property, regulate labor, and establish schools. Enlisted -✔✔ enrolled in the armed services. Neighborhood Union -✔✔ Provided African American in Atlanta with services such as medical employment and educational services. Sharecropping -✔✔ A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops. Jim Crow Laws -✔✔ Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites Crystal Palace -✔✔ A fugitive slave named Alonzo Herndon Made the crystal palace barber shop 1906 Race Riot -✔✔ Newspaper reports of black violence against white led to this Populist -✔✔ a supporter of the rights and power of the people Colquitt -✔✔ Member of the Bourbon Triumvirate. Held positions of State Senator, U.S. Senator and governor. Attended GA's secession convention. Rebecca Latimer Felton -✔✔ Leader in suffrage, temperance movement, and helped get rid of the Convict Lease System. Oldest and First woman U.S. senator (honorary position). Kansas-Nebraska Act -✔✔ 1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. Andersonville Prison -✔✔ Southern prison which treated Union soldiers so harshly that an average of 100 died each day [Show More]

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