Where did the bloddiest one-day battle of the Civil War take place?
Antietam
100
Atlanta's military importance to the Confederacy was that
it was the industrial and transportation center of the Confederacy.
100
Sharecroppers paid their landowners by:
providing labor and a large percentage of the crop.
100
Why was Henry McNeal Turner expelled from his seat in the Georgia state legislature?
He didn't have the right to hold political office.
200
How was the Emancipation Proclamation a concession to the Confederate States of America?
The Confederacy could keep their slaves if they agreed to stop fighting.
200
William T. Sherman attacked the civilian infrastructure between Atlanta and Savannah in order to:
end civilian support for the war effort and shorten the war.
200
What best describes the most important difference between the Reconstruction plans of President Lincoln and three radical Republican Congress?
Lincoln's plan required loyalty oaths and sought to help the South re-enter the Union quickly.
200
The main goal of the Klu Klux Klan was:
keep freedman from voting and thereby return political control in southern states to the Democrats.
300
In what state did the Battle of Gettysburg take place?
Pennsylvania
300
Where was a notorious Confederate prison in Georgia?
Andersonville
300
What did the 13th amendment do that brought many changes to Georgia's society and economic structure after the Civil War?
It freed slaves.
300
What is the highest peak in Georgia?
Brasstown Bald
400
Why was Chickamauga important to the North and the South?
It was a railroad center.
400
What was the best description for the Freedman's Bureau during Reconstruction?
provided education, training, and social services for the newly freed slaves.
400
The 14th Amendment was passed in response to:
adoption of laws known as Black Codes by the southern states.
400
Why did Hernando deSoto explore much of Georgia in 1540?
He was attracted by rumors of large gold deposits.
500
What contributed to the lack of success of the Union blockade?
Blockade runners slipped through the blockade.
500
What were the differences between sharecropping and tenant farming?
Sharecroppers owned nothing but their labor, while tenant farmers owned farm animals and equipment to use in working other people's land.
500
What did the 15th Amendment do?
It gave Black men the right to vote.
500
To whom did Georgia's governor and members of the General Assembly sell the land between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers, resulting in the Yazoo land fraud?