Civil War
The MAIN ISSUE that the Civil War was fought over was...
States Rights
Specifically: Slavery and Nullification
Explain the role of each of these amendments:
13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment
13th Amendment: Ended slavery in the United States.
14th Amendment: Gave all African Americans citizenship and the same rights as all U.S. citizens.
15th Amendment: Gave African American citizens the right to vote.
What is disenfranchisement?
To deprive a person of the right to vote or the rights of citizenship.
What Supreme Court case ended "Separate but Equal" and mandated the desegregation of public schools?
Brown v.s. Board of Education
Which mayor of Atlanta was known for his active support in bringing air transportation to the state?
William B. Hartsfield
What court case greatly favored the southern view of slavery and led to a greater ideological divide between the North and South?
Dred Scott Case (Dred Scott v.s. Missouri, 1857)
What is the name of the federal agency created to provide aid to former slaves?
Freedmen's Bureau
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
Laws created by state legislatures to deny African Americans citizenship rights.
What federal legislation forbade discrimination based on race and gender in hiring, firing, and promotions?
The Civil Rights Act.
What infamous Civil War prisoner-of-war camp is located in Macon, Georgia?
Andersonville Prison
What is the difference between sharecropping and tenant farming?
Tenant Farmers own their own equipment, animals, and tools, while sharecroppers do not.
This makes it harder for sharecroppers to get out of debt, as they have no materials to begin their own farm.
Who was the journalist who coined the term "New South" and what does it mean?
Henry Grady; New South is the period right after Reconstruction, where political and community leaders began to diversify Georgia's economy and bring northern technology into the state.
What was the Albany movement, and who organized it?
An organized civil rights protest whose aim was to desegregate the city of Albany, Georgia; Led by the SNCC
What factory located in Marietta, Georgia produced B-29 Bombers for the U.S. war effort during WWII?
Marietta Bell Bomber Plant
Georgia's response to the Compromise of 1850 was known as what?
The Georgia Platform
Bonus: What is the difference between the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?
Name the three phases of reconstruction after the Civil War.
Presidential Reconstruction, Congressional Reconstruction, and Military Reconstruction.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Which famous civil rights march was led by Dr. Martin Luther King and included his "I Have a Dream" speech?
The March on Washington
The Lend-Lease Act
What key battles in the Civil War took place in Georgia?
The Atlanta Campaign and The Battle of Chickamauga.
During the reconstruction period, how many African Americans served as delegates to Georgia's constitutional convention/served as members of the state legislature?
Sixty-nine
What is the term for the three powerful Georgia politicians (Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon) who dominated Georgia politics for over twenty years?
The Bourbon Triumvirate
What was the Sibley Commission?
What was the Three Governors Controversy?
After 1946, the governor winner Eugene Talmadge died, three separate people had legitimate claims to the office, sparking a controversy that was later resolved by the Supreme Court