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What Civil War battle was a Union victory that allowed President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
Antietam
100
Which major Civil War battle resulted in the most casualties on both sides?
Gettysburg
100
What were the two major campaigns fought in Georgia during the Civil War?
The Atlanta Campaign and Sherman’s March to the Sea
100
What happened to the commander of the Andersonville Prison after the Civil War?
Captain Henry Wirz was tried and executed by the Union Army for excessive cruelty to prisoners.
100
Why did General William T. Sherman attack the civilian infrastructure between Atlanta and Savannah?
To end civilian support for the Confederate war effort and bring about a quicker end to the war.
200
Why did the South absolutely have to keep its ports open and operational during the Civil War?
Because the Confederacy had to ship its cotton to Great Britain and France in exchange for war materials.
200
Which was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau during Reconstruction?
It provided education, training, and social services for newly freed slaves.
200
What situation made it difficult for freedmen in Georgia between 1865 and 1869?
Most were forced to work as tenant farmers or sharecroppers because other jobs were not available to them.
200
What was the most important difference between the Reconstruction plans of President Lincoln and the Radical Republican Congress?
Lincoln had a simple plan involving loyalty oaths to quickly return the Confederate states back into the Union. Radical Republicans wanted to treat the Confederate states like a conquered territory that had to treat freedmen fairly before they could be readmitted into the Union.
200
Why was the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed?
To prevent the passage of laws known as Black Codes which restricted the civil rights of freedmen.
300
Tunis G. Campbell, Jr., Henry McNeal Turner, and Aaron A. Bradley were expelled from the Georgia House and Senate after their elections in 1868 for what reason?
White members of the General Assembly claimed these Black men had the right to vote, but not to hold a political office.
300
What was the secret white supremacy organization that became a force in Georgia during Reconstruction and tried to prevent freedmen from exercising their civil rights?
The Ku Klux Klan
300
Why was the term “Bourbon Triumvirate” appropriate for Joseph Brown, Alfred Colquitt, and John Gordon?
They were leaders of Georgia who were drawn into close relationship because of their common political, social, and economic goals after the Civil War.
300
What Georgia leader coined the phrase New South in describing the state?
Henry Grady
300
Which areas of reform were supported by Rebecca Felton?
Women’s suffrage, temperance, education, and prisons.
400
What do the trial of Leo Frank, the Knights of Mary Phagan, and the Holocaust have in common?
Anti-Semitism
400
What Georgian ran for U.S. President as a member of the Populist Party in 1904 and 1908?
Tom Watson
400
Which 1896 U.S. Supreme Court ruling was overturned in 1954 by Brown vs. Board of Education?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
400
Which civil rights leader of the New South period believed that segregation would gradually go away if Blacks were given equal economic and educational opportunities?
Booker T. Washington
400
Which civil rights leader of the New South period believed in the Talented Tenth and direct action against racial discrimination through organizations like the NAACP?
W.E.B. DuBois
500
List three contributions by Georgia’s civilians to the War effort during World War I?
1) growing food for soldiers in Victory gardens; 2) making uniforms and blankets for soldiers in the state’s textile mills; 3) transporting weapons and soldiers by Georgia’s rail lines and seaports.
500
What two events occurred before the Great Depression that caused Georgia’s economy to crash?
The boll weevil and drought placed Georgia in a depression long before the rest of the nation.
500
Too much borrowing by consumers, stock market speculation, and overproduction by factories led to what major event in U.S. history?
The Great Depression
500
What Georgia governor served during the Great Depression and spent a great deal of time speaking out against the New Deal, Blacks, and urban areas?
Eugene Talmadge
500
What New Deal program gave loans in order to modernize farms?
the Rural Electrification Authority (REA)