Understanding History
American Indian groups lived in Georgia before European contact
Who were the Creek, Cherokee, and other tribes?
Act forced American Indians, including the Creek and Cherokee, to leave their lands in Georgia and move west
What is The Indian Removal Act?
Slavery, states' rights, economic differences between the North and South.
What are three key issues led to the Civil War?
Government agency helped freed slaves by providing education, food, medical care, and assistance in finding jobs and land
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The period after Reconstruction when Georgia focused on industrial development, modernization, and economic growth while maintaining racial segregation.
What is the New South Era?
Three reason why Europeans explored and settled in North America
What are 3G's God, Glory, Gold?
The Creek leader that signed treaties giving Creek lands to the U.S. government, leading to conflict within the Creek Nation.
Who is William McIntosh?
Georgia a major Confederate state that provided soldiers, supplies, and resources.
What role did Georgia play during the Civil war?
White supremacist organization used violence and intimidation to prevent African Americans from exercising their rights and to restore white political power during Reconstruction
Who are the Ku Klux Klan's (KKK) ?
State and local laws enforced racial segregation by requiring separate facilities for African Americans and whites in schools, transportation, restaurants, and public places.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Official document established Georgia as a colony, and was why Georgia settled as a buffer zone between Spanish and Florida
What is the Charter of 1732?
The cotton gin, improved farming tools, railroads, and steamboats, helped Georgia's economy grow between 1789 and 1840?
What are technological developments?
1864 march through Georgia, destroying homes, crops, and infrastructure while demonstrating Union military power.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
African American who were elected to the Georgia General Assembly during Reconstruction but were later removed through violence, intimidation, and legal action.
Who are African American legislators?
Two civil rights advocates one advocated for economic self-sufficiency and vocational education and the other pushed for immediate political and social equality.
Who are Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois?
These two groups existed during the American Revolution and had different views one remained loyal and the other supported independence.
Who are the Loyalists and the Patriots?
Institution was established to provide education and promote the development of Georgia, representing the state's commitment to progress and preparing citizens for leadership?
What is the University of Georgia?
The three amendments that abolished slavery, granted citizenship to freed slaves, and gave African American men the right to vote.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
The systems where formerly enslaved people and poor whites worked land owned by others and shared the crops as payment, often keeping workers in poverty
What is sharecropping and tenant farming?
The African American businessman that founded the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, became wealthy, and used his success to support the African American community
Who is Alonzo Herndon?
document showed many weaknesses to include the inability to collect taxes, regulate trade, or enforce laws, which led to the need for a stronger federal government
What are The Articles of Confederation?
Moved from Savannah to Augusta to Milledgeville between 1789 and 1840?
What is Georgia's Capital?
Lincoln's lenient plan, Johnson's also lenient plan, and Congressional Reconstruction's stricter requirements for Southern states to protect African American rights
What are Lincoln, Johnson, and Congressional Reconstruction plans?
African American participation in government and new state constitutions, though many changes were later reversed.
What are the reconstruction changes?
The 1913 case involving a Jewish factory manager accused of murder who was lynched by a mob despite questionable evidence, showing antisemitism and mob violence dangers
What is the Leo Frank case?