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Famous Georgians
100
This was the capital of the Confederacy
What is Richmond, Va.
100
This was the name for the time after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
100
This insect destroyed much of Georgia's cotton crop during the 1920s.
What is boll weevil?
100
This court case ended the practice of separate but equal facilities when it was decided in 1954.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
100
The only president from Georgia.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
200
This was the bloodiest one-day batle during the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
200
These men made up the Bourbon Triumvirate.
Who were Joseph Brown, Alfred Colquitt, and John Gordon.
200
This series of government programs was designed to get the country out of the Great Depression.
What is New Deal?
200
This 1961 event in southwest Georgia was designed to desegregate bus waiting areas.
What was the Albany Movement?
200
He was the Yamacraw Indian chief who became friends with Oglethorpe.
Who was Tomochichi?
300
This Union general said he would "make Georgia howl."
Who was Gen. William T. Sherman?
300
He was Georgia's best-known Populist.
Who is Tom Watson?
300
This was the event that pulled the U.S. into World War II.
What is attack on Pearl Harbor?
300
These two students integrated UGA.
Who were Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes?
300
He is the most famous civil rights leader from the 1960s who was assassinated in Memphis, TN.
Who is MLK?
400
This was the site of Lee's surrender.
What is Appomattox?
400
This was the program that provided postal delivery to people's homes rather than the post office.
What is rural free delivery?
400
One of two products manufactured in Georgia during World War II.
What is Liberty Ships or Bell Bomber?
400
This 1963 event included MLK's I Have a Dream speech.
What was the March on Washington?
400
This newspaper editor came up with the phrase New South.
Who is Henry W. Grady?
500
He was Lincoln's assassin.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
500
This allowed private companies to rent prisoners for a flat rate from state prisons.
What is convict lease system?
500
This allowed European countries to borrow American war supplies at the beginning of World War II.
What is Lend-Lease Act?
500
He was MLK's mentor and president of Morehouse College.
Who was Benjamin Mays?
500
This woman helped run a newspaper and became the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Who is Rebecca L. Felton?