Georgia Studies CA # 2 Study Guide

What were TWO goals on which Abraham Lincoln based his 1860 presidential campaign?

1- Keep the Union intact 2- prevent the spread of slavery

the Congressional plan for Reconstruction placed greater emphasis on which TWO goals?

1- punishing the South for its role in the Civil War 2- protecting the rights extended to African Americans

Why did Georgia settlers' demands for the relocation of the Cherokee intensify in the 1820s?

Gold was discovered on Cherokee land.

Which of the following is true of the Emancipation Proclamation?

It freed all slaves in states rebelling against the Union.

What court case is most infamous in Georgia for Antisemitism

Leo Frank Case

Why was this plan referred to as the "Anaconda Plan"?

Like the snake does its prey...The Union's goal was to surround the Confederacy and cut off supplies,

How did the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson impact society in the South?

Nearly every aspect of life became segregated along racial lines.

What legal doctrine was upheld by the Plessy v/s Ferguson court case?

Separate but equal

What did Henry Grady use his newspaper to promote?

Southern industrial growth

How did the Georgia Governor Eugene Talmadge react to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs?

Talmadge publicly opposed the programs.

During his Atlanta Campaign....Why did William T. Sherman Sherman fight so hard to take Atlanta... only to destroy it?

The city was the South's major center of manufacturing and transportation.

How did the French and Indian War push the American colonists and the British towards war?

The costs of the conflicts led the British to impose taxes and restrict settlement west of the Appalachians.

How did the Leo Frank case impact Georgia society?

The rise in antisemitism in Georgia led to the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan.

Which statement correctly describes sharecropping?

The system kept laborers in constant debt to landowners.

How did white legislators justify their removal of duly-elected African American legislators from the Georgia General Assembly during Reconstruction?

They claimed that African Americans had the right to vote but not to hold office.

Why did Franklin D. Roosevelt receive substantial support from the state of Georgia during his bids for reelection to the presidency?

because of the aid provided to the population through his New Deal programs

Why did Tom Watson the Populist Party criticize Henry Grady ?

for supporting industry over the interests of farmers

Which of these battles was the largest Civil War battle fought in Georgia?

the Battle of Chickamauga

Which Constitutional amendment overturned that Dredd Scott v/s Sanford ruling?

the Fourteenth Amendment - which gave citizenship rights.

What was the Union's Anaconda Plan?

to prevent supplies from reaching the South from overseas and cut off Confederate supply routes

Based on the map and your knowledge of social studies, what motivated Great Britain to found the Georgia Colony?

to protect its established colonies from Spanish attacks