Colonial Georgia: Economy, Politics, and Social Changes, Exams of Public Health

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Received no compensation The Trustees of the new colony - answer>> Three of the major geographic regions into which GA was divided included all of >>River deltas the following EXCEPT - answer Spanish solders from St. The first European settlers in Georgia were - answer>> Augustine who established an outpost as St. Catherine's island 1663 when Charles II English claims to Georgia were first made - answer>>in granted the Carolinas, extending as far south as St. Augustine, to eight proprietors In the propaganda campaign which preceded the founding of Georgia, ALL of the Establishment following expected benefits were emphasized EXCEPT - answer>> of iron mines Prior to the settlement of the colony, it was pointed out that Georgia could Ivory produce ALL of the following EXCEPT - answer>> 20 years The charter of the original group of Trustees was to last for - answer>> at Yamacraw bluff The original site for settlement was located - answer>> 125 The original group of settlers numbered approximately - answer>> In the selection of the original colonists, which of the following ideas economic improvement predominated? - answer>> The Indian chief with whom the first settlers made their agreement was - Tomo-Chi-Chi answer>> the Spanish were repuled on St. Simons During the War of Jenkins' Ear - answer>> Island In colonial Georgia, next to the English, the most important national group Germansnumerically in 1770 was the - answer>> It would Georgia chiefly objected to the Sugar Act of 1764 because - answer>> hurt her trade in lumber products with the West Indies Used the stamps in With regard to the Stamp Act of 1765, Georgia - answer>> order to clear vessels out of the harbor at Savannah To Georgians, the causes of the America revolution included all of the following >>Molasses Act acts EXCEPT - answer the During the antebellum period, as far as religion is concerned - answer>> frontier Methodist and Baptist churches became the leading denominations The extent of religious zeal, or lack of it, is demonstrated by the fact that in 1831 - only 10% claimed church affiliations answer>> With regard to education in Georgia during the antebellum period - private schools of varying worth flourished answer>> The University of Georgia during the antebellum period - answer>>educated most of Georgia's political leaders, in spite of difficulties With regard to church affiliated colleges, all of the following are correct EXCEPT - answer>>the Catholics founded Wesleyan The first adequate historical work on colonial and revolutionary Georgia was - answer>> During the antebellum period, the Indian population - answer>>was substantially reduced By the time of the Civil War Georgia had been greatly strengthened economically by - answer>>the great strides in textile manufacturing Among the matters deeply concerning Georgians in the 1790's and early 1800's were - answer>> Which of the following best describes the attitude of Georgians toward the Mexican War - answer>>They approved it At the time of the Mexican War, Georgians generally - answer>>approved of it and furnished troops Which of the following statements best describes the attitude of Georgians toward the Wilmot Proviso? - answer>>They opposed it Georgians who favored the Compromise of 1850 called themselves the - answer>>Georgia Platform Party In connections with the Compromise of 1850, the Georgia Platform - answer>>acknowledged that it did not secure for the South all that it wanted but urged its acceptance With reference to the Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854, Georgians generally - answer>>Warmly supported it The gubernatorial campaign 1857 brought about the election of the dark horse candidate - answer>>Joe Brown The national election of 1860 saw the Georgia vote go to - answer>>John C Breckenridge, the nominee of a convention that split from the Democratic party By the time of the Civil War most Georgians had come to think of slavery as - answer>>a positive good for whites and blacks When the Whig Party died, Benjamin H. Hill and Eugenius A Nisbet joined the - answer>>Know Nothing Party Almost a lone voice among Georgia leaders opposed to immediate secession at the time of Lincoln's election was that of - answer>>Alexander H. Stephens The state's financial and economic structure during the Civil war - answer>>was sound the first two years, but inflation hit during the last two years When the Civil war began the first military concern of Georgians was to defend their coast, which - answer>>they succeeded in doing as borne out by the fact that Savannah was not captured With respect to arming Georgia soldiers during the Civil War, - answer>>a munitions factory at the state penitentiary provided an adequate supply of guns Georgia political leaders played a prominent role in the Confederate government with - answer>>Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President, and Robert Toombs, Secretary of State As the defense of Atlanta began - answer>>the Confederacy replaced Gen. Johnston with Gen. Hood With Reconstruction in June 1865 - answer>>James Johnson, a unionist, was appointed provisional governor In October, 1865, a constiutional convention was election, with - answer>>prominent leaders disfranchised pending Presidential pardon The revised constitution of Georgia adapted in 1865 included ALL of the provisions laid down by President Johnson, EXCEPT - answer>>disfranchisement of all confederate leaders and soldiers Under the new Georgia constitution of 1865, the legislature - answer>>Prohibited black testimony against whites In November 1865 an election under the new Georgia constitution was held, with the governor's office going to - answer>>Charles J. Jenkins Among Georgia's leaders only one of the following strongly urged acceptance of the Congressional plan of reconstruction - answer>>former Governor Joe Brown Native white Southerners who decided to accept Congressional reconstruction came to be known as - answer>>scalawags In 1867, under the Congressional plan of reconstruction, Georgia was made a part of - answer>>the Third Military District under Gen. John Pope In 1868, under the reconstruction Constitution the following was election Governor of Georgia - answer>>Rufus B. Bullock, a former New Yorker Former Gov. Brown's attitude toward the Radicals can be described as - answer>>cooperation with The main plank of the national Congressional reconstruction was the fourteenth amendment which - answer>>conferred citizenship on black Americans In 1869 when it became obvious that Georgia's vote was necessary to secure the adoption of the fifteenth amendment, the US Congress - answer>>returned military government to the state The most common action taken by a newly feed slave following the Civil War was to - answer>>test his freedom by leaving the plantation where he had been a slave In Georgia, the Freedman's Bureau - answer>>encouraged them to return to plantations under work contracts Immediately after the Civil War, Afro-Americans had to depend chiefly on ALL of the following for educational advancement EXCEPT - answer>>allocations by the state legislature With regard to business after the civil war, there was an immediate expansion with the greatest activity in - answer>>Atlanta Immediately after the Civil War, the best crops were produced in - answer>> After the Civil War, newspapers - answer>>were still the most popular source of news In religious affairs following the Civil War - answer>>Black worship became separate from white With reference to manufacturing in Georgia during the late 1860's and early 1870's, ALL of the following attracted industry to Georgia EXCEPT - answer>>excellent supply of locally educated engineers by 1870 After Georgia's third reconstruction ended in 1872 - answer>>the government returned to the native white Democrats The city that typified the Bourbon belief in industry and progress better than any other in the state was - answer>>Atlanta In the election of 1890 the Alliance was - answer>>so strong that no state candidate opposed it The People's Party, which was an outgrowth of the Alliance Movement, ran candidates in Georgia elections from 1892 to 1906 and - answer>>never elected a governor or congressmen The state of Georgia - answer>>established the first state department of agriculture in 1874 Throughout the 1880's, several unsuccesfull attempts were made to legislate - answer>>a 10 hour day The labor union that attempted to take advantage of the labor troubles in Georgia in order to organize textile workers in the 1880's was - answer>>the Knights of Labor In the post-Reconstruction period, control of schools - answer>>was always inthe hands of the local school boards Int he post-Reconstrution period, the denominational colleges - answer>> In the post-Reconstruction period, private academies - answer>>continued to operate throughout the state, sometimes with partial support from local governments In the field of religion, during the post-Reconstruction period - answer>>the separation of Negro worship from white became complete In religious affairs during the post-Reconstruction period - answer>>the Methodist and Baptist churches continued their leadership in both members and activity Which of the following pairs is correctly matched? - answer>>Gustavus J. Orr - State School Commissioner (father of public education) While the state of Georgia did not do much to expand social services in the later 19th century, it - answer>>did at least give aid to the Confederate veterans In the field of social service during the post-Reconstruction period, the state governemtn - answer>>expand more under the "Bourbons" than the Republicans In the way of social services during the post-Reconstruction period, the state of Georgia expanded the facilities for ALL of the following EXCEPT - answer>>the rehabilitation center for the physically handicapped at Warm Springs In the struggle over prohibition during the post-Reconstruction period, one of the main arguments used by the wets was that - answer>>the tax money derived from the sale for manufacture of liquors went to the school fund A problem that began with Reconstruction was the convict lease system, against which ALL of the following objections were raised EXCEPT - answer>>it caused private individuals who employed the convicts to lose much money because the convicts were inefficient workers During the Populist era in Georgia, Afro Americans - answer>>were often marched to the polls and voted in a body by their white "friends and guardians" With the freeing of the slaves a widespread view among white Georgians was that - answer>>blacks needed little, if any, education Higher education for Afro Americans in Georgia received its first state appropriation in 1873 when $8,000 was voted for - answer>>Atlanta University In the field of manufacturing during the late 19th century, the industry that produced the most wealth in Georgia was - answer>>cotton textiles Black denominational colleges at the turn of the century in Georgia secured - answer>>considerably more private funds than did white schools One of the most celebrated political events of the first quarter of the 20th century in Georgia was - answer>>the case of Leo Frank Under Richard B. Russell, Jr., elected Governor in 1931, ALL of the following took place EXCEPT - answer>>equal voting rights given to blacks When Gov. Richard B. Russell decided to run for the US Senate in 1932 he was succeeded by - answer>>Eugene Talmage Gene Talmadge's political philosophy - answer>>was almost diametrically opposed to Roosevelt's New Deal With the election of Eurith D. Rivers as Governor in 1936, Georgia - answer>>entered into the New Deal subsidies fully for the first time In the election of 1936, Gene Talmadge - answer>>suffered a double defeat In his political campaigns, Gene Talmadge employed ALL of the following EXCEPT - answer>>support of equal voting rights for blacks During Gene Talmadge's third term as governor, the greatest excitement was caused by - answer>>his determination to get rid of faculty members whom he believed supported the admission of blacks to all white colleges As an immediate consequence of Gene Talmadge's struggle with the university professors - answer>>Georgia colleges in the University system lost their accreditation Eugene Talmadge objected to accepting Federal funds for all of the following EXCEPT - answer>>right of labor to organize In the 1938 election, US senator Walter F. George of Georgia, who was hand picked by Roosevelt to be purged, - answer>>handily defeated both of his opponents, Gene Talmadge and Lawrence S. Camp The election of 1944, in which Ellis Arnall defeated Gene Talmadge for Governor, indicated that Georgians generally - answer>>did not want their schools used as a political football In the election of 1944, to the surprise of a lot of Georgians - answer>>Ellis Arnall defeated Gene Talmage for Governor ALL of the following were reforms instituted by Governor Ellis Arnall EXCEPT - answer>>Reorganization of State Health Department The revisions of the Constitution during Arnall's administration provided for ALL of the following EXCEPT - answer>>blacks were assured voting rights Herman E. Talmadge, the son of Eugene Talmadge, in his campaigns for Governor in 1948 and 1950 - answer>>echoed the racial ideas of his father During Herman Talmadge's administration, attempts at improvements to black education were largely the work of - answer>>the Governor himself While Herman Talmadge used the cry of white supremacy, he was also a progressive governor in that he sponsored AL of the following legislation EXCEPT - answer>>none of these examples When Marvin Griffin became governor, he insisted upon - answer>>no integration in Georgia public schools Ernest Vandiver, who succeeded Griffin as Governor - answer>>insisted on no integration in public schools The state reorganization program advocated by Gov. Ernest Vandiver - answer>>was pushed out of the picture by the issue of integration The child labor law passed in 1914 set the minimum age for employment at - answer>>14 In school matters generally, standards of the black schools during the first half of the 20th century were - answer>>much worse than white schools Since 1930, the value of agricultural property and crops and the size of farms have - answer>>increased The enactment of prohibition legislation in the 20th century at both the state and national levels - answer>>did not bring to an end the drinking of intoxicating beverages Among important Georgia prose writers is - answer>>Joel Chandler Harris A basic conflict of most Georgians has been - answer>>a desire to cling to the old and yet reap the benefits of the new With respect to mid twentieth century changes in life, most Georgians would agree that - answer>>at least part of the change is progress Georgia's presidential electoral votes went to a republican for the first time in - answer>>the election of Richard Nixon in 1972 A considerable shift in the balance of political power was brought about by - answer>> Which of the following was NOT an important event for the electoral year 1962 - answer>>the "near miss" of a Republican candidate for governor, Howard Calloway Jimmy Carter is especially remembered in Georgia's history because - answer>>he carried about a massive reorganization of state government Which of the following is correctly matched - answer>>Andrew Young - Georgia's first 20th century black congressmen Georgia's first radio station - answer>>WSB