Georgia Studies Spring Exam STUDY GUIDENuttall 2017

UNIT: RECONSTRUCTION

  1. What were the requirements of the Presidential Reconstruction plans? What were the requirements of the Radical Reconstruction plans?
  2. What was the purpose of the Freedman’s Bureau?
  3. What was the political goal of the KKK?
  4. What was the result of the Camilla Riot in Georgia?
  5. Who was in charge of much of the South during Radical/Congressional Reconstruction?
  6. Define convict lease system. What did the convict lease system accomplish in Georgia?
  7. How did whites limit African American voting rights after the Civil War? (name as many ways as possible)
  8. Terms you should be able to explain:
  9. carpetbaggers
  10. sharecropping
  11. tenant farming
  12. 13th Amendment
  13. 14th Amendment
  14. 15th Amendment
  15. separate but equal

UNIT: 1877-1917

  1. Which Supreme Court case ruling said that facilities could be separate as long as they were equal?
  2. How did the poll tax effect Georgia citizens?
  3. Why was the grandfather clause created?
  4. What caused the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906?
  5. Why did Georgians react so violently during the Race Riot and after the Leo Frank trial?
  6. Who was drawn to the Populist Party?
  7. Terms/People you should be able to explain:
  8. Bourbon Triumvirate (know their names)
  9. Henry Grady
  10. New South
  11. county unit system
  12. 19th Amendment
  13. Booker T. Washington
  14. W. E.B. DuBois
  15. Alonzo Herndon
  16. Tom Watson
  17. Rebecca Latimer Felton
  18. What political party dominated Georgia politics from Reconstruction, until after the Civil Rights movement?
  19. Which political ideology believed the government should step in to fix problems in society caused by industrialization?
  20. Which event began World War I in Europe?
  21. How did Georgia economically contribute to WWI?
  22. How did WWI change Georgia?

UNIT: 1920s, Great Depression and New Deal

  1. What cultural and economic changes happened in the 1920s?
  2. What was the greatest impact of the boll weevil and drought on Georgia farmers before the Great Depression?
  3. Why was the boll weevil so devastating to Georgia?
  4. What were the causes of the Great Depression?
  5. How did Herbert Hoover want to solve the Great Depression?
  6. Who was responsible for establishing New Deal programs in the United States?
  7. What was the primary purpose of the New Deal?
  8. Terms/People you should be able to explain:
  9. Agricultural Adjustment Act
  10. Civilian Conservation Corps
  11. Social Security Act
  12. Rural Electrification Act
  13. What was Eugene’s response to the Social Security Act? Why didn’t he support the New Deal?
  14. What event marks the end of the Great Depression?
  15. How did the U.S. assist the Allies prior to entering WWII?
  16. How did Georgia contribute to WWII?
  17. Terms/People you should be able to explain:
  18. Bell Aircraft
  19. Richard B. Russell
  20. Carl Vinson

UNIT: POST WWII & THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

  1. After WWII, what changes happened for Georgia’ agriculture?
  2. Terms/People you should be able to explain:
  3. Three Governors Controversy (who was involved)
  4. Benjamin Mays
  5. Brown v. Board of Education
  6. Hamilton Holmes & Charlayne Hunter
  7. Civil Rights Act of 1964
  8. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  9. March on Washington
  10. What did the Sibley Commission recommend for Georgia’s public schools after Brown v. Board?
  11. Why was the 1956 Georgia state flag so controversial?
  12. What event took place in southern Georgia from 1961-1962 with the goal of ending segregation in the city?
  13. Which Georgia governor refused to serve African Americans in his restaurant?
  14. How did the county unit system limit the political influence of African American voters?

UNIT: MODERN GEORGIA

  1. Terms/People you should know:
  2. Jimmy Carter
  3. Ivan Allen Jr.
  4. William B. Hartsfield
  5. Ellis Arnall
  6. Maynard Jackson
  7. Which legislator helped bring the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta?
  8. What was significant about the 1996 Olympic Games?
  9. Over 50% of Georgia’s immigrant population comes from…

UNIT: LOCAL GOVERNMENT & JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM

  1. List examples of a special purpose government.
  2. Terms you should be able to explain:
  3. Strong Mayor-Council System
  4. Weak Mayor-Council System
  5. Council Manager System
  6. Special Purpose Government
  7. delinquent act (and examples)
  8. unruly act (and examples)
  9. seven delinquent behaviors
  10. defendant
  11. plaintiff
  12. civil law
  13. criminal law
  14. What happens if a juvenile commits one of the seven delinquent behaviors?