GA Studies Final Exam Study Guide 2017Name: ______

GA Studies Final Exam Study Guide 2017Name: ______

1. What was Sherman’s total war strategy and why was it successful?

2. What was the Union blockade?

3. How did agriculture change in GA during the Civil War?

4. What happened at Fort Sumter to start the war?

5. What was wrong at Andersonville prison?

6. What was the Anaconda Plan?

7. Why did Lincoln issue the EP? What effect did Lincoln’s EP have on slaves in GA?

8. What was Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign?

9. What happened at Chickamauga?

10. Who led the Confederate Army? Union Army? Who was President of the Confederacy?

11. What advantages did the Confederacy have?

12. What was the Camilla riot? 1906 Atlanta Race Riot?

13. Who were carpet baggers?

14. How was Congressional Republican Reconstruction plan different from that of Lincoln and Johnson?

15. What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

16. What was the purpose of the KKK and why were they involved in politics?

17. How did southerners treat AA during Reconstruction?

18. Who was in charge of the south during Congressional Reconstruction?

19. Why did many Georgians oppose the state constitution of 1868?

20. Who was Henry McNeal Turner?

21. What were the poll tax, grandfather clause, and literacy test and how did they affect GA citizens?

22. What were the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?

23. What were Progressivism and Populism, and what kinds of people would be drawn tot their ideology?

24. Who were sharecroppers and tenant farmers?

25. What was the purpose of the county unit system?

26. Explain why Plessy v. Ferguson was so disheartening for AA and civil rights’ activists.

27. Why did the loss of purchasing power contribute to the Great Depression?

28. How did John and Lugenia Hope impact GA?

29. What caused the Great Depression?

30. What was the purpose of the ICE?

31. What was the purpose of the New Deal?

32. How did the unemployment rate effect AA during the Great Depression?

33. How did the U.S. contribute to WWII before officially entering the war?

34. How was propaganda used by the US during WWI?

35. How did GA’s governor feel about the SSA?

36. What was the 3 Governor’s controversy?

37. What was the impact of the boll weevil and drought on GA’s farmers?

38. What was the role of private charities during the GD?

39. Which law made segregation of public facilities illegal in the US?

40. What was the Sibley Commission?

41. What are revenue, tax, profit, and entrepreneurs?

42. What was the “New South” and who was Henry Grady?

43. What was Imperialism?

44. Who were Henry Ford and William Hartsfield?

45. What was the draft?

46. What do the terms neutrality and alliance mean during war?

47. What do the following economic terms mean: stock , repossess, expenses, overdraft, income, free trade, mutual fund, and certificate of deposit (CD)?

48. What was the Cold War and what does containment mean?

49. What was the Gettysburg address?

Essay Questions:

1. How did the New Deal effect GA citizens?

2. How did WWII effect GA?

3. How were GA citizens involved in the Civil Rights movement?

4. What is the lasting impact of the Civil War on our country?