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GA Hist-Who's Who #2
Students match the person with their description
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Richard B. Russell Jr. | Governor of Georgia and longtime U.S. Senator who promoted stronger national defense following WWII, but also opposed civil rights initiatives |
| John Sibley | head of a Georgia commission in 1960 tasked with determining how Georgia should address school integration |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and primary leader of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s |
| Leo Frank | Jewish factory superintendent lynched in Marietta in 1915; his death marked the resurgence of the KKK in Georgia |
| Mississippians | last of the prehistoric American Indian groups in Georgia |
| Ivan Allen Jr. | Mayor of Atlanta during the Civil Rights Movement who opposed segregation and brought professional sports teams to Georgia |
| William B. Hartsfield | Mayor of Atlanta who promoted aviation and civil rights advances |
| Homer Plessy | plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case that established the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation |
| Andrew Johnson | President of the United States during Reconstruction |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States during the American Civil War |
| Andrew Jackson | President of the United States who authorized the Indian Removal Act |
| Tom Watson | pro-farmer Populist politician from Georgia |
| Malcontents | Scottish settlers who apposed James Oglethorpe's policies |
| Catholics | settler group explicitly banned in the Georgia charter |
| Highland Scots, Salzbergers, Jews | settler groups in the early Georgia colony |
| Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, John B. Gordon | the pro-industrialization "Bourbon Triumvirate" of Georgia's Redemption period |
| Ellis Arnall, Melvin Thompson, Herman Talmadge | the three politicians embroiled in Georgia's 1946 governors controversy |
| Loyalists | those loyal to Britain in the American Revolution |
| Patriots | those loyal to the American colonies during the Revolutionary War |
| Eugene Talmadge | three-term governor of Georgia who opposed FDR and the New Deal |
| Mary Musgrove | translator for James Oglethorpe |
| Trustees | twenty-one men entrusted with governing the original Georgia colony |
| William T. Sherman | Union general who carried out the Atlanta Campaign and the March to the Sea |
| Ku Klux Klan | white supremacist terror group founded in Tennessee after the Civil War |
| Tomochichi | Yamacraw chief who negotiated the land cession which established the Georgia colonies |
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jscarborough70
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