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Social Studies testa
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hernando De Soto | went searching for gold in America, never found it, died while there, his men brought disease + violence to the indians, caused many deaths. |
| Tomochichi | chief of Yamacraw indians, gave Oglethorpe land to set up on near Savannah River. |
| James Oglethorpe | Chartered Savannah |
| Mary Musgrove | translator between Tomochichi + Oglethorpe, |
| John Reynolds | 1st royal governor, set up bicameral, let people be part of government, |
| Henry Ellis | 2nd royal governor, improved economy, very popular with people, but very weird |
| James Wright | 3rd royal governor, improved defenses, created first newspaper |
| Elijah Clarke | Leader @ Kettle Creek, saved by Austin Dabney, |
| Austin Dabney | a slave who fought, severely wounded, saved Elijah Clarke, rewarded afterwards |
| Nancy Hart | Gained her fame by fighting off Tories by getting them drunk and taking their guns while her children called for help |
| Button Gwinnett | Signer of U.S. Declaration of Independence |
| Lyman Hall | Signer of U.S. Declaration of Independence |
| George Walton | Signer of U.S. Declaration of Independence |
| Abraham Baldwin | GA Representative @ Continental Congress |
| William Few | GA Representative @ Continental Congress |
| Alexander McGillivray | Signed the Treaty of New York, gave away land East of the Oconee, |
| William McIntosh | signed Treaty of Indian Springs, gave up land West of Oconee, was murdered. |
| Sequoyah | Created Syllabary, |
| John Ross | took a petition to congress w/ 15000 signatures (90% of all Cherokee) to protest indian removal. |
| Andrew Jackson | President at time of Indian Removal |
| John Marshall | Chief Justice who said that Cherokee territory wasn't subject to state law, |
| Alexander Stephens | Vice President of the Confederacy, U.S. Representative, 50th gvnr of GA |
| Jefferson Davis | President of Confederacy |
| William T. Sherman | General for Union army |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate General |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union Army, 18th president of the U.S. |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of U.S. during Civil War |
| Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's VP |
| Henry McNeal Turner | One of the first African Americans Elected to the Georgia General Assembly. |