Georgia History Exemption Exam Latest Update 2025-2026 60 Questions and 100% Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+
Albany Movement - CORRECT ANSWER: Desegregation coalition formed in Albany,
Georgia, quickly became a broad-front nonviolent attack on every aspect of segregation within the city. Bus stations, libraries, and lunch counters reserved for White Americans were occupied by African Americans, boycotts were launched, and hundreds of protesters marched on City Hall.
Alexander Stephens - CORRECT ANSWER: Georgia Congressman who supported the
Georgia Platform in 1850 and fought against secession in 1861 but eventually became the Vice President of the Confederate States of America.
Andersonville - CORRECT ANSWER: One of the most brutal prison camps in the Civil War. Union prisoner of war camp near Andersonville, Georgia. Estimated 12,000 Union soldiers died there from disease and starvation. Liberated in 1865
Andrew Young - CORRECT ANSWER: Aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ga's first black representative to the House of Representatives since Reconstruction. US Ambassador to the United Nations. Succeeded Jackson as mayor. Brought the Democratic Convention to Georgia and the 1996 Olympics to Atlanta.
Atlanta - CORRECT ANSWER: - Largest city in Georgia and the Deep South
- Capital of modern Georgia
- originally named Terminus, as it became the South's most important rail hub and
- set ablaze by General Sherman
manufacturing center;
Atlanta Campaign - CORRECT ANSWER: was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta, Georgia, during the 1 / 2
summer of 1864, leading to the eventual fall of Atlanta and hastening the end of the American Civil War
Atlanta Compromise - CORRECT ANSWER: Argument put forward by Booker T.
Washington that African-Americans should not focus on civil rights or social equality but concentrate on economic self-improvement
Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 - CORRECT ANSWER: Mass civil disturbance in Atlanta,
September 22-24, 1906 characterized at the time by Le Petit Journal and other media outlets as a "racial massacre of negroes". The death toll of the conflict was at least 25 African Americans along with 2 confirmed European Americans
Battle of Bloody Marsh - CORRECT ANSWER: In 1742, Oglethorpe's forces, along with help from the Highland Scots, surprised Spanish troops at St. Simon's Is;and and forced them back across the Florida border. This marked the beginning of a safe southern frontier for the British.
Battle of Chickamauga - CORRECT ANSWER: Fought September 19-20, 1863, marked
the end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia called the Chickamauga Campaign. The battle was the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater of the American Civil War and involved the second highest number of casualties in the war following the Battle of Gettysburg. It was the first major battle of the war that was fought in Georgia.
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain - CORRECT ANSWER: Fought on June 27, 1864, during
the Atlanta Campaign of the civil War. It was the most significant frontal assault launched by Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman against the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, ending in a tactical defeat for the Union forces.
Battle of Kettle Creek - CORRECT ANSWER: First colonial victory in Georgia on Feb.14, 1779; important to Georgia because it increased morale and the militia was able to take horses and much needed weapons from the British
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