Georgia History Study Guide

signed by King George II; legal document that gave special rights and privileges in the settlement of Georgia; It was granted to a group of 21 trustees.

the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress

a writing system whose characters represent syllables

The most infamous prison in the south. There was no shelter. There was a huge population, and there were food shortages, overcrowding, and disease that killed about 100 men a day during the summer months.

in the new states, basically all white men could vote, and in older states the qualifications lightened up too. as a result, politicians had to appeal to more people of middle and lower classes.

Denial of the right to vote

created by the General Assembly to travel throughout the state to find the feelings of Georgians regarding integration of school

was a 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.

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, college kids participate in Civil Rights, stage sit-ins and such

A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalacian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east.

the practice of keeping blacks from voting in the southern states' primaries through arbitrary use of registration requirements and intimidation

He is referred to the "Father of the two-ocean Navy." He represented Georgia in the House of Representatives for 25 consecutive years. He helped pass two legislations that helped the military. He is why we have military bases in foreign lands and he used his power to bring war time industries to Georgia during WWII.

father of the school lunch program. governor for less than 2 years after Lamartine Hardman died. senator for 38 years. also suppoted the military.

-1863 by Lincoln -slaves in rebellious states are freed -had little affect as Lincoln not incontrol of those states -1/7th of southern slaves joined union army -turned war into moral battle and ruined chance of negotiating an early peace -increased union army desertion -europe on north side

a procedure for political primaries that gave the more populous counties more unit votes; established by the Neill Primary Act

a group of people sent from Spain to convert the "natives" to Christianity

Founded 1891 - called for free coinage of silver and paper money, national income tax, direct election of senators, regulation of railroads, and other government reforms to help farmers

an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories

This Act set up Kansas and Nebraska as states. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were proslavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act. This began guerrilla warfare.

Was directed to feeding and clothing war refugees in the South using surplus army supplies. Beginning in Sep. 1865, it issued nearly 30,000 rations a day for the next year; Helped formerly enslaved people find work on plantations

Constitutional division of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, with the legislative branch making law, the executive applying and enforcing the law, and the judiciary interpreting the law

cherokee appealed to supreme court to stop white encroachments into cherokee nation; marshal ruled in indians favor saying that only federal govt could do that and states had no authority over tribes

an elected official serving as deputy to the governor of a state of the United States

Sections of the Earth divided by the Equator and Prime Meridian (Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western)

Civil War battle in which the North suceedeed in halting Lee's Confederate forces in Maryland. Was the bloodiest battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties

bribed for land; was during Louiville's rain as capital

citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude