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Check Your Answer 1 He was a mentor of MLK Jr. and leading advocate for Civil Rights. He was president of Morehouse college. He agreed with the passive resistance strategies that Gandhi was using. He was involved with the NAACP as mess as the YMCA

Answer: benjamine mays Back to the Game Board 1

Check Your Answer 2 He won the presidential election of 1860 on the Republican ticket His election caused the southern states to secede He issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all the slaves in rebelling states

Back to the Game Board 2 Answer: abraham lincoln

Check Your Answer 3 He gave a speech against secession in the 1861 GA Assembly debate over secession. During the Civil War he becomes the VP under Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy

Back to the Game Board 3 Answer: Alexander stephens

Check Your Answer 4 He is the most hated figure in Georgia’s history He was a General in the Union army He destroyed Atlanta He marched to the sea He gave Savannah to President Lincoln for Christmas

Answer: William T. Sherman Back to the Game Board 4

Check Your Answer 5 He was president of the Confederacy during the Civil War

Answer: jefferson Davis Back to the Game Board 5

Check Your Answer 6 He was the commander of Andersonville Prison He was executed by the North for war crimes. He was the only member of the Confederacy that met this fate.

Answer: Captain Henry Wirz Back to the Game Board 6

Check Your Answer 7 He was one of the first African Americans to serve in the Georgia General Assembly

Answer: Henry McNeal turner Back to the Game Board 7

He was a Creek Chief who signed the second treaty of Indian Springs The Creeks came to his home and shot and killed him. Check Your Answer 8

Answer: William McIntosh Back to the Game Board 8

They used terroristic actions to intimidate freed blacks and white Republicans. Check Your Answer 9

Answer: Ku klux klan Back to the Game Board 9

They were the 3 members of the Bourbon Triumvirate. They were all key figures in the Civil War Rotated positions of Governor and legislator for over 20 years Check Your Answer 10

Answer: Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon Back to the Game Board 10

He is best known for his continual promotion of the “New South” He wanted to industrialize the South He encouraged Northern investors to come South He was instrumental in bringing the International Cotton Exposition to Atlanta and the creator of the Georgia institute of Technology (GA Tech) He was the managing editor of the Atlanta Journal Check Your Answer 11

Answer: Henry grady Back to the Game Board 11

Check Your Answer 12 He was born a slave in Virginia He was head of the Tuskegee Institute He believed the best way for African – Americans to gain civil rights was through hard work, education and economic accomplishments.

Back to the Game Board 12 Answer: booker t washington

Wanted to fight the Jim Crow laws and segregation with his concept of “The Talented tenth” or an elite group of college educated African Americans. He helped create the NAACP in 1906 He wanted change now. Check Your Answer 13

Answer: Back to the Game Board 13 Answer: WEB DuBois

He was an important civil rights leader, and social reformer in Atlanta. He was the first African American President of Morehouse and actively involved in the NAACP He was married to Lugenia Burns who was also an activist that helped develop the Neighborhood Union and also helped with the YWCA Check Your Answer 14

Back to the Game Board 14 Answer: John and lugnia burns hope

He attended the second Continental Congress in Philadelphia and supported independence from England. He helped write and pass the Georgia Constitution of He died in a duel with McIntosh and has a Georgia county named for him. Check Your Answer 15

Answer: Button Gwinnett Back to the Game Board 15

He was born a slave who was emancipated after the Civil War. He opened a barber shop in Atlanta He also opened the Atlanta Mutual Life insurance Co. He was a very successful entrapenaur Check Your Answer 16

Back to the Game Board 16 Answer: alonzo herndon

Check Your Answer 17 He was elected Governor of GA in 1932 and 1934 thanks to the rural support and the power of the County Unit System. He promised the voters he would balance the state’s budget, lower the utility rate, reduce the price of auto tags. He fought against Roosevelt’s New Deal especially those that favored equal rights. He lost accreditation for UGA His son becomes Governor after he dies in office.

Back to the Game Board 17 Answer: Eugene talmadge

He was governor of GA and a U.S. Senator He was an advocate for building GA’s military and was responsible for bringing many military bases to GA as well as the CDC. Check Your Answer 18

Back to the Game Board 18 Answer: Richard b. russell

Check Your Answer 19 He known as “The Father of the Two Ocean Navy” Advocated a strong navy during the 1920’s and 1930’s. He has a nuclear powered arir craft named after him.

Back to the Game Board 19 Answer: carl vinson

He had a house in Warm Springs Georgia called The Little White House. He was the President of the U.S. responsible for the creation of the New Deal He suffered from childhood Polio. Check Your Answer 20

Back to the Game Board 20 Answer: fdr

He is known for 2 major things: Bringing air transportation to the state and coining the phrase “the city too busy to hate” He was Atlanta’s longest serving Mayor His support of Civil Rights kept Atlanta from racial violence. Check Your Answer 21

Back to the Game Board 21 Answer: William B. Hartsfield

He brought major league sports to Atlanta He served as Mayor of Atlanta He was a proponent of Civil Rights Check Your Answer 22

Back to the Game Board 22 Answer: Ivan allen jr.

He defeated Eugene Talmadge for governor in He restored UGA’s accreditation. Check Your Answer 23

Back to the Game Board 23 Answer: ellis arnall

Check Your Answer 24 He was the son of Eugene A segregationist He became governor in a special election after the death of his father.

Back to the Game Board 24 Answer: Herman talmadge