If you need this document in another format, please email Sherry Boatfield ([email protected]) or call 706‐864‐1903 Georgia History Legislative Exam Study Guide Based on Christopher C. Meyers & David Williams, Georgia: A Brief History (Mercer, 2012) Natives, Europeans, & the Founding of Ft. Mims Massacre Georgia John Ross Woodland Period Major Ridge Mississippian Culture Treaty of Fort Jackson Little Ice Age William McIntosh San Miguel de Gualdape Samuel A. Worcester Hernando de Soto Dr. Elizur Butler Pedro Menendez Worcester v. Georgia Dr. Henry Woodward Treaty of New Echota Appalachee Massacre Trail of Tears Yamasee War Fort King George Planters, Plain Folk, and the Enslaved James Edward Oglethorpe King Cotton Frederica Planters Indentured servitude Yeoman William Stephens Cotton Gin Eli Whitney Royal Colony and Revolution Alexander H. Stephens James Wright Poll tax Treaty of Augusta (1763) “penning” Stamp Act Hinton R. Helper Tondee’s Tavern Resolutions Lyman Hall Secession and Civil War Lachlan McIntosh Georgia Platform George Walton Compromise of 1850 Button Gwinnett Robert Toombs Nancy Hart Cooperationists Provisional Congresses Twenty‐slave Law Battle of Kettle Creek (1779) Peace Society Andersonville Land Frauds, Lotteries, and Indian Removal Henry Wirz Alexander McGillivray Treaty of New York (1790) Post‐Civil War Georgia Yazoo Land Fraud Reconstruction Fletcher v. Peck 1865, 1868 & 1877 Constitutions Compact of 1802 1st Reconstruction Act (1867) Benjamin Hawkins Black Codes Camilla Massacre Redemption Albany Movement African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church Atlanta Declaration Ku Klux Klan School “Freedom of Choice” plans Convict‐lease system African‐American voting rights Sharecropping UGA & integration Crop‐lien system “The New South” Modern Georgia GA industrialization economic changes by the 21st c. Bourbons/New Departure Democrats political changes by the 21st c. Bourbon Triumvirate Gray v Sanders Farmer’s Alliance Republicans and GA Populists Lester Maddox Zell Miller The Progressive Era & Jim Crow Jimmy Carter Progressivism Hoke Smith penal reform Prohibition women’s suffrage Neill Primary Act & country unit system Jim Crow revival of Ku Klux Klan NAACP The Depression, New Deal, & World War II GA agriculture & industry in the early 20th c. Coca‐Cola Richard Russell The Great Depression Eugene Talmadge The New Deal Eurith Rivers Ellis Arnall World War II The Civil Rights Era Smith v Allwright Brown v Board of Education Williams v GPSC Ernest Vandiver .