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GA Hist-Who's Who #1
Students match the person with their description
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jimmy Carter | 39th President of the United States and the only commander-in-chief from Georgia |
| Alonzo Herndon | a former slave and sharecropper who became a successful Atlanta businessman and millionaire |
| black legislators | African Americans who held political office during Reconstruction but who were often denied full access to government |
| tenant farmers | agricultural laborers who worked another's land and who might make some small profit since they owned their own tools and some livestock |
| sharecroppers | agricultural laborers who worked another's land in exchange for a portion of their harvest, usually without making any profit and remaining indentured to the landowner |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | American president who crafted the "new Deal" to bring the U.S. out of the Great Depression; he spent much of his time in Warm Springs, Georgia to treat his polio |
| Henry Grady | Atlanta newspaperman and "voice of the New South" |
| W.E.B. DuBois | author of "The Souls of Black Folk" and an early civil rights activist who promoted social equality for African Americans in the early 20th century |
| Dred Scott | black slave who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom in the U.S. Supreme Court |
| John Ross | Cherokee Chief who accompanied his people on the Trail of Tears |
| John Marshall | Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who ruled in favor of American Indian Rights in Worcester v. Georgia |
| Andrew Young | Civil Rights activist who became the first African American from Georgia since Reconstruction to serve in the U.S. Congress; he was also a U.S. ambassador under President Jimmy Carter |
| William McIntosh | Creek chief who sold off the last of his people's land in Georgia |
| Booker T. Washinton | early civil rights activist who promoted African American economic independence in his "Atlanta Compromise" speech |
| British | European empire who established the thirteen American colonies |
| Freedman's Bureau | federal agency created after the Civil War to help train and educate former black slaves |
| Maynard Jackson | first African American mayor of Atlanta and a major promoter of aviation |
| Hernando DeSoto | first European to explore present-day Georgia |
| John Lewis | first president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the Civil Rights Movement and served as a U.S Representative for Georgia |
| Lester Maddox | former segregationist restauranteur who later, as governor, appointed more African Americans to government positions than all previous Georgia governmors |
| James Oglethorpe | founder of Georgia |
| Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton | Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence |
| Spanish | European empire who colonized Florida |
| John Reynolds, Henry Ellis, James Wright | Georgia's royal governors following the Trustee period |
| Carl Vinson | Georgian who served in the U.S. Congress for over 50 years; "Father of the Two-Ocean Navy" |
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