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Social Studies testa
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Question | Answer |
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Hernando De Soto | went searching for gold in America, never found it, died while there, his men brought disease + violence to the indians, caused many deaths. |
Tomochichi | chief of Yamacraw indians, gave Oglethorpe land to set up on near Savannah River. |
James Oglethorpe | Chartered Savannah |
Mary Musgrove | translator between Tomochichi + Oglethorpe, |
John Reynolds | 1st royal governor, set up bicameral, let people be part of government, |
Henry Ellis | 2nd royal governor, improved economy, very popular with people, but very weird |
James Wright | 3rd royal governor, improved defenses, created first newspaper |
Elijah Clarke | Leader @ Kettle Creek, saved by Austin Dabney, |
Austin Dabney | a slave who fought, severely wounded, saved Elijah Clarke, rewarded afterwards |
Nancy Hart | Gained her fame by fighting off Tories by getting them drunk and taking their guns while her children called for help |
Button Gwinnett | Signer of U.S. Declaration of Independence |
Lyman Hall | Signer of U.S. Declaration of Independence |
George Walton | Signer of U.S. Declaration of Independence |
Abraham Baldwin | GA Representative @ Continental Congress |
William Few | GA Representative @ Continental Congress |
Alexander McGillivray | Signed the Treaty of New York, gave away land East of the Oconee, |
William McIntosh | signed Treaty of Indian Springs, gave up land West of Oconee, was murdered. |
Sequoyah | Created Syllabary, |
John Ross | took a petition to congress w/ 15000 signatures (90% of all Cherokee) to protest indian removal. |
Andrew Jackson | President at time of Indian Removal |
John Marshall | Chief Justice who said that Cherokee territory wasn't subject to state law, |
Alexander Stephens | Vice President of the Confederacy, U.S. Representative, 50th gvnr of GA |
Jefferson Davis | President of Confederacy |
William T. Sherman | General for Union army |
Robert E. Lee | Confederate General |
Ulysses S. Grant | Union Army, 18th president of the U.S. |
Abraham Lincoln | President of U.S. during Civil War |
Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's VP |
Henry McNeal Turner | One of the first African Americans Elected to the Georgia General Assembly. |