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YAZOO LANDS
the sparsely-populated central and western areas of the U.S. state of Georgia, when its western border stretched back to the Mississippi River. TERM 2
YAZOO FRAUD
DEFINITION 2 land controversy was a massive fraud perpetrated from in the mid-1790s by several Georgia governors and the state legislature. TERM 3
JAMES JACKSON
DEFINITION 3 was a United States Representative from Georgia, a judge advocate in the American Civil War, and a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.(October 18, 1819 - January 13, 1887) was a United States Representative from Georgia, a judge advocate in the American Civil War, and a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. He nunfilled the yazoo sale and destructed records connected with the state. Later the yazoo lands was given to the fed. govt. TERM 4
MERCANTILISM
DEFINITION 4 is the economic doctrine that government control of foreign trade is of paramount importance for ensuring the military security of the country. TERM 5
3 REASONS FOR COLONLY FUNDING
DEFINITION 5
- TRUST WANTED TO PROVIDE A NEW START FOR POOR OF ENGLAND AND PERSECUTED PROTESTANTS IN EUROP2. ENGLISH GOVERMENT WANTED DEFENSE BUFFER BETWEEN SPANIS FORIDA AND ENGLIS CAROLINA3.ENGLISH GOVERMENT WANTED GEORGIA TO FIT INTO BRITISH MERCANTILISM
3 BASIC AREAS
1 MOUNTAINS - APPALACHIANS TALL PEAKS DEEP SECLUDED
VALLEY HARDWOOD FOREST2. PIEDMONT - ROLLINGS HILLS,
RED CLAY PINE AND HARDWOOD3. COASTAL PLAIN - LOW
RELATIVELY DANDY EARLIER GEOGRAPHIC UNDERNEATH
THE SEA.
TERM 7
JAMES OGLETHORPE
DEFINITION 7 Interested in English prisons, chairman of Parliamentary committee on prison conditions. TERM 8
MARY MUSGROVE
DEFINITION 8 facilitated in the development of Colonial Georgia and became an important intermediary between Muscogee Creek Indians and the English colonists. TERM 9
TOMOCHICHI
DEFINITION 9 was a seventeenth-century Creek leader and the head chief of a Yamacraw town on the site of present day Savannah, Georgia. TERM 10
WILLIAM STEPHENS
DEFINITION 10 William Dennison Stephens (December 26, 1859 - April 25,
- was an American federal and state politician.
NOBLE WIMBERLY JONES
was an American physician and statesman from Savannah, Georgia. TERM 17
WALTON HALL
DEFINITION 17 Walton Hall is the name of several places: TERM 18
GWINNETT
DEFINITION 18 is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia, named for Button Gwinnett, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. TERM 19
LACHLAN MCINTOSH
DEFINITION 19 was a British-born American military and political leader during the American Revolution and the early United States. TERM 20
ELIJAH CLARKE
DEFINITION 20 born in Anson County, North Carolina, was a Continental Army officer and hero in the American Revolutionary War.
NANCY HART
was a heroine of the American Revolutionary War exploits against Loyalists in the Georgia backcountry are the stuff of legend. TERM 22
THOMAS
BROWN
DEFINITION 22 was an English Loyalist during the American Revolution. TERM 23
COL ARCHIBALD
CAMPBELL
DEFINITION 23 served as Governor of Jamaica and Madras. TERM 24
ANTHONY WAYNE
DEFINITION 24 a United States Army general and statesman. Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned him promotion to brigadier general and the sobriquet Mad Anthony. TERM 25
NATHANIEL GREENE
DEFINITION 25 an American journalist.
GEORGE MATHEWS
was a Judge of the Superior Courts of the Territory of Mississippi and the Territory of Orleans, and Presiding Judge of the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1813 until his death in
TERM 32
JAMES JACKSON
DEFINITION 32 was a United States Representative from Georgia, a judge advocate in the American Civil War, and a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. TERM 33
JOHN CLARKE
DEFINITION 33 a medical doctor, Baptist minister, co-founder of the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, author of its influential charter, and a leading advocate of religious freedom in the Americas. TERM 34
ELIJAH CLARKE
DEFINITION 34 Elijah Clarke (1742 - December 15, 1799), born in Anson County, North Carolina, was a Continental Army officer and hero in the American Revolutionary War. DEVELOPED GORILLA WARFARE/MILITIA TERM 35
GEORGE TROUP
DEFINITION 35 Sir George Alexander Troup, CMG (21 October 1863 - 4 October 1941) was a New Zealand architect, engineer and statesman.
JOSIAH MEIGS
an American academic, journalist and government official. TERM 37
ELI WHITNEY
DEFINITION 37 an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. TERM 38
JOHN MILLEDGE
DEFINITION 38 an American politician. He fought in the American Revolution and was later a United States Representative and a Senator representing Georgia. TERM 39
WILLIAM HARRIS CRAWFORD
DEFINITION 39 an American politician and judge during the early 19th century. TERM 40
JOHN FORSYTH
DEFINITION 40 a 19th-century American politician from Georgia.
JOHN ROSS
became principal chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1827, following the establishment of a government modeled on that of the United States. He presided over the nation during the apex of its development in the Southeast, the tragic Trail of Tears, and the subsequent rebuilding of the nation in Indian Territory, in present- day Oklahoma. TERM 47
MAJOR RIDGE
DEFINITION 47 a Cherokee leader, a member of the tribal council, a Chickamauga warrior, and a lawmaker. TERM 48
JOHN RIDGE
DEFINITION 48 considered the first Native American novelist TERM 49
SEQUOYAH
DEFINITION 49 creator of the Cherokee syllabary. TERM 50
ELIAS BOUDINOT
DEFINITION 50 a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and served as President of the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1783. He was elected as a U.S.
BALDWIN LONGSTREET
dean of the Georgia humorists. His book of humorous sketches, Georgia Scenes(1835), paved the way for other satirists, collectively known as the Georgia humorists.published Georgia's first important literary work, Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, Etc. in the First Half Century of the Republic. TERM 52
CRAWFORD W. LONG
DEFINITION 52 an American surgeon and pharmacist best known for his first use of inhaled diethyl ether as an anesthetic. TERM 53
JOSEPH E.
BROWN
DEFINITION 53 the 42nd Governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865, and a U.S. TERM 54
ALEXANDER STEPHENS
DEFINITION 54 an American politician from Georgia and a slave owner. TERM 55
ROBERT TOOMBS
DEFINITION 55 an American and Confederate political leader, Whig Party senator from Georgia, a founding father of the Confederacy, its first Secretary of State, and a minor Confederate general in the Civil War.
FEDERALIST
PAPER
a series of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution. TERM 62
TORIES
DEFINITION 62 political philosophy based on the traditionalism and conservatism originating with the Cavalier faction during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. TERM 63
FREDRICK DOUGLAS
DEFINITION 63 was an African American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. TERM 64
FIRST PARTY SYSTEM
DEFINITION 64 is a model of American politics used in history and political science to periodize the political party system existing in the United States between roughly 1792 and 1824. It featured two national parties competing for control of the presidency, Congress, and the states: the Federalist Party, created largely by Alexander Hamilton, and the rival Republican Party formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. TERM 65
SECOND PARTY SYSTEM
DEFINITION 65 is a term of periodization used by historians and political scientists to name the political party system existing in the United States from about 1828 to 1854, after the First Party System.
SECTIONALISM
In national politics, sectionalism is loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole. TERM 67
RECONSTRUCTION ERA
DEFINITION 67 In the history of the United States, the term Reconstruction Era has two senses: the first covers the complete history of the entire U.S. TERM 68
POPULIST PARTY
DEFINITION 68 a political party in the United States between 1984 and 1996. It was conservative and often white nationalist in its ideology. TERM 69
JIM CROW LAWS
DEFINITION 69 mandated racial segregation or separation in public facilities and effectively codified the region's tradition of white supremacy. The name refers to a minstrel character popular in the 1820s and 1830s, but it is unknown how the term came to describe the form of racial segregation and discrimination that prevailed in the American South during the first half of the twentieth century. TERM 70
LATIMER FELTON
DEFINITION 70 writer and tireless campaigner for Progressive Era reforms, especially women's rights, she was the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate
HENRY GRADY
of Journalism and Mass Communication is a college within the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, United States. TERM 77
WEB
DUBOIS
DEFINITION 77 was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan- Africanist, author and editor. Born in western Massachusetts, DuBois grew up in a tolerant community and experienced little racism as a child. After graduating from Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. DuBois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. against jim crow laws TERM 78
ALONZO HERNDON
DEFINITION 78 was an African-American businessman and the founder and president of the Atlanta Family Life Insurance Company (Atlanta Life). TERM 79
ASA CANDLER
DEFINITION 79 was an American business tycoon who made his fortune selling Coca-Cola. TERM 80
MARTHA BERRY
DEFINITION 80 founder of the Schools Martha Berryfor academically able but economically poor children of the rural Souththose who usually could not afford to go to other schools. These schools of the early 1900s grew within three decades into Berry College, a comprehensive liberal arts college.
JULIETTE GORDON LAW
Founder of Girl Scouts of the USA TERM 82
WALTER GEORGE
DEFINITION 82 was a nineteenth-century British runner from Calne who after setting numerous world records as an amateur, went professional in part to challenge the mile record-holder William Cummings, defeating him in several highly publicized races. TERM 83
RICHARD RUSSELL
DEFINITION 83 was an 18th-century British Physician who encouraged his patients to use a form of water therapy that involved the submersion or bathing in, and drinking of, seawater. TERM 84
EUGENE TALMADGE
DEFINITION 84 was a Democratic politician who served two terms as the 67th Governor of Georgia from 1933 to 1937, and a third term from 1941 to 1943. Elected to a fourth term in 1946, he died before taking office. TERM 85
EURITH D. RIVERS
DEFINITION 85 served consecutive two-year terms as Georgia's governor (elected in 1936 and reelected in 1938). In his first term, Rivers brought a "Little New Deal" to Georgia
ROBERT WOODRUFF
is synonymous with the Coca-Cola Company. His leadership, which lasted five decades, moved the company, in financial straits when he took control, into the ranks of a world-renowned corporation and made Coca-Cola one of the best-known and most widely distributed productsHe practiced a lifetime of civic-minded philanthropy, most of it anonymously, and exerted a powerful influence on Atlanta's business, cultural, and political development in the twentieth century. He left much of his personal wealth to a charitable foundation that today bears his name. TERM 92
CHARLES HERTY
DEFINITION 92 was an American academic, scientist and businessman. recognized chemist, revolutionized the southern forestry 1. devised and patented a workable and inexpensive cup-and-gutter system of gum collection. Besides producing greater quantities and better- quality turpentine,2. method extended the productive life of the trees and made them usable at maturity as saw timber. By the late 1920s, some form of3. cup-and-gutter system was employed throughout the turpentine region of the South. TERM 93
BOBBY JONES
DEFINITION 93 The greatest amateur golfer ever TERM 94
ELLIS ARNALL
DEFINITION 94 ran against Talmadge for governor who vowed to remove the University system from politics. After being elected, he removed the governor from the board of regents and enlarged the board. After this the university was again included into the accredited list. He granted the vote to 18 year olds. He repealed the poll tax. He established the Reid penitentiary. Put together a board to rewrite the constitution in 1945 that was approved by the voters. TERM 95
MARVIN GRIFFIN
DEFINITION 95 was one of the first governors to serve as a "good will ambassador" to attract industries to Georgia. a Democrat, was also a segregationist and promised to close the state'spublic school system if federal authorities tried to enforce desegregation. He left office under a cloud of suspicion for corruption in his administration and failed in an attempted gubernatorial comeback in 1962.
ERNEST VANDIVER
Samuel Ernest Vandiver Jr. (July 3, 1918 - February 21, 2005), was an American politician who was the 73rd Governor of the U.S.Georgia's segregation policies and revised the county unit system for nominating officeholders. Without increasing the state's tax base, made significant improvements in the areas of services, building programs, tourism, business and industrial development, educational expansion, and mental health. scandal- ridden "good old boy" network to an administration lauded for fiscal responsibility, honesty, and a progressive framework. TERM 97
CARL SANDERS
DEFINITION 97 Carl Edward Sanders, Sr. (born May 15, 1925), is an American politician who served as the 74th Governor of the state of Georgia from 1963 to 1967.is best remembered as Georgia's first New South governor, a Democrat who provided progressive leadership for the state from 1963 to 1967. By implementing an array of reforms during a turbulent period, greatly enhanced Georgia's national image. In addition to his political achievements, he had successful careers in both business and law. TERM 98
LESTER MADDOX
DEFINITION 98 Lester Garfield Maddox, Sr. (September 30, 1915 - June 25, 2003), was an American politician who was the 75th Governor of the U.S.As governor he backed significant prison reform, an issue popular with many of the state's African Americans. He appointed more African Americans to government positions than all previous Georgia governors combined, including the first black officer in the Georgia State Patrol and the first black official to the state Board of Corrections. Though he never finished high school, Maddox greatly increased funding for the University System of Georgia. TERM 99
JIMMY CARTER
DEFINITION 99 James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States (1977-1981) and was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. TERM 100
RICHARD RUSSELL
DEFINITION 100 served in public office for fifty years as a state legislator, governor of Georgia, and U.S. senator. was best known for his efforts to strengthen the national defense and to oppose civil rights legislation, he favored his role as advocate for the small farmer and for soil and water conservation.Healso worked to bring economic opportunities to Georgia. He helped to secure or maintain fifteen military installations; more than twenty-five research facilities, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agricultural Research Center; and federal funding for development and construction. believed that his most important legislative contribution was his authorship and secured passage of the National School Lunch Program in 1946.
