GA Studies - Places, Events, & Vocabulary Terms

This was an investigation by a lawyer in Georgia to determine how the state should deal with integration.

• Sibley Commission

• Albany Movement

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Brown v. Board of Education

This political group was led by Tom Watson and made up of farmers to support rural issues.

• SNCC

• SCLC

• Populist Party

• Freedmen's Bureau

This practice became popular among poor black and white farmers who worked on someone else's land. They used their own equipment but provided land owners with a share of their crops.

• Sharecropping

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• 3/5 Compromise

• Tenant Farming

During the Reconstruction period in Georgia, these people served in congress but were later removed from office because of racial discrimination.

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Black Legislators

• Bourbon Triumvirate

• SNCC

This Northern strategy was used to prevent the South from importing supplies and shipping its cotton to Europe.

• Union Blockade of GA's Coast

• Siege of Savannah

• March to the Sea

• Proclamation of 1763

Laws put in place during Reconstruction to deny newly freemen of civil rights.

• 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments

• Nullification

• States' Rights

• Black Codes

Meeting held in 1787 in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation.

• Great Compromise

• Constitutional Convention

• International Cotton Exposition

• U.S. Constitution

This was ratified on December 6, 1865, and it abolished slavery in the United States.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

This describes the debate of prominent GA politicians about whether Georgia should accept the terms of the Compromise of 1850.

• Great Compromise

• Popular Sovereignty

• Georgia Platform

• States' Rights

A royal decree from King George III that stated colonists could not settle newly acquired lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Charter of 1732

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Proclamation of 1763