GA Studies Bingo: Important Georgians
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GA Studies Bingo: Important Georgians. BINGO. 1. 6. 11. 16. 21. 2. 7. 12. 17. 22. 3. 8. 13. 18. 23. 4. 9. 14. 19. 24. 5. 10. 15. 20. 1. He was a mentor of MLK Jr. and leading advocate for Civil Rights. He was president of Morehouse college. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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• He was a mentor of MLK Jr. and leading advocate for Civil Rights.
• He was president of Morehouse college.
• He agreed with the passive resistance strategies that Gandhi was using.
• He was involved with the NAACP as mess as the YMCA
Answer: benjamine mays
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• He won the presidential election of 1860 on the Republican ticket
• His election caused the southern states to secede
• He issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all the slaves in rebelling states
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Answer: abraham lincoln
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3•He gave a speech against secession in the 1861 GA Assembly debate over secession.
•During the Civil War he becomes the VP under Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy
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Answer: Alexander stephens
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4• He is the most hated figure in Georgia’s history
•He was a General in the Union army
•He destroyed Atlanta
•He marched to the sea
•He gave Savannah to President Lincoln for Christmas
Answer: William T. Sherman
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• He was president of the Confederacy during the Civil War
Answer: jefferson Davis
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6• He was the commander of Andersonville Prison•He was executed by the North for war crimes.•He was the only member of the Confederacy that met this fate.
Answer: Captain Henry Wirz
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7•He was one of the first African Americans to serve in the Georgia General Assembly
Answer: Henry McNeal turner
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He was a Creek Chief who signed the second treaty of Indian Springs
The Creeks came to his home and shot and killed him.
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Answer: William McIntosh
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They used terroristic actions to intimidate freed blacks and white Republicans.
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Answer: Ku klux klan
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• They were the 3 members of the Bourbon Triumvirate.
• They were all key figures in the Civil War
• Rotated positions of Governor and legislator for over 20 years
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Answer: Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon
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• He is best known for his continual promotion of the “New South”
•He wanted to industrialize the South
•He encouraged Northern investors to come South
•He was instrumental in bringing the International Cotton Exposition to Atlanta and the creator of the Georgia institute of Technology (GA Tech)
•He was the managing editor of the Atlanta Journal
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Answer: Henry grady
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• He was born a slave in Virginia
• He was head of the Tuskegee Institute
• He believed the best way for African – Americans to gain civil rights was through hard work, education and economic accomplishments.
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Answer: booker t washington
• Wanted to fight the Jim Crow laws and segregation with his concept of “The Talented tenth” or an elite group of college educated African Americans.
•He helped create the NAACP in 1906
•He wanted change now.
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Answer: WEB DuBois
He was an important civil rights leader, and social reformer in Atlanta.
He was the first African American President of Morehouse and actively involved in the NAACP
He was married to Lugenia Burns who was also an activist that helped develop the Neighborhood Union and also helped with the YWCA
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Answer: John and lugnia burns hope
He attended the second Continental Congress in Philadelphia and supported independence from England.
He helped write and pass the Georgia Constitution of 1777.
He died in a duel with McIntosh and has a Georgia county named for him.
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Answer: Button Gwinnett
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He was born a slave who was emancipated after the Civil War.
He opened a barber shop in Atlanta
He also opened the Atlanta Mutual Life insurance Co.
He was a very successful entrapenaur
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Answer: alonzo herndon
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He was elected Governor of GA in 1932 and 1934 thanks to the rural support and the power of the County Unit System.
He promised the voters he would balance the state’s budget, lower the utility rate, reduce the price of auto tags.
He fought against Roosevelt’s New Deal especially those that favored equal rights.
He lost accreditation for UGA
His son becomes Governor after he dies in office.
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Answer: Eugene talmadge
He was governor of GA and a U.S. Senator
He was an advocate for building GA’s military and was responsible for bringing many military bases to GA as well as the CDC.
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Answer: Richard b. russell
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19He known as “The Father of the Two Ocean Navy”
Advocated a strong navy during the 1920’s and 1930’s.
He has a nuclear powered arir craft named after him.
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Answer: carl vinson
He had a house in Warm Springs Georgia called The Little White House.
He was the President of the U.S. responsible for the creation of the New Deal
He suffered from childhood Polio.
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Answer: fdr
He is known for 2 major things: Bringing air transportation to the state and coining the phrase “the city too busy to hate”
He was Atlanta’s longest serving Mayor
His support of Civil Rights kept Atlanta from racial violence.
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Answer: William B. Hartsfield
He brought major league sports to Atlanta
He served as Mayor of Atlanta
He was a proponent of Civil Rights
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Answer: Ivan allen jr.
•He defeated Eugene Talmadge for governor in 1942.
•He restored UGA’s accreditation.
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Answer: ellis arnall
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24He was the son of EugeneA segregationistHe became governor in a special election after the death of his father.
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Answer: Herman talmadge
