GA Studies Practice Test 2

What laws were passed to discriminate against African Americans?

• County unit laws

• Plessy-Ferguson rulings

• Jim Crow laws

• Fair Living laws

Who uged African Americans to speak out against discrimination?

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Lugenia Burns Hope

• Thomas Jefferson

The sinking of what British passenger liner during WWI outraged Americans?

• Lusitania

• Titanic

• Prosperity

• America

What event led the United States into World War II?

• Lend-Lease Act

• Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

• bombing of Hiroshima

• murder of Abraham Lincoln

What civil rights leader believed in nonviolent protest?

• Booker T. Washington

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Hamilton Holmes

• Charlayne Hunter

What legislation prohibited discrimination based on color, race, or religion in public places?

• Stamp Act

• Civil Rights Act

• Albany Act

• Civil Equality Act

Who was the first African American mayor of a major Southern city?

• William Hartsfield

• Lugenia Burns Hope

• Benjamin Franklin

• Maynard Jackson

What divides Georgia's sources of water?

• Fall Line

• Amicalola Falls

• Chattahoochee River

• Mississippi River

Georgia's location has made it a center of __________ in the South.

• Southern culture

• transportation

• museums

• boating

Georgia's General Assembly is what branch of government?

• executive

• legislative

• judicial

• least important