UGA History Exemption Test 2020
He was a spanish explorer who marched across Mexico and conquered the
Aztecs - ✔️ Hernan Cortes
He explored deep in USA, first to discover and cross the Mississippi River and
claim it for Spain - ✔️ Hernando de Soto
This man was a member of the English Parliament who founded the colony of
Georgia. - ✔️ James Edward Oglethorpe
Who was Georgia's 3rd and final royal governor who fled the colony after the
start of the American Revolution? - ✔️ James Wright
In what year did the 13th amendment abolish slavery and involuntary
servitude? - ✔️ 1864
Who settled land in New York along the Hudson River? - ✔️ The Dutch
This man was an African American educator born into slavery who called for
black progress through education. - ✔️ Booker T Washington
Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the
central banking system of the United States, and granted it the legal authority
to issue Federal Reserve Notes, and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal
tender. - ✔️ Federal Reserve Act
In what year was the Federal Reserve Act ratified? - ✔️ 1913
What machine automated cotton processing and INCREASED the need for
slaves? - ✔️ Cotton Gin
This man was a quaker who founded Pennsylvania. He wanted to unite all of
the UA colonies and pushed for democracy and religious freedom. - ✔️
William Penn
What was Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government during the
Civil War (1861 - 1865)? - ✔️ Milledgeville
,In 1832 SC argued that the federal tariffs were unconstitutional and President
Jackson sent Troops to force SC to pay tariffs. - ✔️ Nullification Crisis
In 1925 a substitute teacher was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act
- ✔️ Scopes Trial
The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states
were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union - ✔️ Reconstruction Era
In what years did the Reconstruction Era occur? - ✔️ 1865-1877
A series of economic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and
1936. They involved presidential executive orders or laws passed by Congress
during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. - ✔️ The New Deal
Between what years was The New Deal enacted? - ✔️ 1933-1936
An African American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. Former
Slave who was the leader of the abolitionist movement and supported
women's suffrage. - ✔️ Frederick Douglass
What organization unsuccessfully campaigned for an equal rights amendment
to the constitution? - ✔️ National Organization of Women
Who was the 40th President of the United States who worked to lift govt
regulations, reduce taxes, and reduce domestic spending by curtailing social
welfare. Launched the largest peacetime military buildup in American history.
- ✔️ Ronald Reagan
In what years did prohibition take place? - ✔️ 1920-1933
A national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol. - ✔️
American Prohibition
Prohibition ended with the ratification of which amendment? - ✔️ The
21st Amendment
, Grayish bug that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton - ✔️
Boll Weevil
This was a house committee on international security looking for alleged
disloyalty and communist ties. - ✔️ Un-American Activities Committee
A league of 5 tribes of indigenous people of North America involved in the
Beaver Wars. - ✔️ Iroquois League
In what year did the strike against Pearl Harbor take place? - ✔️ 1941
This strike against US by imperial Japanese navy that led the US into WW2.
Also voided Roosevelt's neutrality act. - ✔️ Pearl Harbor
Explicitly grants right of citizens to vote regardless of race, color or having
been enslaved. - ✔️ 15th Amendment
In what year was the 15th Amendment enacted? - ✔️ 1870
Poll taxes, literacy test, grandfather clause, property requirements aimed at
disenfranchising black voters - ✔️ Voting Restrictions
When did the civil war take place? - ✔️ 1861-1865
War between the North and South US to determine the survival of union or
independence of confederacy. - ✔️ Civil War
This man was the father of the American revolution who inspired Rebels to
declare independence from Britain and Wrote Common Sense and The
American Crisis. - ✔️ Thomas Paine
When was the American Federation of Labor founded? - ✔️ 1886
This is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton,
James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States
Constitution-Against the bill of rights - ✔️ Federalist Papers
When was the Sherman Antitrust Act passed? - ✔️ 1890
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