UGA History Exemption Test Questions And Answers Women's Right Movement - CORRECT ANSWER - Rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls of many societies worldwide Ku Klux Klan - CORRECT ANSWER - Terrorist organization dev oted to racial inequality, suffering and evil; established 1868 Conscription - CORRECT ANSWER - The compulsory enlistment of people in some sort of national service, most often military service Populist Party - CORRECT ANSWER - U.S. political party that so ught to represent the interests of farmers and laborers in the 1890s, advocating increased currency issues, free coinage of silver, public ownership of railroads, and a graduated federal income tax; also called People's Party World War I - CORRECT ANSWER - Global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918; also known as the Great War President: Woodrow Wilson Jim Crow - CORRECT ANSWER - The system of racial segregation in the South that was created in the late ninet eenth century following the end of slavery. Laws written to separate blacks and whites in public areas/meant African Americans had unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and government; 1876 -1965 Ended by Lyndon B. Johnson Progressive Movemen t - CORRECT ANSWER - General political philosophy advocating or favoring social, political, and economic reform Presidents: Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson America Prohibition - CORRECT ANSWER - National ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation o f alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933. Ban was mandated by the 18th Amendment to the Constitution Private ownership of consumable alcohol and drinking it was not made illegal. Ended with the ratification of the 21st Amendment, which repealed the 18th Amendment, on December 5, 1933 Woodrow Wilson - CORRECT ANSWER - Leader of the Progressive Movement and was the 28th President of the United States (1913 -1921). After a policy of ne utrality at the outbreak of World War I, he led America into war in order to "make the world safe for democracy" Treaty of Versailles - CORRECT ANSWER - One of the peace treaties at the end of World War I; was intended to provide a place where countries co uld peacefully discuss solutions to their differences rather than go to war. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Whig Par ty - CORRECT ANSWER - Party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s Mugwump Party - CORRECT ANSWER - Republican political activist s who bolted from the US Republican Party by supporting Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the United States presidential election of 1884 Switched parties because they rejected the financial corruption associated with Republican candidate James G. Blaine. In a close election, they supposedly made the difference in New York state and swung the election to Cleveland New Deal - CORRECT ANSWER - Series of economic programs enacted in the US between 1933 and 1936. They involved presidential executive ord ers or laws passed by Congress during the first term of FDR Great Depression - CORRECT ANSWER - Economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s; longest and most widespread of its kind of the 20th century President: FDR World War II - CORRECT ANSWER - Global war that was under way by 1939 and ended in 1945. It involved a vast majority of the world's nations, including all of the great powers, eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and t he Axis President: FDR Internment Camps - CORRECT ANSWER - The relocation of about 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the US to camps called "War Relocation Camps," in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor; Americans feared they might be loyal to Japan Axis Powers - CORRECT ANSWER - Alignment of nations that fought in the Second World War against the Allied forces Franklin D. Roosevelt - CORRECT ANSWER - 32nd President of the United States 1933 -1945 and a central figure in world events during the mid -20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war President during Great Depression and WW2 Victory Gardens - CORRECT ANSWER - Vegetable gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Germany during World War I and World War II to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by the war effort Calvin Coolidge - CORRECT ANSWER - 30th President of the United States 1923 -1929 Scopes Trial - CORRECT ANSWER - 1925 case in which HS science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, w hich made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state -funded school Father Charles Coughlin - CORRECT ANSWER - Controversial Roman Catholic priest at Royal Oak, Michigan's National Shrine of the Little Flower church Tennessee Valley Authority - CORRECT AN SWER - Federally owned corporation in the US created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley...built hydroelectric dams to create jobs and bring cheap electricity to south Lend -Lease Act - CORRECT ANSWER - Principal means for providing US military aid to foreign nations during WW2. By allowing the transfer of supplies without compensation to Britain, China, SU, and others, it permitted the US to support its war interests without being overextended in battle Hiroshima - CORRECT ANSWER - The atomic bombings of the cities of this city in Japan was conducted by the US during the final stages of World War II in 1945. These two even ts are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. Harlem Renaissance - CORRECT ANSWER - A cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s Name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem; known as the "New Negro Movement"
