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UGA History Exemption Test 2018
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UGA History Exemption Test 2018Hernan Cortes ✔️ Spanish explorer who marched across mexico and
conquered the aztecs
- from spain
Hernando de Soto ✔️ -explored deep in USA
-first to cross and disocer Miss. River
-claimed for Spain
Georgia first colonized by Spanish because they were looking for ✔️ gold
and land
James Edward Oglethorpe ✔️ The leader of English Parliament who
founded the Georgia colony
James Wright ✔️ Georgia's third, and final, royal governor
Jamestown ✔️ -First permanent English settlement
-Starving time (1609-1610 80% died)
-1619: first slave ship of africans
- 1640: modern concept of slavery was established in US
Why did colonists come to the New World? ✔️ Religious freedom
profit
adventure...etc.
Original Trustees of Ga were provided what ✔️ 50 acres , free passage,
provisions for 1 yr
William Penn ✔️ -Founder of Pennsylvania
-Pushed for democracy and religious freedom
-Quaker
-Wanted to unite all of the U.S. colonies
What country claimed Quebec? ✔️ The French
Who settled land west of the Mississippi River
,A. The French
B. The Dutch
C. The Spanish
D. The British ✔️ A. The French
Who settled land in New York ✔️ The Dutch along Hudson River later
colonized New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island.
Main cash crop of Chesapeake Bay (Virginia and Maryland) ✔️ Tobacco
??? Early settlers wanted main crop to be ______ , ended up being _______ ✔️
wine/silk and rice/indigo
Later cash crops became tobacco and cotton
King Phillip's War ✔️ Most Indians lost in New England
King Philip's War was an armed conflict between American Indian inhabitants
of New England versus the New England colonists and their Indian allies in
1675-78
Bacon's Rebellion ✔️ -armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by
Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
- First rebellion in the colonies
Many of the European settlers who first came to the New World did so to
escape religious persecution. Which colony was granted to a benefactor for
the purpose of settling the Quakers?
A. Virginia
B. Massachusetts
C. New Hampshire
D. Pennsylvania ✔️ D. Pennsylvania by William Penn
Early settlers in New England depended primarily upon what source of labor?
A. their children
B. slaves
C. indentured servants
D. wage laborers ✔️ A. their children
The Great Awakening ✔️ -Revival of religion in U.S. 1730's Protestant
, The Stono Rebellion ✔️ -1739
-Largest slave uprising in SC
-Leader Jemmy (Cato)
-Marched towards Spanish Florida, where they were promised freedom and
land
-Lead to the negro act of 1740 which restricted slave movements, education,
and assembly.
What were the main benefits of owning slaves ✔️ Source of wealth and
status
Battle of Bloody Marsh ✔️ Victory for Oglethorpe over the Spanish on St.
Simons Island in 1742
French and Indian War ✔️ -7 years war
-1754-1763
- Britian and France
The French and Indian War was fought to decide if Britain or France would be
the strong power in North America. France and its colonists and Indian allies
fought against Britain, its colonists and Indian allies.
Treaty of Paris of 1763 ✔️ Ended French & Indian War. Marked the end of
French power in North America. Britain gained Canada and all French lands
east of the Mississippi River. Spain gave up Florida but received all lands west
of the Mississippi River
Mercantilism ✔️ Economic system to unify and increase the power and
wealth of a nation by strict governmental regulations through policies like
bullion and favorable balance of trade
-Adam Smith was anti-mercantilism
Revolutionary War ✔️ -1775-1783
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of
Independence, was a global war that began as a conflict between Great Britain
and her Thirteen Colonies, which declared independence as the United States
of America.
-Sparked by the Stamp Act against King George the III (1765)
-Boston Massacre (1770)
-Boston Tea Party (1773) (Sons of Liberty)
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