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UGA History Exemption Test Q/AEarlier in statehood GA was made up of what two states? ✔️ Alabama and
Mississippi
First people to settle in Georgia ✔️ Paleoindian Period: Clovis culture
Woodland Period: Mound builders
Kolomoki Mounds
New Deal in Georgia? ✔️ -Aimed at economic recovery and address
Georgia's social conditions as well
-Within a year, 20% of Georgia's urban residents were receiving some kind of
federal relief (increased wages)
-New deal brought $250mm to GA
-Agricultural Adjustment paid farmers to plant less cotton (decreased
supply of cotton to help with depressed cotton prices)
-Talmadge opposed New Deal policies
-Failed to improve economic conditions overall
Impact of WWII in GA? Increased or decreased wages? ✔️ -Lifted GA out
of the Great Depression
-American farmers were strained by the war effort (left farms to work at
defense factories which paid better)
-Employment increased significantly
-Higher wages overall
-By 1950 more people in manufacturing than farming
Cahokia? ✔️ The most sophisticated pre-historic Native civilization north
of Mexico. Mound state across the Mississippi River in St. Louis
1st woman to run for vice presidency? ✔️ Geraldine Ferraro
Which president ended Vietnam War? ✔️ Nixon
"New nationalism" ✔️ Teddy Roosevelt
-Fed intervention, social justice, under privileged
Why was Andrew Jackson elected? ✔️ -Known as the People's president
, -Was a War hero
-Supported individual liberty and forced Native American migration
Who created the Federalist Party? ✔️ Alexander Hamilton
-The party elected Adams to the presidency in 1796
Siege of Savannah ✔️ -Second deadliest battle of the Revolutionary War
-Americans unsuccessfully tried to rid the city of British occupation
-Whig allies lost the battle
Favorite pastime of Antebellum GA? ✔️ -Shakespeare?
-Major reformation movements
-Playrights
-POLITICS became a great national pastime
Why did Georgians want Indians removed from the state? ✔️ Indian
removal was a product of demand for arable land during the rampant growth
of cotton agriculture
-discovery of gold on Cherokee land
-And racial prejudice against Native Americans
Where was the most inequality in the colonies? ✔️ Jamaica?
-greatest inequality in terms of land ownership was South Carolina
French Indian War resulted in? ✔️ The French and Indian War began in
1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great
Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over
subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial
discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.
Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis ✔️ Idea that held that the
existence of cheap and unsettled land played a key role in making American
society more democratic; the frontier helped create the American spirit of
democracy and egalitarianism, acted as a safety valve for Americans to escape
bad economic conditions, and stimulated nationalism and individualism
Which president launched the Atomic Bomb? ✔️ Truman
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