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UGA History Exemption Test 2024 Yazoo Lands - Answer ️️ -The sparsely-populated central and western areas of the US state of GA, when its western border stretched to the Mississippi River. James Jackson - Answer ️️ -October 18, 1819 - January 13, 1887. It was a US representative from GA...

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UGA History Exemption Test 2024 Yazoo Lands - Answer ✔️✔️-The sparsely -populated central and western areas of the US state of GA, when its western border stretched to the Mississippi River. James Jackson - Answer ✔️✔️-October 18, 1819 - January 13, 1887. It was a US representative from GA, a judge advocate American Civil War, and a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. He nullified the yazoo sale and destructed records connected with the state. Later the Yazoo lands was given to the Federal Goverment. Iroquois League - Answer ✔️✔️-Known as the haudenosaunee of the "People of the Longhouse", are a league of several nations and tribes of indigenous people of North America Yazoo Fraud - Answer ✔️✔️-a massive fraud perpetrated from 1794 -1803 by several Georgia governers and the state legislature. James Gun - Answer ✔️✔️-Arranged the distribution of money of the Yazoo fraud an d land to legislators, state officials, newspaper editors and cries of bribery and corruption. Trail of Tears - Answer ✔️✔️-Forced relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the US following the Indian Removal Act of 183 0. The removal included many members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw nations, among others in the US, from their homelands to Indian territory (From Georgia to Oklahoma.) Hernan Cortes - Answer ✔️✔️-1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca (1485 - December 2, 1547) was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th Century The Stono Rebellion - Answer ✔️✔️-Slave rebellion that commenced on September 9 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution. William Penn - Answer ✔️✔️-October 14, 1644 - July 30 171 8. It was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania The Great Awakening - Answer ✔️✔️-Used to refer to several periods of rel igions revival in American religious history. Historians and theologians identify three or four waves of increased religious enthusiasm occurring between the early 18th and late 19th century. Each of these was characterized by widespread revivals lead by e vangelical Protestant ministers, a sharp increase of interest in religion, a profound sense of conviction and redemption on the part of those affected, an increase in evangelical church membership and the formation of new religious movements and denominati ons. Indentured Servitude - Answer ✔️✔️-Historical practice of contracting to work for a fixed period of time, typically 3 to 7 years in exchange for transportation, food, clothing lodging and other necessities during the term of indenture. Quakers - Answer ✔️✔️-Members of the Religious Society of friends. Came to North America in the early days because they wanted to spread their beliefs to the British colonists there, while others came to escape the persecution that they were experiencing in Europe. Fir st known quakers arrived in 1656. The colony of Rhode Island with its policy of religious freedom was a frequent destionation as the Friends were persecuted by law in Massachusetts until 1681. Pennsylvania was formed by William Penn in 1681 as a haven for persecuted. Mercantilism - Answer ✔️✔️-the economic doctrine that government control of foreign trade is of paramount importance for ensuring the prosperity and military security of the state. Thomas Paine - Answer ✔️✔️-English -American political activis t, author, political theorist and revolutionary. As the author or two highly influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, he became one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination. Alexander Hamilton - Answer ✔️✔️-(January 11, 1755 or 177 - July 12, 1804) was a Founding Father, soldier, economist, political philosopher, one of Amrica's first constitutional lawyers and the first US S ecretary of the Treasury. Federalist papers - Answer ✔️✔️-Series of 85 articles of essays promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and john jay French vs. Indian War - Answer ✔️✔️-The war was fought primarily between the colonies of British America and the New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France. In 1756 the war escalated from a regional affair into a world -wide conflict. In Canada some historians refer to the conflict as the Seven Years War fought for control of eastern north america. British won. American Revolution - Answer ✔️✔️-Political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the USA. Revolutionary War - Answer ✔️✔️-1775 -1783. began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the New USA, but gradually expanded t o a global war between Britain on one side and USA, France, Netherlands and Spain on the other. Tories - Answer ✔️✔️-A traditionalist and conservative political philosophy which grew out of the Cavalier faction in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Northwest ordinance - Answer ✔️✔️-Act of the Congress of the Confederation of the US. Passed July 13, 1787. The primary effect was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the US out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River. Kentucky and Virginia Resolves - Answer ✔️✔️-Political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799 in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. Louisiana purchase - Answer ✔️✔️-Acquisition by the US in 1803 of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. Hartford Convention - Answer ✔️✔️-An event in 1814 -1815 in the US in which New England Federalists met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing war of 1812 and the political problems arising from the federal government's increasing power. Trustees dartmouth college vs woodward case - Answer ✔️✔️-Was a landmark US Supreme Court case dealing with the applica tion of the Contract Clause of the US constitution to private corportations Frederick Douglass - Answer ✔️✔️-February 1818 - February 20, 1895. African American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. Former Slave Nullification Crisis - Answer ✔️✔️-A sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. Second Party System - Answer ✔️✔️-Term of periodization used by historians and political scientists to name the political party system existing in the US from about 1828 -1854 after the First Party System. The major parties were the Democratic Party, led by Andrew Jackson, and the Whig Party, assembled by Henry Clay from the National Republicans and other opponents of Jackson. First Party System - Answer ✔️✔️-Model of American politics used by political scientists and historians to periodize the political party system existing in the United States between roughly 1792 and 1824. It featured two national parties competing for control of the presidency, Congress, and the states: the Federalist Party, created largely by Alexander Hamilton, and the rival Democratic -Republican Party formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Eli Whitney - Answer ✔️✔️-December 8, 1765 - January 8, 1825. Ameri can inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. Sectionalism - Answer ✔️✔️-In national politics, this is often a precursor to separatism. Civil War - Answer ✔️✔️-1861 -1865. war between organized groups within the same nation state or republic, or, less commonly, between two countries created from a formerly united nation state. American Civil War - Answer ✔️✔️-1861 -1865. "War Between the States", was a civil war fought over the secession of the Confederate States. Women's Right Movement - Answer ✔️✔️-rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls of many societies worldwide. Abolition Movement - Answer ✔️✔️-movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal. In western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historical movement to end th e African slave trade and set slaves free. Abolitionism - Answer ✔️✔️-After the American Revolutionary War established the United States, northern states, beginning with Pennsylvania in 1780, passed legislation during the next two decades to abolish slave ry, sometimes by gradual emancipation. Massachusetts ratified a constitution that declared all men equal; freedom suits challenging slavery based on this principle brought an end to slavery in the state. Similar declarations of rights, as in Virginia, were not taken by the courts to apply to Africans. During the following decades, the abolitionist movement grew in northern states, and Congress limited the expansion of slavery in new states admitted to the union. Seneca Falls Convention - Answer ✔️✔️-an ear ly and influential women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, July 19 -20, 1848. It was organized by local New York women upon the occasion of a visit by Philadelphia -based Lucretia Mott, a Quaker famous for her orating ability, a skill rarel y cultivated by American women at the time. Morrill Act of 1862 - Answer ✔️✔️-Land -Grant are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land -grant colleges, including the Morrill Act of 1862 and the Morrill Act of 1890 (the Agricultural Colle ge Act of 1890) New York City Riots - Answer ✔️✔️-(July 13 to July 16, 1863; known at the time as Draft Week[2]) were violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of working -
class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. The riots were the largest civil insurrection in American history. New York City Riots Abraham Lincoln - Answer ✔️✔️-President Abraham Lincoln diverted several regiments of militia and volunteer troop s from following up after the Battle of Gettysburg to control the city. The rioters were overwhelmingly working -class men, primarily ethnic Irish, resenting particularly that wealthier men, who could afford to pay a $300 commutation fee to hire a substitut e, were spared the draft. Jefferson Davis - Answer ✔️✔️-(June 3, 1808 - December 6, 1889) was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire histo ry. Ku Klux Klan - Answer ✔️✔️-is the name of three distinct past and present far -right organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as

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