UGA History Exemption Test - UPDATED BY DREW YALL WELCOME
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UGA History Exemption Test - UPDATED
BY DREW YALL WELCOME
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Pre-Columbian Peoples of the American Southwest - answer-Agriculturally focused groups
that developed powerful and complex societies
-Became increasingly dependent on the cultivati...
UGA History Exemption Test - UPDATED
BY DREW YALL WELCOME
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Pre-Columbian Peoples of the American Southwest - answer✔✔-Agriculturally focused groups
that developed powerful and complex societies
-Became increasingly dependent on the cultivation of maize
Pre-Columbian economy in Great Basin and the western Great Plains - answer✔✔- Migratory
because of limited resources
Pre-Columbian economy in the Northeast and along the Atlantic Seaboard - answer✔✔-Another
Group of tribes in present-day NY formed the Iroquois League
-Cultivated crops and participated in foraging and hunting, often creating lasting settlements
Hernan Cortes - answer✔✔Spanish explorer who marched across mexico and conquered the
aztecs
- from spain
Hernando de Soto - answer✔✔-explored deep in USA
-first to cross and disocer Miss. River
-claimed for Spain
Georgia first colonized by Spanish because they were looking for - answer✔✔gold and land
The Columbian Exchange - answer✔✔The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and
technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
The Treaty of Tordesillas - answer✔✔A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring
that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong
to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.
St. Augustine - answer✔✔-1st colony in Florida set up by Spain
joint-stock company - answer✔✔A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each
shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's
profits and debts.
James Edward Oglethorpe - answer✔✔The leader of English Parliament who founded the
Georgia colony
James Wright - answer✔✔Georgia's third, and final, royal governor
Jamestown - answer✔✔-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? - answer✔✔Religious freedom
profit
adventure...etc.
Original Trustees of Ga were provided what - answer✔✔50 acres , free passage, provisions for 1
yr
William Penn - answer✔✔-Founder of Pennsylvania
-Pushed for democracy and religious freedom
-Quaker
-Wanted to unite all of the U.S. colonies
Quakers - answer✔✔-believed human religious institutions were largey unnecessary
-thought they could receive revelationg directly form God and placed little importance on the
Bible
-pacifists and declined to show customary deference to their alleged social superiors
-their aggressiveness in denouncing established institutions brought them trouble in both britain
and america
-opposed slavery and favored decent treatment of Native Americans
-elements of the culture would play a role in shaping the characterization of a United States that
valued independence and social equality
French Colonization in the New World - answer✔✔French and Dutch Colonies in the new world
usually relied on cooperation with native peoples instead of extensive settlement and force in
contrast to the spanish and british
Dutch Colonization in the New World - answer✔✔-first colonies functioned more as trading
outposts than settlements
-the Dutch commissioned an expedition by English explorer Henry Hudson to North America
-Hudson failed in his search for a Northwest Passage, but his reports of abundant resources
created interest among Dutch merchants
-The Dutch West India Company was chartered to develop colonies in North America
-the company tried to attract immigrants with land grants, and a diverse group of European
settlers slowly began to arrive
-its most important settlement was New Amsterdam, which became a center for trade
-usually relied on cooperation with native peoples instead of extensive settlement and force, in
contrast to the Spanish and British
Types of New British Colonies in the New World - answer✔✔-Charter Colony: colonist were
members of a corp
-Royal Colony: governor selected by King
-Proprietary colonies: owned by individuals
Characteristics of New England Colonies: - answer✔✔Founded primarily by Puritans, that
wanted a group of like-minded individuals; close-knit, longer life expectancies; mixed economy
of farming and trade
What is the headright system? - answer✔✔The headright system is when a landowner would pay
for an individual's passage from England to America. The landowner would receive 50 acres of
land and that same individual to work the land.
Who settled land west of the Mississippi River
A. The French
B. The Dutch
C. The Spanish
Who settled land in New York - answer✔✔The Dutch along Hudson River later colonized New
Amsterdam on Manhattan Island.
Main cash crop of Chesapeake Bay (Virginia and Maryland) - answer✔✔Tobacco
??? Early settlers wanted main crop to be ______ , ended up being _______ -
answer✔✔wine/silk and rice/indigo
Later cash crops became tobacco and cotton
King Phillip's War - answer✔✔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 - answer✔✔-armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel
Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
- First rebellion in the colonies
Whiskey Rebellion - answer✔✔In 1794, farmers in Pennsylvania rebelled against Hamilton's
excise tax on whiskey, and several federal officers were killed in the riots caused by their
attempts to serve arrest warrants on the offenders. In October, 1794, the army, led by
Washington, put down the rebellion. The incident showed that the new government under the
Constitution could react swiftly and effectively to such a problem, in contrast to the inability of
the government under the Articles of Confederation to deal with Shay's Rebellion.
Indentured Servitude - answer✔✔A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a
specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800
most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians.
Bacon's Rebellion made the practice seem riskier to planters and owners
English Puritanism - answer✔✔1500s and 1600s
*Movement by those who wished to reform the Church of England to be more in line with their
ideology
*Puritans rejected these roman Catholic holdovers and sought to make the English Church
"pure"
*Puritans held Calvinist beliefs, such as predestination and the authority of Scripture over papal
authority
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