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UGA History Exemption Test - UPDATED Questions and
Answers with Complete Solutions UPDATED!!!
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
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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
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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.
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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
UGA History Exemption Test - UPDATED Questions and
Answers with Complete Solutions UPDATED!!!
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
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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
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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.
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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
