UGA HISTORY EXEMPTION ACTUAL TEST
BANK COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A PLUS SUCCESS GUIDE
●● Ten Percent Plan
Answer: Lincoln's plan that allowed a Southern state to form its own
government after ten percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the
United States
Meant to shorten the war
Hoped to weaken the southern cause by making it easy for disillusioned
or lukewarm confederates to switch sides
Hoped to further his emancipation proclamation by insisting that the
new governments abolish slavery
●● Radical Republicans
Answer: After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be
harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too
compassionate towards the South
Favored protection for black rights (especially black, male suffrage)
,●● Wade-Davis Bill
Answer: Legislation requiring 50% of the voters to take an oath of future
loyalty before the restoration process could begin
Once they took the oath, those who could wear they had never willingly
supported the confederacy could vote in an election for delegates to a
constitutional convention
Passed after congress refused to recognize Lincoln's 10 percent
governments
●● Railroads were the first
Answer: Modern corporation
●● Cornelius Vanderbilt
Answer: A railroad owner who built a railway connecting Chicago and
New York
He popularized the use of steel rails in his railroad, which made railroads
safer and more economical.
●● John D. Rockefeller
,Answer: Established the Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and
meanest monopoly known in history
●● J.P. Morgan
Answer: Banker who buys out Carnegie Steel and renames it to U.S.
Steel
Was a philanthropist in a way; he gave all the money needed for WWI
and was payed back
Was one of the "Robber barons"
●● Haymarket Riot (1886)
Answer: The riot took place in Chicago between rioters and the police
It ended when someone threw a bomb that killed dozens
The riot was suppressed, and in addition with the damaged reputation of
unions, it also killed the Knights of Labor, who were seen as anarchists.
●● American Federation of Labor
Answer: 1886; founded by Samuel Gompers; sought better wages, hrs,
working conditions; skilled laborers, arose out of dissatisfaction with the
Knights of Labor, rejected socialist and communist ideas, non-violent.
, ●● Vertical Integration
Answer: Practice where a single entity controls the entire process of a
product, from the raw materials to distribution
Example: Phillip Armour's meat company
●● Horizontal Integration
Answer: Absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the
same level of production and sharing resources at that level
Example: Rockefeller
●● Dawes Act of 1887
Answer: Tried to civilize Indians and make them more little settlers by
giving them land to farm, instead it harmed their native culture
●● General Philip Sheridan
Answer: ordered by Grant to wage total war in Shenandoah Valley in
Virginia.
He burned and destroyed all farmland, animals and food
BANK COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A PLUS SUCCESS GUIDE
●● Ten Percent Plan
Answer: Lincoln's plan that allowed a Southern state to form its own
government after ten percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the
United States
Meant to shorten the war
Hoped to weaken the southern cause by making it easy for disillusioned
or lukewarm confederates to switch sides
Hoped to further his emancipation proclamation by insisting that the
new governments abolish slavery
●● Radical Republicans
Answer: After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be
harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too
compassionate towards the South
Favored protection for black rights (especially black, male suffrage)
,●● Wade-Davis Bill
Answer: Legislation requiring 50% of the voters to take an oath of future
loyalty before the restoration process could begin
Once they took the oath, those who could wear they had never willingly
supported the confederacy could vote in an election for delegates to a
constitutional convention
Passed after congress refused to recognize Lincoln's 10 percent
governments
●● Railroads were the first
Answer: Modern corporation
●● Cornelius Vanderbilt
Answer: A railroad owner who built a railway connecting Chicago and
New York
He popularized the use of steel rails in his railroad, which made railroads
safer and more economical.
●● John D. Rockefeller
,Answer: Established the Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and
meanest monopoly known in history
●● J.P. Morgan
Answer: Banker who buys out Carnegie Steel and renames it to U.S.
Steel
Was a philanthropist in a way; he gave all the money needed for WWI
and was payed back
Was one of the "Robber barons"
●● Haymarket Riot (1886)
Answer: The riot took place in Chicago between rioters and the police
It ended when someone threw a bomb that killed dozens
The riot was suppressed, and in addition with the damaged reputation of
unions, it also killed the Knights of Labor, who were seen as anarchists.
●● American Federation of Labor
Answer: 1886; founded by Samuel Gompers; sought better wages, hrs,
working conditions; skilled laborers, arose out of dissatisfaction with the
Knights of Labor, rejected socialist and communist ideas, non-violent.
, ●● Vertical Integration
Answer: Practice where a single entity controls the entire process of a
product, from the raw materials to distribution
Example: Phillip Armour's meat company
●● Horizontal Integration
Answer: Absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the
same level of production and sharing resources at that level
Example: Rockefeller
●● Dawes Act of 1887
Answer: Tried to civilize Indians and make them more little settlers by
giving them land to farm, instead it harmed their native culture
●● General Philip Sheridan
Answer: ordered by Grant to wage total war in Shenandoah Valley in
Virginia.
He burned and destroyed all farmland, animals and food
