UGA History Exemption Exam: Post
1877 Questions and Answers Verified
Solutions Latest Update (2026/2027)
Question:
Robert Smalls
Answer:
Enslaved African American who, during and after the American
Civil War, became a ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician; freed himself,
his crew and their
families from slavery on May 13, 1862, by commandeering a Confederate
transport ship, the
CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, and sailing it to freedom beyond the
blockade
Question:
Helped convince Lincoln to accept African-American soldiers into the Union
Army
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
Question:
,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
Question:
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
Question:
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
Question:
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Answer:
A railroad owner who built a railway connecting Chicago
and New York
Question:
He popularized the use of steel rails in his railroad, which made railroads
safer and more
economical.
John D. Rockefeller
Answer:
Question:
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
Question:
, 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
Question:
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.
Question:
Vertical Integration
Answer:
Practice where a single entity controls the entire process
of a product, from the raw materials to distribution
Question:
1877 Questions and Answers Verified
Solutions Latest Update (2026/2027)
Question:
Robert Smalls
Answer:
Enslaved African American who, during and after the American
Civil War, became a ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician; freed himself,
his crew and their
families from slavery on May 13, 1862, by commandeering a Confederate
transport ship, the
CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, and sailing it to freedom beyond the
blockade
Question:
Helped convince Lincoln to accept African-American soldiers into the Union
Army
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
Question:
,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
Question:
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
Question:
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
Question:
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Answer:
A railroad owner who built a railway connecting Chicago
and New York
Question:
He popularized the use of steel rails in his railroad, which made railroads
safer and more
economical.
John D. Rockefeller
Answer:
Question:
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
Question:
, 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
Question:
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.
Question:
Vertical Integration
Answer:
Practice where a single entity controls the entire process
of a product, from the raw materials to distribution
Question:
