UGA History Exemption Test
1. He was a spanish explorer who marched across Mexico and
conquered the Aztecs: Hernan Cortes
2. He explored deep in USA, first to discover and cross the
Mississippi River and claim it for Spain: Hernando de Soto
3. This man was a member of the English Parliament who
founded the colony of Georgia.: James Edward Oglethorpe
4. Who was Georgia's 3rd and final royal governor who fled the
colony after the start of the American Revolution?: James
Wright
5. In what year did the 13th amendment abolish slavery and
involuntary servitude?: 1864
6. Who settled land in New York along the Hudson River?: The
Dutch
7. This man was an African American educator born into
slavery who called for black progress through education.:
Booker T Washington
8. Act of Congress that created and established the Federal
Reserve System, the central banking system of the United
States, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal
Reserve Notes, and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal
tender.: Federal Reserve Act
9. In what year was the Federal Reserve Act ratified?: 1913
10.What machine automated cotton processing and
INCREASED the need for slaves?: Cotton Gin
11.This man was a quaker who founded Pennsylvania. He
wanted to unite all of the UA colonies and pushed for
democracy and religious freedom.: William Penn
12.What was Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state
,government during the Civil War (1861 - 1865)?:
Milledgeville
13.In 1832 SC argued that the federal tariffs were
unconstitutional and President Jackson sent Troops to force
SC to pay tariffs.: Nullification Crisis
14.In 1925 a substitute teacher was accused of violating
Tennessee's Butler Act: Scopes Trial
15.The period after the Civil War in the United States when the
southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the
Union: Reconstruction Era
16.In what years did the Reconstruction Era occur?: 1865-1877
17. A series of economic programs enacted in the United
States between 1933 and 1936. They involved presidential
executive orders or laws passed
,by Congress during the first term of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt.: The New Deal
18.Between what years was The New Deal enacted?: 1933-1936
19.An African American social reformer, orator, writer and
statesman. For- mer Slave who was the leader of the
abolitionist movement and supported women's suffrage.:
Frederick Douglass
20.What organization unsuccessfully campaigned for an
equal rights amendment to the constitution?: National
Organization of Women
21. Who was the 40th President of the United States who
worked to lift
govt regulations, reduce taxes, and reduce domestic spending
by curtailing social welfare. Launched the largest peacetime
military buildup in American history.: Ronald Reagan
22.In what years did prohibition take place?: 1920-1933
23. A national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation
of alcohol.-
: American Prohibition
24.Prohibition ended with the ratification of which
amendment?: The 21st Amendment
25.Grayish bug that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the
cotton: Boll Weevil
26.This was a house committee on international security
looking for alleged disloyalty and communist ties.: Un-American
Activities Committee
27.A league of 5 tribes of indigenous people of North America
involved in the Beaver Wars.: Iroquois League
28.In what year did the strike against Pearl Harbor take place?:
1941
, 29.This strike against US by imperial Japanese navy that led
the US into WW2. Also voided Roosevelt's neutrality act.:
Pearl Harbor
30.Explicitly grants right of citizens to vote regardless of
race, color or having been enslaved.: 15th Amendment
31.In what year was the 15th Amendment enacted?: 1870
32.Poll taxes, literacy test, grandfather clause, property
requirements aimed at disenfranchising black voters: Voting
Restrictions
33.When did the civil war take place?: 1861-1865
1. He was a spanish explorer who marched across Mexico and
conquered the Aztecs: Hernan Cortes
2. He explored deep in USA, first to discover and cross the
Mississippi River and claim it for Spain: Hernando de Soto
3. This man was a member of the English Parliament who
founded the colony of Georgia.: James Edward Oglethorpe
4. Who was Georgia's 3rd and final royal governor who fled the
colony after the start of the American Revolution?: James
Wright
5. In what year did the 13th amendment abolish slavery and
involuntary servitude?: 1864
6. Who settled land in New York along the Hudson River?: The
Dutch
7. This man was an African American educator born into
slavery who called for black progress through education.:
Booker T Washington
8. Act of Congress that created and established the Federal
Reserve System, the central banking system of the United
States, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal
Reserve Notes, and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal
tender.: Federal Reserve Act
9. In what year was the Federal Reserve Act ratified?: 1913
10.What machine automated cotton processing and
INCREASED the need for slaves?: Cotton Gin
11.This man was a quaker who founded Pennsylvania. He
wanted to unite all of the UA colonies and pushed for
democracy and religious freedom.: William Penn
12.What was Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state
,government during the Civil War (1861 - 1865)?:
Milledgeville
13.In 1832 SC argued that the federal tariffs were
unconstitutional and President Jackson sent Troops to force
SC to pay tariffs.: Nullification Crisis
14.In 1925 a substitute teacher was accused of violating
Tennessee's Butler Act: Scopes Trial
15.The period after the Civil War in the United States when the
southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the
Union: Reconstruction Era
16.In what years did the Reconstruction Era occur?: 1865-1877
17. A series of economic programs enacted in the United
States between 1933 and 1936. They involved presidential
executive orders or laws passed
,by Congress during the first term of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt.: The New Deal
18.Between what years was The New Deal enacted?: 1933-1936
19.An African American social reformer, orator, writer and
statesman. For- mer Slave who was the leader of the
abolitionist movement and supported women's suffrage.:
Frederick Douglass
20.What organization unsuccessfully campaigned for an
equal rights amendment to the constitution?: National
Organization of Women
21. Who was the 40th President of the United States who
worked to lift
govt regulations, reduce taxes, and reduce domestic spending
by curtailing social welfare. Launched the largest peacetime
military buildup in American history.: Ronald Reagan
22.In what years did prohibition take place?: 1920-1933
23. A national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation
of alcohol.-
: American Prohibition
24.Prohibition ended with the ratification of which
amendment?: The 21st Amendment
25.Grayish bug that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the
cotton: Boll Weevil
26.This was a house committee on international security
looking for alleged disloyalty and communist ties.: Un-American
Activities Committee
27.A league of 5 tribes of indigenous people of North America
involved in the Beaver Wars.: Iroquois League
28.In what year did the strike against Pearl Harbor take place?:
1941
, 29.This strike against US by imperial Japanese navy that led
the US into WW2. Also voided Roosevelt's neutrality act.:
Pearl Harbor
30.Explicitly grants right of citizens to vote regardless of
race, color or having been enslaved.: 15th Amendment
31.In what year was the 15th Amendment enacted?: 1870
32.Poll taxes, literacy test, grandfather clause, property
requirements aimed at disenfranchising black voters: Voting
Restrictions
33.When did the civil war take place?: 1861-1865
