UGA History Exemption Test Questions And Answers - UPDATED 2023

UGA History Exemption Test Questions And Answers - UPDATED 2023 WATCH THIS CRASH COURSE SERIES - CORRECT ANSWER 3eG7ObzO7s Pre-Columbian Peoples of the American Southwest - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER- - Migratory because of limited resources Pre-Columbian economy in the Northeast and along the Atlantic Seaboard - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER- Spanish explorer who marched across Mexico and conquered the aztecs - from spain Hernando de Soto - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER- gold and land The Columbian Exchange - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER- -1st colony in Florida set up by Spain joint-stock company - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER- The leader of English Parliament who founded the Georgia colony James Wright - CORRECT ANSWER- Georgia's third, and final, royal governor Jamestown - CORRECT ANSWER- -First permanent English settlement -Starving time (% died) -1619: first slave ship of Africans - 1640: modern concept of slavery was established in US Why did colonists come to the New World? - CORRECT ANSWER- Religious freedom Profit adventure etc. Original Trustees of Ga were provided what - CORRECT ANSWER- 50 acres, free passage, and provisions for 1 yr William Penn - CORRECT ANSWER- -Founder of Pennsylvania -Pushed for democracy and religious freedom -Quaker -Wanted to unite all of the U.S. colonies Quakers - CORRECT ANSWER- -believed human religious institutions were largey unnecessary -thought they could receive revelationg directly from 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 What country claimed Quebec? - CORRECT ANSWER- The French French Colonization in the New World - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER- -first colonies functioned more as trading outposts than settlements