UGA History Exemption Test Questions With All Correct Detailed Answers

UGA History Exemption Test Questions With All Correct Detailed Answers Earlier in statehood GA was made up of what two states? - CORRECT ANSWERAlabama and Mississippi First people to settle in Georgia - CORRECT ANSWER- Paleo-Indian Period: Clovis culture Woodland Period: Mound builders Kolomoki Mounds New deal in Georgia - CORRECT ANSWER- -Aimed at economic recovery and address Georgia's social conditions as well -Within a year, 20% of Georgia's urban residents were receiving some kind of federal relief (increased wages) -New deal brought $250mm to GA -Agricultural Adjustment paid farmers to plant less cotton (decreased Supply of cotton to help with depressed cotton prices) -Tallmadge opposed New Deal policies -Failed to improve economic conditions overall Impact of WWII in GA Increased or decreased wages - CORRECT ANSWER- -Lifted GA out of the Great Depression -American farmers were strained by the war effort (left farms to work at defense factories which paid better) -Employment increased significantly -Higher wages overall -By 1950 more people in manufacturing than farming Cahokia - CORRECT ANSWER- The most sophisticated pre-historic Native civilization north of Mexico. Mound state across the Mississippi River in St. Louis 1st woman to run for vice presidency- CORRECT ANSWER- Geraldine Ferraro Which president ended Vietnam War? - CORRECT ANSWER- Nixon "New nationalism" - CORRECT ANSWER- Teddy Roosevelt -Fed intervention, social justice, under privileged Why was Andrew Jackson elected? - CORRECT ANSWER- -Known as the People's president -Was a War hero -Supported individual liberty and forced Native American migration Who created the Federalist Party? - CORRECT ANSWER- Alexander Hamilton -The party elected Adams to the presidency in 1796 Siege of Savannah - CORRECT ANSWER- -Second deadliest battle of the Revolutionary War -Americans unsuccessfully tried to rid the city of British occupation -Whig allies lost the battle Favorite pastime of Antebellum GA - CORRECT ANSWER- -Shakespeare -Major reformation movements -Play rights -POLITICS became a great national pastime Why did Georgians want Indians removed from the state? - CORRECT ANSWERIndian removal was a product of demand for arable land during the rampant growth of cotton agriculture -discovery of gold on Cherokee land -And racial prejudice against Native Americans Where was the most inequality in the colonies? - CORRECT ANSWER- Jamaica -greatest inequality in terms of land ownership was South Carolina French Indian War resulted in? - CORRECT ANSWER- The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763 The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. Which president launched the Atomic Bomb? - CORRECT ANSWER- Truman "New Freedom" - CORRECT ANSWER- Woodrow Wilson limited government, reforms, and greater economic opportunity Worchester v GA - CORRECT ANSWER- Supreme Court Case which ruled that the laws of Georgia had no force within the boundaries of the Cherokee territory and supported the Cherokees -Jackson ignored and refused to enforce this decision "New Federalism" - CORRECT ANSWER- -Reagan policy on new local responsibility What is Reaganomics? - CORRECT ANSWER- It is supply-side economics or trickledown economics. You give tax breaks to the rich and small businesses to help people get jobs. -result economy improved during his presidency Reagan's rollback - CORRECT ANSWER- -encouraged capitalism -supported right wing military dictatorships in south and Central America What two things does Reagan do in Nicaragua? - CORRECT ANSWER- -SUPPORTS the contras - refuses to recognize Sandinistas Contras - CORRECT ANSWER- A Nicaraguan rebel group that got financial support from the CIA. This group was formed as a response to the overthrowing of Anastazio Somoza Debayle -partially funded by drug sales to the US After the Gulf war Bush's approval rate? - CORRECT ANSWER- Sky rocketed to 89% Gulf War - CORRECT ANSWER- A War () that took place between Iraq and the U.S./Kuwait started by Iraq invading Kuwait; First non-containment based war since WWII; Often referred to as Operation Desert Storm; Primarily an aerial war (huge amounts of missiles and bombs) in the first stages, followed by an infantry march that pushed Iraqi forces back into Iraq Clinton's "New Democrat" campaign emphasized that - CORRECT ANSWER- -improve US by supporting business -balance federal budget by reducing debt Was GA settled by convicts and debtors? - CORRECT ANSWER- No primarily carpenters, bakers, and farmers Isolationism - CORRECT ANSWER- a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries. -Woodrow Wilson "New South" - CORRECT ANSWER- Idea that the south should industrialize after the Civil War Despite calls for industrialization, sharecropping and tenant farming persisted in the South -Henry Grady