UGA History Exemption Test Questions
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/. Women's Right Movement - Answer-Rights and entitlements claimed for women and
girls of many societies worldwide
/.Ku Klux Klan - Answer-Terrorist organization devoted to racial inequality, suffering and
evil; established 1868
/.Conscription - Answer-The compulsory enlistment of people in some sort of national
service, most often military service
/.Populist Party - Answer-U.S. political party that sought to represent the interests of
farmers and laborers in the 1890s, advocating increased currency issues, free coinage
of silver, public ownership of railroads, and a graduated federal income tax; also called
People's Party
/.World War I - Answer-Global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and
lasted until 11 November 1918; also known as the Great War
President: Woodrow Wilson
/.Jim Crow - Answer-The system of racial segregation in the South that was created in
the late nineteenth century following the end of slavery. Laws written to separate blacks
and whites in public areas/meant African Americans had unequal opportunities in
housing, work, education, and government; 1876-1965
Ended by Lyndon B. Johnson
/.Progressive Movement - Answer-General political philosophy advocating or favoring
social, political, and economic reform
Presidents: Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
/.America Prohibition - Answer-National ban on the sale, manufacture, and
transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933. Ban was mandated by the 18th
Amendment to the Constitution
Private ownership of consumable alcohol and drinking it was not made illegal.
Ended with the ratification of the 21st Amendment, which repealed the 18th
Amendment, on December 5, 1933
,/.Woodrow Wilson - Answer-Leader of the Progressive Movement and was the 28th
President of the United States (1913-1921). After a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of
World War I, he led America into war in order to "make the world safe for democracy"
/.Treaty of Versailles - Answer-One of the peace treaties at the end of World War I; was
intended to provide a place where countries could peacefully discuss solutions to their
differences rather than go to war. It ended the state of war between Germany and the
Allied Powers.
It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand.
/.Whig Party - Answer-Party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain,
and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from
the 1680s to the 1850s
/.Mugwump Party - Answer-Republican political activists who bolted from the US
Republican Party by supporting Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the United
States presidential election of 1884
Switched parties because they rejected the financial corruption associated with
Republican candidate James G. Blaine. In a close election, they supposedly made the
difference in New York state and swung the election to Cleveland
/.New Deal - Answer-Series of economic programs enacted in the US between 1933
and 1936. They involved presidential executive orders or laws passed by Congress
during the first term of FDR
/.Great Depression - Answer-Economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in
1929 and continuing through the 1930s; longest and most widespread of its kind of the
20th century
President: FDR
/.World War II - Answer-Global war that was under way by 1939 and ended in 1945. It
involved a vast majority of the world's nations, including all of the great powers,
eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis
President: FDR
/.Internment Camps - Answer-The relocation of about 110,000 Japanese Americans
and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the US to camps called "War
Relocation Camps," in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor; Americans
feared they might be loyal to Japan
, /.Axis Powers - Answer-Alignment of nations that fought in the Second World War
against the Allied forces
/.Franklin D. Roosevelt - Answer-32nd President of the United States 1933-1945 and a
central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States
during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war
President during Great Depression and WW2
/.Victory Gardens - Answer-Vegetable gardens planted at private residences and public
parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Germany during World War I
and World War II to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by the
war effort
/.Calvin Coolidge - Answer-30th President of the United States 1923-1929
/.Scopes Trial - Answer-1925 case in which HS science teacher, John Scopes, was
accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution
in any state-funded school
/.Father Charles Coughlin - Answer-Controversial Roman Catholic priest at Royal Oak,
Michigan's National Shrine of the Little Flower church
/.Tennessee Valley Authority - Answer-Federally owned corporation in the US created
by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity
generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee
Valley...built hydroelectric dams to create jobs and bring cheap electricty to south
/.Lend-Lease Act - Answer-Principal means for providing US military aid to foreign
nations during WW2.
By allowing the transfer of supplies without compensation to Britain, China, SU, and
others, it permitted the US to support its war interests without being overextended in
battle
/.Hiroshima - Answer-The atomic bombings of the cities of this city in Japan was
conducted by the US during the final stages of World War II in 1945. These two events
are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.
/.Harlem Renissance - Answer-A cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s
Name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem;
known as the "New Negro Movement"
/.The Cold War - Answer-Often dated from 1947-1991; was a sustained state of political
and military tension between the powers of the Western world, led by the US and its
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/. Women's Right Movement - Answer-Rights and entitlements claimed for women and
girls of many societies worldwide
/.Ku Klux Klan - Answer-Terrorist organization devoted to racial inequality, suffering and
evil; established 1868
/.Conscription - Answer-The compulsory enlistment of people in some sort of national
service, most often military service
/.Populist Party - Answer-U.S. political party that sought to represent the interests of
farmers and laborers in the 1890s, advocating increased currency issues, free coinage
of silver, public ownership of railroads, and a graduated federal income tax; also called
People's Party
/.World War I - Answer-Global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and
lasted until 11 November 1918; also known as the Great War
President: Woodrow Wilson
/.Jim Crow - Answer-The system of racial segregation in the South that was created in
the late nineteenth century following the end of slavery. Laws written to separate blacks
and whites in public areas/meant African Americans had unequal opportunities in
housing, work, education, and government; 1876-1965
Ended by Lyndon B. Johnson
/.Progressive Movement - Answer-General political philosophy advocating or favoring
social, political, and economic reform
Presidents: Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
/.America Prohibition - Answer-National ban on the sale, manufacture, and
transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933. Ban was mandated by the 18th
Amendment to the Constitution
Private ownership of consumable alcohol and drinking it was not made illegal.
Ended with the ratification of the 21st Amendment, which repealed the 18th
Amendment, on December 5, 1933
,/.Woodrow Wilson - Answer-Leader of the Progressive Movement and was the 28th
President of the United States (1913-1921). After a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of
World War I, he led America into war in order to "make the world safe for democracy"
/.Treaty of Versailles - Answer-One of the peace treaties at the end of World War I; was
intended to provide a place where countries could peacefully discuss solutions to their
differences rather than go to war. It ended the state of war between Germany and the
Allied Powers.
It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand.
/.Whig Party - Answer-Party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain,
and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from
the 1680s to the 1850s
/.Mugwump Party - Answer-Republican political activists who bolted from the US
Republican Party by supporting Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the United
States presidential election of 1884
Switched parties because they rejected the financial corruption associated with
Republican candidate James G. Blaine. In a close election, they supposedly made the
difference in New York state and swung the election to Cleveland
/.New Deal - Answer-Series of economic programs enacted in the US between 1933
and 1936. They involved presidential executive orders or laws passed by Congress
during the first term of FDR
/.Great Depression - Answer-Economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in
1929 and continuing through the 1930s; longest and most widespread of its kind of the
20th century
President: FDR
/.World War II - Answer-Global war that was under way by 1939 and ended in 1945. It
involved a vast majority of the world's nations, including all of the great powers,
eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis
President: FDR
/.Internment Camps - Answer-The relocation of about 110,000 Japanese Americans
and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the US to camps called "War
Relocation Camps," in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor; Americans
feared they might be loyal to Japan
, /.Axis Powers - Answer-Alignment of nations that fought in the Second World War
against the Allied forces
/.Franklin D. Roosevelt - Answer-32nd President of the United States 1933-1945 and a
central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States
during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war
President during Great Depression and WW2
/.Victory Gardens - Answer-Vegetable gardens planted at private residences and public
parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Germany during World War I
and World War II to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by the
war effort
/.Calvin Coolidge - Answer-30th President of the United States 1923-1929
/.Scopes Trial - Answer-1925 case in which HS science teacher, John Scopes, was
accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution
in any state-funded school
/.Father Charles Coughlin - Answer-Controversial Roman Catholic priest at Royal Oak,
Michigan's National Shrine of the Little Flower church
/.Tennessee Valley Authority - Answer-Federally owned corporation in the US created
by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity
generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee
Valley...built hydroelectric dams to create jobs and bring cheap electricty to south
/.Lend-Lease Act - Answer-Principal means for providing US military aid to foreign
nations during WW2.
By allowing the transfer of supplies without compensation to Britain, China, SU, and
others, it permitted the US to support its war interests without being overextended in
battle
/.Hiroshima - Answer-The atomic bombings of the cities of this city in Japan was
conducted by the US during the final stages of World War II in 1945. These two events
are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.
/.Harlem Renissance - Answer-A cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s
Name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem;
known as the "New Negro Movement"
/.The Cold War - Answer-Often dated from 1947-1991; was a sustained state of political
and military tension between the powers of the Western world, led by the US and its
