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UGA History Exemption Test Questions and Answers |
Complete 2026 Study Guide and Exam
Solutions|\Verified Exam!!!
Pre-Columbian Peoples of the American Southwest -
Answers--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 - Answers-- Migratory because of limited
resources
Pre-Columbian economy in the Northeast and along the
Atlantic Seaboard - Answers--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 - Answers-Spanish explorer who marched
across mexico and conquered the aztecs
- from spain
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Hernando de Soto - Answers--explored deep in USA
-first to cross and disocer Miss. River
-claimed for Spain
Georgia first colonized by Spanish because they were
looking for - Answers-gold and land
The Columbian Exchange - Answers-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 - Answers-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 - Answers--1st colony in Florida set up by
Spain
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joint-stock company - Answers-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 - Answers-The leader of
English Parliament who founded the Georgia colony
James Wright - Answers-Georgia's third, and final, royal
governor
Jamestown - Answers--First permanent English settlement
-Starving time (1609-1610 80% died)
-1619: first slave ship of africans
- 1640: modern concept of slavery was established in US
Why did colonists come to the New World? - Answers-
Religious freedom
profit
adventure...etc.
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Original Trustees of Ga were provided what - Answers-50
acres , free passage, provisions for 1 yr
William Penn - Answers--Founder of Pennsylvania
-Pushed for democracy and religious freedom
-Quaker
-Wanted to unite all of the U.S. colonies
Quakers - Answers--believed human religious institutions
were largey unnecessary
-thought they could receive revelationg directly form 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
UGA History Exemption Test Questions and Answers |
Complete 2026 Study Guide and Exam
Solutions|\Verified Exam!!!
Pre-Columbian Peoples of the American Southwest -
Answers--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 - Answers-- Migratory because of limited
resources
Pre-Columbian economy in the Northeast and along the
Atlantic Seaboard - Answers--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 - Answers-Spanish explorer who marched
across mexico and conquered the aztecs
- from spain
,2|Page
Hernando de Soto - Answers--explored deep in USA
-first to cross and disocer Miss. River
-claimed for Spain
Georgia first colonized by Spanish because they were
looking for - Answers-gold and land
The Columbian Exchange - Answers-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 - Answers-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 - Answers--1st colony in Florida set up by
Spain
,3|Page
joint-stock company - Answers-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 - Answers-The leader of
English Parliament who founded the Georgia colony
James Wright - Answers-Georgia's third, and final, royal
governor
Jamestown - Answers--First permanent English settlement
-Starving time (1609-1610 80% died)
-1619: first slave ship of africans
- 1640: modern concept of slavery was established in US
Why did colonists come to the New World? - Answers-
Religious freedom
profit
adventure...etc.
, 4|Page
Original Trustees of Ga were provided what - Answers-50
acres , free passage, provisions for 1 yr
William Penn - Answers--Founder of Pennsylvania
-Pushed for democracy and religious freedom
-Quaker
-Wanted to unite all of the U.S. colonies
Quakers - Answers--believed human religious institutions
were largey unnecessary
-thought they could receive revelationg directly form 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
