UGA HISTORY EXEMPTION TEST1
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS 2026
◉ Crop-lien System 1860-1930
Answer: a way for farmers to get credit before the planting season
by borrowing against the value for anticipated harvests
◉ Sharecroppers
Answer: 1870's Tenant farmers, serfs, who worked the land they did
not own for a meager share of the crops
◉ Ku Klux Klan
Answer: -terrorism
-"purification" of american society
-right wing extremist organizations
-hate group
◉ The Ku Klux Klan was which of the following
A. A social club
,B. a terrorist organization
C. white supremacist group
D. All of the above
Answer: D. All of the above
KKK took positions such as white supremacy, white nationalism,
anti-immigration, opposed Catholics and Jews
Had 3 different manifestations over time
◉ Post Bellum Era
Answer: no slavery, crop-lien system, farmers found themselves
mortgaging an implanted crop at an unspecified rate of interest for a
loan of undetermined value.
◉ The end of Reconstruction
Answer: -Rutherford B hayes
-Republicans promised that if Hayes was elected he would withdraw
the last of the federal troops from the south, allowing the only
remaining Republican Reconstruction governments to collapse
-1877 (76?)
◉ American Federation of Labor
Answer: -founded in 1886
- national federation of labor unions in the United States
, -Samuel Gompers (pres)
-largest union grouping in the United States for the first half of the
20th century
◉ Populist Party
Answer: Farm-based movement of the late 1800s grew into a joint
effort between farmer and labor groups against big business and
machine-based politics. The movement became a third party in the
election of 1892
Led by Tom Watson
◉ Jim Crow laws
Answer: unwritten and written laws to follow included the poll tax,
literacy test, and property requirements, separate but equal laws
-enacted after reconstruction period 1896
-racial segregation
-brown v board of ed (1954)
◉ Voting Restrictions
Answer: poll taxes, literacy test, grandfather clause, property
requirements aimed at disenfranchising black voters
◉ Sherman Antitrust Act
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS 2026
◉ Crop-lien System 1860-1930
Answer: a way for farmers to get credit before the planting season
by borrowing against the value for anticipated harvests
◉ Sharecroppers
Answer: 1870's Tenant farmers, serfs, who worked the land they did
not own for a meager share of the crops
◉ Ku Klux Klan
Answer: -terrorism
-"purification" of american society
-right wing extremist organizations
-hate group
◉ The Ku Klux Klan was which of the following
A. A social club
,B. a terrorist organization
C. white supremacist group
D. All of the above
Answer: D. All of the above
KKK took positions such as white supremacy, white nationalism,
anti-immigration, opposed Catholics and Jews
Had 3 different manifestations over time
◉ Post Bellum Era
Answer: no slavery, crop-lien system, farmers found themselves
mortgaging an implanted crop at an unspecified rate of interest for a
loan of undetermined value.
◉ The end of Reconstruction
Answer: -Rutherford B hayes
-Republicans promised that if Hayes was elected he would withdraw
the last of the federal troops from the south, allowing the only
remaining Republican Reconstruction governments to collapse
-1877 (76?)
◉ American Federation of Labor
Answer: -founded in 1886
- national federation of labor unions in the United States
, -Samuel Gompers (pres)
-largest union grouping in the United States for the first half of the
20th century
◉ Populist Party
Answer: Farm-based movement of the late 1800s grew into a joint
effort between farmer and labor groups against big business and
machine-based politics. The movement became a third party in the
election of 1892
Led by Tom Watson
◉ Jim Crow laws
Answer: unwritten and written laws to follow included the poll tax,
literacy test, and property requirements, separate but equal laws
-enacted after reconstruction period 1896
-racial segregation
-brown v board of ed (1954)
◉ Voting Restrictions
Answer: poll taxes, literacy test, grandfather clause, property
requirements aimed at disenfranchising black voters
◉ Sherman Antitrust Act
