UGA History Exemption Test
Questions and Answers Verified
Solutions Latest Update
(2026/2027)
Question:
Pre-Columbian Peoples of the American Southwest
Answer:
Agriculturally focused
groups that developed powerful and complex societies
Question:
-Became increasingly dependent on the cultivation of maize
Pre-Columbian economy in Great Basin and the western Great Plains
Answer:
Question:
Migratory because of limited resources
Pre-Columbian economy in the Northeast and along the Atlantic Seaboard
Answer:
Another Group of tribes in present-day NY formed the Iroquois League
,Question:
-Cultivated crops and participated in foraging and hunting, often creating
lasting settlements
Hernan Cortes
Answer:
Spanish explorer who marched across mexico and conquered
the aztecs
- from spain
Question:
Hernando de Soto
Answer:
explored deep in USA
-first to cross and disocer Miss. River
-claimed for Spain
Question:
Georgia first colonized by Spanish because they were looking for
Answer:
gold and land
Question:
The Columbian Exchange
,Answer:
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and
technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following
Columbus's voyages.
Question:
The Treaty of Tordesillas
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.
Question:
St. Augustine
Answer:
Question:
1st colony in Florida set up by Spain
joint-stock company
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.
Question:
James Edward Oglethorpe
Answer:
The leader of English Parliament who founded the
Georgia colony
Question:
James Wright
Answer:
Question:
Georgia's third, and final, royal governor
Jamestown
Answer:
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
Question:
Why did colonists come to the New World?
Questions and Answers Verified
Solutions Latest Update
(2026/2027)
Question:
Pre-Columbian Peoples of the American Southwest
Answer:
Agriculturally focused
groups that developed powerful and complex societies
Question:
-Became increasingly dependent on the cultivation of maize
Pre-Columbian economy in Great Basin and the western Great Plains
Answer:
Question:
Migratory because of limited resources
Pre-Columbian economy in the Northeast and along the Atlantic Seaboard
Answer:
Another Group of tribes in present-day NY formed the Iroquois League
,Question:
-Cultivated crops and participated in foraging and hunting, often creating
lasting settlements
Hernan Cortes
Answer:
Spanish explorer who marched across mexico and conquered
the aztecs
- from spain
Question:
Hernando de Soto
Answer:
explored deep in USA
-first to cross and disocer Miss. River
-claimed for Spain
Question:
Georgia first colonized by Spanish because they were looking for
Answer:
gold and land
Question:
The Columbian Exchange
,Answer:
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and
technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following
Columbus's voyages.
Question:
The Treaty of Tordesillas
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.
Question:
St. Augustine
Answer:
Question:
1st colony in Florida set up by Spain
joint-stock company
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.
Question:
James Edward Oglethorpe
Answer:
The leader of English Parliament who founded the
Georgia colony
Question:
James Wright
Answer:
Question:
Georgia's third, and final, royal governor
Jamestown
Answer:
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
Question:
Why did colonists come to the New World?
