The Better UGA US/GA History
Exemption Test Questions and
Answers Verified Solutions Latest
Update (2026/2027)
Question:
Iroquois League
Answer:
Question:
Known as the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the
Longhouse", this is a league of several nations and tribes of indigenous
people of North America
Yazoo Lands
Answer:
The sparsely-populated central and western areas of the US state
of GA, when its western border stretched to the Mississippi River.
Question:
James Jackson
Answer:
October 18, 1819 - January 13, 1887. It was a US representative
from GA, a judge advocate during the American Civil War, and a chief justice
,of the Supreme
Court of Georgia. He nullified the yazoo sale and destroyed records
connected with the state.
Later the Yazoo lands were given to the Federal Government.
Question:
Yazoo Land Fraud
Answer:
A massive fraud perpetrated from 1794-1803 by several
Georgia governers and the state legislature. It involved the selling of
unsettled Georgia territory
to four large companies and the eventual resale to the US federal
government after cries of
bribery and corruption led James Jackson to rescind the original sale.
Question:
James Gunn
Answer:
Georgia's US senator who arranged the distribution of money and
Yazoo land to legislators, state officials, newspaper editors and other
influential people.
Question:
Trail of Tears
Answer:
,The forced relocation and movement of Native American nations
from southeastern parts of the US following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
The removal sent
many members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw and
Choctaw nations, among
others in the US, from their homelands to Indian territory (From Georgia to
Oklahoma.)
Question:
Hernan Cortes
Answer:
The 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca, (1485 - December 2,
1547) was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall
of the Aztec
Question:
Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the
King of Castile in
the early 16th Century.
The Stono Rebellion
Answer:
A slave rebellion that commenced on September 9 1739,
in the colony of South Carolina where armed slaves marched towards
Spanish Florida. It was the
largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American
Revolution.
Question:
, Jemmy AKA "Cato"
Answer:
Question:
A literate slave who staged and led the Stono Rebellion
William Penn
Answer:
Question:
October 14, 1644 - July 30 1718. It was an English real estate
entrepreneur, philosopher and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the
English North
American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
The Great Awakening
Answer:
Used to refer to several periods of religious revival in
American history. Historians and theologians identify three or four waves of
increased religious
enthusiasm occurring between the early 18th and late 19th century. Each of
these was
characterized by widespread revivals lead by evangelical Protestant
ministers, a sharp increase
of interest in religion, a profound sense of conviction and redemption on the
part of those
affected, an increase in evangelical church membership and the formation of
new religious
movements and denominations.
Exemption Test Questions and
Answers Verified Solutions Latest
Update (2026/2027)
Question:
Iroquois League
Answer:
Question:
Known as the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the
Longhouse", this is a league of several nations and tribes of indigenous
people of North America
Yazoo Lands
Answer:
The sparsely-populated central and western areas of the US state
of GA, when its western border stretched to the Mississippi River.
Question:
James Jackson
Answer:
October 18, 1819 - January 13, 1887. It was a US representative
from GA, a judge advocate during the American Civil War, and a chief justice
,of the Supreme
Court of Georgia. He nullified the yazoo sale and destroyed records
connected with the state.
Later the Yazoo lands were given to the Federal Government.
Question:
Yazoo Land Fraud
Answer:
A massive fraud perpetrated from 1794-1803 by several
Georgia governers and the state legislature. It involved the selling of
unsettled Georgia territory
to four large companies and the eventual resale to the US federal
government after cries of
bribery and corruption led James Jackson to rescind the original sale.
Question:
James Gunn
Answer:
Georgia's US senator who arranged the distribution of money and
Yazoo land to legislators, state officials, newspaper editors and other
influential people.
Question:
Trail of Tears
Answer:
,The forced relocation and movement of Native American nations
from southeastern parts of the US following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
The removal sent
many members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw and
Choctaw nations, among
others in the US, from their homelands to Indian territory (From Georgia to
Oklahoma.)
Question:
Hernan Cortes
Answer:
The 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca, (1485 - December 2,
1547) was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall
of the Aztec
Question:
Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the
King of Castile in
the early 16th Century.
The Stono Rebellion
Answer:
A slave rebellion that commenced on September 9 1739,
in the colony of South Carolina where armed slaves marched towards
Spanish Florida. It was the
largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American
Revolution.
Question:
, Jemmy AKA "Cato"
Answer:
Question:
A literate slave who staged and led the Stono Rebellion
William Penn
Answer:
Question:
October 14, 1644 - July 30 1718. It was an English real estate
entrepreneur, philosopher and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the
English North
American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
The Great Awakening
Answer:
Used to refer to several periods of religious revival in
American history. Historians and theologians identify three or four waves of
increased religious
enthusiasm occurring between the early 18th and late 19th century. Each of
these was
characterized by widespread revivals lead by evangelical Protestant
ministers, a sharp increase
of interest in religion, a profound sense of conviction and redemption on the
part of those
affected, an increase in evangelical church membership and the formation of
new religious
movements and denominations.
