UGA U S HISTORY EXEMPTION
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS LATEST PREP GUIDE
VERIFIED A PLUS
◉ Pre-Columbian Peoples of the American Southwest.
Answer: -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.
Answer: - 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
-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
,◉ Hernando de Soto.
Answer: -explored deep in USA
-first to cross and disocer Miss. River
-claimed for Spain
◉ Georgia first colonized by Spanish because they were looking for.
Answer: gold and land
◉ 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.
◉ 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.
◉ St. Augustine.
Answer: -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.
◉ James Edward Oglethorpe.
Answer: The leader of English Parliament who founded the Georgia
colony
◉ James Wright.
Answer: 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
◉ Why did colonists come to the New World?.
Answer: Religious freedom
profit
adventure...etc.
◉ Original Trustees of Ga were provided what.
Answer: 50 acres , free passage, provisions for 1 yr
, ◉ William Penn.
Answer: -Founder of Pennsylvania
-Pushed for democracy and religious freedom
-Quaker
-Wanted to unite all of the U.S. colonies
◉ Quakers.
Answer: -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
◉ What country claimed Quebec?.
Answer: The French
◉ French Colonization in the New World.
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS LATEST PREP GUIDE
VERIFIED A PLUS
◉ Pre-Columbian Peoples of the American Southwest.
Answer: -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.
Answer: - 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
-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
,◉ Hernando de Soto.
Answer: -explored deep in USA
-first to cross and disocer Miss. River
-claimed for Spain
◉ Georgia first colonized by Spanish because they were looking for.
Answer: gold and land
◉ 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.
◉ 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.
◉ St. Augustine.
Answer: -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.
◉ James Edward Oglethorpe.
Answer: The leader of English Parliament who founded the Georgia
colony
◉ James Wright.
Answer: 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
◉ Why did colonists come to the New World?.
Answer: Religious freedom
profit
adventure...etc.
◉ Original Trustees of Ga were provided what.
Answer: 50 acres , free passage, provisions for 1 yr
, ◉ William Penn.
Answer: -Founder of Pennsylvania
-Pushed for democracy and religious freedom
-Quaker
-Wanted to unite all of the U.S. colonies
◉ Quakers.
Answer: -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
◉ What country claimed Quebec?.
Answer: The French
◉ French Colonization in the New World.
