UGA History Exemption Test Questions With All Correct Detailed Answers

UGA History Exemption Test Questions With All Correct Detailed Answers Earlier in statehood GA was made up of what two states? - CORRECT ANSWERAlabama and Mississippi First people to settle in Georgia - CORRECT ANSWER- Paleo-Indian Period: Clovis culture Woodland Period: Mound builders Kolomoki Mounds New deal in Georgia - CORRECT ANSWER- -Aimed at economic recovery and address Georgia's social conditions as well -Within a year, 20% of Georgia's urban residents were receiving some kind of federal relief (increased wages) -New deal brought $250mm to GA -Agricultural Adjustment paid farmers to plant less cotton (decreased Supply of cotton to help with depressed cotton prices) -Tallmadge opposed New Deal policies -Failed to improve economic conditions overall Impact of WWII in GA Increased or decreased wages - CORRECT ANSWER- -Lifted GA out of the Great Depression -American farmers were strained by the war effort (left farms to work at defense factories which paid better) -Employment increased significantly -Higher wages overall -By 1950 more people in manufacturing than farming Cahokia - CORRECT ANSWER- The most sophisticated pre-historic Native civilization north of Mexico. Mound state across the Mississippi River in St. Louis 1st woman to run for vice presidency- CORRECT ANSWER- Geraldine Ferraro Which president ended Vietnam War? - CORRECT ANSWER- Nixon "New nationalism" - CORRECT ANSWER- Teddy Roosevelt -Fed intervention, social justice, under privileged Why was Andrew Jackson elected? - CORRECT ANSWER- -Known as the People's president -Was a War hero -Supported individual liberty and forced Native American migration Who created the Federalist Party? - CORRECT ANSWER- Alexander Hamilton -The party elected Adams to the presidency in 1796 Siege of Savannah - CORRECT ANSWER- -Second deadliest battle of the Revolutionary War -Americans unsuccessfully tried to rid the city of British occupation -Whig allies lost the battle Favorite pastime of Antebellum GA - CORRECT ANSWER- -Shakespeare -Major reformation movements -Play rights -POLITICS became a great national pastime Why did Georgians want Indians removed from the state? - CORRECT ANSWERIndian removal was a product of demand for arable land during the rampant growth of cotton agriculture -discovery of gold on Cherokee land -And racial prejudice against Native Americans Where was the most inequality in the colonies? - CORRECT ANSWER- Jamaica -greatest inequality in terms of land ow