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UGA History Exemption Test Pre 1877 Exam
Questions With Revised Answers
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
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.
William Penn - answer✔✔-Founder of Pennsylvania
-Pushed for democracy and religious freedom
-Quaker
-Wanted to unite all of the U.S. colonies
What country claimed Quebec? - answer✔✔The French
Who settled land west of the Mississippi River
A. The French
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B. The Dutch
C. The Spanish
D. The British - answer✔✔A. The French
Who settled land in New York - answer✔✔The Dutch along Hudson River later colonized New
Amsterdam on Manhattan Island.
Main cash crop of Chesapeake Bay (Virginia and Maryland) - answer✔✔Tobacco
??? Early settlers wanted main crop to be ______ , ended up being _______ -
answer✔✔wine/silk and rice/indigo
Later cash crops became tobacco and cotton
King Phillip's War - answer✔✔Most Indians lost in New England
King Philip's War was an armed conflict between American Indian inhabitants of New England
versus the New England colonists and their Indian allies in 1675-78
Bacon's Rebellion - answer✔✔-armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel
Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
- First rebellion in the colonies
Many of the European settlers who first came to the New World did so to escape religious
persecution. Which colony was granted to a benefactor for the purpose of settling the Quakers?
A. Virginia
B. Massachusetts
C. New Hampshire
D. Pennsylvania - answer✔✔D. Pennsylvania by William Penn
Early settlers in New England depended primarily upon what source of labor?
A. their children
B. slaves
C. indentured servants
D. wage laborers - answer✔✔A. their children
The Great Awakening - answer✔✔-Revival of religion in U.S. 1730's Protestant
The Stono Rebellion - answer✔✔-1739
UGA History Exemption Test Pre 1877 Exam
Questions With Revised Answers
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
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.
William Penn - answer✔✔-Founder of Pennsylvania
-Pushed for democracy and religious freedom
-Quaker
-Wanted to unite all of the U.S. colonies
What country claimed Quebec? - answer✔✔The French
Who settled land west of the Mississippi River
A. The French
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B. The Dutch
C. The Spanish
D. The British - answer✔✔A. The French
Who settled land in New York - answer✔✔The Dutch along Hudson River later colonized New
Amsterdam on Manhattan Island.
Main cash crop of Chesapeake Bay (Virginia and Maryland) - answer✔✔Tobacco
??? Early settlers wanted main crop to be ______ , ended up being _______ -
answer✔✔wine/silk and rice/indigo
Later cash crops became tobacco and cotton
King Phillip's War - answer✔✔Most Indians lost in New England
King Philip's War was an armed conflict between American Indian inhabitants of New England
versus the New England colonists and their Indian allies in 1675-78
Bacon's Rebellion - answer✔✔-armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel
Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
- First rebellion in the colonies
Many of the European settlers who first came to the New World did so to escape religious
persecution. Which colony was granted to a benefactor for the purpose of settling the Quakers?
A. Virginia
B. Massachusetts
C. New Hampshire
D. Pennsylvania - answer✔✔D. Pennsylvania by William Penn
Early settlers in New England depended primarily upon what source of labor?
A. their children
B. slaves
C. indentured servants
D. wage laborers - answer✔✔A. their children
The Great Awakening - answer✔✔-Revival of religion in U.S. 1730's Protestant
The Stono Rebellion - answer✔✔-1739
