UGA History Exemption Test 1877 -
Present
The national political parties of the second American party system were:
A. the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
B. the Democratic Party and the Whig Party.
C. the Federalist Party and the Republican Party.
D. the Democratic Party and the Populist Party. - Answer-B. the Democratic Party and the Whig Party.
Crop-lien System 1860-1930 - Answer-a way for farmers to get credit before the planting season by
borrowing against the value for anticipated harvests
Sharecroppers - Answer-1870's Tenant farmers, serfs, who worked the land they did not own for a
meager share of the crops
Ku Klux Klan - Answer--terrorism
-"purification" of american society
-right wing extremist organizations
-hate group
The Ku Klux Klan was which of the following
A. A social club
,B. a terrorist organization
C. white supremacist group
D. All of the above - Answer-D. All of the above
KKK took positions such as white supremacy, white nationalism, anti-immigration, opposed Catholics
and Jews
Had 3 different manifestations over time
Post Bellum Era - Answer-no slavery, crop-lien system, farmers found themselves mortgaging an
implanted crop at an unspecified rate of interest for a loan of undetermined value.
The end of Reconstruction - Answer--Rutherford B hayes
-Republicans promised that if Hayes was elected he would withdraw the last of the federal troops from
the south, allowing the only remaining Republican Reconstruction governments to collapse
-1877 (76?)
American Federation of Labor - Answer--founded in 1886
- national federation of labor unions in the United States
-Samuel Gompers (pres)
-largest union grouping in the United States for the first half of the 20th century
Populist Party - Answer-Farm-based movement of the late 1800s grew into a joint effort between farmer
and labor groups against big business and machine-based politics. The movement became a third party
in the election of 1892
Led by Tom Watson
Jim Crow laws - Answer-unwritten and written laws to follow included the poll tax, literacy test, and
property requirements, separate but equal laws
-enacted after reconstruction period 1896
, -racial segregation
-brown v board of ed (1954)
Voting Restrictions - Answer-poll taxes, literacy test, grandfather clause, property requirements aimed
at disenfranchising black voters
Sherman Antitrust Act - Answer--United States antitrust law (or "competition law") passed by Congress
in 1890. Passed under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison, it prohibits certain business activities that
Federal government deems to be anti-competitive.
-monopolies and cartels
Spanish American War - Answer-1898
Spain declared war on the United States
US decided to intervene after sinking of USS Maine
Pathetically onesided b/c Spain did not have army trained or ready
US Destroyed Spanish fleet in Philippines very quickly
Immigration in the early 1900s - Answer--By 1910, Eastern and Southern Europeans made up 70 percent
of the immigrants entering the country.
-dropped in 1914 after the war
-Ellis Island
Battle of Wounded Knee - Answer-The battle between U.S. military troops and Lakota Sioux Indians at
Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota on December 29, 1890, resulted in the deaths of perhaps 300
Sioux men, women, and children. The massacre at Wounded Knee was the last major battle of the Indian
Wars of the late 19th century.
Ellis Island - Answer--Built in 1892, the center handled some 12 million European immigrants, herding
thousands of them a day through the barn-like structure during the peak years for screening
Present
The national political parties of the second American party system were:
A. the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
B. the Democratic Party and the Whig Party.
C. the Federalist Party and the Republican Party.
D. the Democratic Party and the Populist Party. - Answer-B. the Democratic Party and the Whig Party.
Crop-lien System 1860-1930 - Answer-a way for farmers to get credit before the planting season by
borrowing against the value for anticipated harvests
Sharecroppers - Answer-1870's Tenant farmers, serfs, who worked the land they did not own for a
meager share of the crops
Ku Klux Klan - Answer--terrorism
-"purification" of american society
-right wing extremist organizations
-hate group
The Ku Klux Klan was which of the following
A. A social club
,B. a terrorist organization
C. white supremacist group
D. All of the above - Answer-D. All of the above
KKK took positions such as white supremacy, white nationalism, anti-immigration, opposed Catholics
and Jews
Had 3 different manifestations over time
Post Bellum Era - Answer-no slavery, crop-lien system, farmers found themselves mortgaging an
implanted crop at an unspecified rate of interest for a loan of undetermined value.
The end of Reconstruction - Answer--Rutherford B hayes
-Republicans promised that if Hayes was elected he would withdraw the last of the federal troops from
the south, allowing the only remaining Republican Reconstruction governments to collapse
-1877 (76?)
American Federation of Labor - Answer--founded in 1886
- national federation of labor unions in the United States
-Samuel Gompers (pres)
-largest union grouping in the United States for the first half of the 20th century
Populist Party - Answer-Farm-based movement of the late 1800s grew into a joint effort between farmer
and labor groups against big business and machine-based politics. The movement became a third party
in the election of 1892
Led by Tom Watson
Jim Crow laws - Answer-unwritten and written laws to follow included the poll tax, literacy test, and
property requirements, separate but equal laws
-enacted after reconstruction period 1896
, -racial segregation
-brown v board of ed (1954)
Voting Restrictions - Answer-poll taxes, literacy test, grandfather clause, property requirements aimed
at disenfranchising black voters
Sherman Antitrust Act - Answer--United States antitrust law (or "competition law") passed by Congress
in 1890. Passed under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison, it prohibits certain business activities that
Federal government deems to be anti-competitive.
-monopolies and cartels
Spanish American War - Answer-1898
Spain declared war on the United States
US decided to intervene after sinking of USS Maine
Pathetically onesided b/c Spain did not have army trained or ready
US Destroyed Spanish fleet in Philippines very quickly
Immigration in the early 1900s - Answer--By 1910, Eastern and Southern Europeans made up 70 percent
of the immigrants entering the country.
-dropped in 1914 after the war
-Ellis Island
Battle of Wounded Knee - Answer-The battle between U.S. military troops and Lakota Sioux Indians at
Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota on December 29, 1890, resulted in the deaths of perhaps 300
Sioux men, women, and children. The massacre at Wounded Knee was the last major battle of the Indian
Wars of the late 19th century.
Ellis Island - Answer--Built in 1892, the center handled some 12 million European immigrants, herding
thousands of them a day through the barn-like structure during the peak years for screening
