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GA History Exemption Test Exam 2025 ;
Actual Exam Questions And Correct
Answers |Guaranteed Success
Why did colonists come to the New World? - Correct-answer-Religious freedom
profit
adventure...etc.
Iroquois League - Correct-answer--Group of native american tribes: wyandot,
susquehannock, Erie, neutral party
-Beaver wars: try to stop fur trade between tribes and european markets
- Fur trade
-Ohio river (great lakes region)
Hernan Cortes - Correct-answer-Spanish explorer who marched across mexico
and conquered the aztecs
- from spain
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Jamestown - Correct-answer--First permanent English settlement
-Starving time (1609-1610 80% died)
- Second Supply... first 2 women of jamestown (1608)
-1619: first slave ship of africans
- 1640: modern concept of slavery was established in US
The Stono Rebellion - Correct-answer--1739
-Largest slave uprising in SC
-Leader Jemmy (Cato)
-Marched towards Spanish Florida, where they were promised freedom and land
-Lead to the negro act of 1740 which restricted slave movements, education, and
assembly.
William Penn - Correct-answer--Founder of Pennsylvania
-Pushed for democracy and religious freedom
-Quaker
-Wanted to unite all of the U.S. colonies
- Many did not agree with his religious views and politics
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The Great Awakening - Correct-answer--Revival of religion in U.S.
Bacon's Rebellion - Correct-answer--armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers
led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
- First rebellion in the colonies
Democratic Republic - Correct-answer--One of Americas first party System
-Jefferson
-Dominate after 1800
-Farmers and planters
-South-- strong state gov't
Second party System - Correct-answer--1828-54
-rising levels of voter interest
-democratic party lead by andrew Jackson
-Whig party lead by henry clay (national republicans)
(Jacksonian era)
GA History Exemption Test Exam 2025 ;
Actual Exam Questions And Correct
Answers |Guaranteed Success
Why did colonists come to the New World? - Correct-answer-Religious freedom
profit
adventure...etc.
Iroquois League - Correct-answer--Group of native american tribes: wyandot,
susquehannock, Erie, neutral party
-Beaver wars: try to stop fur trade between tribes and european markets
- Fur trade
-Ohio river (great lakes region)
Hernan Cortes - Correct-answer-Spanish explorer who marched across mexico
and conquered the aztecs
- from spain
,2|Page
Jamestown - Correct-answer--First permanent English settlement
-Starving time (1609-1610 80% died)
- Second Supply... first 2 women of jamestown (1608)
-1619: first slave ship of africans
- 1640: modern concept of slavery was established in US
The Stono Rebellion - Correct-answer--1739
-Largest slave uprising in SC
-Leader Jemmy (Cato)
-Marched towards Spanish Florida, where they were promised freedom and land
-Lead to the negro act of 1740 which restricted slave movements, education, and
assembly.
William Penn - Correct-answer--Founder of Pennsylvania
-Pushed for democracy and religious freedom
-Quaker
-Wanted to unite all of the U.S. colonies
- Many did not agree with his religious views and politics
, 3|Page
The Great Awakening - Correct-answer--Revival of religion in U.S.
Bacon's Rebellion - Correct-answer--armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers
led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
- First rebellion in the colonies
Democratic Republic - Correct-answer--One of Americas first party System
-Jefferson
-Dominate after 1800
-Farmers and planters
-South-- strong state gov't
Second party System - Correct-answer--1828-54
-rising levels of voter interest
-democratic party lead by andrew Jackson
-Whig party lead by henry clay (national republicans)
(Jacksonian era)
