UGA HISTORY EXEMPTION TEST 1877 –
PRESENT EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
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. - ANS B. the Democratic Party and the Whig
Party.
Crop-lien System 1860-1930 - ANS a way for farmers to get credit before the planting season
by borrowing against the value for anticipated harvests
Sharecroppers - ANS 1870's Tenant farmers, serfs, who worked the land they did not own for
a meager share of the crops
Ku Klux Klan - ANS -terrorism
-"purification" of american society
-right wing extremist organizations
-hate group
The Ku Klux Klan was which of the following
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, A. A social club
B. a terrorist organization
C. white supremacist group
D. All of the above - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS -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 - ANS -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 - ANS 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 - ANS unwritten and written laws to follow included the poll tax, literacy test,
and property requirements, separate but equal laws
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, -enacted after reconstruction period 1896
-racial segregation
-brown v board of ed (1954)
Voting Restrictions - ANS poll taxes, literacy test, grandfather clause, property requirements
aimed at disenfranchising black voters
Sherman Antitrust Act - ANS -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 - ANS 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 - ANS -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 - ANS 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.
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PRESENT EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
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. - ANS B. the Democratic Party and the Whig
Party.
Crop-lien System 1860-1930 - ANS a way for farmers to get credit before the planting season
by borrowing against the value for anticipated harvests
Sharecroppers - ANS 1870's Tenant farmers, serfs, who worked the land they did not own for
a meager share of the crops
Ku Klux Klan - ANS -terrorism
-"purification" of american society
-right wing extremist organizations
-hate group
The Ku Klux Klan was which of the following
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, A. A social club
B. a terrorist organization
C. white supremacist group
D. All of the above - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS -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 - ANS -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 - ANS 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 - ANS unwritten and written laws to follow included the poll tax, literacy test,
and property requirements, separate but equal laws
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, -enacted after reconstruction period 1896
-racial segregation
-brown v board of ed (1954)
Voting Restrictions - ANS poll taxes, literacy test, grandfather clause, property requirements
aimed at disenfranchising black voters
Sherman Antitrust Act - ANS -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 - ANS 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 - ANS -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 - ANS 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.
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