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UGA History Exemption Test (First Exam)
He was a spanish explorer who marched across Mexico and conquered the Aztecs
---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Hernan Cortes
He explored deep in USA, first to discover and cross the Mississippi River and
claim it for Spain ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Hernando de Soto
This man was a member of the English Parliament who founded the colony of
Georgia. ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------James Edward Oglethorpe
Who was Georgia's 3rd and final royal governor who fled the colony after the
start of the American Revolution? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------James
Wright
In what year did the 13th amendment abolish slavery and involuntary servitude? -
--------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------1864
,Who settled land in New York along the Hudson River? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-
----------------The Dutch
This man was an African American educator born into slavery who called for black
progress through education. ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Booker T
Washington
Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the
central banking system of the United States, and granted it the legal authority to
issue Federal Reserve Notes, and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. -----
----CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Federal Reserve Act
In what year was the Federal Reserve Act ratified? ---------CORRECT ANSWER--------
---------1913
What machine automated cotton processing and INCREASED the need for slaves?
---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Cotton Gin
,This man was a quaker who founded Pennsylvania. He wanted to unite all of the
UA colonies and pushed for democracy and religious freedom. ---------CORRECT
ANSWER-----------------William Penn
What was Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government during the
Civil War (1861 - 1865)? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Milledgeville
In 1832 SC argued that the federal tariffs were unconstitutional and President
Jackson sent Troops to force SC to pay tariffs. ---------CORRECT ANSWER--------------
---Nullification Crisis
In 1925 a substitute teacher was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act -------
--CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Scopes Trial
The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were
reorganized and reintegrated into the Union ---------CORRECT ANSWER---------------
--Reconstruction Era
In what years did the Reconstruction Era occur? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------
------1865-1877
, A series of economic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and
1936. They involved presidential executive orders or laws passed by Congress
during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. ---------CORRECT ANSWER-
----------------The New Deal
Between what years was The New Deal enacted? ---------CORRECT ANSWER---------
--------1933-1936
An African American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. Former Slave
who was the leader of the abolitionist movement and supported women's
suffrage. ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Frederick Douglass
What organization unsuccessfully campaigned for an equal rights amendment to
the constitution? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------National Organization of
Women
Who was the 40th President of the United States who worked to lift govt
regulations, reduce taxes, and reduce domestic spending by curtailing social
welfare. Launched the largest peacetime military buildup in American history. -----
----CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Ronald Reagan
In what years did prohibition take place? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------
1920-1933