GA HISTORY EXEMPTION KSU EXAM SCRIPT 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔poll taxes, literacy test, grandfather clause, property requirements aimed at
disenfranchising black voters - ✔✔Voting Restrictions
✔✔when did the Civil War take place - ✔✔1861-1865
✔✔war between the North and South US to determine the survival of union or
independence of confederacy - ✔✔Civil War
✔✔this man was the father of the American Revolution who inspired Rebels to declare
independence from Britain and wrote Common Sense and The American Crisis -
✔✔Thomas Paine
✔✔when was the American Federation of Labor founded - ✔✔1886
✔✔collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison,
and John Jay promoting the ratification of the US Constitution - against the Bill of Rights
- ✔✔Federalist Papers
✔✔when was the Sherman Antitrust Act passed? - ✔✔1890
✔✔law passed under President Benjamin Harrison that prohibits certain business
activities that Federal government deems to be anti-competitive - monoplies and cartels
- ✔✔Sherman Antitrust Act
✔✔social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups - ✔✔Segregation
✔✔what effect did John Brown's raid of Harper's Ferry have on the US? - ✔✔both
northern abolitionists an southern fire-eaters became incensed
✔✔this man was the VP of Harding then finished his term when Harding died -
reelected as 30th President in 1924 - ✔✔Calvin Coolidge
✔✔landmark Supreme court case in 1857 which confirmed the status of slaves as
property rather than citizens - ✔✔Dred Scott vs Sanford
✔✔south surrendered at Appomattox court house marked what? - ✔✔end of the Civil
War
✔✔Supreme Court case which established the principle of judicial review 1803 -
✔✔Marbury vs Madison
, ✔✔what country claimed Quebec? - ✔✔France
✔✔an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-
American Civil Rights Movement - promoted nonviolent civil disovedience - ✔✔Martin
Luther King Jr
✔✔what year did MLK win the Nobel Peace Prize - ✔✔1964
✔✔considered "Father of the Constitution" because of his role in its writing and
ratification - wrote Bill of Rights - an author of the Federalist Papers - ✔✔James
Madison
✔✔who was president during the war of 1812? - ✔✔James Madison
✔✔armed conflict between American Indian inhabitants of New England vs New
England colonists and their Indian allies - ✔✔King Phillip's War
✔✔when did King Philip's War take place? - ✔✔1675-1678
✔✔who was the VP of Confederate states of America during Civil War? - ✔✔Alexander
Stephens
✔✔what year did King George II issue the official charter to make GA an English
colony? - ✔✔1732
✔✔why did colonists come to the new world? - ✔✔Religious freedom, profit,
adventure...etc.
✔✔US representative from GA, a judge advocate American Civil War, and chief justice
of the Supreme Court of GA - nullified the yazoo sale destructed records connected with
the state - ✔✔James Jackson
✔✔what year did Washington give his farewell address - ✔✔1796
✔✔What 3 dangers did Washington stress in his farewell address? - ✔✔1. political
parties could divide the nation
2. avoid long-term alliances with foreign nations
3. avoid sectionalism cause by geography and other differences
✔✔one of the founding fathers and 1st US treasurer - founded US financial system and
Federalist Party - father of US coast guard and the New York Post - ✔✔Alexander
Hamilton
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔poll taxes, literacy test, grandfather clause, property requirements aimed at
disenfranchising black voters - ✔✔Voting Restrictions
✔✔when did the Civil War take place - ✔✔1861-1865
✔✔war between the North and South US to determine the survival of union or
independence of confederacy - ✔✔Civil War
✔✔this man was the father of the American Revolution who inspired Rebels to declare
independence from Britain and wrote Common Sense and The American Crisis -
✔✔Thomas Paine
✔✔when was the American Federation of Labor founded - ✔✔1886
✔✔collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison,
and John Jay promoting the ratification of the US Constitution - against the Bill of Rights
- ✔✔Federalist Papers
✔✔when was the Sherman Antitrust Act passed? - ✔✔1890
✔✔law passed under President Benjamin Harrison that prohibits certain business
activities that Federal government deems to be anti-competitive - monoplies and cartels
- ✔✔Sherman Antitrust Act
✔✔social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups - ✔✔Segregation
✔✔what effect did John Brown's raid of Harper's Ferry have on the US? - ✔✔both
northern abolitionists an southern fire-eaters became incensed
✔✔this man was the VP of Harding then finished his term when Harding died -
reelected as 30th President in 1924 - ✔✔Calvin Coolidge
✔✔landmark Supreme court case in 1857 which confirmed the status of slaves as
property rather than citizens - ✔✔Dred Scott vs Sanford
✔✔south surrendered at Appomattox court house marked what? - ✔✔end of the Civil
War
✔✔Supreme Court case which established the principle of judicial review 1803 -
✔✔Marbury vs Madison
, ✔✔what country claimed Quebec? - ✔✔France
✔✔an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-
American Civil Rights Movement - promoted nonviolent civil disovedience - ✔✔Martin
Luther King Jr
✔✔what year did MLK win the Nobel Peace Prize - ✔✔1964
✔✔considered "Father of the Constitution" because of his role in its writing and
ratification - wrote Bill of Rights - an author of the Federalist Papers - ✔✔James
Madison
✔✔who was president during the war of 1812? - ✔✔James Madison
✔✔armed conflict between American Indian inhabitants of New England vs New
England colonists and their Indian allies - ✔✔King Phillip's War
✔✔when did King Philip's War take place? - ✔✔1675-1678
✔✔who was the VP of Confederate states of America during Civil War? - ✔✔Alexander
Stephens
✔✔what year did King George II issue the official charter to make GA an English
colony? - ✔✔1732
✔✔why did colonists come to the new world? - ✔✔Religious freedom, profit,
adventure...etc.
✔✔US representative from GA, a judge advocate American Civil War, and chief justice
of the Supreme Court of GA - nullified the yazoo sale destructed records connected with
the state - ✔✔James Jackson
✔✔what year did Washington give his farewell address - ✔✔1796
✔✔What 3 dangers did Washington stress in his farewell address? - ✔✔1. political
parties could divide the nation
2. avoid long-term alliances with foreign nations
3. avoid sectionalism cause by geography and other differences
✔✔one of the founding fathers and 1st US treasurer - founded US financial system and
Federalist Party - father of US coast guard and the New York Post - ✔✔Alexander
Hamilton
