GA HISTORY EXEMPTION REVISION EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Iroquois League - ✔✔political alliance of five Iroquois groups, known as the Five
Nations, in the late 1500s
✔✔14th Ammendment - ✔✔granted citizenship to blacks and reinforced due process of
equal rights
✔✔indentured servant - ✔✔Laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period
of time in exchange for passage to America
✔✔13th ammendment - ✔✔abolished slavery
✔✔County Unit System - ✔✔Voting method that gave rural (sparsely populated) areas
more power in GA than larger urban counties; violated the 14th Amendment; made
unconstitutional in 1962.
✔✔Ross Perot - ✔✔Texas billionaire who was a third-party candidate in the 1992
presidential election won 19 percent of the popular vote. His strong showing that year
demonstrated voter disaffection with the two major parties.
✔✔"evil empire" - ✔✔Ronald Reagan's description of Soviet Union because of his anti-
communist views
✔✔Reagan Revolution - ✔✔The policies of the first Reagan administration; based on
*"supply side"* theory of growing the economy.
Included: Increased defense spending, Reduced social programs, and Tax cuts
✔✔Nullification Crisis - ✔✔Argument between South Carolina and the federal
government regarding the role of national government; brought up by the tariff of 1828
✔✔thomas paine - ✔✔Ennglish-American revolutionary leader who wrote the Common
Sense that advocated for colonial Americas independence from GB
✔✔Malcom X - ✔✔African American who spread ideas of black nationalism; he
disagreed w/ both the tactics and goals of the early civil rights movement and promoted
violent tactics
✔✔mercantilism - ✔✔an economic system (in Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's
wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests at the
expense of rival national powers
, ✔✔Hernan Cortes - ✔✔Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered
Mexico (1485-1547)
✔✔Louisiana Purchase - ✔✔Acquisition of Louisiana territory from France in 1803. The
purchase more than doubled the territory of the United States, opening vast tracts for
settlement.
✔✔Which nation held 58 hostages in their capital's American embassy in 1979 and
1980? - ✔✔Iran
✔✔Lend-Lease Act - ✔✔allowed sales or loans and aids of war materials to any country
that the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S
✔✔containment - ✔✔American policy of resisting further expansion of communism
around the world
✔✔NAFTA - ✔✔North American Free Trade Agreement; allows open trade with US,
Mexico, and Canada
✔✔Andrew Johnson - ✔✔17th President of the United States; he was the vice president
for Lincoln; when Lincoln was killed, he became president. He opposed radical
Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to
be impeached,
✔✔free silver - ✔✔Movement for using silver in all aspects of currency. Not adopted
because all other countries used a gold standard.
✔✔Dartmouth college case - ✔✔New Hampshire attempted to take over Dartmouth
College by revising its colonial charter but Supreme Court ruled that the charter was
protected under the contract clause of the U. S. Constitution
✔✔William Penn - ✔✔A Quaker that founded Pennsylvania to establish a place where
his people and others could live in peace and be free from persecution
✔✔John F. Kennedy - ✔✔president during part of the cold war and especially during the
superpower rivalry and the cuban missile crisis.
✔✔Alexander Hamilton - ✔✔one of the founding fathers of US; he was the first
secretary of the treasury who advocated for creation of a national bank, assumption of
state debts by federal gov, and a tariff system to pay off national debt
✔✔Eugene V. Debs - ✔✔Head of the American Railway Union and director of the
Pullman strike; he was imprisoned for ignoring a federal court injunction to stop striking;
ran as candidate for the Socialist Party
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Iroquois League - ✔✔political alliance of five Iroquois groups, known as the Five
Nations, in the late 1500s
✔✔14th Ammendment - ✔✔granted citizenship to blacks and reinforced due process of
equal rights
✔✔indentured servant - ✔✔Laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period
of time in exchange for passage to America
✔✔13th ammendment - ✔✔abolished slavery
✔✔County Unit System - ✔✔Voting method that gave rural (sparsely populated) areas
more power in GA than larger urban counties; violated the 14th Amendment; made
unconstitutional in 1962.
✔✔Ross Perot - ✔✔Texas billionaire who was a third-party candidate in the 1992
presidential election won 19 percent of the popular vote. His strong showing that year
demonstrated voter disaffection with the two major parties.
✔✔"evil empire" - ✔✔Ronald Reagan's description of Soviet Union because of his anti-
communist views
✔✔Reagan Revolution - ✔✔The policies of the first Reagan administration; based on
*"supply side"* theory of growing the economy.
Included: Increased defense spending, Reduced social programs, and Tax cuts
✔✔Nullification Crisis - ✔✔Argument between South Carolina and the federal
government regarding the role of national government; brought up by the tariff of 1828
✔✔thomas paine - ✔✔Ennglish-American revolutionary leader who wrote the Common
Sense that advocated for colonial Americas independence from GB
✔✔Malcom X - ✔✔African American who spread ideas of black nationalism; he
disagreed w/ both the tactics and goals of the early civil rights movement and promoted
violent tactics
✔✔mercantilism - ✔✔an economic system (in Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's
wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests at the
expense of rival national powers
, ✔✔Hernan Cortes - ✔✔Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered
Mexico (1485-1547)
✔✔Louisiana Purchase - ✔✔Acquisition of Louisiana territory from France in 1803. The
purchase more than doubled the territory of the United States, opening vast tracts for
settlement.
✔✔Which nation held 58 hostages in their capital's American embassy in 1979 and
1980? - ✔✔Iran
✔✔Lend-Lease Act - ✔✔allowed sales or loans and aids of war materials to any country
that the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S
✔✔containment - ✔✔American policy of resisting further expansion of communism
around the world
✔✔NAFTA - ✔✔North American Free Trade Agreement; allows open trade with US,
Mexico, and Canada
✔✔Andrew Johnson - ✔✔17th President of the United States; he was the vice president
for Lincoln; when Lincoln was killed, he became president. He opposed radical
Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to
be impeached,
✔✔free silver - ✔✔Movement for using silver in all aspects of currency. Not adopted
because all other countries used a gold standard.
✔✔Dartmouth college case - ✔✔New Hampshire attempted to take over Dartmouth
College by revising its colonial charter but Supreme Court ruled that the charter was
protected under the contract clause of the U. S. Constitution
✔✔William Penn - ✔✔A Quaker that founded Pennsylvania to establish a place where
his people and others could live in peace and be free from persecution
✔✔John F. Kennedy - ✔✔president during part of the cold war and especially during the
superpower rivalry and the cuban missile crisis.
✔✔Alexander Hamilton - ✔✔one of the founding fathers of US; he was the first
secretary of the treasury who advocated for creation of a national bank, assumption of
state debts by federal gov, and a tariff system to pay off national debt
✔✔Eugene V. Debs - ✔✔Head of the American Railway Union and director of the
Pullman strike; he was imprisoned for ignoring a federal court injunction to stop striking;
ran as candidate for the Socialist Party
