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UGA History Exemption Test
Questions and Verified
Answers
Question: Women's Right Movement
Ans: Rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls of many societies
worldwide
Question: Ku Klux Klan
Ans: Terrorist organization devoted to racial inequality, suffering and evil;
established 1868
Question: Conscription
Ans: The compulsory enlistment of people in some sort of national service, most
often military service
Question: Populist Party
Ans: U.S. political party that sought to represent the interests of farmers and
laborers in the 1890s, advocating increased currency issues, free coinage of silver,
public ownership of railroads, and a graduated federal income tax; also called
People's Party
Question: World War I
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Ans: Global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11
November 1918; also known as the Great War
President: Woodrow Wilson
Question: Jim Crow
Ans: The system of racial segregation in the South that was created in the late
nineteenth century following the end of slavery. Laws written to separate blacks
and whites in public areas/meant African Americans had unequal opportunities in
housing, work, education, and government; 1876-1965
Ended by Lyndon B. Johnson
Question: Progressive Movement
Ans: General political philosophy advocating or favoring social, political, and
economic reform
Presidents: Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
Question: America Prohibition
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Ans: National ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place
from 1920 to 1933. Ban was mandated by the 18th Amendment to the Constitution
Private ownership of consumable alcohol and drinking it was not made illegal.
Ended with the ratification of the 21st Amendment, which repealed the 18th
Amendment, on December 5, 1933
Question: Woodrow Wilson
Ans: Leader of the Progressive Movement and was the 28th President of the United
States (1913-1921). After a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of World War I, he
led America into war in order to "make the world safe for democracy"
Question: Treaty of Versailles
Ans: One of the peace treaties at the end of World War I; was intended to provide a
place where countries could peacefully discuss solutions to their differences rather
than go to war. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand.
Question: Whig Party
Ans: Party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and
Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from
the 1680s to the 1850s
Question: Mugwump Party
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Ans: Republican political activists who bolted from the US Republican Party by
supporting Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the United States presidential
election of 1884
Switched parties because they rejected the financial corruption associated with
Republican candidate James G. Blaine. In a close election, they supposedly made the
difference in New York state and swung the election to Cleveland
Question: New Deal
Ans: Series of economic programs enacted in the US between 1933 and 1936. They
involved presidential executive orders or laws passed by Congress during the first
term of FDR
Question: Great Depression
Ans: Economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing
through the 1930s; longest and most widespread of its kind of the 20th century
President: FDR
Question: World War II
Ans: Global war that was under way by 1939 and ended in 1945. It involved a vast
majority of the world's nations, including all of the great powers, eventually
forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis
President: FDR
Question: Internment Camps
UGA History Exemption Test
Questions and Verified
Answers
Question: Women's Right Movement
Ans: Rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls of many societies
worldwide
Question: Ku Klux Klan
Ans: Terrorist organization devoted to racial inequality, suffering and evil;
established 1868
Question: Conscription
Ans: The compulsory enlistment of people in some sort of national service, most
often military service
Question: Populist Party
Ans: U.S. political party that sought to represent the interests of farmers and
laborers in the 1890s, advocating increased currency issues, free coinage of silver,
public ownership of railroads, and a graduated federal income tax; also called
People's Party
Question: World War I
, Page | 2
Ans: Global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11
November 1918; also known as the Great War
President: Woodrow Wilson
Question: Jim Crow
Ans: The system of racial segregation in the South that was created in the late
nineteenth century following the end of slavery. Laws written to separate blacks
and whites in public areas/meant African Americans had unequal opportunities in
housing, work, education, and government; 1876-1965
Ended by Lyndon B. Johnson
Question: Progressive Movement
Ans: General political philosophy advocating or favoring social, political, and
economic reform
Presidents: Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
Question: America Prohibition
, Page | 3
Ans: National ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place
from 1920 to 1933. Ban was mandated by the 18th Amendment to the Constitution
Private ownership of consumable alcohol and drinking it was not made illegal.
Ended with the ratification of the 21st Amendment, which repealed the 18th
Amendment, on December 5, 1933
Question: Woodrow Wilson
Ans: Leader of the Progressive Movement and was the 28th President of the United
States (1913-1921). After a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of World War I, he
led America into war in order to "make the world safe for democracy"
Question: Treaty of Versailles
Ans: One of the peace treaties at the end of World War I; was intended to provide a
place where countries could peacefully discuss solutions to their differences rather
than go to war. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand.
Question: Whig Party
Ans: Party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and
Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from
the 1680s to the 1850s
Question: Mugwump Party
, Page | 4
Ans: Republican political activists who bolted from the US Republican Party by
supporting Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the United States presidential
election of 1884
Switched parties because they rejected the financial corruption associated with
Republican candidate James G. Blaine. In a close election, they supposedly made the
difference in New York state and swung the election to Cleveland
Question: New Deal
Ans: Series of economic programs enacted in the US between 1933 and 1936. They
involved presidential executive orders or laws passed by Congress during the first
term of FDR
Question: Great Depression
Ans: Economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing
through the 1930s; longest and most widespread of its kind of the 20th century
President: FDR
Question: World War II
Ans: Global war that was under way by 1939 and ended in 1945. It involved a vast
majority of the world's nations, including all of the great powers, eventually
forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis
President: FDR
Question: Internment Camps
