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UGA History Exemption Test
Questions and Verified
Answers
Question: Earlier in statehood GA was made up of what two states?
Ans: Alabama and Mississippi
Question: First people to settle in Georgia
Ans: Paleoindian Period: Clovis culture
Woodland Period: Mound builders
Kolomoki Mounds
Question: New Deal in Georgia?
Ans: -Aimed at economic recovery and address Georgia's social conditions as well
-Within a year, 20% of Georgia's urban residents were receiving some kind of
federal relief (increased wages)
-New deal brought $250mm to GA
-Agricultural Adjustment paid farmers to plant less cotton (decreased
supply of cotton to help with depressed cotton prices)
-Talmadge opposed New Deal policies
-Failed to improve economic conditions overall
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Question: Impact of WWII in GA? Increased or decreased wages?
Ans: -Lifted GA out of the Great Depression
-American farmers were strained by the war effort (left farms to work at defense
factories which paid better)
-Employment increased significantly
-Higher wages overall
-By 1950 more people in manufacturing than farming
Question: Cahokia?
Ans: The most sophisticated pre-historic Native civilization north of Mexico. Mound
state across the Mississippi River in St. Louis
Question: 1st woman to run for vice presidency?
Ans: Geraldine Ferraro
Question: Which president ended Vietnam War?
Ans: Nixon
Question: "New nationalism"
Ans: Teddy Roosevelt
-Fed intervention, social justice, under privileged
Question: Why was Andrew Jackson elected?
Ans: -Known as the People's president
-Was a War hero
-Supported individual liberty and forced Native American migration
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Question: Who created the Federalist Party?
Ans: Alexander Hamilton
-The party elected Adams to the presidency in 1796
Question: Siege of Savannah
Ans: -Second deadliest battle of the Revolutionary War
-Americans unsuccessfully tried to rid the city of British occupation
-Whig allies lost the battle
Question: Favorite pastime of Antebellum GA?
Ans: -Shakespeare?
-Major reformation movements
-Playrights
-POLITICS became a great national pastime
Question: Why did Georgians want Indians removed from the state?
Ans: Indian removal was a product of demand for arable land during the rampant
growth of cotton agriculture
-discovery of gold on Cherokee land
-And racial prejudice against Native Americans
Question: Where was the most inequality in the colonies?
UGA History Exemption Test
Questions and Verified
Answers
Question: Earlier in statehood GA was made up of what two states?
Ans: Alabama and Mississippi
Question: First people to settle in Georgia
Ans: Paleoindian Period: Clovis culture
Woodland Period: Mound builders
Kolomoki Mounds
Question: New Deal in Georgia?
Ans: -Aimed at economic recovery and address Georgia's social conditions as well
-Within a year, 20% of Georgia's urban residents were receiving some kind of
federal relief (increased wages)
-New deal brought $250mm to GA
-Agricultural Adjustment paid farmers to plant less cotton (decreased
supply of cotton to help with depressed cotton prices)
-Talmadge opposed New Deal policies
-Failed to improve economic conditions overall
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Question: Impact of WWII in GA? Increased or decreased wages?
Ans: -Lifted GA out of the Great Depression
-American farmers were strained by the war effort (left farms to work at defense
factories which paid better)
-Employment increased significantly
-Higher wages overall
-By 1950 more people in manufacturing than farming
Question: Cahokia?
Ans: The most sophisticated pre-historic Native civilization north of Mexico. Mound
state across the Mississippi River in St. Louis
Question: 1st woman to run for vice presidency?
Ans: Geraldine Ferraro
Question: Which president ended Vietnam War?
Ans: Nixon
Question: "New nationalism"
Ans: Teddy Roosevelt
-Fed intervention, social justice, under privileged
Question: Why was Andrew Jackson elected?
Ans: -Known as the People's president
-Was a War hero
-Supported individual liberty and forced Native American migration
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Question: Who created the Federalist Party?
Ans: Alexander Hamilton
-The party elected Adams to the presidency in 1796
Question: Siege of Savannah
Ans: -Second deadliest battle of the Revolutionary War
-Americans unsuccessfully tried to rid the city of British occupation
-Whig allies lost the battle
Question: Favorite pastime of Antebellum GA?
Ans: -Shakespeare?
-Major reformation movements
-Playrights
-POLITICS became a great national pastime
Question: Why did Georgians want Indians removed from the state?
Ans: Indian removal was a product of demand for arable land during the rampant
growth of cotton agriculture
-discovery of gold on Cherokee land
-And racial prejudice against Native Americans
Question: Where was the most inequality in the colonies?
