UGA History Exemption Test Questions And Answers Verified 100% Correct

UGA History Exemption Test Questions And Answers Verified 100% Correct In what year did MLK win the Nobel Peace Prize? - ANSWER 1964 Considered "Father of the Constitution" because of his role in its writing and ratification. Wrote Bill of Rights. One of the authors of the Federalist Papers. - ANSWER James Madison Who was president during the war of 1812? - ANSWER James Madison An armed conflict between American Indian inhabitants of New England versus the New England colonists and their Indian allies. - ANSWER King Phillip's War When did King Philip's War take place? - ANSWER Who was the VP of Confederate states of America during civil war? - ANSWER Alexander Stephens In what year did King George II issue the official charter to make Georgia an English colony? - ANSWER 1732 Why did colonists come to the new world? - ANSWER Religious freedom profit adventure...etc. This man was a US representative from GA, a judge advocate American Civil War, and a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. He nullified the yazoo sale and destructed records connected with the state. Later the Yazoo lands was given to the Federal Goverment. - ANSWER James Jackson In what year did Washington give his farewell address? - ANSWER 1796 What 3 dangers did Washington stress in his farewell address? - ANSWER 1) political parties could divide the nation 2. avoid long-term alliances with foreign nations 3. avoid sectionalism caused by geography and other differences He was one of the founding fathers and the first US treasurer. Founded the US financial system and the Federalist Party. Father of US coast guard and the New York Post. - ANSWER Alexander Hamilton When was the Northwest Ordinance passed? - ANSWER 1787 The primary effect was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the US out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River. - ANSWER Northwest Ordinance Political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799 in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. - ANSWER Kentucky and Virginia Resolves In what year did the Revolutionary War begin? - ANSWER 1775 In what year did the Revolutionary War end? - ANSWER 1783 South's weaknesses during the civil war - ANSWER -weak leadership of Jefferson Davis - Fewer men and supplies -few factories -less money South's strengths during the civil war - ANSWER -outstanding military officers -fighting on home ground -strong motivation - ANSWER Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1870's tenant farmers, serfs, who worked the land they did not one for a meager share of the crops - ANSWER sharecroppers In what year did the Battle of Gettysburg take place? - ANSWER 1863 This was an American terrorist organization which wanted the "purification" of American society. Extremist hate group which advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration. - ANSWER Ku Klux Klan The 46th Governor of Georgia during Reconstruction and was the first Republican governor of Georgia. After various allegations of scandal, in 1871 he was obliged by the Ku Klux Klan to resign the governorship. - ANSWER Rufus Bullock What were the sparsely-populated central and western areas of Georgia, when its western border stretched to the Mississippi River. - ANSWER Yazoo lands This was a massive fraud perpetrated from by several Georgia governors and the state legislature. - ANSWER Yazoo Fraud In what years did the Yazoo Fraud take place? - ANSWER This man arranged the distribution of money of the Yazoo fraud and land to legislators, state officials, newspaper editors and cries of bribery and corruption. - ANSWER James Gun What event forced relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the US from their homelands to Indian territory. (Georgia to Oklahoma) - ANSWER Trail of Tears In what year was the Indian Removal Act passed? - ANSWER 1830 This slave rebellion that commenced on September 9 1739, in the colony of South Carolina was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution. - ANSWER The Stono Rebellion - Members of the Religious Society of friends who came to North America in the early days because they wanted to spread their beliefs to the British colonists there, while others came to escape the persecution that they were experiencing in Europe. First known quakers arrived in 1656. The colony of Rhode Island with its policy of religious freedom was a frequent destionation as the Friends were persecuted by law in Massachusetts until 1681. Pennsylvania was formed by William Penn in 1681 as a haven for persecuted. - ANSWER Quakers Another name for the French vs. Indian War - ANSWER Seven Years War This war was fought primarily between the colonies of British America and the New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France. - ANSWER French vs. Indian War This was the acquisition of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana by the US. - ANSWER Louisiana purchase