Download UGA History Exemption Exam Rated A+ Latest Update 2024 and more Exams World History in PDF only on Docsity!
UGA History Exemption Exam Rated
A+ Latest Update 2024
Earlier in statehood GA was made up of what two states? - Correct answer-Alabama and Mississippi First people to settle in Georgia - Correct answer-Paleoindian Period: Clovis culture Woodland Period: Mound builders Kolomoki Mounds New Deal in Georgia? - Correct answer--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 Impact of WWII in GA? Increased or decreased wages? - Correct answer-- 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 Cahokia? - Correct answer-The most sophisticated pre-historic Native civilization north of Mexico. Mound state across the Mississippi River in St. Louis 1st woman to run for vice presidency? - Correct answer-Geraldine Ferraro Which president ended Vietnam War? - Correct answer-Nixon "New nationalism" - Correct answer-Teddy Roosevelt -Fed intervention, social justice, under privileged Why was Andrew Jackson elected? - Correct answer--Known as the People's president -Was a War hero -Supported individual liberty and forced Native American migration Who created the Federalist Party? - Correct answer-Alexander Hamilton
-The party elected Adams to the presidency in 1796 Siege of Savannah - Correct answer--Second deadliest battle of the Revolutionary War -Americans unsuccessfully tried to rid the city of British occupation -Whig allies lost the battle Favorite pastime of Antebellum GA? - Correct answer--Shakespeare? -Major reformation movements -Playrights -POLITICS became a great national pastime Why did Georgians want Indians removed from the state? - Correct answer- 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
- Correct answer- Where was the most inequality in the colonies? - Correct answer-Jamaica? -greatest inequality in terms of land ownership was South Carolina French Indian War resulted in? - Correct answer-The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. Which president launched the Atomic Bomb? - Correct answer-Truman "New Freedom" - Correct answer-Woodrow Wilson limited government, reforms, and greater economic opportunity Worchester v GA - Correct answer-Supreme Court Case which ruled that the laws of Georgia had no force within the boundaries of the Cherokee territory and supported the Cherokees. -Jackson ignored and refused to enforce this decision "New Federalism" - Correct answer--Reagan policy on new local responsibility What is Reaganomics? - Correct answer-It is supply-side economics or trickle-down economics. You give tax breaks to the rich and small businesses to help people get jobs.
"Great Society" - Correct answer--LBJ's platform; increased the size and involvement of the government in society. -Extension of New Deal programs and Civil Rights (24th amendment, Civil Rights Act of 1964.) Which president opened relations with china? - Correct answer-Nixon Korean War - Correct answer-The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non- Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea. -Truman -Wanted to contain the spread of communism Which president negotiated the Camp David Accords - Correct answer-Jimmy Carter Immigration levels in 1980 rivaled those in the 1900 s with most immigrants coming from? - Correct answer-Latin america and asian countries Hostage Crisis (1979) - Correct answer--diplomatic standoff between the US and Iran where American diplomats were held hostage for 444 days -steady deterioration of Iran US relations -Reagan Who used the 2nd Red Scare to their own advantage? - Correct answer-Joseph McCarthy - accused others Who won the GA gubernatorial election of 1966? - Correct answer-Ellis Arnall Yellow Journalism - Correct answer-journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. Who did Obama appoint? (to the Supreme Court) - Correct answer-Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagans what was incorporated in the UN draft? - Correct answer-peace and human rights? 1st GA governor - Correct answer-Archibald Bulloch when was slavery legalized in GA? - Correct answer- what was the capital of the sunbelt states? - Correct answer-Atlanta?
What was the most significant party in the late 19th century? - Correct answer-The Populist Party Blacks showed voting power in which election? - Correct answer-Jimmy Carter Main difference between 1st and 2nd new deals - Correct answer-2nd deal was keynesian style of deficit spending in what nations did the soviet union crush nationalist uprisings? - Correct answer- Hungary (maybe Germany & Austria too) Browder v. Gayle (1956) - Correct answer-Segregation on buses unconstitutional Truman-MacArthur Controversy - Correct answer-MacArhur called for air strikes on China during Korean War. Truman said no, MacArthur disagreed publicly. Truman removed him for insubordination. The combatants of the Korean War were - Correct answer-North Korea (w/ china and soviet unions) VS South Korea (w/ USA) Kyoto Protocol (effective 2005, signed 1997) - Correct answer- controlling global warming by setting greenhouse gas emissions targets for developed countries Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis - Correct answer-Idea that held that the existence of cheap and unsettled land played a key role in making American society more democratic; the frontier helped create the American spirit of democracy and egalitarianism, acted as a safety valve for Americans to escape bad economic conditions, and stimulated nationalism and individualism influential political leaders of 1920s - Correct answer-Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and Ford opinion leaders of 1920s - Correct answer-political leaders, Freud, and Fitzgerald Election of 2000 controversy - Correct answer-Bush v. Gore (Gore won popular vote - FL recount) what led to US involvement in Vietnam? - Correct answer-Gulf of Tonkin ALL FOR 1st PART OF US TEST - Correct answer- Treaty of Tourdesillas - Correct answer-Spain and Portugal agree which parts of US to conquer Redeemers (Democrats) - Correct answer-pro-business AND
City Upon a Hill - Correct answer-Said by Winthrop; refers to the idea that Puritan colonists emigrating to the New World were part of a special pact with God to create a holy community: a model society to the world/moral commonwealth Albany Act of Union 1754 - Correct answer-a British plan to unify the 13 colonies because of the threat from the French *centralized government was the 1st plan Separate Spheres - Correct answer-Nineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women, especially of the middle class, should have different roles in society: women as wives, mothers, and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics why the confederates lost - Correct answer-inferior resources and loss of faith who was more industrial/urban? N/S - Correct answer-North carnegie - Correct answer-steel industry monopoly Child Care Act 1991 - Correct answer-This sets out a comprehensive range of regulation for the provision, maintenance and protection of children. 13th Amendment (1865) - Correct answer-abolished slavery 14th Amendment - Correct answer-Rights of Citizens 15th Amendment (1870) - Correct answer-U.S. cannot prevent a person from voting because of race, color, or creed 18th Amendment - Correct answer-Prohibition 19th Amendment (1920) - Correct answer-Gave women the right to vote 24th Amendment (1964) - Correct answer-banned poll tax Filipino Rebellion - Correct answer-led by Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipinos wanted their independence from Spain and then America, after Aguinaldo was defeated the US formed the Philippine Commission with Taft as the leader; he formed a strong bond with the people and improved conditions there Spanish-American War (1898) - Correct answer-Conflict between the U.S. and Spain that began the rise of the U.S. as a world power. The U.S. gained possession of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines as a result. Black Codes/Jim Crow Laws - Correct answer-Limited freedom and enforced segregation
Why was Andrew Johnson so popular? - Correct answer-farmer, general, impeached McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - Correct answer-the Supreme Court upheld the power of the national government and denied the right of a state to tax the federal bank using the Constitution's supremacy clause. The Court's broad interpretation of the necessary and proper clause paved the way for later rulings upholding expansive federal powers Harlem Renaissance - Correct answer-A period in the 1920s when African- American achievements in art and music and literature flourished Columbian Exchange - Correct answer-The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages. What did Lincoln want before he announced the Emancipation Proclamation? - Correct answer-preserve union end slavery what were the spanish obsessed with finding during colonization? - Correct answer-gold what were the first colonizers of GA given? - Correct answer-land Helped found NAACP/got a degree from Harvard - Correct answer-WEB Dubois Bill Clinton Accomplishments - Correct answer-NAFTA, Welfare Reform Bill, impeached President at the end of WWII - Correct answer-Truman secretary of treasury under george washington - Correct answer-alexander hamilton pushed for 1996 olympics to be in atlanta and was atl mayor - Correct answer-andrew young which president served over 2 terms? - Correct answer-FDR 22nd Amendment - Correct answer-limited presidency to two terms Reagan Revolution - Correct answer-stimulate domestic economy with tax cuts and supply side economics; foreign policy "evil empire" and "freedom fighter" Purpose of Navigation Acts - Correct answer-funneled all of the wealth from the Americas into the British economy, this helped to expand mercantilism
long island
saratoga tenance - Correct answer-long island Who was the last federalist president? - Correct answer-John Adams which was not a "border state"? kentucky missour i marylan d tennessee - Correct answer-tennessee which state was last and the only one to get money SC NC GA VA - Correct answer-NC which was not a way blacks were discriminated? poll tax white primaries property literacy - Correct answer-white literacy Capitalism - Correct answer-An economic system based on private ownership of capital Imperialism - Correct answer-A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. Mercantilism - Correct answer-An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought What started the American Mexican War? - Correct answer-troops met at the rio grande and the mexicans opened fire what was the first battle of the civil war? - Correct answer-battle at fort sumter what land was granted by the treaty of paris - Correct answer-canada what is not true about frederick douglass? - Correct answer-led a slave rebellion and got killed for it was robert e lee's succession harsh? - Correct answer-no, they were pardoned and given land
*Dorothea Dix led in the establishment of asylums of humane treatment of the insane *Prisons were also reformed Reaganomics - Correct answer-The federal economic polices of the Reagan administration, elected in 1981. These policies combined a monetarist fiscal policy, supply-side tax cuts, and domestic budget cutting. Their goal was to reduce the size of the federal government and stimulate economic growth. Keating-Owen Act - Correct answer-Prohibited the sale of interstate commerce goods produced by children Military Reconstruction Act - Correct answer-1867; divided the South into five districts and placed them under military rule; required Southern States to ratify the 14th amendment; guaranteed freedmen the right to vote in convention to write new state constitutions Inventions of the 1920s - Correct answer-United the nation- the car and the radio were especially responsible for drawing the people of the country together. 1930s Entertainment - Correct answer-movies, news, sports, radio Browder v. Gayle (1956) - Correct answer-Court ruled that segregation on buses was unconstitutional democratic GA counties since reconstruction - Correct answer-Fulton and Clarke Region most influenced by foreign urban population - Correct answer-NE SE Mississippi Ohio Valley One other answer Obama appointed - Correct answer-sonyata Kyoto Protocol - Correct answer-controlling global warming by setting greenhouse gas emissions targets for developed countries US ended WWII - Correct answer-declared iron curtain no reparations for soviet union 2 other things expansion of cattle due to - Correct answer-large subsidies weather land in south texas railroads Dollar Diplomacy - Correct answer-Foreign policy created under President Taft that had the U.S. exchanging financial support ($) for the right to "help"
countries make decisions
