UGA HISTORY ASSESSMENT SHEET &
COMPLETE GUIDE 2026 GRADED A+.
◉ Ku Klux Klan. Answer: Terrorist organization devoted to racial
inequality, suffering and evil; established 1868
◉ Conscription. Answer: The compulsory enlistment of people in
some sort of national service, most often military service
◉ Populist Party. Answer: 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
◉ World War I. Answer: 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
◉ Jim Crow. Answer: 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
◉ Progressive Movement. Answer: General political philosophy
advocating or favoring social, political, and economic reform
Presidents: Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
◉ America Prohibition. Answer: 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Ended with the ratification of the 21st Amendment, which repealed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
◉ Woodrow Wilson. Answer: 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"
, ◉ Treaty of Versailles. Answer: 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.
◉ Whig Party. Answer: 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
◉ Mugwump Party. Answer: 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
◉ New Deal. Answer: 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
, ◉ Great Depression. Answer: 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
◉ World War II. Answer: 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
◉ Internment Camps. Answer: The relocation of about 110,000
Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of
the US to camps called "War Relocation Camps," in the wake of
Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor; Americans feared they might
be loyal to Japan
◉ Axis Powers. Answer: Alignment of nations that fought in the
Second World War against the Allied forces
◉ Franklin D. Roosevelt. Answer: 32nd President of the United
States 1933-1945 and a central figure in world events during the mid-
20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide
economic depression and total war
COMPLETE GUIDE 2026 GRADED A+.
◉ Ku Klux Klan. Answer: Terrorist organization devoted to racial
inequality, suffering and evil; established 1868
◉ Conscription. Answer: The compulsory enlistment of people in
some sort of national service, most often military service
◉ Populist Party. Answer: 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
◉ World War I. Answer: 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
◉ Jim Crow. Answer: 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
◉ Progressive Movement. Answer: General political philosophy
advocating or favoring social, political, and economic reform
Presidents: Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
◉ America Prohibition. Answer: 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
◉ Woodrow Wilson. Answer: 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"
, ◉ Treaty of Versailles. Answer: 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.
◉ Whig Party. Answer: 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
◉ Mugwump Party. Answer: 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
◉ New Deal. Answer: 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
, ◉ Great Depression. Answer: 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
◉ World War II. Answer: 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
◉ Internment Camps. Answer: The relocation of about 110,000
Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of
the US to camps called "War Relocation Camps," in the wake of
Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor; Americans feared they might
be loyal to Japan
◉ Axis Powers. Answer: Alignment of nations that fought in the
Second World War against the Allied forces
◉ Franklin D. Roosevelt. Answer: 32nd President of the United
States 1933-1945 and a central figure in world events during the mid-
20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide
economic depression and total war
