UGA HISTORY MASTER ASSESSMENT &
VERIFIED TEST KEY 100% ACCURATE
2026.
◉ Watergate Scandal. Answer: Political scandal that occurred in the
United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 1972 break-in at the
Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office
complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's
attempted cover-up of its involvement
◉ Communism. Answer: Revolutionary Socialist movement to create
a classless, moneyless, and stateless social order structured upon
common ownership of the means of production, as well as a social,
political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of this
social order; Derived from Karl Marx
◉ Youth Movement. Answer: Started because of the Civil Rights
movement; wondered how the US could fight for another country's
freedom when there was racism and discrimination occurring in their
own country? The first anti-war protest was "teach-ins". These were
meant to educate the public about the war
Youth were also protesting the Vietnam War through organized
marches and protests. They took a non-violent approach, but some
anti-war demonstrations turned violent (ex: March on the Pentagon,
Kent State University, and Detroit Riots)
, ◉ Youth Movement-Woodstock. Answer: lead to the temporary
closures of about 500 Universities.
One of the most famous anti-war demonstrations. It was known as
"Three Days of Peace and Music"
◉ Baby Boomers. Answer: a person who was born during the
demographic Post-World War...between the years 1946 and 1964
◉ Containment. Answer: United States policy using numerous
strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad
◉ Brown V. Board of Education. Answer: Supreme Court case in
which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public
schools for black and white students unconstitutional
◉ Malcolm X. Answer: African-American Muslim minister and
human rights activist
◉ John F. Kennedy. Answer: 35th President of the United States
(1961-1963), the youngest man elected to the office. On November
22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, he
was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, becoming also the youngest
President to die
◉ Tet Offensive. Answer: One of the largest military campaigns of
the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet
,Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the
forces of South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. It was a
campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian commands
and control centers throughout South Vietnam
◉ Kent State Shootings. Answer: Involved the shooting of unarmed
college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4,
1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds,
killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered
permanent paralysis. Some of the students who were shot had been
protesting against the American invasion of Cambodia, which
President Richard Nixon announced in a television address on April
30.
◉ 1961 Freedom Riders. Answer: were civil rights activists who rode
interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961
and following years to test the United States Supreme Court decisions
Boynton v. Virginia (1960) and Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of
Virginia (1946).The first Freedom Ride left Washington, D.C. on May
4, 1961, and was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 17
◉ Freedom Riders. Answer: Civil Rights activists who rode interstate
buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and
following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the US Supreme
Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946)
and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public
buses were unconstitutional
, ◉ Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955. Answer: a seminal episode in
the U.S. civil rights movement, was a political and social protest
campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit
system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from
December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman,
was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person, to
December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, took
effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that
declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated
buses to be unconstitutional. Many important figures in the civil rights
movement took part in the boycott, including Reverend Martin Luther
King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy.
◉ Greensboro Woolroth's Lunch sit-ins. Answer: policy of racial
segregation in the Southern United States. While not the of the
African-American Civil Rights Movement, they were an instrumental
action, leading to increased national sentiment at a crucial period in
US history
◉ Gerald Ford. Answer: (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.; July 14, 1913 -
December 26, 2006) was the 38th President of the United States,
serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United
States serving from 1973 to 1974. As the first person appointed to the
vice-presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment (after Spiro
Agnew had resigned), when he became President upon Richard
Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, he became the only President
of the United States who was never elected President nor Vice-
President by the Electoral College.
VERIFIED TEST KEY 100% ACCURATE
2026.
◉ Watergate Scandal. Answer: Political scandal that occurred in the
United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 1972 break-in at the
Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office
complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's
attempted cover-up of its involvement
◉ Communism. Answer: Revolutionary Socialist movement to create
a classless, moneyless, and stateless social order structured upon
common ownership of the means of production, as well as a social,
political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of this
social order; Derived from Karl Marx
◉ Youth Movement. Answer: Started because of the Civil Rights
movement; wondered how the US could fight for another country's
freedom when there was racism and discrimination occurring in their
own country? The first anti-war protest was "teach-ins". These were
meant to educate the public about the war
Youth were also protesting the Vietnam War through organized
marches and protests. They took a non-violent approach, but some
anti-war demonstrations turned violent (ex: March on the Pentagon,
Kent State University, and Detroit Riots)
, ◉ Youth Movement-Woodstock. Answer: lead to the temporary
closures of about 500 Universities.
One of the most famous anti-war demonstrations. It was known as
"Three Days of Peace and Music"
◉ Baby Boomers. Answer: a person who was born during the
demographic Post-World War...between the years 1946 and 1964
◉ Containment. Answer: United States policy using numerous
strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad
◉ Brown V. Board of Education. Answer: Supreme Court case in
which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public
schools for black and white students unconstitutional
◉ Malcolm X. Answer: African-American Muslim minister and
human rights activist
◉ John F. Kennedy. Answer: 35th President of the United States
(1961-1963), the youngest man elected to the office. On November
22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, he
was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, becoming also the youngest
President to die
◉ Tet Offensive. Answer: One of the largest military campaigns of
the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet
,Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the
forces of South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. It was a
campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian commands
and control centers throughout South Vietnam
◉ Kent State Shootings. Answer: Involved the shooting of unarmed
college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4,
1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds,
killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered
permanent paralysis. Some of the students who were shot had been
protesting against the American invasion of Cambodia, which
President Richard Nixon announced in a television address on April
30.
◉ 1961 Freedom Riders. Answer: were civil rights activists who rode
interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961
and following years to test the United States Supreme Court decisions
Boynton v. Virginia (1960) and Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of
Virginia (1946).The first Freedom Ride left Washington, D.C. on May
4, 1961, and was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 17
◉ Freedom Riders. Answer: Civil Rights activists who rode interstate
buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and
following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the US Supreme
Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946)
and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public
buses were unconstitutional
, ◉ Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955. Answer: a seminal episode in
the U.S. civil rights movement, was a political and social protest
campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit
system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from
December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman,
was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person, to
December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, took
effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that
declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated
buses to be unconstitutional. Many important figures in the civil rights
movement took part in the boycott, including Reverend Martin Luther
King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy.
◉ Greensboro Woolroth's Lunch sit-ins. Answer: policy of racial
segregation in the Southern United States. While not the of the
African-American Civil Rights Movement, they were an instrumental
action, leading to increased national sentiment at a crucial period in
US history
◉ Gerald Ford. Answer: (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.; July 14, 1913 -
December 26, 2006) was the 38th President of the United States,
serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United
States serving from 1973 to 1974. As the first person appointed to the
vice-presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment (after Spiro
Agnew had resigned), when he became President upon Richard
Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, he became the only President
of the United States who was never elected President nor Vice-
President by the Electoral College.
