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HIST 2110 EXAM 2 GEORGIA
SOUTHERN 2026 REAL QUESTIONS
WITH EXPERTLY VERIFIED ANSWERS.
1. Grandfather Clause - correct answer -A clause in registration
laws allowing people who do not meet registration
requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before
1867.
2. Jim Crow Segregation - correct answer -Segregation laws that
became widespread in the South during the 1890s, named for
a minstrel show character portrayed satirically by white actors
in blackface
3. Plessy v. Ferguson - correct answer -a 1896 Supreme Court
decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as
the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
4. Patrons of Husbandry - correct answer -a group organized in
1867, the leader of which was Oliver H. Kelley. It was better
known as the Grange. It was a group with colorful appeal and
many passwords for secrecy. The Grange was a group of
farmers that worked for improvement for the farmers.
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5. Farmers' Alliance - correct answer -A Farmers' organization
founded in late 1870s; worked for lower railroad freight rates,
lower interest rates, and a change in the governments tight
money policy
6. Populism - correct answer -the political doctrine that supports
the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle
with the privileged elite
7. William Jennings Bryan - correct answer -United States lawyer
and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John
Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high
school (1860-1925)
8. Alexander Graham Bell - correct answer -Invented the
telephone
9. Thomas Edison - correct answer -American inventor best
known for inventing the electric light bulb, acoustic recording on
wax cylinders, and motion pictures.
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10. John D. Rockefeller - correct answer -Established the
Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and meanest
monopoly known in history
11. Andrew Carnegie - correct answer -A Scottish-born
American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the
Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company
dominated the American steel industry.
12. the gospel of wealth - correct answer -
13. J.P. Morgan - correct answer -Banker who buys out
Carnegie Steel and renames it to U.S. Steel. Was a
philanthropist in a way; he gave all the money needed for WWI
and was payed back. Was one of the "Robber barons"
14. U.S. Steel - correct answer -The largest steel company of
the US, created by J.P. Morgan by merging Andrew Carnegie's
Carnegie Steel and several other steel companies together; at
the time, the largest corporation in existence.
HIST 2110 EXAM 2 GEORGIA
SOUTHERN 2026 REAL QUESTIONS
WITH EXPERTLY VERIFIED ANSWERS.
1. Grandfather Clause - correct answer -A clause in registration
laws allowing people who do not meet registration
requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before
1867.
2. Jim Crow Segregation - correct answer -Segregation laws that
became widespread in the South during the 1890s, named for
a minstrel show character portrayed satirically by white actors
in blackface
3. Plessy v. Ferguson - correct answer -a 1896 Supreme Court
decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as
the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
4. Patrons of Husbandry - correct answer -a group organized in
1867, the leader of which was Oliver H. Kelley. It was better
known as the Grange. It was a group with colorful appeal and
many passwords for secrecy. The Grange was a group of
farmers that worked for improvement for the farmers.
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5. Farmers' Alliance - correct answer -A Farmers' organization
founded in late 1870s; worked for lower railroad freight rates,
lower interest rates, and a change in the governments tight
money policy
6. Populism - correct answer -the political doctrine that supports
the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle
with the privileged elite
7. William Jennings Bryan - correct answer -United States lawyer
and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John
Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high
school (1860-1925)
8. Alexander Graham Bell - correct answer -Invented the
telephone
9. Thomas Edison - correct answer -American inventor best
known for inventing the electric light bulb, acoustic recording on
wax cylinders, and motion pictures.
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10. John D. Rockefeller - correct answer -Established the
Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and meanest
monopoly known in history
11. Andrew Carnegie - correct answer -A Scottish-born
American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the
Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company
dominated the American steel industry.
12. the gospel of wealth - correct answer -
13. J.P. Morgan - correct answer -Banker who buys out
Carnegie Steel and renames it to U.S. Steel. Was a
philanthropist in a way; he gave all the money needed for WWI
and was payed back. Was one of the "Robber barons"
14. U.S. Steel - correct answer -The largest steel company of
the US, created by J.P. Morgan by merging Andrew Carnegie's
Carnegie Steel and several other steel companies together; at
the time, the largest corporation in existence.
