UGA HISTORY EXEMPTION COLONIALISM
AND INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS STUDY
GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS 2026
◉ Pre-Columbian Peoples of the American Southwest
Answer: -Agriculturally focused groups that developed powerful and
complex societies
-Became increasingly dependent on the cultivation of maize
◉ Pre-Columbian economy in Great Basin and the western Great
Plains
Answer: - Migratory because of limited resources
◉ Pre-Columbian economy in the Northeast and along the Atlantic
Seaboard
Answer: -Another Group of tribes in present-day NY formed the
Iroquois League
-Cultivated crops and participated in foraging and hunting, often
creating lasting settlements
◉ Hernan Cortes
,Answer: Spanish explorer who marched across mexico and
conquered the aztecs
- from spain
◉ Hernando de Soto
Answer: -explored deep in USA
-first to cross and disocer Miss. River
-claimed for Spain
◉ Georgia first colonized by Spanish because they were looking for
Answer: gold and land
◉ The Columbian Exchange
Answer: The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies
between the Americas and the rest of the world following
Columbus's voyages.
◉ The Treaty of Tordesillas
Answer: A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring
that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the
Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to
the east of the line would belong to Portugal.
,◉ St. Augustine
Answer: -1st colony in Florida set up by Spain
◉ joint-stock company
Answer: A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each
shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives
some share of the company's profits and debts.
◉ James Edward Oglethorpe
Answer: The leader of English Parliament who founded the Georgia
colony
◉ James Wright
Answer: Georgia's third, and final, royal governor
◉ Jamestown
Answer: -First permanent English settlement
-Starving time (1609-1610 80% died)
-1619: first slave ship of africans
- 1640: modern concept of slavery was established in US
◉ Why did colonists come to the New World?
, Answer: Religious freedom
profit
adventure...etc.
◉ Original Trustees of Ga were provided what
Answer: 50 acres , free passage, provisions for 1 yr
◉ William Penn
Answer: -Founder of Pennsylvania
-Pushed for democracy and religious freedom
-Quaker
-Wanted to unite all of the U.S. colonies
◉ Quakers
Answer: -believed human religious institutions were largey
unnecessary
-thought they could receive revelationg directly form God and placed
little importance on the Bible
-pacifists and declined to show customary deference to their alleged
social superiors
-their aggressiveness in denouncing established institutions brought
them trouble in both britain and america
-opposed slavery and favored decent treatment of Native Americans
AND INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS STUDY
GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS 2026
◉ Pre-Columbian Peoples of the American Southwest
Answer: -Agriculturally focused groups that developed powerful and
complex societies
-Became increasingly dependent on the cultivation of maize
◉ Pre-Columbian economy in Great Basin and the western Great
Plains
Answer: - Migratory because of limited resources
◉ Pre-Columbian economy in the Northeast and along the Atlantic
Seaboard
Answer: -Another Group of tribes in present-day NY formed the
Iroquois League
-Cultivated crops and participated in foraging and hunting, often
creating lasting settlements
◉ Hernan Cortes
,Answer: Spanish explorer who marched across mexico and
conquered the aztecs
- from spain
◉ Hernando de Soto
Answer: -explored deep in USA
-first to cross and disocer Miss. River
-claimed for Spain
◉ Georgia first colonized by Spanish because they were looking for
Answer: gold and land
◉ The Columbian Exchange
Answer: The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies
between the Americas and the rest of the world following
Columbus's voyages.
◉ The Treaty of Tordesillas
Answer: A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring
that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the
Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to
the east of the line would belong to Portugal.
,◉ St. Augustine
Answer: -1st colony in Florida set up by Spain
◉ joint-stock company
Answer: A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each
shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives
some share of the company's profits and debts.
◉ James Edward Oglethorpe
Answer: The leader of English Parliament who founded the Georgia
colony
◉ James Wright
Answer: Georgia's third, and final, royal governor
◉ Jamestown
Answer: -First permanent English settlement
-Starving time (1609-1610 80% died)
-1619: first slave ship of africans
- 1640: modern concept of slavery was established in US
◉ Why did colonists come to the New World?
, Answer: Religious freedom
profit
adventure...etc.
◉ Original Trustees of Ga were provided what
Answer: 50 acres , free passage, provisions for 1 yr
◉ William Penn
Answer: -Founder of Pennsylvania
-Pushed for democracy and religious freedom
-Quaker
-Wanted to unite all of the U.S. colonies
◉ Quakers
Answer: -believed human religious institutions were largey
unnecessary
-thought they could receive revelationg directly form God and placed
little importance on the Bible
-pacifists and declined to show customary deference to their alleged
social superiors
-their aggressiveness in denouncing established institutions brought
them trouble in both britain and america
-opposed slavery and favored decent treatment of Native Americans
