UGA HISTORY EXEMPTION FINAL PAPER
TESTED QUESTIONS WITH GRADED A+
ANSWERS
●● He explored deep in USA, first to discover and cross the Mississippi
River and claim it for Spain
Answer: Hernando de Soto
●● This man was a member of the English Parliament who founded the
colony of Georgia.
Answer: James Edward Oglethorpe
●● Who was Georgia's 3rd and final royal governor who fled the colony
after the start of the American Revolution?
Answer: James Wright
●● In what year did the 13th amendment abolish slavery and involuntary
servitude?
Answer: 1864
●● Who settled land in New York along the Hudson River?
Answer: The Dutch
,●● This man was an African American educator born into slavery who
called for black progress through education.
Answer: Booker T Washington
●● Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve
System, the central banking system of the United States, and granted it
the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes, and Federal Reserve
Bank Notes as legal tender.
Answer: Federal Reserve Act
●● In what year was the Federal Reserve Act ratified?
Answer: 1913
●● What machine automated cotton processing and INCREASED the
need for slaves?
Answer: Cotton Gin
●● This man was a quaker who founded Pennsylvania. He wanted to
unite all of the UA colonies and pushed for democracy and religious
freedom.
Answer: William Penn
●● What was Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government
during the Civil War (1861 - 1865)?
,Answer: Milledgeville
●● In 1832 SC argued that the federal tariffs were unconstitutional and
President Jackson sent Troops to force SC to pay tariffs.
Answer: Nullification Crisis
●● In 1925 a substitute teacher was accused of violating Tennessee's
Butler Act
Answer: Scopes Trial
●● The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern
states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
Answer: Reconstruction Era
●● In what years did the Reconstruction Era occur?
Answer: 1865-1877
●● A series of economic programs enacted in the United States between
1933 and 1936. They involved presidential executive orders or laws
passed by Congress during the first term of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Answer: The New Deal
●● Between what years was The New Deal enacted?
, Answer: 1933-1936
●● An African American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman.
Former Slave who was the leader of the abolitionist movement and
supported women's suffrage.
Answer: Frederick Douglass
●● What organization unsuccessfully campaigned for an equal rights
amendment to the constitution?
Answer: National Organization of Women
●● Who was the 40th President of the United States who worked to lift
govt regulations, reduce taxes, and reduce domestic spending by
curtailing social welfare. Launched the largest peacetime military
buildup in American history.
Answer: Ronald Reagan
●● In what years did prohibition take place?
Answer: 1920-1933
●● A national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of
alcohol.
Answer: American Prohibition
TESTED QUESTIONS WITH GRADED A+
ANSWERS
●● He explored deep in USA, first to discover and cross the Mississippi
River and claim it for Spain
Answer: Hernando de Soto
●● This man was a member of the English Parliament who founded the
colony of Georgia.
Answer: James Edward Oglethorpe
●● Who was Georgia's 3rd and final royal governor who fled the colony
after the start of the American Revolution?
Answer: James Wright
●● In what year did the 13th amendment abolish slavery and involuntary
servitude?
Answer: 1864
●● Who settled land in New York along the Hudson River?
Answer: The Dutch
,●● This man was an African American educator born into slavery who
called for black progress through education.
Answer: Booker T Washington
●● Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve
System, the central banking system of the United States, and granted it
the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes, and Federal Reserve
Bank Notes as legal tender.
Answer: Federal Reserve Act
●● In what year was the Federal Reserve Act ratified?
Answer: 1913
●● What machine automated cotton processing and INCREASED the
need for slaves?
Answer: Cotton Gin
●● This man was a quaker who founded Pennsylvania. He wanted to
unite all of the UA colonies and pushed for democracy and religious
freedom.
Answer: William Penn
●● What was Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government
during the Civil War (1861 - 1865)?
,Answer: Milledgeville
●● In 1832 SC argued that the federal tariffs were unconstitutional and
President Jackson sent Troops to force SC to pay tariffs.
Answer: Nullification Crisis
●● In 1925 a substitute teacher was accused of violating Tennessee's
Butler Act
Answer: Scopes Trial
●● The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern
states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
Answer: Reconstruction Era
●● In what years did the Reconstruction Era occur?
Answer: 1865-1877
●● A series of economic programs enacted in the United States between
1933 and 1936. They involved presidential executive orders or laws
passed by Congress during the first term of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Answer: The New Deal
●● Between what years was The New Deal enacted?
, Answer: 1933-1936
●● An African American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman.
Former Slave who was the leader of the abolitionist movement and
supported women's suffrage.
Answer: Frederick Douglass
●● What organization unsuccessfully campaigned for an equal rights
amendment to the constitution?
Answer: National Organization of Women
●● Who was the 40th President of the United States who worked to lift
govt regulations, reduce taxes, and reduce domestic spending by
curtailing social welfare. Launched the largest peacetime military
buildup in American history.
Answer: Ronald Reagan
●● In what years did prohibition take place?
Answer: 1920-1933
●● A national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of
alcohol.
Answer: American Prohibition
