UGA History Exemption Test Pre 1877
Already Passed
??? Early settlers wanted main crop to be ______ , ended up being _______ ✔✔wine/silk and
rice/indigo
Later cash crops became tobacco and cotton
13th Amendment ✔✔officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary
servitude; 1864
14th Amendment ✔✔overruled Dred Scott(1857) granting blacks citizenship ; reinforced due
process and equal rights; 1868
15th Amendment ✔✔explicitly grants right of citizens to vote regardless of race, color or having
been enslaved ; 1870
460,000 ✔✔Number of slaves freed during and after the war
,1795 Yazoo Land Fraud ✔✔in which four land companies bribed legislators to approve their
acquisition of 35 million acres (nearly 60 percent of the land area that now constitutes Alabama
and Mississippi) at the cost of only five hundred thousand dollars.
1847 Mormon Trail ✔✔Mormons went to Utah
Alexander Hamilton ✔✔-One of the Founding fathers
-Aided George washington
*First US treasurer
-one of the most influential interpreters and promoters of the U.S. Constitution,
-the founder of the nation's financial system,
-the founder of the Federalist Party, -the world's first voter-based political party,
-the Father of the United States Coast Guard, and the founder of The New York Post.
Alexander Stephens ✔✔VP of Confederate states of America during civil war
All of the following were consequences of Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin, except:
A. the urbanization of the southern economy.
, B. the strengthening of slavery in the southern states.
C. the development of an American textile industry.
D. the spread of cotton as a cash crop in the southern states. ✔✔A. the urbanization of the
southern economy.
Andrew Johnson ✔✔-Pres after lincoln
-The first American president to be impeached
Articles of Confederation ✔✔Nation's FIRST constitution. Limited power of national
government. Created a weak national government incapable of dealing with the nation's
problems - 1781
Later replaced with a federal system under the Constitution.
Bacon's Rebellion ✔✔-armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon
against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
- First rebellion in the colonies
Already Passed
??? Early settlers wanted main crop to be ______ , ended up being _______ ✔✔wine/silk and
rice/indigo
Later cash crops became tobacco and cotton
13th Amendment ✔✔officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary
servitude; 1864
14th Amendment ✔✔overruled Dred Scott(1857) granting blacks citizenship ; reinforced due
process and equal rights; 1868
15th Amendment ✔✔explicitly grants right of citizens to vote regardless of race, color or having
been enslaved ; 1870
460,000 ✔✔Number of slaves freed during and after the war
,1795 Yazoo Land Fraud ✔✔in which four land companies bribed legislators to approve their
acquisition of 35 million acres (nearly 60 percent of the land area that now constitutes Alabama
and Mississippi) at the cost of only five hundred thousand dollars.
1847 Mormon Trail ✔✔Mormons went to Utah
Alexander Hamilton ✔✔-One of the Founding fathers
-Aided George washington
*First US treasurer
-one of the most influential interpreters and promoters of the U.S. Constitution,
-the founder of the nation's financial system,
-the founder of the Federalist Party, -the world's first voter-based political party,
-the Father of the United States Coast Guard, and the founder of The New York Post.
Alexander Stephens ✔✔VP of Confederate states of America during civil war
All of the following were consequences of Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin, except:
A. the urbanization of the southern economy.
, B. the strengthening of slavery in the southern states.
C. the development of an American textile industry.
D. the spread of cotton as a cash crop in the southern states. ✔✔A. the urbanization of the
southern economy.
Andrew Johnson ✔✔-Pres after lincoln
-The first American president to be impeached
Articles of Confederation ✔✔Nation's FIRST constitution. Limited power of national
government. Created a weak national government incapable of dealing with the nation's
problems - 1781
Later replaced with a federal system under the Constitution.
Bacon's Rebellion ✔✔-armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon
against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
- First rebellion in the colonies
