UGA History Exemption Test 1877 – Present 106
Questions and multiple choice Answers Latest
2025.
Who was the keynote speaker at the 1895 Cotton Exposition?
A. W.E.B. Dubois
B. Booker T Washington
C. Tunis Campbell
D. Eli Whitney -
✔️B. Booker T Washington
Rather than advocate for equal political and social power, Washington urged blacks to make
progress as agricultural and industrial laborers and, easing white fears about racial integration,
argued that the races could be "as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential
to mutual progress."
"New South" Crusade -
✔️Sought to diversify the Georgia economy; eventually led to the industrialization of the state
Henry Grady
Rebecca Latimer Felton -
✔️A civic leader that supported women's suffrage and temperance as well as strongly disagreed
with the convict lease system. She was also the first woman to serve in the US Senate. Foremost
feminist
Leo Frank -
✔️Jewish factory manager in Atlanta who was convicted of murdering a female employee. A mob
lynched him in his jail cell
W.E.B. Du Bois -
✔️-First African American to earn a doctorate at harvard
,-Co founder of NAACP( national association for the advancement of colored people) 1909
-opposed Atlanta compromise
Free silver (Populism) -
✔️-the use of both silver and gold as currency
-incorrect ratios that made the silver lose value
-inflation... but maybe not beneficial
- fourth coinage act of 1873 demonetized silver until the federal reserve act overhauled the U.S
monetary system.
-supported by populist party
Jim Crow laws were:
A. declared from the beginning to be unconstitutional.
B. a method of imposing strict segregation in even the smallest aspects of society.
C. laws passed by supporters of African-American equality to insure their equal treatment in
Southern states.
D. a series of acts passed by Congress to encourage the growth of agriculture in the South. -
✔️B. a method of imposing strict segregation in even the smallest aspects of society.
The most significant third political party of the late nineteenth century was the:
A. Whig Party.
B. Progressive Party.
C. Populist Party.
D. Mugwump Party. -
✔️C. Populist Party.
Prohibition -
✔️-nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of
alcoholic beverages
-1920-1933
-led by social progressives
-18th Amendment
, -ended by 21st amendment
-makes one of the last stages of the progressive eras
Herman Talmadge -
✔️GA governor; in reaction to Brown vs. BOE he declared that GA will 'not tolerate the mixing of
races in public schools or any other tax supported institutions." Forcibly took over the Governor's
mansion until it was officially announced he had lost the election
Was prohibition a failure? -
✔️not completely. It cut alcohol consumption in half during the 20s
-possibly increased urban crime organizations
The national political parties of the second American party system were:
A. the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
B. the Democratic Party and the Whig Party.
C. the Federalist Party and the Republican Party.
D. the Democratic Party and the Populist Party. -
✔️B. the Democratic Party and the Whig Party.
Crop-lien System 1860-1930 -
✔️a way for farmers to get credit before the planting season by borrowing against the value for
anticipated harvests
Sharecroppers -
✔️1870's Tenant farmers, serfs, who worked the land they did not own for a meager share of the
crops
Ku Klux Klan -
✔️-terrorism
-"purification" of american society
-right wing extremist organizations
-hate group
Questions and multiple choice Answers Latest
2025.
Who was the keynote speaker at the 1895 Cotton Exposition?
A. W.E.B. Dubois
B. Booker T Washington
C. Tunis Campbell
D. Eli Whitney -
✔️B. Booker T Washington
Rather than advocate for equal political and social power, Washington urged blacks to make
progress as agricultural and industrial laborers and, easing white fears about racial integration,
argued that the races could be "as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential
to mutual progress."
"New South" Crusade -
✔️Sought to diversify the Georgia economy; eventually led to the industrialization of the state
Henry Grady
Rebecca Latimer Felton -
✔️A civic leader that supported women's suffrage and temperance as well as strongly disagreed
with the convict lease system. She was also the first woman to serve in the US Senate. Foremost
feminist
Leo Frank -
✔️Jewish factory manager in Atlanta who was convicted of murdering a female employee. A mob
lynched him in his jail cell
W.E.B. Du Bois -
✔️-First African American to earn a doctorate at harvard
,-Co founder of NAACP( national association for the advancement of colored people) 1909
-opposed Atlanta compromise
Free silver (Populism) -
✔️-the use of both silver and gold as currency
-incorrect ratios that made the silver lose value
-inflation... but maybe not beneficial
- fourth coinage act of 1873 demonetized silver until the federal reserve act overhauled the U.S
monetary system.
-supported by populist party
Jim Crow laws were:
A. declared from the beginning to be unconstitutional.
B. a method of imposing strict segregation in even the smallest aspects of society.
C. laws passed by supporters of African-American equality to insure their equal treatment in
Southern states.
D. a series of acts passed by Congress to encourage the growth of agriculture in the South. -
✔️B. a method of imposing strict segregation in even the smallest aspects of society.
The most significant third political party of the late nineteenth century was the:
A. Whig Party.
B. Progressive Party.
C. Populist Party.
D. Mugwump Party. -
✔️C. Populist Party.
Prohibition -
✔️-nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of
alcoholic beverages
-1920-1933
-led by social progressives
-18th Amendment
, -ended by 21st amendment
-makes one of the last stages of the progressive eras
Herman Talmadge -
✔️GA governor; in reaction to Brown vs. BOE he declared that GA will 'not tolerate the mixing of
races in public schools or any other tax supported institutions." Forcibly took over the Governor's
mansion until it was officially announced he had lost the election
Was prohibition a failure? -
✔️not completely. It cut alcohol consumption in half during the 20s
-possibly increased urban crime organizations
The national political parties of the second American party system were:
A. the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
B. the Democratic Party and the Whig Party.
C. the Federalist Party and the Republican Party.
D. the Democratic Party and the Populist Party. -
✔️B. the Democratic Party and the Whig Party.
Crop-lien System 1860-1930 -
✔️a way for farmers to get credit before the planting season by borrowing against the value for
anticipated harvests
Sharecroppers -
✔️1870's Tenant farmers, serfs, who worked the land they did not own for a meager share of the
crops
Ku Klux Klan -
✔️-terrorism
-"purification" of american society
-right wing extremist organizations
-hate group
