UGA History Exemption Test 272 Questions
and Answers 2025.
An African American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. Former Slave who was the leader
of the abolitionist movement and supported women's suffrage. -
✅Frederick Douglass
What organization unsuccessfully campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the constitution? -
✅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. -
✅Ronald Reagan
In what years did prohibition take place? -
✅1920-1933
A national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol. -
✅American Prohibition
Prohibition ended with the ratification of which amendment? -
✅The 21st Amendment
Grayish bug that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton -
✅Boll Weevil
This was a house committee on international security looking for alleged disloyalty and communist
ties. -
✅Un-American Activities Committee
A league of 5 tribes of indigenous people of North America involved in the Beaver Wars. -
,✅Iroquois League
In what year did the strike against Pearl Harbor take place? -
✅1941
This strike against US by imperial Japanese navy that led the US into WW2. Also voided Roosevelt's
neutrality act. -
✅Pearl Harbor
Explicitly grants right of citizens to vote regardless of race, color or having been enslaved. -
✅15th Amendment
In what year was the 15th Amendment enacted? -
✅1870
Poll taxes, literacy test, grandfather clause, property requirements aimed at disenfranchising black
voters -
✅Voting Restrictions
When did the civil war take place? -
✅1861-1865
He was a spanish explorer who marched across Mexico and conquered the Aztecs -
✅Hernan Cortes
He explored deep in USA, first to discover and cross the Mississippi River and claim it for Spain -
✅Hernando de Soto
This man was a member of the English Parliament who founded the colony of Georgia. -
✅James Edward Oglethorpe
Who was Georgia's 3rd and final royal governor who fled the colony after the start of the American
Revolution? -
,✅James Wright
In what year did the 13th amendment abolish slavery and involuntary servitude? -
✅1864
Who settled land in New York along the Hudson River? -
✅The Dutch
This man was an African American educator born into slavery who called for black progress through
education. -
✅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. -
✅Federal Reserve Act
In what year was the Federal Reserve Act ratified? -
✅1913
What machine automated cotton processing and INCREASED the need for slaves? -
✅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. -
✅William Penn
What was Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government during the Civil War (1861 -
1865)? -
✅Milledgeville
In 1832 SC argued that the federal tariffs were unconstitutional and President Jackson sent Troops to
force SC to pay tariffs. -
, ✅Nullification Crisis
In 1925 a substitute teacher was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act -
✅Scopes Trial
The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and
reintegrated into the Union -
✅Reconstruction Era
In what years did the Reconstruction Era occur? -
✅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. -
✅The New Deal
Between what years was The New Deal enacted? -
✅1933-1936
War between the North and South US to determine the survival of union or independence of
confederacy. -
✅Civil War
This man was the father of the American revolution who inspired Rebels to declare independence
from Britain and Wrote Common Sense and The American Crisis. -
✅Thomas Paine
When was the American Federation of Labor founded? -
✅1886
and Answers 2025.
An African American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. Former Slave who was the leader
of the abolitionist movement and supported women's suffrage. -
✅Frederick Douglass
What organization unsuccessfully campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the constitution? -
✅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. -
✅Ronald Reagan
In what years did prohibition take place? -
✅1920-1933
A national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol. -
✅American Prohibition
Prohibition ended with the ratification of which amendment? -
✅The 21st Amendment
Grayish bug that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton -
✅Boll Weevil
This was a house committee on international security looking for alleged disloyalty and communist
ties. -
✅Un-American Activities Committee
A league of 5 tribes of indigenous people of North America involved in the Beaver Wars. -
,✅Iroquois League
In what year did the strike against Pearl Harbor take place? -
✅1941
This strike against US by imperial Japanese navy that led the US into WW2. Also voided Roosevelt's
neutrality act. -
✅Pearl Harbor
Explicitly grants right of citizens to vote regardless of race, color or having been enslaved. -
✅15th Amendment
In what year was the 15th Amendment enacted? -
✅1870
Poll taxes, literacy test, grandfather clause, property requirements aimed at disenfranchising black
voters -
✅Voting Restrictions
When did the civil war take place? -
✅1861-1865
He was a spanish explorer who marched across Mexico and conquered the Aztecs -
✅Hernan Cortes
He explored deep in USA, first to discover and cross the Mississippi River and claim it for Spain -
✅Hernando de Soto
This man was a member of the English Parliament who founded the colony of Georgia. -
✅James Edward Oglethorpe
Who was Georgia's 3rd and final royal governor who fled the colony after the start of the American
Revolution? -
,✅James Wright
In what year did the 13th amendment abolish slavery and involuntary servitude? -
✅1864
Who settled land in New York along the Hudson River? -
✅The Dutch
This man was an African American educator born into slavery who called for black progress through
education. -
✅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. -
✅Federal Reserve Act
In what year was the Federal Reserve Act ratified? -
✅1913
What machine automated cotton processing and INCREASED the need for slaves? -
✅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. -
✅William Penn
What was Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government during the Civil War (1861 -
1865)? -
✅Milledgeville
In 1832 SC argued that the federal tariffs were unconstitutional and President Jackson sent Troops to
force SC to pay tariffs. -
, ✅Nullification Crisis
In 1925 a substitute teacher was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act -
✅Scopes Trial
The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and
reintegrated into the Union -
✅Reconstruction Era
In what years did the Reconstruction Era occur? -
✅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. -
✅The New Deal
Between what years was The New Deal enacted? -
✅1933-1936
War between the North and South US to determine the survival of union or independence of
confederacy. -
✅Civil War
This man was the father of the American revolution who inspired Rebels to declare independence
from Britain and Wrote Common Sense and The American Crisis. -
✅Thomas Paine
When was the American Federation of Labor founded? -
✅1886
