GEORGIA WDO FINAL EXAM PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
⩥ 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
-elements of the culture would play a role in shaping the characterization
of a United States that valued independence and social equality
⩥ What country claimed Quebec?. Answer: The French
⩥ French Colonization in the New World. Answer: French and Dutch
Colonies in the new world usually relied on cooperation with native
peoples instead of extensive settlement and force in contrast to the
spanish and british
⩥ Dutch Colonization in the New World. Answer: -first colonies
functioned more as trading outposts than settlements
-the Dutch commissioned an expedition by English explorer Henry
Hudson to North America
-Hudson failed in his search for a Northwest Passage, but his reports of
abundant resources created interest among Dutch merchants
-The Dutch West India Company was chartered to develop colonies in
North America
-the company tried to attract immigrants with land grants, and a diverse
group of European settlers slowly began to arrive
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
⩥ 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
-elements of the culture would play a role in shaping the characterization
of a United States that valued independence and social equality
⩥ What country claimed Quebec?. Answer: The French
⩥ French Colonization in the New World. Answer: French and Dutch
Colonies in the new world usually relied on cooperation with native
peoples instead of extensive settlement and force in contrast to the
spanish and british
⩥ Dutch Colonization in the New World. Answer: -first colonies
functioned more as trading outposts than settlements
-the Dutch commissioned an expedition by English explorer Henry
Hudson to North America
-Hudson failed in his search for a Northwest Passage, but his reports of
abundant resources created interest among Dutch merchants
-The Dutch West India Company was chartered to develop colonies in
North America
-the company tried to attract immigrants with land grants, and a diverse
group of European settlers slowly began to arrive
