UGA History Exemption UPDATED Actual Questions and CORRECT Answers
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UGA History Exemption UPDATED Actual
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Cahokia? - CORRECT ANSWER- The most sophisticated pre-historic Native
civilization north of Mexico. Mound state across the Mississippi River in St. Louis
1st woman to run for vice presidency? - CORRECT ANSWER- Geraldine Ferrar...
UGA History Exemption UPDATED Actual
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Cahokia? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The most sophisticated pre-historic Native
civilization north of Mexico. Mound state across the Mississippi River in St. Louis
1st woman to run for vice presidency? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Geraldine Ferraro
Which president ended Vietnam War? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Nixon
"New nationalism" - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Teddy Roosevelt
-Fed intervention, social justice, under privileged
Why was Andrew Jackson elected? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Known as the People's
president
-Was a War hero
-Supported individual liberty and forced Native American migration
Who created the Federalist Party? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Alexander Hamilton
-The party elected Adams to the presidency in 1796
Where was the most inequality in the colonies? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -greatest
inequality in terms of land ownership was South Carolina
French Indian War resulted in? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The French and Indian War
began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain
enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and
paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American
Revolution.
Which president launched the Atomic Bomb? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Truman
,"New Freedom" - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Woodrow Wilson limited government,
reforms, and greater economic opportunity
"New Federalism" - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Reagan policy on new local responsibility
What is Reaganomics? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- It is supply-side economics or trickle-
down economics. You give tax breaks to the rich and small businesses to help people get jobs.
-result economy improved during his presidency
Reagan's rollback - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -encouraged capitalism
-supported right wing military dictatorships in south and central America
What two things does Reagan do in Nicaragua? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -SUPPORTS
the contras
- refuses to recognize sandinists
Contras - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A Nicaraguan rebel group that got financial support
from the CIA. This group was formed as a response to the overthrowing of Anastazio Somoza
Debayle
-partially funded by drug sales to the US
After the Gulf war Bush's approval rate? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Sky rocketed to 89%
Gulf War - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A War (1990-1991) that took place between Iraq and
the U.S./Kuwait started by Iraq invading Kuwait; First non-containment based war since
WWII; Often referred to as Operation Desert Storm; Primarily an aerial war (huge amounts
of missiles and bombs) in the first stages, followed by an infantry march that pushed Iraqi
forces back into Iraq
Clinton's "New Democrat" campaign emphasized that - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -improve
US by supporting business
, -balance federal budget by reducing debt
Was GA settled by convicts and debtors? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- No primarily
carpenters, bakers, and farmers
Isolationism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or
interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
-Woodrow Wilson
"New South" - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Idea that the south should industrialize after the
Civil War. Despite calls for industrialization, sharecropping and tenant farming persisted in
the South
-Henry Grady
Which president started Medicare? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Lyndon B Johnson
Who was president during the cuban missile crisis? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- JFK
The Vietnam War destroyed whose presidency? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Lyndon B
Johnson
"Great Society" - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -LBJ's platform; increased the size and
involvement of the government in society.
-Extension of New Deal programs and Civil Rights (24th amendment, Civil Rights Act of
1964.)
Which president opened relations with china? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Nixon
Korean War - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The conflict between Communist North Korea and
Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South
Korea.
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