UGA HISTORY EXEMPTIO N EXAM

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UGA HISTORY EXEMPTIO N EXAM

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Question : Who settled land west of the Mississippi River

• The French
• The Dutch
• The Spanish
• The British

Correct answer: A. The French

Question : Many of the European settlers who first came

to the New World did so to escape religious persecution.Which colony was granted to a benefactor for the purpose of settling the Quakers?

• Virginia
• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• Pennsylvania

Correct answer: D. Pennsylvania

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Question : Early settlers in New England depended

primarily upon what source of labor?

• their children
• slaves
• indentured servants
• wage laborers

Correct answer: A. their children

Question : During the American Revolution, Tories were:

• leaders of the Sons of Liberty.
• guerrilla fighters in the South.
• English who sympathized with the revolutionaries.
• loyal to the Crown of England.

Correct answer: D. loyal to the Crown of England. ->

patriots were opposed to King

Question : All of the following were consequences of Eli

Whitney's invention of the cotton gin, except:

• the urbanization of the southern economy.

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• the strengthening of slavery in the southern states.
• the development of an American textile industry.
• the spread of cotton as a cash crop in the southern

states.

Correct answer: A. the urbanization of the southern

economy.

Question : What belief led most states to require a certain

level of property ownership in order to qualify for voting or holding political office?

• Concentrating political power in the hands of the

wealthy would hasten economic development.

• Such qualifications would encourage the poorer classes

to work hard and save money.

• It would be easier to keep track of one list of property

owners and one list of voters, rather than having a list for each.

• Only property owners would possess the necessary

independence to make wise political choices.

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Correct answer: D. Only property owners would possess

the necessary independence to make wise political choices.

Question : The national political parties of the second

American party system were:

• the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
• the Democratic Party and the Whig Party.
• the Federalist Party and the Republican Party.
• the Democratic Party and the Populist Party.

Correct answer: B. the Democratic Party and the Whig

Party.

Question : The Ku Klux Klan was which of the following

• A social club
• a terrorist organization
• white supremacist group
• All of the above

Correct answer: D. All of the above