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UGA HISTORY EXEMPTIO N TEST 1877
– PRESENT QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS | PASSED | A+
Question :Robert Smalls
Correct answer:Enslaved African American who, during and
after the American Civil War, became a ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician; freed himself, his crew and their families from slavery on May 13, 1862, by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, the CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, and sailing it to freedom beyond the blockade Helped convince Lincoln to accept African-American soldiers into the Union Army
Question :Ten Percent Plan
Correct answer:Lincoln's plan that allowed a Southern state to
form its own government after ten percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States Meant to shorten the war Hoped to weaken the southern cause by making it easy for disillusioned or lukewarm confederates to switch sides
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Hoped to further his emancipation proclamation by insisting that the new governments abolish slavery
Question :Radical Republicans
Correct answer:After the Civil War, a group that believed the
South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South Favored protection for black rights (especially black, male suffrage)
Question :Wade-Davis Bill
Correct answer:Legislation requiring 50% of the voters to
take an oath of future loyalty before the restoration process could begin Once they took the oath, those who could wear they had never willingly supported the confederacy could vote in an election for delegates to a constitutional convention Passed after congress refused to recognize Lincoln's 10 percent governments
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Question :Railroads were the first
Correct answer:Modern corporation
Question :Cornelius Vanderbilt
Correct answer:A railroad owner who built a railway
connecting Chicago and New York He popularized the use of steel rails in his railroad, which made railroads safer and more economical.
Question :John D. Rockefeller
Correct answer:Established the Standard Oil Company, the
greatest, wisest, and meanest monopoly known in history
Question :J.P. Morgan
Correct answer:Banker who buys out Carnegie Steel and
renames it to U.S. Steel Was a philanthropist in a way; he gave all the money needed for WWI and was payed back Was one of the "Robber barons"
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Question :Haymarket Riot (1886)
Correct answer:The riot took place in Chicago between rioters
and the police It ended when someone threw a bomb that killed dozens The riot was suppressed, and in addition with the damaged reputation of unions, it also killed the Knights of Labor, who were seen as anarchists.
Question :American Federation of Labor
Correct answer:1886; founded by Samuel Gompers; sought
better wages, hrs, working conditions; skilled laborers, arose out of dissatisfaction with the Knights of Labor, rejected socialist and communist ideas, non-violent.
Question :Vertical Integration
Correct answer:Practice where a single entity controls the
entire process of a product, from the raw materials to distribution