U.S. History Quiz, Final Result

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20 out of 40 correct (50.0%).

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  • Which statement about John Marshall is not accurate?
    He was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
  • Which of the following was not a key difference between the First and Second Continental Congress?
    The First Continental Congress advocated for rapprochement with Britain and issued an apology for colonial excesses. The Second Congress produced the Declaration of Independence.
  • Which of the following was not an immediate consequence of the Battle of Antietam?
    Ulysses Grant was recalled from the west to take overall command of the Union Army.
  • What was the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, thereby making it effective on August 18, 1920?
    Tennessee
  • During its peak, areas with substantial incidents of lynching were correlated with each of the following factors except which one?
    The African American population was relatively small and isolated.
  • Which of the following points is not one that is made in Judith Sargent Murray's On the Equality of the Sexes, published in 1790?
    Voting is an expression of equality, and women cannot have equal respect until they also have the vote.
  • Which of the following is not a quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech?
    "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
  • Sojourner Truth escaped from slavery to freedom as a young woman. What state was she born in?
    New York
  • What was the function of the Committees of Correspondence?
    They were shadow governments organized by Patriot leaders and preceded the First Continental Congress.
  • Which of the following statements about the Appalachian Mountains is accurate?
    The Appalachians were once as high as the Rocky Mountains are today.
  • Which of the following statements about the decline of the first Ku Klux Klan in the 1870s is inaccurate?
    With turnout depressed by violence, few Southern states elected Republican Congressmen in 1868 or 1870.
  • A "Border Ruffian" during the "Bleeding Kansas" struggle was most likely to become one of these during the Civil War?
    Bushwhacker
  • What was significant about the National Road, on which construction began in 1811?
    It was the first major initiative taken by the federal government to build a highway.
  • Which of the following statements about the Northwest Ordinance is inaccurate?
    It allowed each state in the Northwest Territory to vote on whether slavery would be permitted.
  • At what point were the cliff dwellings of the Pueblo people, in the American southwest, abandoned by their occupants?
    Around 1300, due to climactic changes which reduced landfall and made the land too arid.
  • The term pow wow derives from which Indian group?
    The Narragansett
  • Which of the following was not a reason for Russia to sell Alaska?
    Russia was in the middle of a war with the Ottoman Empire and wanted to transfer troops out of Alaska.
  • Which of the following was not something that Andrew Carnegie devoted significant philanthropic resources to?
    Parochial schools and churches
  • What issue did Pinckney's Treaty address, in 1795?
    It was a treaty with Spain that clarified the borders of Florida.
  • Which of the following was not an immediate consequence of the Battle of Shiloh, in 1862?
    The Confederates abandoned any hope of defeating the Union in the western theater, and transferred around 30,000 troops to Robert E. Lee in the east, hoping to win a decisive battle there.

These questions were answered correctly:

  • How did Benjamin Franklin first become prominent in Pennsylvania?
    He became well-known as the author and publisher of Poor Richard's Almanack which contained stories, facts, and proverbs.
  • Which of the following organizations is a legacy of Margaret Sanger's activism?
    Planned Parenthood
  • John Marshall was one of the most important members of which early American political party?
    The Federalist Party
  • Which of the following states does not have a border on the Mississippi River?
    Nebraska
  • In what business did James Forten become wealthy, before he became a prominent black abolitionist?
    Sailmaking
  • Which of the following people was not associated with the New Look national security policy in the 1950s?
    Dean Acheson
  • Which of the following best describes the strategy and allegiance of the Iroquois Confederation in the struggles between the French and British?
    It was generally allied with the British and fought against the French and their Indian allies.
  • The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved all of the following elements except which one?
    The acquiescence of Ulysses S. Grant in the scheme, including payments to him, which erupted into scandal during the 1872 election.
  • What was Andrew Jackson's position on "internal improvements", or federal infrastructure spending in modern terms?
    Jackson believed that, by and large, such spending was an avenue for corruption and disproportionately benefited elite business interests.
  • What was the position of Frederick Douglass on women's suffrage?
    Douglass supported women's suffrage, but broke with many in the movement by supporting the ratification of the 15th Amendment, even though it did not include women.
  • Which colony did the people on the Mayflower form?
    Plymouth Colony
  • The Supreme Court's Lochner v. New York decision began the Lochner era, in which the Supreme Court regularly stuck down which types of laws?
    Laws that regulated the working hours and conditions of employees.
  • What was a lasting geographical consequence of the Quaternary Glaciation?
    The resulting glaciers formed the Great Lakes in the middle of North America.
  • Which answer best describes the Siege of Petersburg?
    The Union Army, under Ulysses Grant, captured Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, after a nine-month engagement, in 1864-1865.
  • The Order of the Star Spangled Banner was a precursor to which political party?
    The Know Nothing Party
  • A person from which of the following groups was least likely to be a "war hawk" in the run-up to the War of 1812?
    New England merchants who feared a loss of trade from reduced shipping.
  • Which of the following acts did not create a military draft?
    The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
  • What right(s) is the 9th Amendment written to protect?
    Just because certain individual rights are protected in the Constitution, it does not mean that other rights are denied.
  • What was the most important consequence of the Free Soil Party?
    It established the anti-slavery positions on the western territories that would later became an essential part of the Republican platform.
  • Which future Supreme Court justice agued for Brown in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case?
    Thurgood Marshall

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