U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 4
25 out of 40 correct (62.5%).
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Areas for improvement:
- Women's History: 25.0% (1 out of 4)
- American Indian History: 40.0% (2 out of 5)
- Early and Antebellum America (1789-1860): 50.0% (6 out of 12)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- Slavery in the United States
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
- American System (economic plan)
- Andrew Jackson
- Internal improvements
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Gibbons v. Ogden
- First-wave feminism
- Victoria Woodhull
- John Winthrop
- Civil Rights Act of 1968
- J. P. Morgan
- Espionage Act of 1917
- Lowell Mill Girls
- American Temperance Society
- Apache
- Barbed wire
- Grand Village of the Illinois
- House of Burgesses
These questions were missed:
- Which of the following statements about the introduction of barbed wire to the west is inaccurate?Barbed wire made it economical for cattle ranching to spread to areas that were densely populated, allowing the practice to take a firm hold in the Midwest.
- Approximately when did the Apache peoples migrate to the Southwest?Sometime between 1200 and 1500.
- The Virginia House of Burgesses operated from 1619 until what year?1776
- Which of the following companies was J.P. Morgan not influential in providing financing for during his lifetime?Standard Oil
- What was the most important consequence of the Gibbons v. Ogden decision?It strengthened the ability of the federal government to regulate commerce under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
- All of the following people, except which one, have been charged under the Espionage Act of 1917?Smedley Butler
- 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.
- All of the following statements about John Winthrop is accurate except for which one?He was an early advocate for government by consensus, and for greater democracy and expanded voting in the English colonies.
- What was a typical working week, in hours, for the women who worked in the Lowell mills in the 1830s and 40s?75 hours
- In which area did the Civil Rights Act of 1968 increase the protections of the federal government?Housing
- What was the significance of Elizabeth Blackwell?She was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.
- Approximately how many Americans took the pledge of the American Temperance Society to abstain from drinking distilled beverages, in first 10 years after that group's founding in 1826?1.5 million
- What is notable about Victoria Woodhull?She was the first woman candidate for President of the United States.
- Which of the following statements about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 is inaccurate?The law had a statute of limitations of seven years, after which an escaped slave was legally free from recapture.
- What caused the breakup of the Grand Village of the Illinois?Invading Iroquois bands drove out the Illinois groups in the late 1600s, as part of the Beaver Wars.
These questions were answered correctly:
- What was the importance of the Liberty Ship in World War II?It was a simple, standardized transport ship that was easy to construct. Enough could be produced to easily make up for losses from submarine warfare.
- The Liberal Republican Party was founded for all of the following reasons except which one?It advocated the passage of a constitutional amendment, limiting the President to two terms in office.
- Which Southern Congressman became well-known for beating Senator Charles Sumner almost to death with a cane on the Senate floor, in 1856?Preston Brooks
- The Civil Rights Act of 1866 attempted to do which of the following?It was a measure to define US citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law.
- What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do?It provided for mechanisms to enforce the 15th Amendment and outlawed requirements such as literacy tests as prerequisites for voting.
- In which of the following positions did Thomas Jefferson not serve at some point during his life?Delegate to the Constitutional Convention, in 1787.
- Which of the following statements about sharecropping is inaccurate?Sharecropping was a system that only applied to black tenants.
- Radical Republicans made this proposal in response to the "Ten percent" plan, which they saw as too lenient.The Wade-Davis Bill
- Which of the following was not a feature of indentured servitude in the United States?About 80% of all white arrivals in the colonies before the American Revolution were indentured servants.
- What does the Critical Period often refer to, in the history of the United States?The period between 1781-1787, under the Articles of Confederation, when the national government appeared too weak (to many) to adequately defend the territory and financial system of the new nation.
- How were bison most commonly hunted in pre-contact and prehistoric times?The Plains Indians generally set traps and used costumes or fires to herd the bison into them, or over the sides of cliffs.
- What was a common nickname for the 51st U.S. Congress, which served while Benjamin Harrison was President?The Billion-Dollar Congress
- 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.
- What did the epithet of "Slave Power" refer to in the antebellum era?It was a term used by Free Soilers, and then Republicans, to refer to the upper-class of the South which dominated that region's politics and advocated for the expansion of slavery.
- What right(s) is the 7th Amendment written to protect?It guarantees the right to a trial by jury for any non-trivial ($20 or more) civil case, and respects that jury's findings.
- Which of the following people was nominated as the Liberal Republican Party's Presidential candidate in 1872?Horace Greeley
- What is the only Amendment to repeal another Amendment to the Constitution?The 21st Amendment
- What was the first battle in which Robert E. Lee served as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia?The Seven Days Battles
- What was the stance of William Pitt during the turmoil which preceded the American Revolution?William Pitt was perhaps the most prominent British politician to call for reconciliation with the colonies and a granting of more rights.
- Which of the following voting groups is not generally considered to have been part of the New Deal Coalition?Rural farmers from the Northeast and New England
- Which of the following was not an aspect of the "Cult of Domesticity", a term used to describe social norms for women in the mid-1800s?A good woman would do whatever it took to maintain the financial solvency of a home, even it meant working as a teacher or a local seamstress.
- Which of the following did the Social Purity Movement attempt to combat?Prostitution, also known as "the social evil".
- What was the term wildcat banking created to describe, in the mid-1800s?It referred to banks, after the end of national banking in 1837, that issued currency and loans far in excess of their assets.
- Which of the following directly posits that that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years?Moore's Law
- Which of the following factors did not contribute to an influx of farmers to the Great Plains, many of whom would later become the backbone of the Farmer's Alliance and populist movement?Prime farmland in California and Oregon was largely occupied by the 1870s, and younger settlers began to move east towards Montana and Colorado.
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