U.S. History Quiz, Final Result

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23 out of 40 correct (57.5%).

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  • 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.
  • Which of the following societal trends was not a factor in the Harlem Renaissance?
    The state of New York and the federal government created extensive programs in the 1920s to fund artists of all backgrounds.
  • Which of the following politicians was a strong supporter of the "Ten percent" plan?
    Abraham Lincoln
  • What was an important early political issue that rested upon conflicting interpretations of the Necessary and Proper Clause of the Constitution?
    Whether the First Bank of the United States, i.e. a national bank, was allowed by the Constitution.
  • Estevanico was a member of Pánfilo de Narváez's 1527 expedition. What is noteworthy about him?
    He survived the expedition and was one of the first Africans to set foot in North America.
  • Who is notable for having developed a written syllabary for the Cherokee language?
    Sequoyah
  • What did the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 most closely deal with?
    It created the Securities and Exchange Commission and provided for new regulations of the stock market.
  • What relationship did the Worcester v. Georgia case lay out between Indian nations, state governments, and the federal government?
    The federal government had the sole authority to deal with Indian nations.
  • The Supreme Court overturned Munn v. Illinois in 1886 with Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois. Which federal law was most directly passed in response to this case?
    The Interstate Commerce Act
  • When did holding companies first emerge in the United States?
    Holding companies were primarily an innovation of the 1880s and 90s, as a way to get around antitrust laws.
  • What was the most important long-term legacy of the Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison?
    It is one of the few detailed sources on the debates which led to the U.S. Constitution, and on particular sections and clauses therein.
  • What was the purpose of the American Equal Rights Association?
    To secure equal rights, and especially the right of suffrage, irrespective of race, color or sex.
  • Which of the following people wrote The Feminine Mystique? This book is commonly credited as a milestone in the feminist movement.
    Betty Friedan
  • Which President said, "If I can catch any man with a hyphen in this great contest I will know that I have got an enemy of the Republic." about "hyphenated Americans"?
    Woodrow Wilson
  • Although the words were written in 1814, "The Star Spangled Banner" did not become the official national anthem of the United States until what year?
    1931
  • Which of the following statements about the Emancipation Proclamation is not accurate?
    The Proclamation immediately freed about 500 thousand slaves from Confederate states, who had either escaped or lived in areas that the Union had captured.
  • What was the primary goal of the Farmers' Holiday Association, active in the early 1930s?
    It attempted to coordinate the withholding of farm products from the market, in order to raise prices and slow the rate of farm foreclosures.

These questions were answered correctly:

  • Which of the following best describes the life of Booker T. Washington?
    He was a black community and educational leader, and founded the Tuskegee Institute.
  • Which of the following movements was created, in no small part, in reaction to the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision?
    The Moral Majority
  • Which of the following was not a part of the Treaty of Paris in 1783?
    The United States would obtain all land between the Mississippi and the Atlantic Ocean that was south of Canada, including eastern Louisiana and Florida.
  • Which of the following Christian sects did not see an increase in membership and prominence during the Second Great Awakening?
    Episcopalians
  • Which of the following does the "Corrupt Bargain" refer to, in its early 19th century usage?
    The alliance between supporters of John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay to elect Adams in the 1824 election. Andrew Jackson had won a plurality of electoral votes, but not a majority, and lost the final vote in the House of Representatives.
  • What was the immediate short-term effect of the Missouri Compromise?
    Slavery receded as an important national issue until the late 1840s.
  • Of the following politicians, which was the most outspoken defender of slavery?
    John C. Calhoun
  • Which of the following groups was never a part of the Iroquois Confederation?
    Wyandot
  • Which of the following was not a feature of the Gilded Age?
    Advancements in working conditions and worker safety, and a reduction of fatalities on railroads and in coal mines.
  • Which of the following movements or policies did Sojourner Truth not strongly advocate for during her life?
    The Exoduster movement of blacks away from the South after Reconstruction.
  • What is the significance of Levittown, New York?
    It was a planned suburb built in the late 1940s that became a model for thousands of similar communities in the U.S.
  • In 1948, the Dixiecrats broke with Harry Truman over his desegregation of the Armed Forces, and other issues, and nominated which man for President?
    Strom Thurmond
  • Which of the following events most directly led to prejudice against Poles in the United States, at least for a time?
    The Assassination of William McKinley
  • Which of the following individuals was a key author of the Massachusetts Circular Letter?
    Samuel Adams
  • In which city did the Stonewall Riots occur? They are commonly seen as a turning point in the history of gay activism.
    New York
  • What was Calvin Coolidge's position, in general, on economic issues?
    Coolidge cut the income tax substantially, cut spending, and generally favored business interests.
  • What were the starting and ending points of Sherman's March to the Sea, in November-December 1865?
    Atlanta and Savannah
  • Which organization, founded in 1890, healed the schism that had emerged in the women's movement over the 15th Amendment? Susan B. Anthony was an early President.
    The National American Woman Suffrage Association
  • 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 was not a long-term consequence of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 and Hepburn Act's regulation of the nation's railroads?
    The Interstate Commerce Commission fended off calls for railroad nationalization during World War I, arguing that its own regulation of the railroads was sufficient.
  • Which of the following political offices did Jefferson Davis hold before he became President of the Confederate States of America?
    He was a Senator from Mississippi.
  • 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, approximately, was the annual inflation rate in the United States when Gerald Ford began his Whip Inflation Now campaign?
    12 percent

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