U.S. History Quiz, Final Result

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  • 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 Southern Congressman became well-known for beating Senator Charles Sumner almost to death with a cane on the Senate floor, in 1856?
    Preston Brooks
  • What was a key difference between the White League and the Ku Klux Klan?
    The White League operated openly in communities, solicited coverage from newspapers, and the men's identities were generally known, as opposed to the Klan.
  • How did the Navajo people obtain most of their food, historically?
    After the arrival of the Spanish, the Navajo took to herding large numbers of sheep and goats.
  • Who was best known as the leader of the Knights of Labor in the 1880s?
    Terence Powderly
  • Which of the following individuals was not a strong advocate for the direct election of U.S. Senators, eventually required by the 17th Amendment?
    Elihu Root
  • Which of the following was not a long-term consequence of the Dawes Act?
    Land allotments became a basis for modest Indian prosperity in the early 1900s.
  • Radical Republicans made this proposal in response to the "Ten percent" plan, which they saw as too lenient.
    The Wade-Davis Bill
  • All of the following states joined the Confederacy after the Battle of Fort Sumter except for which one?
    Texas
  • The Nye Committee, the talk radio programs of Father Charles Coughlin, and the speech War is a Racket by Smedley Butler all helped build support for which political position?
    Isolationism
  • All of the following groups opposed the American ratification of the Treaty of Versailles except for which one?
    Moderate Republicans
  • Which of the following was not an important long-term consequence of the Three-Fifths Compromise?
    The United Stated was unable to pass any laws banning the importation of slaves, due to the disproportionate representation of the South.
  • Which answer best describes the relationship between the Bill of Rights and the laws of each state?
    The Bill of Rights was only applicable to the federal government until the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868.
  • 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.
  • The term pow wow derives from which Indian group?
    The Narragansett
  • What was the largest source of new slaves in the colonial United States?
    Most were imported from the Caribbean.
  • The Union victory in which battle emboldened Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
    Antietam
  • What was Tecumseh's strategy during the War of 1812?
    Tecumseh allied his forces with British, believing that a British victory would help restrict western settlement.
  • Which of the following statements about the Roaring Twenties is inaccurate?
    A huge influx of postwar immigration from Europe helped influence the culture of cities like New York and Chicago in the 1920s.
  • The Tennessee Valley Authority was created in 1933 as a federally owned corporation in what industry?
    Electric utilities

These questions were answered correctly:

  • What was a key objective of George Washington when he made his attack that resulted in the Battle of Trenton?
    Washington hoped that a successful attack and victory against the British would slow their advance and galvanize his own troops and supporters, who were despondent after a series of defeats.
  • Andrew Jackson won a plurality of the popular vote in the 1824 Presidential election. Which two opponents did he accuse of stealing that election in a "corrupt bargain"?
    John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay
  • What is the only Amendment to repeal another Amendment to the Constitution?
    The 21st Amendment
  • After serving as President for the duration of Zachary Taylor's term, Millard Fillmore ran for President in 1856 on which party's ticket?
    The Know Nothing Party
  • Which of the following women is not a notable alumnus of Spelman College, in Atlanta?
    Shirley Chisholm
  • Which Amendment gave Washington D.C. the right to vote in Presidential elections?
    The 23rd Amendment
  • The trial of John Peter Zenger is considered to be on important influence on the passage of which Constitutional Amendment?
    The 1st Amendment (freedom of the press)
  • Which of the following was not a goal of the McKinley Tariff, in 1890?
    To win support in upcoming elections by passing a law that was broadly popular to voters in both parties.
  • Under the Marshall Plan, named for George Marshall, the United States provided this amount of economic aid to Western Europe. The amount would be much higher if adjusted for inflation.
    $13 billion
  • What did the Judiciary Act of 1801 do?
    It reorganized the federal court system by creating new courts and changing how vacancies would be filled. This allowed for several appointments to be made by John Adams in the final days of his Administration.
  • Which of the following groups were most likely to support the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
    Lower-class Southerners who hoped to acquire cheap/free homesteads in Georgia and other parts of the South.
  • Which answer best describes the political background of James Monroe?
    Monroe was a former anti-federalist who more or less continued the legacy of Jefferson and Madison.
  • Which answer best describes what happened during the Colfax Massacre?
    It was the single worst instance of racial violence during Reconstruction -- in the wake of a contested gubernatorial election in Louisiana, up to 150 freedmen were killed in a massacre by white Democrats.
  • Which war or conflict did the XYZ Affair most directly lead to?
    The Quasi-War
  • Who was the third and final President of the Second Bank of the United States, who clashed frequently with Andrew Jackson?
    Nicholas Biddle
  • What was the immediate cause of the embargo that caused the 1973 Oil Crisis?
    In the midst of the Yom Kippur War, Richard Nixon asked Congress for emergency military aid for Israel.
  • What describes George Washington's role in the French and Indian War?
    He commanded the Virginia Regiment, the primary fighting unit for that colony.
  • Which of the following was not an abuse that the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 attempted to remedy?
    It outlawed the use of dangerous substances like heroin, morphine, and cocaine in medicines.
  • What was James Buchanan's position in the last months of his term, after the Southern states began to secede?
    Buchanan stated that secession was illegal, but that going to war to stop it was also illegal.
  • Approximately how many blacks were killed in the aftermath of Nat Turner's rebellion, both legally and through mob violence?
    About 250

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