U.S. History Quiz, Final Result

The final score on this quiz is a 4

24 out of 40 correct (60.0%).

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  • Vivien Thomas was a pioneer in which area of medicine?
    Blue baby syndrome
  • What did the Reciprocal Tariff Act of 1934 do?
    It authorized the President to negotiate bilateral, reciprocal trade agreements with foreign countries, and made such deals easier to authorize and harder to overturn for Congress.
  • 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.
  • Which term was used as a nickname for the area of western New York where Mormonism was founded?
    The Burned-Over District
  • What was a "Gibson Girl" around the turn of the 20th century?
    It was a cartoon series that semi-comically depicted a modern, confident, fashionable woman and her happenings, but did not involve her in the women's political movements of the time.
  • Which of the following was a theological issue that Anne Hutchinson and the Puritans disagreed on?
    Hutchinson supported a "covenant of grace", while the Puritans supported a "covenant of works".
  • Which of the following women is not a notable alumnus of Spelman College, in Atlanta?
    Shirley Chisholm
  • During which decade did the lynching of African Americans reach its peak in the United States?
    The 1890s
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The Federal Trade Commission was created as a progressive reform under which President?
    Woodrow Wilson
  • What was the purpose of the Continental Association, created in 1774?
    It was an association tasked with managing and enforcing the colonial boycott of British goods, which began late in 1774.
  • The Mississippian cultures shared all of the following characteristics except which one?
    A highly developed system of writing that later fell into disuse.
  • Which Founding Father and longest-surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence also helped create the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad?
    Charles Carroll of Carrollton
  • Which of the following people was not an early advocate for the social justice movement in the late 19th century?
    William Graham Sumner
  • Which city saw the worst rioting, in terms of lives lost and property destruction, during the disorders of 1967?
    Detroit

These questions were answered correctly:

  • What was the outcome of King Philip's War for the English and the Wampanoag in New England?
    Several hundred English settlers were killed, while the Wampanoag were almost annihilated. Many Indian survivors were sold into slavery.
  • Which of the following laws was passed, in large part, in reaction to James Garfield's assassination?
    The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
  • How many children did George Washington have?
    None
  • 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.
  • Which state was admitted to the United States as a result of the Compromise of 1850?
    California
  • Although Abraham Lincoln won a majority of the electoral vote in the 1860 election, he won only this percent of the popular vote.
    39.7 percent
  • What was Calvin Coolidge's position, in general, on economic issues?
    Coolidge cut the income tax substantially, cut spending, and generally favored business interests.
  • All of the following proposals in Harry Truman's Fair Deal failed to pass in Congress except which one?
    Federal funding for slum clearance and the construction of public housing
  • Which of the following was not an important consequence of the Erie Canal?
    New Orleans suffered a steep downtown in its fortunes, as Midwesterners turned almost exclusively to the Great Lakes and Erie Canal route for long-distance trade.
  • Ernest Hemingway first became well-known for his novel The Sun Also Rises portraying the Lost Generation after World War I. Where does much of this novel take place?
    Spain
  • Which public figure was the subject of Walt Whitman's poem, "O Captain! My Captain!"?
    Abraham Lincoln
  • Which of the following people was killed in the Boston Massacre?
    Crispus Attucks
  • 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.
  • What was a mugwump, and how did they assist in the election of Grover Cleveland as President?
    The mugwumps were Republican voters who switched tickets to vote for Cleveland, due to his record of fighting corruption and bribery.
  • In what year was the United States Constitution written?
    1787
  • Langston Hughes wrote all of the following poems except which one?
    A Raisin in the Sun
  • The United Nations Charter was drafted in 1945 in which city?
    San Francisco
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Which of the following was not a program implemented by the Freedman's Bureau during Reconstruction?
    It helped freed slaves who wished to leave the South, migrate to other regions of the country.
  • Which of the following agencies had the largest role in the creation of the internet?
    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • 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.
  • In which city did the Haymarket Square bombing occur, in 1885?
    Chicago
  • In which of the following countries was rollback attempted during the Cold War?
    Cuba

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