U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 2
19 out of 40 correct (47.5%).
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Areas for improvement:
- Cultural History: 23.1% (3 out of 13)
- Early and Antebellum America (1789-1860): 27.3% (3 out of 11)
- Political History: 50.0% (13 out of 26)
- Economic History: 47.4% (9 out of 19)
- The Revolution and Constitution (1775-1789): 0.0% (0 out of 4)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- United States Bill of Rights
- Anti-Federalism
- New Deal
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- The Federalist Papers
- Redeemers
- Madam C. J. Walker
- Rock and roll
- Wampanoag people
- King Philip's War
- William Lloyd Garrison
- American Anti-Slavery Society
- Second-wave feminism
- Betty Friedan
- The Feminine Mystique
- National Road
- Herman Melville
- History of rail transport in the United States
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Bank run
- Emergency Banking Act
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Battle of Trenton
- James Monroe
- United States Constitution
- First Bank of the United States
- Necessary and Proper Clause
- Salutary neglect
- Abraham Lincoln
- Reconstruction Era
- Wade–Davis Bill
- Radical Republican
- Gibbons v. Ogden
- Columbian Exchange
These questions were missed:
- 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.
- Madam C. J. Walker, an early black female entrepreneur, became a millionaire in which line of business?Hair care and cosmetics
- 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.
- Which of the following people was a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society?William Lloyd Garrison
- What was the policy of "salutary neglect", an unofficial stance taken by Great Britain towards its colonies?Before 1763, Britain enforced its mercantilist trade laws very loosely in order to maintain good relations with its colonies.
- Which of the following people did not help to write the Federalist Papers?Benjamin Franklin
- Which of the following people wrote The Feminine Mystique? This book is commonly credited as a milestone in the feminist movement.Betty Friedan
- Which of the following is not a quote of Abraham Lincoln?"There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war;"
- A series of bank runs during the 1930s culminated in the Emergency Banking Act of 1933, in the opening days of Roosevelt's term, after this many states suspended banking operations.36
- 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 musicians was not influential in the early development and popularity of rock and roll, in the 1950s?Marvin Gaye
- Which of the following is not a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald?The Sun Also Rises
- Who initially demanded the passage of the Bill of Rights, during the period that the Constitution was ratified?The Bill of Rights was a concession to Anti-Federalists who feared that the powers of the Constitution were too open-ended.
- The Tennessee Valley Authority was created in 1933 as a federally owned corporation in what industry?Electric utilities
- What was the first railroad, in 1852, to reach the Ohio River from the Eastern Seaboard?The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
- Which future President was wounded at the Battle of Trenton?James Monroe
- Which of the following plants was not native to the Americas before the arrival of Europeans?Bananas
- 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 is not a work by Herman Melville?The Red Badge of Courage
- Which of the following groups or organizations was not closely associated with the Redeemer movement that forced Republicans and blacks out of the Southern political process.The National Rifle Association
- 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.
These questions were answered correctly:
- Which answer best describes the Battle of Gettysburg?The Confederate Army was moving into Pennsylvania, and the Union Army met and defeated it in a three day battle, in 1863.
- Which historian was responsible for popularizing the Frontier Thesis in American history, that the moving frontier line had been an essential driver of democracy?Frederick Jackson Turner
- 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
- Which general ended the war as Commanding General of the United States Army? He began the war in obscurity and was nearly bankrupt.Ulysses S. Grant
- Which of the following nations was not given veto power on the U.N. Security Council after World War II?Canada
- What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory best known for?A fire on March 25, 1911 that killed 146 workers.
- Which of the following was not passed during Lyndon Johnson's Administration?The National Labor Relations Act
- 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 answers best describes the religious views of Thomas Jefferson?Jefferson was a member of the Episcopal Church, but was more generally a deist who often challenged religious traditions and hierarchy.
- Which of the following countries did not participate heavily in the Atlantic slave trade?Italy
- Who is most credited with developing the telegraph within the United States.Samuel Morse
- The "melting pot" is a metaphor that applies to which of the following?The assimilation of immigrants from numerous backgrounds into a cohesive American society. Especially used in the early 1900s.
- Which of the following people was nominated as the Liberal Republican Party's Presidential candidate in 1872?Horace Greeley
- What type of Christian sect did William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, belong to and attempt to incorporate into his colony?Quaker
- Which of the following statements about lynching is inaccurate?Northern politicians made little attempt to enact federal legislation against lynching.
- When the North American continent was first settled, what was the climate like?The world was in the midst of an Ice Age, and much of North America was cold, or covered by glaciers.
- Which answer best describes the judicial positions of Sandra Day O'Connor?O'Connor was a moderate conservative on the Court who sometimes acted as the swing vote in important cases.
- Which of the following is not the name of a beach that was used during the Normandy landings?Silver
- During which of the following time periods was flatboat traffic at its heaviest?The 1840s
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