U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 2
20 out of 40 correct (50.0%).
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Areas for improvement:
- Cultural History: 30.8% (4 out of 13)
- Economic History: 47.1% (8 out of 17)
- The Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1877): 0.0% (0 out of 4)
- Black History: 20.0% (1 out of 5)
- The U.S. Constitution: 0.0% (0 out of 3)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- American Civil War
- Settlement of the Americas
- Robert E. Lee
- Battle of Antietam
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Madonna
- Constitutional Convention (United States)
- Shays' Rebellion
- First Great Awakening
- Slavery in the United States
- The Impending Crisis of the South
- Power loom
- Waltham-Lowell system
- Panic of 1819
- Gideon v. Wainwright
- Iroquois
- Jazz
- Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Civil Rights Act of 1866
- Wampanoag people
- Abraham Lincoln
- Emancipation Proclamation
- New Woman
- First-wave feminism
- Treaty of Versailles
- World War I
- George Washington
- French and Indian War
- Specie Circular
- Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon
- Daughters of Bilitis
These questions were missed:
- Which of the following answers best describes the cause of the Panic of 1819?Speculation in public lands by banks and individuals created a real estate bubble, and the Second Bank of the United States overcorrected by instituting tight lending practices.
- Which of the following technologies was a critical part of the Waltham-Lowell manufacturing system?The power loom
- What was the main argument against slavery made in The Impending Crisis of the South by Hinton Rowan Helper?Slavery was an inefficient practice and a barrier to industrialization and economic progress in the South, benefitting a tiny minority at the expense of the many.
- Which Europeans did the Wampanoag tribe have the most early contact with?Puritan settlers to New England
- What was the effect that the Specie Circular had on western prices?It caused western land prices to significantly decline.
- Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon founded the Daughters of Bilitis in 1955 to advocate for what cause?Lesbian civil and political rights
- 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 answer best describes the Battle of Antietam?The Confederate Army, under Robert E. Lee, was moving north into Maryland in 1862. The Union Army met Lee and forced his Army to retreat.
- Which of the following regulatory agencies was created under Lyndon Johnson's Administration?The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Which event, near the end of 1786, built support for the Constitutional Convention?Shays' Rebellion
- What did the Supreme Court's Gideon v. Wainwright decision do?It required the states to provide counsel to defendants who cannot pay their own attorneys.
- What was a common term, beginning in the 1890s, for women who sought higher education and increased personal autonomy.New Woman
- 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.
- 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 of the following groups was never a part of the Iroquois Confederation?Wyandot
- What was an important long-term consequence of the First Great Awakening?A more spontaneous, emotional style of preaching and church service became common, at the expense of those sects which had a more structured and formal worship style.
- Which of the following is not a song by Madonna?Time After Time
- All of the following groups opposed the American ratification of the Treaty of Versailles except for which one?Moderate Republicans
- All of the following musicians are not generally associated with jazz except which one?Chuck Berry
- Which Amendment was passed in response to concerns that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was unconstitutional.The 14th Amendment
These questions were answered correctly:
- Which of the following companies was broken up by the Supreme Court, on the grounds that it was a monopoly, under the Sherman Antitrust Act?Standard Oil
- How many children did George Washington have?None
- 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.
- Which of the following states does not have a border on the Mississippi River?Nebraska
- Why is Abigail Adams sometimes cited as an early feminist influence?Her copious correspondence with her husband argues strongly for women's rights. She was also a fairly active First Lady compared to others of her era, earning her the sobriquet of "Mrs. President".
- The Wright Brothers' business in which area helped them develop the mechanical skills to create an airplane.Bicycle manufacture and repair
- In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the Great Depression, passed the...Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
- The Communist Revolution in China succeeded in replacing Chiang Kai-shek with Mao Zedong in which year, causing even more alarm in the United States?1949
- 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.
- The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill, in 1937, would have increased the size of the Supreme Court to how many justices? It was widely seen as an attempt by Franklin Roosevelt to pack the court.Fifteen
- Which answer best describes the economic policies of Janet Yellen in her first years as Chair of the Federal Reserve?Yellen kept interest rates low and phased out quantitative easing, and waited for further signs of recovery from the 2008 financial crisis.
- Who was the Governor of Virginia during Bacon's Rebellion?William Berkeley
- Which city in the United States was a primary destination for Polish immigrants in the 19th century?Chicago
- What would the Comprehensive Child Development Bill of 1972 have provided federal funding for, had it not been vetoed by Richard Nixon?A national day care system
- Historians estimate that about what percentage of white colonials supported the Patriot cause in the American Revolution?40-45 percent
- 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 answer best describes the early life of Lyndon Johnson?Johnson was born in poverty in the Texas hill country, west of Austin.
- Leading radio stations began to pull the once-popular broadcasts of Father Charles Coughlin, in the late 1930s, after he began expressing which type of views?Anti-semitism and support for Germany and Italy
- What was the purpose of the "lily-white" movement in the late 1900s?It was a faction within the Republican Party that wanted to compete with Democrats in the South, around the turn of the 20th century, by driving black leaders out of the party.
- Ida Tarbell became a well known muckraker for her book attacking which American business magnate?John D. Rockefeller
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