U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 3
20 out of 40 correct (50.0%).
carterumphress
U.S. History Resources
Areas for improvement:
- Political History: 43.8% (14 out of 32)
- The Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1877-1929): 12.5% (1 out of 8)
- U.S. Presidents: 0.0% (0 out of 3)
- The U.S. Constitution: 20.0% (1 out of 5)
- Cultural History: 42.9% (3 out of 7)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- Reconstruction Era
- Judicial review
- Marbury v. Madison
- Jacksonian democracy
- Andrew Jackson
- Alexander Hamilton
- Thomas Jefferson
- George Washington
- James Madison
- Calvin Coolidge
- Spanish–American War
- Platt Amendment
- Crédit Mobilier of America scandal
- Second Great Awakening
- Ancient Hawaii
- Lynching in the United States
- Radical Republican
- Wade–Davis Bill
- Neutrality Acts of 1930s
- Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Republican Party (United States)
- Gilded Age
- Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Long hot summer of 1967
- 1967 Detroit riot
- America First Committee
- Kellogg–Briand Pact
- Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Interregnum (England)
- Freedmen's Bureau
These questions were missed:
- Which answer best describes the political ideals of Jacksonian Democracy and Andrew Jackson?Supported the expansion of the vote, opposed to monopolies and elites, and supported more Western settlement. Ignored the issue of slavery in the name of unity.
- Which of the following statements is incorrect about the Cabinet of George Washington?James Madison served as the Attorney General
- Which of the following Christian sects did not see an increase in membership and prominence during the Second Great Awakening?Episcopalians
- In which region of the country was opposition to the 16th Amendment, allowing for a federal income tax, the strongest?New England
- Approximately how long ago did humans first settle on Hawaii?The islands were likely settled at some point in the 1200s, based on radiocarbon dating.
- What was the purpose of the Neutrality Acts in the 1930s?They were a series of acts which generally restricted or prohibited the United States to sell arms to either side in a foreign conflict. Some of the acts made small exceptions or addressed specific situations.
- The Freedmen's Bureau was in operation from 1865 until what year?1872
- What did the Kellogg-Briand Pact attempt to end? War
- What was the period of Parliamentarian rule in England, between 1648-1660, called?The Interregnum
- Which Amendment outlawed the poll tax as a condition for voting?The 24th Amendment
- What was Calvin Coolidge's position, in general, on economic issues?Coolidge cut the income tax substantially, cut spending, and generally favored business interests.
- Which of the following people was not a supporter of the America First Committee, an organization opposed to U.S. entry into World War II, during the 1940-1941 period?Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
- Which city saw the worst rioting, in terms of lives lost and property destruction, during the disorders of 1967?Detroit
- The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved all of the following elements except which one?The acquiescence of Ulysses S. Grant in the scheme, including payments to him, which erupted into scandal during the 1872 election.
- During its peak, areas with substantial incidents of lynching were correlated with each of the following factors except which one?The African American population was relatively small and isolated.
- Radical Republicans made this proposal in response to the "Ten percent" plan, which they saw as too lenient.The Wade-Davis Bill
- A member of which of these groups was unlikely to vote for the Republican Party during the Gilded Age?Opponents of federal spending increases
- What was the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, thereby making it effective on August 18, 1920?Tennessee
- What was an important long-term consequence of Marbury v. Madison?It established the power of judicial review for the Supreme Court.
- What was the purpose of the Platt Amendment?It specified seven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops from Cuba, and was used to control that country's politics until the 1930s.
These questions were answered correctly:
- 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.
- Which country was defeated first -- Germany or Japan?Germany surrendered in May 1945, while Japan formally surrendered on September 2, 1945 in Tokyo Bay.
- William Tweed is best known for leading which faction or organization as "Boss Tweed"?Tammany Hall
- Robert La Follette Sr., a long-time progressive Republican, ran for President as a third-party candidate in which election? He received 17% of the nation's popular vote.1924
- Which of the following was a key motivation in the founding of Maryland?It was established by the English Lord Baltimore, a Catholic, as a haven for Catholics during the European wars of religion, such as the Thirty Years War.
- 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 answer best describes the people known as English Dissenters in the 1600s?They were Christians who separated from the Church of England to form groups such as the Puritans, Quakers, Anabaptists, and Diggers.
- Although its first charter was issued in 1629, the first permanent English settlement in the Province of Carolina was not established until what year?1653
- Which of the following autobiographical works, published in 1969, made Maya Angelou a well-known author?I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Which English settler did Pocahontas marry in the 17th century?John Rolfe
- Which of the following is not something that was agreed to at the Yalta Conference in 1945?All parties agreed to establish a war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg after the surrender of Germany.
- 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.
- Which of the following statements about the life of Walter Raleigh is inaccurate?He was the first leader of the Jamestown Colony in what is now Virginia.
- Which of the following statements about the Northwest Ordinance is inaccurate?It allowed each state in the Northwest Territory to vote on whether slavery would be permitted.
- What was the term "coffin ship" created to describe in the 1800s?Ships which sailed to the United States from Ireland with immigrants and did not provide adequate food or living space -- leading to mortality rates of around 30%.
- Dorothea Dix was a 19th century social reformer who primarily focused on which issue?The treatment of the indigent insane
- Which of the following sects won a large number of black converts in the antebellum South?The Baptists
- Which state was admitted to the United States as a result of the Compromise of 1850?California
- In which of the following conflicts did the United Nations intervene militarily?The Korean War
- Which of the following statements about the United States home front, during World War II, is not accurate?Hollywood sharply curtailed its activities, and the number of films that were produced declined greatly.
The 1-5 rating provided is an approximation, includes no written response questions, and is not guaranteed to be calibrated with the scores received on similar tests. It is derived from both your overall success rate, and from the difficulty of the questions that you answer correctly and incorrectly.