U.S. History Quiz, Final Result

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23 out of 40 correct (57.5%).

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  • Which of the following statements about Susan B. Anthony is not historically accurate?
    Anthony was an honorary guest when the 19th Amendment was passed by the U.S. House and Senate.
  • What was the most important consequence of the Free Soil Party?
    It established the anti-slavery positions on the western territories that would later became an essential part of the Republican platform.
  • Which of the following voting groups is not generally considered to have been part of the New Deal Coalition?
    Rural farmers from the Northeast and New England
  • 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.
  • In which of the following countries was rollback attempted during the Cold War?
    Cuba
  • Which of the following statements about sharecropping is inaccurate?
    Sharecropping was a system that only applied to black tenants.
  • At the height of the postwar Baby Boom, in the late 1950s, the fertility rate per woman reached which point (vs. 1.9 in 2014)?
    3.7
  • All of the following countries participated in the U.S. coalition which defeated Iraq in the 1990-91 Gulf War except for which one?
    Germany
  • 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.
  • John Marshall was one of the most important members of which early American political party?
    The Federalist Party
  • What did the Supreme Court's Engel v. Vitale decision do?
    It ruled that public schools could not require their students to say a prayer.
  • What was the purpose of the Committee of Detail at the Constitutional Convention?
    It wrote the first draft of the United States Constitution, based on agreements that had been reached during the first few weeks of the Convention.
  • In which region of the country was opposition to the 16th Amendment, allowing for a federal income tax, the strongest?
    New England
  • What did the Kellogg-Briand Pact attempt to end?
    War
  • Which of the following was not an immediate consequence of the Battle of Shiloh, in 1862?
    The Confederates abandoned any hope of defeating the Union in the western theater, and transferred around 30,000 troops to Robert E. Lee in the east, hoping to win a decisive battle there.
  • Which of the following women was not an important women's suffrage advocate in the final years before the 19th Amendment?
    Aimee Semple McPherson
  • What was a key argument advanced in the Massachusetts Circular Letter, in response to the Townshend Acts?
    The Townshend Acts were unconstitutional because the colony of Massachusetts was not represented in Parliament.

These questions were answered correctly:

  • 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.
  • Which of the following Confederate states was exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation, since most of it was already under Union control in late 1862?
    Tennessee
  • Which of the following clauses was not a part of the Missouri Compromise?
    No free state would be admitted in the future, without a slave state being admitted simultaneously to keep an equal balance between free and slave states, and vice versa.
  • About what percentage of white arrivals to the colonies before the American Revolution came as indentured servants?
    50 percent
  • The Wilmot Proviso is associated with the aftermath of which American war?
    The Mexican-American War
  • Which of the following acts did not occur during the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson?
    The Sheppard-Towner Act, establishing federal funding for maternity and child care.
  • From which country did most of the September 11 attack perpetrators come from?
    Saudi Arabia
  • Which of the following was not considered a "border state" during the Civil War?
    Tennessee
  • Which term was used as a nickname for the area of western New York where Mormonism was founded?
    The Burned-Over District
  • What were the views of Roger Williams on American Indians and slavery?
    Williams was an early abolitionist, and also an advocate of fair dealings with the New England Indian tribes.
  • What topic did the insular cases deal with during the 19th century?
    They were a series of Supreme Court decisions which held that full constitutional rights do not automatically extend to all places under American control, which was relevant to the Spanish-American War.
  • Which of the following was not part of the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford decision?
    Slaveowners could bring their slaves into a free state for a reasonable period of time, as long as they did not establish residency.
  • What was a typical working week, in hours, for the women who worked in the Lowell mills in the 1830s and 40s?
    75 hours
  • What right(s) is the 9th Amendment written to protect?
    Just because certain individual rights are protected in the Constitution, it does not mean that other rights are denied.
  • Which event galvanized Lucretia Mott to help organize the Seneca Falls Convention?
    At the World's Anti-Slavery Convention, in 1840, Mott was excluded from participating on account of her status as a woman.
  • Which of the following is not a song by Madonna?
    Time After Time
  • What did the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 do?
    It increased the fine for harboring a fugitive slave to $1,000, and required only a sworn affidavit for recovering an escaped slave (or a free black that a bounty hunter had accused of such).
  • The Lecompton Constitution, if approved, would have allowed slavery in which U.S. state?
    Kansas
  • Dorothea Dix was a 19th century social reformer who primarily focused on which issue?
    The treatment of the indigent insane
  • Which colony did the people on the Mayflower form?
    Plymouth Colony
  • The Supreme Court's Lochner v. New York decision began the Lochner era, in which the Supreme Court regularly stuck down which types of laws?
    Laws that regulated the working hours and conditions of employees.
  • 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.
  • How many states allow some form of initiative or referendum, due largely to reforms from the Progressive Era?
    27 states allow either initiatives or referendums.

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