U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 3
22 out of 40 correct (55.0%).
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Areas for improvement:
- The Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1877): 42.9% (3 out of 7)
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945): 0.0% (0 out of 2)
- Early and Antebellum America (1789-1860): 50.0% (4 out of 8)
- Black History: 50.0% (2 out of 4)
- The Pre-Contact Era (through 1513): 33.3% (1 out of 3)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- American Civil War
- First Battle of Bull Run
- Robert E. Lee
- Nat Turner
- Denmark Vesey
- Five Civilized Tribes
- Marilyn Monroe
- Order of the Star Spangled Banner
- Know Nothing
- Bank run
- Emergency Banking Act
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Ancient Hawaii
- Confiscation Acts
- America's Critical Period
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Women's suffrage in the United States
- Emma Goldman
- Compromise of 1850
- Aimee Semple McPherson
- Pearl S. Buck
- Chesapeake Bay
These questions were missed:
- Which of the following is not a movie that Marilyn Monroe appeared in?Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Which of the following Native American nations was not a part of the "Five Civilized Tribes"?The Osage
- Which of the following was not an immediate consequence of the First Battle of Bull Run?The Confederate Army continued to move north, invading Maryland and causing panic in Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania.
- How did the structure of Massachusetts Bay Colony influence the New England region?It made belief in the Puritan sect mandatory for voting and office-holding, and left little room for Anglicans, Quakers, and other sects.
- What was the name of two acts, early in the Civil War, which authorized the confiscation of Confederate property and slaves?The Confiscation Acts
- 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
- Which global event loomed as a specter for southern slaveowners throughout the 19th century, in the context of the executions of Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner?The Haitian Revolution of Toussaint Louverture
- Pearl Buck won a Pulitzer Prize and was the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. Her novels generally took place in which country?China
- Aimee Semple McPherson was well known for all of the following things except which one?She was one of the first nationally-known evangelicals to extensively preach and campaign on behalf of conservative Republican politicians.
- 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.
- Approximately how many years ago was the Chesapeake Bay first formed?10,000
- What was the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, thereby making it effective on August 18, 1920?Tennessee
- Which of the following was not a part of the Compromise of 1850?The residents of Kansas were permitted to vote on whether to allow slavery.
- The Order of the Star Spangled Banner was a precursor to which political party?The Know Nothing Party
- Which of the following women did not heavily advocate for women's suffrage in the United States?Emma Goldman
- What was the first battle in which Robert E. Lee served as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia?The Seven Days Battles
- What does the Critical Period often refer to, in the history of the United States?The period between 1781-1787, under the Articles of Confederation, when the national government appeared too weak (to many) to adequately defend the territory and financial system of the new nation.
- Which of the following Confederate generals did not play an important role in the First Battle of Bull Run?Robert E. Lee
These questions were answered correctly:
- Which person coined the term "Gilded Age" to describe the late 1800s?Mark Twain
- 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.
- What law or decision effectively caused the repeal of the Missouri Compromise?The Kansas-Nebraska Act
- In which of the following states did Algonquian peoples not live in around the time of first contact with Europeans?South Carolina
- Who was Jamestown, Virginia named after?King James I of England
- Which of the following was not a factor in the end of large-scale cattle drives in the United States?Increased trade with the Americas led to the expansive importation of cheap cattle from Argentina.
- Who was the primary founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA?Juliette Gordon Low
- 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.
- What was Katharine Graham best known for?She was the editor of Washington Post for two decades, including the time when the Watergate Scandal occurred.
- Which of the following people was not a prominent musician of the Soul music genre?Jim Morrison
- How many children did George Washington have?None
- During the 1950s, the CIA was involved in a coup or rebellion in all of the following countries except which one?Greece
- Which of the following language groups were the Powhatan a part of?Algonquian
- Which of the following areas did not become a United States territory or protectorate for some amount of time as a result of the Spanish-American War and the Treaty of Paris?Santo Domingo
- Which answer best describes the Siege of Vicksburg?The Union Army, under Ulysses Grant, captured the last remaining Confederate foothold on the Mississippi River, in 1863.
- Which of the following did the Social Purity Movement attempt to combat?Prostitution, also known as "the social evil".
- To prevent the succession of this border state and the blocking of federal troops, Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and had several prominent politicians arrested without trial.Maryland
- Which Chief Justice is best known for handing down the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision?Roger B. Taney
- At what point in the history of the United States was the Federal Reserve System created?1913, in response to the Panics of 1907, 1893, and 1873, to establish a lender of last resort.
- Which of the following statements about the North American fur trade is not accurate?The fur trade was in decline by the mid 1700s.
- 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.
- Which of the following individuals was a key author of the Massachusetts Circular Letter?Samuel Adams
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