U.S. History Quiz, Final Result

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17 out of 40 correct (42.5%).

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  • 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.
  • Dorothea Dix inspired the passage of federal legislation to fund the construction of insane asylums, but the proposed law was vetoed by which President?
    Franklin Pierce
  • Which American country imported more slaves than any other during the course of the Atlantic slave trade?
    Brazil
  • Which of the following was not a large source of labor in the Province of Maryland by the mid-1700s?
    Indian slaves
  • Which of the following transcendentalist books or essays was not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?
    Civil Disobedience
  • Which of the following statements about Earl Warren is inaccurate?
    He had long been on the conservative end of the Republican Party, and he surprised many with the direction of his decisions as the Supreme Court Chief Justice.
  • Which of the following individuals was a strong opponent of eugenics during the height of its popularity in the early 1900s?
    William Jennings Bryan
  • At what point were the cliff dwellings of the Pueblo people, in the American southwest, abandoned by their occupants?
    Around 1300, due to climactic changes which reduced landfall and made the land too arid.
  • Who was the first President of the Tuskegee Institute?
    Booker T. Washington
  • 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.
  • Which of the following was not a consequence to the United States of the Great Famine and the Irish diaspora?
    The Democratic Party gained a significant bloc of support by attacking Irish immigrants, until it changed course after the Civil War.
  • What was an early use of executive privilege, by George Washington?
    Washington refused to provide documents to the House of Representatives that related to the negotiation of the Jay Treaty with Great Britain.
  • 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.
  • Who was the primary founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA?
    Juliette Gordon Low
  • What did the Copperhead faction advocate for during the Civil War?
    Copperheads were anti-war Democrats who demanded immediate peace with the Confederacy.
  • 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.
  • What was the nature of the law that was upheld in Munn v. Illinois?
    The Court upheld a law setting maximum rates that private companies could charge for the storage and transport of agricultural products, mainly aimed at grain elevators and railroads.
  • Robert Fulton achieved fame for his innovations in which area?
    Steamboats
  • Which answer best describes what happened during the Colfax Massacre?
    It was the single worst instance of racial violence during Reconstruction -- in the wake of a contested gubernatorial election in Louisiana, up to 150 freedmen were killed in a massacre by white Democrats.
  • Charles Drew was a pioneer in which area of medicine?
    Blood banks and transfusions
  • The Union victory in which battle emboldened Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
    Antietam
  • Which English settler did Pocahontas marry in the 17th century?
    John Rolfe
  • Which of the following statements about blackface is inaccurate?
    Blackface was rarely performed outside of the United States, and was generally looked down upon in Canada and Europe.

These questions were answered correctly:

  • 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.
  • Which territory was acquired by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase?
    The Mississippi River and its entire western watershed/drainage basin.
  • Which of the following is a distinctive feature of ragtime music?
    Syncopated beats, usually played on piano.
  • Approximately how many people died in Ireland during the Great Famine of the 1840s?
    1 million
  • Which of the following mythical things was Francisco Vázquez de Coronado searching for on his expedition?
    The Seven Cities of Gold
  • What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory best known for?
    A fire on March 25, 1911 that killed 146 workers.
  • What was the immediate military outcome of the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
    The British were driven back and made an orderly retreat to Boston, where their army was soon trapped by thousands of Patriot soldiers.
  • 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.
  • The trial of John Peter Zenger is considered to be on important influence on the passage of which Constitutional Amendment?
    The 1st Amendment (freedom of the press)
  • What was the primary goal of the Farmers' Holiday Association, active in the early 1930s?
    It attempted to coordinate the withholding of farm products from the market, in order to raise prices and slow the rate of farm foreclosures.
  • Which of the following movements from the early 20th century did not, at least somewhat, trace its roots to the ideals of Social Darwinism?
    The social justice movement
  • 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.
  • Which of the following people was killed in the Boston Massacre?
    Crispus Attucks
  • 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%.
  • How was Washington D.C. established as the nation's capital?
    The First U.S. Congress established Washington as the capital in 1790, choosing a Southern site in return for other compromises to the Federalists.
  • Although Abraham Lincoln won a majority of the electoral vote in the 1860 election, he won only this percent of the popular vote.
    39.7 percent
  • The Pullman Strike began when George Pullman cut wages and refused to recognize the American Railway Union, which had been founded by whom?
    Eugene Debs

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