U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 3
19 out of 40 correct (47.5%).
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Areas for improvement:
- The Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1877-1929): 36.4% (4 out of 11)
- U.S. Presidents: 28.6% (2 out of 7)
- The Postwar and Modern Age (1945-present): 33.3% (3 out of 9)
- Early and Antebellum America (1789-1860): 33.3% (3 out of 9)
- Black History: 37.5% (3 out of 8)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- Sharecropping
- Blackface
- Committee on Public Information
- World War I
- Whip inflation now
- Gerald Ford
- Second Great Awakening
- Horace Mann
- Woodrow Wilson
- Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Prohibition in the United States
- Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- Andrew Johnson
- Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- 1967 Detroit riot
- Long hot summer of 1967
- Compromise of 1850
- Cold War
- New Look (policy)
- John Foster Dulles
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
- Munn v. Illinois
- Monopoly
- Clayton Antitrust Act
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Stalwart (politics)
- Richard Nixon
- Nixon Doctrine
- Continental Association
- William Lloyd Garrison
- The Liberator (anti-slavery newspaper)
- Morehouse College
These questions were missed:
- What was the most significant public policy or movement that Horace Mann was an advocate for?Free and universal public education
- Which of the following individuals is not an alumnus of Morehouse College, an all-black college founded during Reconstruction?Jesse Jackson
- The Supreme Court overturned Munn v. Illinois in 1886 with Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois. Which federal law was most directly passed in response to this case?The Interstate Commerce Act
- Which city saw the worst rioting, in terms of lives lost and property destruction, during the disorders of 1967?Detroit
- Which of the following was not a position advocated for by Stalwart Republicans?Civil service reform
- Which of the following people was not associated with the New Look national security policy in the 1950s?Dean Acheson
- The Clayton Antitrust Act strengthened or created protections against monopolistic practices in all of the following areas except which one? Leveraged buyouts of any type, where the purchasing company did not substantial assets or an existing line of business
- What was the objective of the Committee for Public Information?It waged a national, coordinated speaking and propaganda campaign to build public support for the war effort during World War I.
- Which of the following religious groups does not trace its roots, at least somewhat, to the Second Great Awakening?The Quakers
- Which of the following was not a common rationale for Prohibition, or the banning of alcohol sales under the 18th Amendment?Urban Catholics believed that the quality of life and reputation of their neighborhoods would be improved under Prohibition.
- Which of the following statements about blackface, specifically in the 1830s and 40s, is inaccurate?Blackface generally provided an authentic look at the trials and travails of slavery.
- Which Amendment lowered the minimum voting age from 21 to 18?The 26th Amendment
- Wilson was incapacitated by a stroke for the final year of his Administration. Parts of which Constitutional Amendment address this situation?The 25th Amendment
- 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.
- What, approximately, was the annual inflation rate in the United States when Gerald Ford began his Whip Inflation Now campaign?12 percent
- The Liberator, an anti-slavery paper published by William Lloyd Garrison, ceased publication in 1865. Which magazine succeeded this paper?The Nation
- Edgar Allen Poe is often considered a pioneer of what genre or literary technique?Detective fiction
- Overall, how did the American public feel about Andrew Johnson's impeachment?Johnson was not a popular President, but most people opposed his impeachment.
- Which of the following was not a tactic used by the Continental Association to enforce its boycott, between 1774 and the outbreak of fighting in 1775?Exports from the colonies to Britain, Ireland, or the British West Indies were immediately cut off.
- What did the Nixon Doctrine state, in the context of the Cold War?It stated that the United States would assist in the defense and developments of allies and friends, but would not undertake all the defense of the free nations of the world.
- Which of the following statements about sharecropping is inaccurate?Sharecropping was a system that only applied to black tenants.
These questions were answered correctly:
- What was Andrew Jackson's position on "internal improvements", or federal infrastructure spending in modern terms?Jackson believed that, by and large, such spending was an avenue for corruption and disproportionately benefited elite business interests.
- What was Emily Post best known for?She was a notable writer of books on American etiquette.
- Which treaty opened the way for the creation of Oregon Territory?The Oregon Treaty
- Which of the following companies was J.P. Morgan not influential in providing financing for during his lifetime?Standard Oil
- Which of the following was not a large source of labor in the Province of Maryland by the mid-1700s?Indian slaves
- The Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education allowed federal courts to require school districts to bus students to achieve racial balance. In what year was the case decided?1971
- 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 was not a policy that was successfully advocated for by the Grange?Consistently high tariffs on imported manufactured goods.
- Who was the Governor of Virginia during Bacon's Rebellion?William Berkeley
- Allowing initiatives and referendums is an example of which governing ideal?Direct democracy
- Which of the following statements/essays on women's rights was written by Judith Sargent Murray?On the Equality of the Sexes
- The United Nations Charter was drafted in 1945 in which city?San Francisco
- What was Martin Luther King Jr.'s position on the Vietnam War?King was an early and outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War.
- In what year was the United States Constitution written?1787
- Which of the following was not a program implemented by the Freedman's Bureau during Reconstruction?It helped freed slaves who wished to leave the South, migrate to other regions of the country.
- Which of the following was not a key difference between the First and Second Continental Congress?The First Continental Congress advocated for rapprochement with Britain and issued an apology for colonial excesses. The Second Congress produced the Declaration of Independence.
- What was Abraham Lincoln's political experience before he was President?He served for one term in the House of Representatives, over a decade before he was elected President. He also served a few years in the Illinois General Assembly.
- All of the following measures, generally seen as circumventions of the 15th Amendment, were used except for which one?Requirements to show a state-issued ID card at the polls
- What was the last major battle of the Pacific Theatre in World War II?Okinawa
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