U.S. History Quiz, Final Result

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25 out of 40 correct (62.5%).

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  • Which Founding Father and longest-surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence also helped create the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad?
    Charles Carroll of Carrollton
  • Which of the following was not a long-term consequence of the Dawes Act?
    Land allotments became a basis for modest Indian prosperity in the early 1900s.
  • Margaret Mead, an anthropologist, studied the sexual behavior of people in which foreign location? Her work was controversial and seen by many as undermining the values of monogamy.
    Samoa
  • In which of the following states did Algonquian peoples not live in around the time of first contact with Europeans?
    South Carolina
  • Which of the following policies was not a goal of the Farmer's Alliance?
    Increased pensions for veterans of the Civil War.
  • Which event, near the end of 1786, built support for the Constitutional Convention?
    Shays' Rebellion
  • The Mississippian cultures shared all of the following characteristics except which one?
    A highly developed system of writing that later fell into disuse.
  • What did the Wade-Davis Bill propose for Reconstruction?
    No Southern state could be readmitted until a majority of its voters took the Ironclad Oath, stating they had never supported the Confederacy.
  • Joseph McCarthy's fruitless and unpopular investigation of which agency or organization led to his political downfall and eventual censure?
    The U.S. Army
  • 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.
  • Which of the following statements/essays on women's rights was written by Judith Sargent Murray?
    On the Equality of the Sexes
  • What was Phillis Wheatley best known for?
    She was a notable African-American poet in the 1770s, read in both the colonies and in Britain.
  • Jonathan Edwards was a key preacher in which religious movement?
    The First Great Awakening
  • 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
  • What did the epithet of "Slave Power" refer to in the antebellum era?
    It was a term used by Free Soilers, and then Republicans, to refer to the upper-class of the South which dominated that region's politics and advocated for the expansion of slavery.

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 two Congressional leaders were most responsible for drafting the Compromise of 1850?
    Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas
  • On how many occasions did the NATO alliance mobilize a Soviet attack during the Cold War?
    Zero
  • Who was the King of Britain during the American Revolution?
    King George III
  • What was notable about Theodore Roosevelt's involvement in the Coal Strike of 1902?
    It was the first labor action in which the federal government intervened as a relatively neutral mediator.
  • Madeline Albright was the first woman to serve in which Cabinet position?
    Secretary of State
  • Which of the following statements about the First Transcontinental Railroad is accurate?
    The eastern and western halves met in Utah, where the Golden Spike was driven in 1869.
  • The Tennessee Valley Authority was created in 1933 as a federally owned corporation in what industry?
    Electric utilities
  • What did the Wilmot Proviso attempt to do?
    It would have prohibited slavery in all territory acquired from Mexico during the Mexican-American War.
  • The Ku Klux Klan experienced a revival in the 1920s. Which of the following was not advocated for by the Klan during this period?
    Believing the Democratic Party had become too infused with foreigners, the Klan worked for the election of Republicans, in contrast to its role in the 1870s.
  • Which of the following is not a quotation from the Gettysburg Address?
    "With malice toward none, with charity for all... let us strive on to finish the work we are in"
  • Before his capture of an arsenal in Virginia, how else did John Brown fight for the abolition of slavery?
    He had fought in some engagements in Kansas, and had killed five pro-slavery men in a massacre.
  • What was the main point of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the late 1790s?
    That states had the right and duty to declare federal laws as unconstitutional if they did not follow the Constitution.
  • What was Hiram Rhodes Revels best known for?
    He was the first black man to become a United States Senator.
  • What did Jacob Riis seek to expose with his photojournalism in How the Other Half Lives?
    The conditions in the slums and tenements of New York, many of which were populated by recently arrived immigrants.
  • 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
  • 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 statements about sharecropping is inaccurate?
    Sharecropping was a system that only applied to black tenants.
  • Which Europeans did the Wampanoag tribe have the most early contact with?
    Puritan settlers to New England
  • Which future President was wounded at the Battle of Trenton?
    James Monroe
  • Immigrants from which of the following ethnicities did not provide a significant portion of the membership to the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union?
    Swedish
  • Who was the first President of the Tuskegee Institute?
    Booker T. Washington
  • Which of the following groups was never a part of the Iroquois Confederation?
    Wyandot
  • This state was the first to secede from the Union after the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860?
    South Carolina
  • Which answer best describes the Watergate Scandal, which led to Richard Nixon's resignation?
    Nixon attempted to bug Democratic National Committee headquarters during the 1972 election, and then engaged in a botched cover-up of the failed burglary.

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