U.S. History Quiz, Final Result

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  • 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 most important consequence of the Siege of Yorktown?
    The British surrender effectively ended the Revolutionary War and led to the Treaty of Paris.
  • What is the Bill of Rights, in the context of the United States Constitution?
    Ten Amendments that limit the power of the federal government and protect individual liberty, or the rights of states.
  • What was the immediate short-term effect of the Missouri Compromise?
    Slavery receded as an important national issue until the late 1840s.
  • 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.
  • What was the last major battle of the Pacific Theatre in World War II?
    Okinawa
  • Which of the following was an important, immediate precursor to the Establishment clause in the First Amendment?
    The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
  • Which of the following countries, besides Germany, was an enemy of the United States during World War I?
    Austria-Hungary
  • What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact, signed in 1620?
    It was the first governing compact of the Plymouth Colony, written by the settlers themselves on the Mayflower, to establish rights and expectations on land.
  • Which event was most greatly sensationalized by publishers during the heyday of yellow journalism?
    The Spanish-American War
  • What was the first engagement of the Civil War, commonly accepted as having started the war?
    The Battle of Fort Sumter
  • Which of the following sects won a large number of black converts in the antebellum South?
    The Baptists
  • What was the term wildcat banking created to describe, in the mid-1800s?
    It referred to banks, after the end of national banking in 1837, that issued currency and loans far in excess of their assets.
  • Which of the following answers best describes the religious views of Thomas Jefferson?
    Jefferson was a member of the Episcopal Church, but was more generally a deist who often challenged religious traditions and hierarchy.
  • To what degree has the Commerce Clause been a source of contention in American politics since the ratification of the Constitution?
    The Commerce Clause has been a central part of many Supreme Court decisions, both in the early days of the United States and in more recent times, and its exact scope is fiercely debated.
  • Which of the following statements about Colin Powell is not accurate?
    He publicly opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, and resigned from the Bush Administration shortly afterwards.
  • What events led to the Embargo Act of 1807?
    Britain and France seized numerous American ships as contraband of war, with each country trying to cut off trade to the other.
  • Which region of the country, in the mid-1800s, was the slowest to construct a network of rail lines?
    The South
  • During which war or conflict did the Battle of the Alamo occur?
    The Texas Revolution
  • Edward Bernays is best-known as a pioneer of which industry?
    Advertising and Marketing
  • What was the key outcome of the Connecticut Compromise at the Constitutional Convention?
    A bicameral legislature would be created, with states represented in one house based on population (The House of Representatives), and in the other on an equal basis (The Senate).
  • Article Three of the Constitution establishes which branch of the national government?
    The Judicial Branch
  • 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.
  • What issue did Pinckney's Treaty address, in 1795?
    It was a treaty with Spain that clarified the borders of Florida.
  • In what year was the 13th Amendment to the Constitution ratified?
    1865
  • Under what circumstances was the Central Intelligence Agency founded?
    It was established in 1947, consolidating other intelligence departments which had operated during World War II.
  • Which of the following was NOT a common argument against women's suffrage before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920?
    Women voters would be more likely to support aggressive wars and foreign policy.

These questions were answered correctly:

  • Which future Supreme Court justice agued for Brown in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case?
    Thurgood Marshall
  • The era of yellow journalism commonly pitted which two publishers against each other for newspaper sales?
    Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst
  • Which of the following woman was a lifelong friend of Susan B. Anthony and her partner in a number of campaigns and organizations.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • What was another name for the 21st Rule in the House of Representatives, which applied to slavery?
    The Gag Rule
  • Andrew Johnson was impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act, but his most frequent clashes with Congress came over which issue?
    Reconstruction
  • Which of the following tactics was not used to disenfranchise blacks during and after the end of Reconstruction?
    The encouragement of black migration to the north, so that fewer could vote in Southern elections.
  • Which of the following is not considered to be an implied power under the Constitution, under mainstream definitions?
    The power of Congress to merge the United States with other countries, such as Canada, under a new Constitution.
  • Barack Obama's first term as President began in the aftermath of which economic event?
    Financial crisis of 2007–08
  • Which of the following generals was relieved of command in the Korean War, and soon gave his old soldiers never die, they just fade away speech?
    Douglas MacArthur
  • Which of the following statements about sharecropping is inaccurate?
    Sharecropping was a system that only applied to black tenants.
  • What was a speakeasy in the 1920s?
    A secret establishment that sold alcoholic beverages in defiance of Prohibition.
  • What was the significance of Harry Truman's Executive Order 9981 in the context of Jim Crow?
    It desegregated the United States armed forces.
  • In the Texas Revolution, migrants from other areas of the South created an independent republic by rebelling against which nation?
    Mexico

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