U.S. History Quiz, Final Result

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18 out of 40 correct (45.0%).

ChazPackan

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  • The Tennessee Valley Authority was created in 1933 as a federally owned corporation in what industry?
    Electric utilities
  • 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.
  • The United States military suffered more fatalities fighting against a rebellion in this territory, obtained from Spain, than it did in the Spanish-American War itself.
    The Philippines
  • 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.
  • All of the following statements about a ward heeler is accurate except for which one?
    Ward heelers were usually high-ranking members in their party, and might be groomed to run for public office themselves.
  • Which of the following Confederate generals did not play an important role in the First Battle of Bull Run?
    Robert E. Lee
  • 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 the difference between a flatboat and a steamboat?
    A flatboat was smaller than a steamboat and did not have an engine -- it was used for downstream travel only.
  • What did the term "pet banks" refer to during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson?
    It referred to state banks which Jackson deposited federal funds into after withdrawing them from the Second Bank of the United States.
  • 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.
  • Approximately how long ago did the Rocky Mountains form?
    Around 60 million years ago, during the Laramide orogeny.
  • The site of which future city did Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet not pass through during their 1673 expedition?
    Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • What was the purpose of the Platt Amendment?
    It specified seven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops from Cuba, and was used to control that country's politics until the 1930s.
  • Which of the following people was not closely associated with the 1960s counterculture?
    Jack Kerouac
  • Which colony did the people on the Mayflower form?
    Plymouth Colony
  • The Commerce Clause of the Constitution has been used to justify all of the following actions except which one?
    The federal government's funding and construction of the Erie Canal.
  • "The Gospel of Wealth", by Andrew Carnegie, is a foundational article on which topic or movement?
    Philanthropy
  • Which of the following people was instrumental in presenting the Albany Plan, an early attempt at colonial unification?
    Benjamin Franklin
  • What was Sarah Josepha Hale best known for in the antebellum era?
    She was the editor of Godey's Lady's Book, a popular women's magazine, and an advocate for the creation of Thanksgiving.
  • What relationship did the Worcester v. Georgia case lay out between Indian nations, state governments, and the federal government?
    The federal government had the sole authority to deal with Indian nations.
  • 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.
  • The 1800 Census counted 5,308,483 people living in the United States. Thomas Jefferson won the 1800 Presidential Election. How many popular votes did he receive?
    41,330

These questions were answered correctly:

  • What type of Christian sect did William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, belong to and attempt to incorporate into his colony?
    Quaker
  • Which of the following was not an abuse that the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 attempted to remedy?
    It outlawed the use of dangerous substances like heroin, morphine, and cocaine in medicines.
  • Which answer best describes the people known as English Dissenters in the 1600s?
    They were Christians who separated from the Church of England to form groups such as the Puritans, Quakers, Anabaptists, and Diggers.
  • Edgar Allen Poe is often considered a pioneer of what genre or literary technique?
    Detective fiction
  • The era of yellow journalism commonly pitted which two publishers against each other for newspaper sales?
    Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst
  • What was Anne Bradstreet known for in the English colonial period?
    She was a well-respected poet who became the first female writer of British North America to be published.
  • Gertrude Stein left the United States in 1903 to live in which foreign city?
    Paris
  • Which of the following statements about the U.S. strategic bombing of Europe is not accurate?
    German war production declined after 1943 due to heavy damage from the bombings.
  • Which of the following organizations is a legacy of Margaret Sanger's activism?
    Planned Parenthood
  • 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 common market practice greatly exacerbated the stock market decline during the Crash of 1929 and its aftermath?
    Buying of stocks on margin, i.e. with loans, forced many people to sell as the market declined, creating an avalanche effect.
  • What the was purpose of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment?
    To study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in rural African-American men, who for decades were falsely told that they were receiving treatment
  • What was the long-term effect of the Immigration Act of 1924 on American demographics?
    Immigration to the United States shrank across the board. The level of immigration from Italy and Eastern Europe was particularly targeted for reduction by the law.
  • How many people were killed as a result of the Salem witch trials?
    20
  • Which of the following states does not have a border on the Mississippi River?
    Nebraska
  • Who was the primary founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA?
    Juliette Gordon Low
  • Which journalist was briefly charged with conspiracy and espionage for releasing the Pentagon Papers, which revealed falsehoods that had been used to draw the U.S. into the Vietnam War?
    Daniel Ellsberg
  • 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)

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