U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 3
24 out of 40 correct (60.0%).
JayWolfson
U.S. History Resources
Areas for improvement:
- American Indian History: 33.3% (1 out of 3)
- The Pre-Contact Era (through 1513): 0.0% (0 out of 2)
- The Revolution and Constitution (1775-1789): 33.3% (1 out of 3)
- Cultural History: 50.0% (6 out of 12)
- The U.S. Constitution: 33.3% (1 out of 3)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- Article One of the United States Constitution
- United States Constitution
- Woodrow Wilson
- Rainmaking (ritual)
- Algonquian peoples
- Wildcat banking
- Missouri Compromise
- Flapper
- Democratic-Republican Party
- Strict constructionism
- Women's suffrage in the United States
- Republican Party (United States)
- Desegregation busing
- Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
- Second Great Awakening
- Boston Manufacturing Company
- Denmark Vesey
- Slavery in the United States
- John Marshall
- McCulloch v. Maryland
- Indentured servant
These questions were missed:
- In which of the following states did Algonquian peoples not live in around the time of first contact with Europeans?South Carolina
- Article One of the Constitution establishes which branch of the national government?The Legislative Branch
- In what region of what is now the United States did native tribes most commonly perform rain dances?The Southwest
- 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 decisions, by John Marshall, most directly acknowledged the implied powers of the federal government and strengthened their legal basis?McCulloch v. Maryland
- All of the following actresses were associated with the flapper lifestyle except for which one?Katharine Hepburn
- Which of the following acts did not occur during the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson?The Sheppard-Towner Act, establishing federal funding for maternity and child care.
- Which major party was generally most supportive of women's suffrage in the United States in the years before its enactment?The Republican Party
- 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
- How many whites were killed before the arrest and execution of Denmark Vesey, in 1822, for fomenting a slave uprising?0
- What is significant about the Boston Manufacturing Company in American industrial history?It built the first integrated spinning and weaving factory in the world to manufacture textiles.
- 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.
- Which of the following was not an impact on American religious practice that resulted from the Second Great Awakening?A more clear separation that emerged between religious revivals, and the social and political movements of the times.
- About what percentage of white arrivals to the colonies before the American Revolution came as indentured servants?50 percent
- Which early political party was most likely to use the term "strict constructionism" in relation to the Constitution?The Democratic-Republican Party
- Which answer best describes the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986?This law allowed some illegal immigrants a path to U.S. citizenship and increased the measures and funding for future immigration enforcement.
These questions were answered correctly:
- Which of the following companies was broken up by the Supreme Court, on the grounds that it was a monopoly, under the Sherman Antitrust Act?Standard Oil
- Which answer best describes a muckraker?Muckraker was the name for a number of investigative journalists who dedicated themselves to exposing corruption in government and business.
- Which of the following was a trade of George Washington during his early days?Land surveyor
- 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
- Article Two of the Constitution establishes which branch of the national government?The Executive Branch
- Who was the President when the Louisiana Purchase was made?Thomas Jefferson
- Did the Wilmot Proviso ever become law?No, it was rejected and never became law, although the Civil War made it a moot point.
- During the 1950s, the CIA was involved in a coup or rebellion in all of the following countries except which one?Greece
- Which of the following was not a consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Kennedy's resulting agreement with Khrushchev?The United States agreed to not intervene in the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.
- Which of the following groups were most likely to support the Indian Removal Act of 1830?Lower-class Southerners who hoped to acquire cheap/free homesteads in Georgia and other parts of the South.
- Which of the following people wrote The Feminine Mystique? This book is commonly credited as a milestone in the feminist movement.Betty Friedan
- Which of the following statements is incorrect about the Cabinet of George Washington?James Madison served as the Attorney General
- What was the nature of the Whiskey Ring fraud in the mid 1870s?Government agents, inspectors, and whiskey distillers colluded to divert millions of dollars of federal liquor taxes into private hands. The scandal included members of Grant's Administration and further damaged his reputation.
- What was the primary reason that the United States entered World War I against Germany?The large number of American ships sunk by German submarines, particularly in early 1917.
- Approximately how many slaves utilized the Underground Railroad to escape from the South?At least 30 thousand
- 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.
- Which individual, Secretary of State at the time, was most responsible for negotiating the purchase of Alaska?William Seward
- Which of the following technologies was a critical part of the Waltham-Lowell manufacturing system?The power loom
- The Nye Committee, the talk radio programs of Father Charles Coughlin, and the speech War is a Racket by Smedley Butler all helped build support for which political position?Isolationism
- In which city was the Pullman Strike centered, in 1894?Chicago
- 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 answers best describes the cause of the Panic of 1819?Speculation in public lands by banks and individuals created a real estate bubble, and the Second Bank of the United States overcorrected by instituting tight lending practices.
- All of the following people, except which one, have been charged under the Espionage Act of 1917?Smedley Butler
- In which area did the Civil Rights Act of 1968 increase the protections of the federal government?Housing
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