U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 5
29 out of 40 correct (72.5%).
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Areas for improvement:
- Black History: 40.0% (2 out of 5)
- The Pre-Contact Era (through 1513): 0.0% (0 out of 1)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- Scott Joplin
- Ragtime
- Marvin Gaye
- Soul music
- American Civil War
- First Battle of Bull Run
- Woodrow Wilson
- Hyphenated American
- French and Indian War
- George Washington
- Constitutional Convention (United States)
- Virginia Plan
- Pearl S. Buck
- Slavery in the colonial United States
- Roger Williams
- Pinckney's Treaty
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Sioux
These questions were missed:
- Which of the following albums was not performed by Marvin Gaye?Sex Machine
- Pearl Buck won a Pulitzer Prize and was the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. Her novels generally took place in which country?China
- Scott Joplin was a famous composer of which music genre, in the early 1900s?Ragtime
- What issue did Pinckney's Treaty address, in 1795?It was a treaty with Spain that clarified the borders of Florida.
- Which President said, "If I can catch any man with a hyphen in this great contest I will know that I have got an enemy of the Republic." about "hyphenated Americans"?Woodrow Wilson
- What was a key element of the Virginia Plan, as it was initially presented to the Constitutional Convention?The Virginia Plan called for a bicameral legislature with membership apportioned according to population, which would benefit populous states like Virginia.
- Which of the following is not a major subgroup of the Sioux?The Peoria
- Which of the following was not an immediate consequence of the First Battle of Bull Run?The Confederate Army continued to move north, invading Maryland and causing panic in Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania.
- Which of the following was not part of the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford decision?Slaveowners could bring their slaves into a free state for a reasonable period of time, as long as they did not establish residency.
- What were the views of Roger Williams on American Indians and slavery?Williams was an early abolitionist, and also an advocate of fair dealings with the New England Indian tribes.
- What describes George Washington's role in the French and Indian War?He commanded the Virginia Regiment, the primary fighting unit for that colony.
These questions were answered correctly:
- Which of the following was not a grievance in the Declaration of Independence?That the British had allied with the French without the colonists consent, and were requiring the colonies to accept French ships in their ports.
- Andrew Jackson won a plurality of the popular vote in the 1824 Presidential election. Which two opponents did he accuse of stealing that election in a "corrupt bargain"?John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay
- Who was the only Vice President of the Confederate States of America?Alexander Stephens
- 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)
- Which of the following was not a benefit provided by the first G.I. Bill, in 1944?Forgiveness of pre-war debts
- Which answer best describes the political ideals of Jacksonian Democracy and Andrew Jackson?Supported the expansion of the vote, opposed to monopolies and elites, and supported more Western settlement. Ignored the issue of slavery in the name of unity.
- Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in the Cabinet, under Franklin Roosevelt, serving 12 years as the Secretary of which Department?The Department of Labor
- Which answer best describes the term "forty-eighters"?It described Europeans, primarily Germans, who immigrated to the United States after a series of failed revolutions in Europe in 1848.
- William Randolph Hearst consistently made enormous profits from his ownership of which women's magazine, purchased in 1911?Good Housekeeping
- 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 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.
- A person from which of the following regions was most likely to support the America First Committee and oppose the Lend-Lease Act, before Pearl Harbor?The Midwest
- A member of which of these groups was unlikely to vote for the Republican Party during the Gilded Age?Opponents of federal spending increases
- What was Clara Barton best known for?She was the founder of the American Red Cross and a renowned nurse.
- Which of the following was not a way to avoid military service someone enrolled by the Enrollment Act and drafted?Someone from a border state, (Missouri, Kentucky, etc.) could declare that they wished to remain neutral and avoid service, in order to avoid political backlash in those areas.
- Which answer best describes the Battle of Antietam?The Confederate Army, under Robert E. Lee, was moving north into Maryland in 1862. The Union Army met Lee and forced his Army to retreat.
- How many articles are in the United States Constitution, not including the Preamble?Seven
- Besides the surrender of a British army, what was an important positive effect of the Battle of Saratoga for the United States?France realized that the Americans had hope of winning the war, and began fully aiding the colonists by sending soldiers, donations, loans, military arms, and supplies.
- At the end of the Civil War, a little over 90% of black Americans lived in the South. What was this percentage after the Second Great Migration ended, around 1970?53 percent
- During which of the following time periods was flatboat traffic at its heaviest?The 1840s
- All of the following states joined the Confederacy after the Battle of Fort Sumter except for which one?Texas
- Which issue caused the women's suffrage movement to split into the National and American Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA and AWSA), in 1869?One side supported the voting protections of the 15th Amendment, while the other opposed them because they did not extend to women.
- Which of the following cities did not attract a significant number of Italian immigrants in the late 19th century?Minneapolis
- Which of the following was not a part of the Treaty of Paris in 1783?The United States would obtain all land between the Mississippi and the Atlantic Ocean that was south of Canada, including eastern Louisiana and Florida.
- What was another name for the 21st Rule in the House of Representatives, which applied to slavery?The Gag Rule
- Which of the following was not a reason for the CIA-orchestrated Iranian coup d'état in 1953?Iran's President, Mohammad Mosaddegh, had taken power in a coup d'etat of his own and had massacred over 10,000 Iranaians.
- Which of the following people were most responsible for initially developing the doctrine of Containment?George Kennan
- Which of the following points is not one that is made in Judith Sargent Murray's On the Equality of the Sexes, published in 1790?Voting is an expression of equality, and women cannot have equal respect until they also have the vote.
- Which of the following was not an element of the Dawes Act, in 1887?Any remaining land in a reservation after allotments were finished would remain in the hands of the tribe in question, to manage as the tribe deemed fit.
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