U.S. History Quiz, Final Result

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26 out of 40 correct (65.0%).

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  • Which answer best describes the early life of Lyndon Johnson?
    Johnson was born in poverty in the Texas hill country, west of Austin.
  • Which of the following people was killed in the Boston Massacre?
    Crispus Attucks
  • Miles Davis was a famous musician in the 1950s and afterwards in what genre?
    Jazz
  • In Lyndon Johnson's first election to the U.S. Senate, in 1948, what was his margin of victory in the decisive Democratic primary?
    87 votes
  • Article Two of the Constitution establishes which branch of the national government?
    The Executive Branch
  • Which colony did Roger Williams play a crucial role in founding?
    Rhode Island
  • The Pullman Strike began when George Pullman cut wages and refused to recognize the American Railway Union, which had been founded by whom?
    Eugene Debs
  • Who is notable for having developed a written syllabary for the Cherokee language?
    Sequoyah
  • Which of the following was a controversy related to the Free Exercise clause in the First Amendment?
    Whether Congress had the power to restrict polygamy, a religious practice, among Mormons in U.S. states and territories.
  • During which of the following time periods was flatboat traffic at its heaviest?
    The 1840s
  • 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.
  • Which of the following political offices did Jefferson Davis hold before he became President of the Confederate States of America?
    He was a Senator from Mississippi.
  • What was a key argument advanced in the Massachusetts Circular Letter, in response to the Townshend Acts?
    The Townshend Acts were unconstitutional because the colony of Massachusetts was not represented in Parliament.
  • Who is most credited with developing the telegraph within the United States.
    Samuel Morse

These questions were answered correctly:

  • Which of the following was a trade of George Washington during his early days?
    Land surveyor
  • Which British philosopher helped draft the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina? He was also an inspiration for later founding documents of the United States.
    John Locke
  • Which of the following answers best describes Cahokia?
    It was a large settlement on the banks of the Mississippi River which held up to 40,000 people and had several large mounds which still exist.
  • Which of the following movements was created, in no small part, in reaction to the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision?
    The Moral Majority
  • Tammany Hall is considered the most prominent example of which American phenomenon?
    The urban political machines of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • What was the purpose of the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
    To prevent incidents with Britain's Indian allies, it forbade colonial settlement to the west of a north-south line which ran through the Appalachian range.
  • 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.
  • Several laws, not directly related to slavery, were passed early in the Civil War which had previously been blocked by Southern opposition. Which of the following is not one of those laws?
    The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
  • Who was the first President of the Republic of Texas?
    Sam Houston
  • Which of the following was a key motivation in the founding of Maryland?
    It was established by the English Lord Baltimore, a Catholic, as a haven for Catholics during the European wars of religion, such as the Thirty Years War.
  • Which answer best describes what the Palmer Raids were?
    They were a series of raids by the Department of Justice in 1919 and 1920 designed to arrest and deport radical leftists and anarchists.
  • A "Border Ruffian" during the "Bleeding Kansas" struggle was most likely to become one of these during the Civil War?
    Bushwhacker
  • Which of the following songs was not sung by Michael Jackson?
    True Blue
  • Which of the following answers best describes the Three-Fifths Compromise at the Constitutional Convention?
    Each state could count three-fifths of their slave population towards the apportionment for seats in the House of Representatives.
  • 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 people or movements is not associated with Black Power?
    Martin Luther King Jr.
  • In what region of what is now the United States did native tribes most commonly perform rain dances?
    The Southwest
  • In what important way did the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 change previous precedents on slavery in the United States?
    By allowing for the possibility of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska, it overturned the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
  • What was the term scalawag invented to describe? It was chiefly used by Southern opponents during Reconstruction.
    It referred to native Southern whites who supported black suffrage, northern transplants, and Republican politics in general.
  • Joseph McCarthy's fruitless and unpopular investigation of which agency or organization led to his political downfall and eventual censure?
    The U.S. Army
  • Which country was defeated first -- Germany or Japan?
    Germany surrendered in May 1945, while Japan formally surrendered on September 2, 1945 in Tokyo Bay.
  • In its purer forms, a proponent of Social Darwinism would believe all of the following statements except which one?
    Social instincts such as "sympathy" and "moral sentiments" also evolved through natural selection.
  • What was the first railroad, in 1852, to reach the Ohio River from the Eastern Seaboard?
    The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
  • Which of the following was not an aspect of the "Cult of Domesticity", a term used to describe social norms for women in the mid-1800s?
    A good woman would do whatever it took to maintain the financial solvency of a home, even it meant working as a teacher or a local seamstress.
  • Which two Congressional leaders were most responsible for drafting the Compromise of 1850?
    Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas
  • What group did the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry advocate for politically?
    Farmers

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