U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 2
17 out of 40 correct (42.5%).
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Areas for improvement:
- Military History: 12.5% (1 out of 8)
- Cultural History: 38.5% (5 out of 13)
- Economic History: 41.2% (7 out of 17)
- The Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1877): 0.0% (0 out of 3)
- American Indian History: 20.0% (1 out of 5)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- New Deal
- American Civil War
- First Battle of Bull Run
- Battle of Okinawa
- World War II
- Pacific War
- The Star-Spangled Banner
- Erie Canal
- Maryland Toleration Act
- Pontiac (person)
- Benjamin Franklin
- Albany Plan
- 1919 United States anarchist bombings
- First Red Scare
- Red Summer (1919)
- Seattle General Strike
- Wampanoag people
- Mississippian culture
- Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938
- Agricultural Adjustment Act
- Bushwhacker
- Border Ruffian
- Underground Railroad
- Black church
- American Federation of Labor
- Samuel Gompers
- Minutemen
- Blackface
- Hampton Roads Conference
- Columbian Exchange
- Coverture
- Edgar Allan Poe
- National Industrial Recovery Act
- Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
- Terence V. Powderly
- Knights of Labor
- Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
These questions were missed:
- Which of the following individuals was not a strong advocate for the direct election of U.S. Senators, eventually required by the 17th Amendment?Elihu Root
- Who was best known as the leader of the Knights of Labor in the 1880s?Terence Powderly
- To what extent did the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 change the previous Agricultural Adjustment Act?Due to a Supreme Court challenge of the initial law, the second law replaced the method of funding the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Other aspects remained largely the same.
- The Mississippian cultures shared all of the following characteristics except which one?A highly developed system of writing that later fell into disuse.
- 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.
- Which of the following plants was not native to the Americas before the arrival of Europeans?Bananas
- Which of the following people was instrumental in presenting the Albany Plan, an early attempt at colonial unification?Benjamin Franklin
- Edgar Allen Poe is often considered a pioneer of what genre or literary technique?Detective fiction
- Which event made Pontiac a well known Ottawa leader?Pontiac led the Ottawa in a rebellion against the British and their colonists. The rebellion eventually spread from Michigan all the way into Pennsylvania.
- 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 was not a precedent for the creation of rapid deployment militia (minutemen) in New England?Militia had skirmished against the British in Boston during the turmoil over the Stamp Act in 1765.
- Which of the following New Deal laws was invalidated by the U.S. Supreme Court, in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States?The National Industrial Recovery Act
- Although the words were written in 1814, "The Star Spangled Banner" did not become the official national anthem of the United States until what year?1931
- Which religious minority did the Maryland Toleration Act, passed in 1649, most directly benefit?Catholics
- Who was the founder of the American Federation of Labor?Samuel Gompers
- What was the Union war strategy that led to the First Battle of Bull Run, in 1861?The Union plan was to march straight at Richmond and defeat the Confederate Army in open battle, bringing a quick end to the Civil War.
- Approximately how many slaves utilized the Underground Railroad to escape from the South?At least 30 thousand
- What was the last major battle of the Pacific Theatre in World War II?Okinawa
- Which Europeans did the Wampanoag tribe have the most early contact with?Puritan settlers to New England
- What was the purpose of the Hampton Roads Conference, in 1865?It was an inconclusive meeting between Abraham Lincoln and members of Jefferson Davis's Cabinet, before the war ended, in which they discussed possible peace terms.
- Which of the following was not an important consequence of the Erie Canal?New Orleans suffered a steep downtown in its fortunes, as Midwesterners turned almost exclusively to the Great Lakes and Erie Canal route for long-distance trade.
- Which of the following best describes the legal principle of coverture, as used in the United States?The principle in effect through the 19th century that a married woman could not own property, and acted solely under the legal authority of her husband.
- Which of the following was not an event that contributed to the First Red Scare, a period of anti-Communist frenzy after World War I.The assassination of the Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, by a self-professed radical socialist.
These questions were answered correctly:
- In which of the following states did Algonquian peoples not live in around the time of first contact with Europeans?South Carolina
- The Federal Trade Commission was created as a progressive reform under which President?Woodrow Wilson
- Which answer best describes the response of Herbert Hoover to the Great Depression?Hoover increased spending on public works programs, but also increased taxes to avoid a federal deficit.
- Which of the following people were most responsible for initially developing the doctrine of Containment?George Kennan
- What did the epithet of "Slave Power" refer to in the antebellum era?It was a term used by Free Soilers, and then Republicans, to refer to the upper-class of the South which dominated that region's politics and advocated for the expansion of slavery.
- Which treaty opened the way for the creation of Oregon Territory?The Oregon Treaty
- Which of the following statements is incorrect about the Cabinet of George Washington?James Madison served as the Attorney General
- What subject does the 11th Amendment deal with?It attempts to clarify under what circumstances a U.S. state can be subject to a lawsuit by the federal government or by citizens of a different state.
- What did the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 do?It increased the fine for harboring a fugitive slave to $1,000, and required only a sworn affidavit for recovering an escaped slave (or a free black that a bounty hunter had accused of such).
- Which of the following people was not a notable member of the American Anti-Slavery Society?Edgar Allan Poe
- 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
- What was another name for the 21st Rule in the House of Representatives, which applied to slavery?The Gag Rule
- Freddie Stowers, a black soldier, received a Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions in World War I. In what year was his medal awarded?1991
- What was a long-term legacy of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?They were an early example of a written constitution in the colonies.
- Does the judicial philosophy of strict constructionism give more credence to "enumerated powers" or "implied powers"?It believes that many implied powers are unconstitutional or non-existent, and favors enumerated powers.
- Does the judicial philosophy of strict constructionism give more credence to "enumerated powers" or "implied powers"?It believes that many implied powers are unconstitutional or non-existent, and favors enumerated powers.
- What did the Supreme Court's Gideon v. Wainwright decision do?It required the states to provide counsel to defendants who cannot pay their own attorneys.
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