U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 3
21 out of 40 correct (52.5%).
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Areas for improvement:
- Early and Antebellum America (1789-1860): 38.5% (5 out of 13)
- U.S. Presidents: 40.0% (2 out of 5)
- The Colonial Period (1513-1775): 33.3% (1 out of 3)
- Economic History: 50.0% (7 out of 14)
- The Revolution and Constitution (1775-1789): 0.0% (0 out of 1)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- Thomas Edison
- Denmark Vesey
- Nat Turner
- Erie Canal
- James Madison
- Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
- Thomas Jefferson
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Minutemen
- Gilded Age
- Republican Party (United States)
- Lynching in the United States
- John Tyler
- American Civil War
- Forty acres and a mule
- Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15
- United Nations
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
- Upton Sinclair
- Phillis Wheatley
- George F. Kennan
- Cold War
- Containment
- James Forten
- Pearl Street Station
- European theatre of World War II
- World War II
- Strategic bombing during World War II
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Reconstruction Era
- Frederick Douglass
These questions were missed:
- What was the position of Frederick Douglass on the plan of Ulysses Grant to annex Santo Domingo as a haven for freed slaves?Douglass supported the plan and its goals of removing blacks from Southern violence, and admitting one or more states with a black majority.
- In what business did James Forten become wealthy, before he became a prominent black abolitionist?Sailmaking
- Which Founding Father and longest-surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence also helped create the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad?Charles Carroll of Carrollton
- Which of the following statements about lynching is inaccurate?Northern politicians made little attempt to enact federal legislation against lynching.
- 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.
- Which of the following inventions was not developed or much improved by Thomas Edison?The telephone
- What was Phillis Wheatley best known for?She was a notable African-American poet in the 1770s, read in both the colonies and in Britain.
- A member of which of these groups was unlikely to vote for the Republican Party during the Gilded Age?Opponents of federal spending increases
- Which of the following is not a topic that Upton Sinclair covered in one of his muckraking novels?A political novel about a popular Senator who becomes President, then imposes fascist rule.
- In 1841, shortly after he replaced William Henry Harrison, John Taylor's entire Cabinet resigned except for one person. Who was it?Daniel Webster
- Which global event loomed as a specter for southern slaveowners throughout the 19th century, in the context of the executions of Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner?The Haitian Revolution of Toussaint Louverture
- The Erie Canal connects which two cities in New York?Buffalo and Albany
- Thomas Edison's company built the first power station in the United States, called what?Pearl Street Station
- Which mistaken impression did Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15 lead to?That the United States intended to distribute 40 acres of farm land to each freed slave.
- 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 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.
- How did the structure of Massachusetts Bay Colony influence the New England region?It made belief in the Puritan sect mandatory for voting and office-holding, and left little room for Anglicans, Quakers, and other sects.
- Which of the following people were most responsible for initially developing the doctrine of Containment?George Kennan
- The United Nations Charter was drafted in 1945 in which city?San Francisco
These questions were answered correctly:
- Which of the following acts was forbidden under the Sedition Act of 1918, with violations punishable by 5-20 years in prison?It forbade the use of disloyal or abusive language about the United States government, flag, or military during World War I.
- What was the name of two acts, early in the Civil War, which authorized the confiscation of Confederate property and slaves?The Confiscation Acts
- 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
- Which of the following was not a consequence of tobacco's supremacy in colonial Virginia, North Carolina, and Maryland?Large tobacco growers tried to buy additional land in Pennsylvania, coming into conflict with the Quaker settlers of that region.
- Which organization, founded in 1890, healed the schism that had emerged in the women's movement over the 15th Amendment? Susan B. Anthony was an early President.The National American Woman Suffrage Association
- Which of the following was not a common rationale for Prohibition, or the banning of alcohol sales under the 18th Amendment?Urban Catholics believed that the quality of life and reputation of their neighborhoods would be improved under Prohibition.
- Which of the following was a trade of George Washington during his early days?Land surveyor
- Which of the following is a legacy of John Marshall's time on the Supreme Court?Marshall established the Supreme Court as a powerful American institution, the Court having been considered a minor body under the three previous Chief Justices.
- Which of the following countries has NATO not intervened in militarily?Poland
- In which city was the Motown record label established?Detroit
- Which of the following is not something that was agreed to at the Potsdam Conference in 1945?The Soviet Union agreed to enter the war against Japan, 3 months after the defeat of Germany.
- In what year was Medicare established?In 1965 as part of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society
- What did the Wade-Davis Bill propose for Reconstruction?No Southern state could be readmitted until a majority of its voters took the Ironclad Oath, stating they had never supported the Confederacy.
- All of the following musical terms are associated with slaves and other workers in the antebellum South except for which one?Blues
- Which of the following is not a change in immigration policy that began with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?It rescinded a provision prohibiting the immigration of homosexuals to the United States.
- Which of the following was NOT a common argument against women's suffrage before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920?Women voters would be more likely to support aggressive wars and foreign policy.
- 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.
- As of 1910, before the Great Migration began, approximately what percentage of American blacks lived in the South?90 percent
- Which famed attorney argued for the side of evolution and defended a science teacher in the Scopes Trial, in 1926?Clarence Darrow
- Which state was admitted to the United States as a result of the Compromise of 1850?California
- In which of the following industries did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune?Steel
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