U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 4
29 out of 40 correct (72.5%).
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Areas for improvement:
- Cultural History: 37.5% (3 out of 8)
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945): 33.3% (1 out of 3)
- American Indian History: 0.0% (0 out of 2)
- The Pre-Contact Era (through 1513): 0.0% (0 out of 2)
- The U.S. Constitution: 50.0% (1 out of 2)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
These questions were missed:
- How many children did George Washington have?None
- Which President began the practice of holding fireside chats to address the country via radio?Franklin D. Roosevelt
- What did the Nixon Doctrine state, in the context of the Cold War?It stated that the United States would assist in the defense and developments of allies and friends, but would not undertake all the defense of the free nations of the world.
- Which state did Huey Long represent as a United States Senator?Louisiana
- What was an objection by the Federalist Party to the Louisiana Purchase?The Federalists argued that it was unconstitutional for the United States to acquire any additional territory that it did not possess in 1789.
- Who initially demanded the passage of the Bill of Rights, during the period that the Constitution was ratified?The Bill of Rights was a concession to Anti-Federalists who feared that the powers of the Constitution were too open-ended.
- In which region did American Indians construct totem poles?The Pacific Northwest
- About what percentage of white arrivals to the colonies before the American Revolution came as indentured servants?50 percent
- All of the following actresses were associated with the flapper lifestyle except for which one?Katharine Hepburn
- At what point were the cliff dwellings of the Pueblo people, in the American southwest, abandoned by their occupants?Around 1300, due to climactic changes which reduced landfall and made the land too arid.
- In which area did the Civil Rights Act of 1968 increase the protections of the federal government?Housing
These questions were answered correctly:
- Which event greatly undermined the popularity of Martin Van Buren and helped to cost him reelection?The Panic of 1837
- What does the term Jim Crow refer to?The set of laws and social customs that kept Southern blacks in segregated housing, schools, and classified them as second-class citizens.
- Why did the original English colony in modern-day North Carolina, Roanoke Colony, not succeed?It has never been conclusively proven what happened to the colony.
- Which of the following was not an aspect of the Jim Crow system?The gerrymandering of electoral districts that were nearly all black, so that the black vote could be channeled to a few token seats in most legislatures.
- Who was the first woman justice on the United States Supreme Court?Sandra Day O'Connor
- What was Clara Barton best known for?She was the founder of the American Red Cross and a renowned nurse.
- Which of the Apollo Program missions was the first to land a person on the moon, in 1969?Apollo 11
- Which of the following development was not a feature of the Long Depression in the 1870s?The United States sharply reduced its tariffs, an in attempt to help farmers and increase foreign trade.
- Which man was best known for founding Standard Oil and building it into an oil industry giant?John D. Rockefeller
- Which answer best explains the Compromise of 1877?It was a (reputed) compromise that was reached after the 1876 election, in which Democrats would accept the victory of Rutherford Hayes in return for an end to Reconstruction.
- Which of the following states was not a part of the Northwest Territory, created by the Northwest Ordinance?Missouri
- 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
- Who was the first President of the Republic of Texas?Sam Houston
- Which of the following was a key issue in the United States entry of the war against Germany?German U-boat attacks and a resumption of unrestricted U-boat warfare.
- Which character was created to encourage women to take industrial jobs, and later became a feminist icon?Rosie the Riveter
- What was the motive for Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of John F. Kennedy?There was no clear motive, and the Warren Commission determined that Oswald acted alone, although many theories have proliferated.
- What was the primary reason that John F. Kennedy selected Lyndon Johnson as his running mate?Johnson was highly regarded by Southern Democrats, and Kennedy was fearful that a large number of Southern states would not otherwise support his ticket.
- During which war or conflict did the Battle of the Alamo occur?The Texas Revolution
- The Constitution required 36 "guilty" votes in the Senate to remove Andrew Johnson from office on impeachment charges. How many Senators voted for conviction?35
- What was the most important consequence of the Siege of Yorktown?The British surrender effectively ended the Revolutionary War and led to the Treaty of Paris.
- What is the subject matter of Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe?It is an anti-slavery novel that uses the life of a slave named Tom, and numerous characters who are attached to him, to expose the evils of slavery.
- Which of the following sects won a large number of black converts in the antebellum South?The Baptists
- What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact, signed in 1620?It was the first governing compact of the Plymouth Colony, written by the settlers themselves on the Mayflower, to establish rights and expectations on land.
- Who were the "X", "Y", and "Z" in the XYZ Affair?Three French diplomats, working under Talleyrand, who demanded bribes before they would negotiate any diplomatic points.
- Which of the following statements about the Northwest Ordinance is inaccurate?It allowed each state in the Northwest Territory to vote on whether slavery would be permitted.
- Who was the President when the Louisiana Purchase was made?Thomas Jefferson
- Which future Supreme Court justice agued for Brown in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case?Thurgood Marshall
- 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.
- Which acts/policy of John Adams were the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison) opposed to?The Alien and Sedition Acts
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