U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 4
25 out of 40 correct (62.5%).
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Areas for improvement:
- Early and Antebellum America (1789-1860): 40.0% (4 out of 10)
- The Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1877): 42.9% (3 out of 7)
- U.S. Presidents: 40.0% (2 out of 5)
- Military History: 42.9% (3 out of 7)
- The Pre-Contact Era (through 1513): 0.0% (0 out of 1)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- Abraham Lincoln
- American Civil War
- Panic of 1819
- Walt Whitman
- Jefferson Davis
- Louisiana Purchase
- Federalist Party
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Headright
- Virginia Company
- Wampanoag people
- King Philip's War
- John Tyler
- Post–World War II baby boom
- Edith Wharton
- Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Cold War
- George F. Kennan
- Containment
- Second Bank of the United States
- Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15
- Sojourner Truth
These questions were missed:
- Which public figure was the subject of Walt Whitman's poem, "O Captain! My Captain!"?Abraham Lincoln
- Who was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature?Edith Wharton
- How many acres of land were distributed by Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15?400 thousand
- Which of the following people were most responsible for initially developing the doctrine of Containment?George Kennan
- What percentage of the Second Bank of the United States was owned by the federal government?20 percent
- Which Amendment gave Washington D.C. the right to vote in Presidential elections?The 23rd Amendment
- 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.
- Which of the following was not a consequence of the headright system in Virginia?The headright system was used only in Virginia, because other colonies lacked sufficient land to implement it.
- Which of the following was a long-term consequence of the Panic of 1819?The crisis caused many to lose confidence in the national bank and the American System's economic policies. This created an opening that Jacksonian Democrats would exploit.
- In 1841, shortly after he replaced William Henry Harrison, John Taylor's entire Cabinet resigned except for one person. Who was it?Daniel Webster
- At the height of the postwar Baby Boom, in the late 1950s, the fertility rate per woman reached which point (vs. 1.9 in 2014)?3.7
- Which of the following statements about the Emancipation Proclamation is not accurate?The Proclamation immediately freed about 500 thousand slaves from Confederate states, who had either escaped or lived in areas that the Union had captured.
- Sojourner Truth escaped from slavery to freedom as a young woman. What state was she born in?New York
- 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.
- Which American Indian tribe was nearly destroyed in King Philip's War, starting in 1676?The Wampanoag
These questions were answered correctly:
- Which city saw the worst rioting, in terms of lives lost and property destruction, during the disorders of 1967?Detroit
- Scott Joplin was a famous composer of which music genre, in the early 1900s?Ragtime
- Under what circumstances was the Province of New Jersey founded?New Jersey was initially part of New Amsterdam, but was taken by the English along with New York and parceled out as a separate colony.
- 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
- How did the Great White Fleet of the U.S. Navy become well-known?It undertook a circumnavigation of the globe, lasting over a year, in which it made goodwill stops in numerous foreign ports.
- Which of the following is not a notable case of attorney Clarence Darrow?He defended future heavyweight champion Jess Willard on murder charges, resulting from the death of his opponent in a boxing match.
- The site of which future city did Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet not pass through during their 1673 expedition?Minneapolis, Minnesota
- 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.
- Which civil rights organization did Martin Luther King Jr. help establish? He was the first President of this organization.The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
- Which of the following groups or organizations was not closely associated with the Redeemer movement that forced Republicans and blacks out of the Southern political process.The National Rifle Association
- Which of the following was not an important long-term consequence of the Three-Fifths Compromise?The United Stated was unable to pass any laws banning the importation of slaves, due to the disproportionate representation of the South.
- William Tweed is best known for leading which faction or organization as "Boss Tweed"?Tammany Hall
- Which event was most greatly sensationalized by publishers during the heyday of yellow journalism?The Spanish-American War
- What did the Currency Act do, and why did it become a grievance in the colonies?It restricted the colonies from paying British merchants with paper money backed by the various colonies, causing deflation and economic troubles, because such money almost always depreciated in relation to the British pound.
- Which of the following was not passed during Lyndon Johnson's Administration?The National Labor Relations Act
- What does the Critical Period often refer to, in the history of the United States?The period between 1781-1787, under the Articles of Confederation, when the national government appeared too weak (to many) to adequately defend the territory and financial system of the new nation.
- Which best describes George Washington's attitude to the new United States Constitution and its ratification?Washington actively supported the new Constitution and pushed hard for its ratification.
- What did the Wilmot Proviso attempt to do?It would have prohibited slavery in all territory acquired from Mexico during the Mexican-American War.
- In what year was the 13th Amendment to the Constitution ratified?1865
- What was the latest struggle in which Fort Detroit played a significant role?The War of 1812
- Which answer best describes the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986?This law allowed some illegal immigrants a path to U.S. citizenship and increased the measures and funding for future immigration enforcement.
- What was the idea of "The Talented Tenth", proposed by W.E.B. Dubois in the early 1900s?A leadership class of black Americans should pursue classical education and advocate for social change, while using their skills to lead the rest of the black community.
- 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 defiant behavior (by the standards of the time) that was associated with flappers in the 1920s?Growing long, freely-flowing hair
- What was the primary objective of the Selma to Montgomery marches?The passage of a Voting Rights Act
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