U.S. History Quiz, Final Result

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22 out of 40 correct (55.0%).

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  • 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.
  • Which public figure was the subject of Walt Whitman's poem, "O Captain! My Captain!"?
    Abraham Lincoln
  • How many people were killed as a result of the Salem witch trials?
    20
  • Approximately what percentage of known lynching victims in the United States were black?
    73 percent
  • Who was the first President of the Tuskegee Institute?
    Booker T. Washington
  • Approximately how many Americans took the pledge of the American Temperance Society to abstain from drinking distilled beverages, in first 10 years after that group's founding in 1826?
    1.5 million
  • What was an important short-term consequence of the Black Codes?
    Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 14th Amendment.
  • 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 was not a long-term consequence of the California Gold Rush?
    The gold rush made most of the new arrivals wealthy or at least somewhat prosperous, and gave California a reputation as a land of opportunity within the United States.
  • 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.
  • What was the most significant public policy or movement that Horace Mann was an advocate for?
    Free and universal public education
  • 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.
  • How many articles are in the United States Constitution, not including the Preamble?
    Seven
  • 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.
  • 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 politician, who later opposed secession, was one of the only prominent Southerners to oppose the repeal of the Missouri Compromise during the Kansas-Nebraska debates in 1854?
    Sam Houston
  • Which of the following was not a way to avoid military service someone enrolled by the Enrollment Act and drafted?
    Someone from a border state, (Missouri, Kentucky, etc.) could declare that they wished to remain neutral and avoid service, in order to avoid political backlash in those areas.
  • Which answer best describes what the Coffin Handbills were?
    They were a series of attacks by supporters of John Quincy Adams in 1828, that accused Andrew Jackson of numerous murders and bloodthirsty military actions during his rise from obscurity to national prominence.

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  • Which answer best describes the economic policies of Janet Yellen in her first years as Chair of the Federal Reserve?
    Yellen kept interest rates low and phased out quantitative easing, and waited for further signs of recovery from the 2008 financial crisis.
  • Which general ended the war as Commanding General of the United States Army? He began the war in obscurity and was nearly bankrupt.
    Ulysses S. Grant
  • What is the significance of Levittown, New York?
    It was a planned suburb built in the late 1940s that became a model for thousands of similar communities in the U.S.
  • What right(s) is the 8th Amendment written to protect?
    It prohibits excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishment.
  • Which of the following voting groups is not generally considered to have been part of the New Deal Coalition?
    Rural farmers from the Northeast and New England
  • 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.
  • Which of the following is not a movie that Marilyn Monroe appeared in?
    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  • Which of the following people was instrumental in presenting the Albany Plan, an early attempt at colonial unification?
    Benjamin Franklin
  • Who became the first woman Chair of the Federal Reserve?
    Janet Yellen
  • In what year was the United States Constitution written?
    1787
  • Which of the following statements about the life of Walter Raleigh is inaccurate?
    He was the first leader of the Jamestown Colony in what is now Virginia.
  • What was the primary environmental hazard that Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, advocated against?
    The use of pesticides
  • Which of the following statements about Earl Warren is inaccurate?
    He had long been on the conservative end of the Republican Party, and he surprised many with the direction of his decisions as the Supreme Court Chief Justice.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • What was the main argument against slavery made in The Impending Crisis of the South by Hinton Rowan Helper?
    Slavery was an inefficient practice and a barrier to industrialization and economic progress in the South, benefitting a tiny minority at the expense of the many.
  • Which of the following was not a consequence to the United States of the Great Famine and the Irish diaspora?
    The Democratic Party gained a significant bloc of support by attacking Irish immigrants, until it changed course after the Civil War.
  • Which of the following was not an impact on American religious practice that resulted from the Second Great Awakening?
    A more clear separation that emerged between religious revivals, and the social and political movements of the times.
  • What was a lasting geographical consequence of the Quaternary Glaciation?
    The resulting glaciers formed the Great Lakes in the middle of North America.
  • Which of the following people did not become highly wealthy by leading a company that was associated with the Information Age?
    Tim Berners-Lee
  • A person from which of the following groups was least likely to be a "war hawk" in the run-up to the War of 1812?
    New England merchants who feared a loss of trade from reduced shipping.
  • Which of the following was not a feature of indentured servitude in the United States?
    About 80% of all white arrivals in the colonies before the American Revolution were indentured servants.

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