U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 2
14 out of 40 correct (35.0%).
ChazPackan
U.S. History Resources
Areas for improvement:
- Political History: 30.0% (9 out of 30)
- Early and Antebellum America (1789-1860): 27.3% (3 out of 11)
- Cultural History: 30.0% (3 out of 10)
- The Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1877-1929): 16.7% (1 out of 6)
- U.S. Presidents: 20.0% (1 out of 5)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- World War II
- Mark Twain
- Gilded Age
- Waltham-Lowell system
- Power loom
- Know Nothing
- Millard Fillmore
- War of 1812
- War hawk
- History of the Poles in the United States
- Civil Rights Act of 1866
- Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- War Production Board
- Patriot (American Revolution)
- James Buchanan
- Confederate States of America
- Wampanoag people
- King Philip's War
- American Civil War
- Greenback (money)
- House of Burgesses
- Virginia Company
- Executive privilege
- George Washington
- Kellogg–Briand Pact
- Gang system
- Slavery in the United States
- Stalwart (politics)
- Harry S. Truman
- Fair Deal
- Committee of correspondence
- Congregational church
- Grace Hopper
- Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Mount Holyoke College
- American Enlightenment
- The Liberator (anti-slavery newspaper)
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Loyalist (American Revolution)
- Yalta Conference
These questions were missed:
- After serving as President for the duration of Zachary Taylor's term, Millard Fillmore ran for President in 1856 on which party's ticket?The Know Nothing Party
- All of the following proposals in Harry Truman's Fair Deal failed to pass in Congress except which one?Federal funding for slum clearance and the construction of public housing
- What was the function of the Committees of Correspondence?They were shadow governments organized by Patriot leaders and preceded the First Continental Congress.
- Which of the following areas did not see an influx of Loyalists after the American Revolution?Louisiana
- Which of the following Supreme Court cases upheld the validity of the 19th Amendment?Leser v. Garnett
- Historians estimate that about what percentage of white colonials supported the Patriot cause in the American Revolution?40-45 percent
- Which of the following technologies was a critical part of the Waltham-Lowell manufacturing system?The power loom
- What was an early use of executive privilege, by George Washington?Washington refused to provide documents to the House of Representatives that related to the negotiation of the Jay Treaty with Great Britain.
- The Puritans in New England were broadly part of which Christian church?The Congregational Church
- Which of the following people did not have a large influence on the American Enlightenment?Samuel Johnson
- Which of the following is not a notable contribution of Grace Hopper to computing technology?She was a key early employee of IBM and helped with the development of mainframe computing.
- What was not a reason that the House of Burgesses was established in Virginia?The legislature was meant to replace the colonial governor, after a serious of ineffective leaders and near revolts.
- What was an important difference between the gang system and the task system on Southern plantations?The gang system was more regimented, more likely to use harsh overseers, and worked based on a schedule (usually sunrise to sunset) rather than a fixed set of tasks.
- Which of the following was not a position advocated for by Stalwart Republicans?Civil service reform
- Polish immigrants made up a significant part of the work force in all of the following industries except which one?Textile manufacturing
- The War Production Board was in charge of all of the following during World War II except what?Production of films and speeches aimed at improving civilian morale.
- What did the Kellogg-Briand Pact attempt to end? War
- 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.
- What was the primary reason for the creation of the Greenback during the Civil War, in spite of ingrained opposition to fiat currency?Banks and foreign governments would only lend to the United States at exorbitant interest rates, and the revenue from tariffs and excises was clearly insufficient to finance an army.
- Which Amendment was passed in response to concerns that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was unconstitutional.The 14th Amendment
- Which of the following is not something that was agreed to at the Yalta Conference in 1945?All parties agreed to establish a war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg after the surrender of Germany.
- Which person coined the term "Gilded Age" to describe the late 1800s?Mark Twain
- What was James Buchanan's position in the last months of his term, after the Southern states began to secede?Buchanan stated that secession was illegal, but that going to war to stop it was also illegal.
- The Liberator, an anti-slavery paper published by William Lloyd Garrison, ceased publication in 1865. Which magazine succeeded this paper?The Nation
- Which American Indian tribe was nearly destroyed in King Philip's War, starting in 1676?The Wampanoag
- Who founded Mount Holyoke, the first of the seven sisters colleges, in 1837?Mary Lyon
These questions were answered correctly:
- Which of the following was not a consequence of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793?The Democratic-Republican Party strongly reacted against this law as an unconstitutional overreach in power by the federal government.
- Which of the following types of businesses made the most extensive use of telegraphy in its early years?Railroads
- Which of the following Confederate states was exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation, since most of it was already under Union control in late 1862?Tennessee
- Which of the following northerners was an early supporter of Spelman College, a college for black women founded in 1881?John D. Rockefeller
- George Whitefield was an early example of which type of preacher?Evangelical
- All of the following countries participated in the U.S. coalition which defeated Iraq in the 1990-91 Gulf War except for which one?Germany
- Which of the following is not a quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech?"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
- Which person, serving as Ulysses Grant's Vice President, had their political career ruined by the Crédit Mobilier scandal?Schuyler Colfax
- Which religious minority did the Maryland Toleration Act, passed in 1649, most directly benefit?Catholics
- 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 the First Transcontinental Railroad is accurate?The eastern and western halves met in Utah, where the Golden Spike was driven in 1869.
- Which answer best describes the early life of Lyndon Johnson?Johnson was born in poverty in the Texas hill country, west of Austin.
- 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 states was not a part of the Northwest Territory, created by the Northwest Ordinance?Missouri
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