U.S. History Quiz, Final Result

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21 out of 40 correct (52.5%).

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  • 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.
  • What was the key point made in the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards?
    This sermon evoked numerous images of hell and the torment that awaited those who rejected God's grace.
  • Which of the following Confederate generals did not play an important role in the First Battle of Bull Run?
    Robert E. Lee
  • What was the immediate short-term effect of the Missouri Compromise?
    Slavery receded as an important national issue until the late 1840s.
  • Which answer best describes the early life of Lyndon Johnson?
    Johnson was born in poverty in the Texas hill country, west of Austin.
  • Which of the following statements/essays on women's rights was written by Judith Sargent Murray?
    On the Equality of the Sexes
  • What does the Free Exercise clause of the Bill of Rights apply to?
    Congress may not prohibit the free exercise of any religion or religious belief.
  • Which of the following women was the first to be elected to Congress, in either house?
    Jeanette Rankin
  • Which major party was generally most supportive of women's suffrage in the United States in the years before its enactment?
    The Republican Party
  • The Pullman Strike began when George Pullman cut wages and refused to recognize the American Railway Union, which had been founded by whom?
    Eugene Debs
  • The Mississippian cultures shared all of the following characteristics except which one?
    A highly developed system of writing that later fell into disuse.
  • How did Rutherford B. Hayes ultimately respond to the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
    After a few weeks, Hayes dispatched federal troops to several cities in order to put down the strikes, so that the nation's rail traffic could begin to move again.
  • Which of the following women was a prominent and influential opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment?
    Phyllis Schlafly
  • What was Prince Hall best known for during the Revolutionary period?
    He was a prominent African-American freemason who created a black mason hall and is a father of Black Freemasonry.
  • Which of the following best describes the strategy and allegiance of the Iroquois Confederation in the struggles between the French and British?
    It was generally allied with the British and fought against the French and their Indian allies.
  • Which of the following was not a long-term consequence of the Dawes Act?
    Land allotments became a basis for modest Indian prosperity in the early 1900s.
  • During its peak, areas with substantial incidents of lynching were correlated with each of the following factors except which one?
    The African American population was relatively small and isolated.
  • All of the following measures, generally seen as circumventions of the 15th Amendment, were used except for which one?
    Requirements to show a state-issued ID card at the polls
  • What does the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution do?
    It protects the rights of states and individuals, by reserving for them those rights which are not granted to the United States government.

These questions were answered correctly:

  • What was a fear or concern that guided the introduction of the New Jersey Plan at the Constitutional Convention?
    Larger states would control the workings of the new federal government if proportional representation was used in the legislature.
  • 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 Tennessee Valley Authority was created in 1933 as a federally owned corporation in what industry?
    Electric utilities
  • What right(s) is the 4th Amendment written to protect?
    The right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.
  • Louis Armstrong was a versatile, multi-talented musician during his 40 years or more in the public eye, but he is most associated with playing which instrument?
    The trumpet
  • Which of the following people was nominated as the Liberal Republican Party's Presidential candidate in 1872?
    Horace Greeley
  • Which of the following was not a policy advocated for at some time by the Women's Christian Temperance Union?
    The restriction of immigration to the United States, particularly by non-Protestants.
  • Which of the following directly posits that that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years?
    Moore's Law
  • Which of the following was not a key element of the Waltham-Lowell manufacturing system, in the early 1800s?
    The mills allowed their employees a high level of personal freedom compared to the farms, demanding only that they show up on time and work around 80 hours per week.
  • Who was the primary founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA?
    Juliette Gordon Low
  • 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.
  • Who was the only Vice President of the Confederate States of America?
    Alexander Stephens
  • What was Calvin Coolidge's position, in general, on economic issues?
    Coolidge cut the income tax substantially, cut spending, and generally favored business interests.
  • Which of the following was not a key tenet of the transcendentalist movement?
    Individuals should actively engage in politics to drive a progressive agenda.
  • A member of which of these groups was unlikely to vote for the Democratic Party during the Gilded Age?
    Union veterans
  • 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.
  • To finance the Civil War, the United States issued Greenbacks as currency. Which of the following was used to back this currency?
    They were backed by the United States government, but not by any precious metal
  • To what degree has the Commerce Clause been a source of contention in American politics since the ratification of the Constitution?
    The Commerce Clause has been a central part of many Supreme Court decisions, both in the early days of the United States and in more recent times, and its exact scope is fiercely debated.
  • Which Amendment was passed in response to concerns that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was unconstitutional.
    The 14th Amendment
  • The Enforcement Acts, passed in 1870-71, targeted members of which secret society?
    The Ku Klux Klan
  • What was Hiram Rhodes Revels best known for?
    He was the first black man to become a United States Senator.

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