U.S. History Quiz, Final Result

The final score on this quiz is a 4

23 out of 40 correct (57.5%).

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  • Which of the following answers best describes the cause of the Panic of 1819?
    Speculation in public lands by banks and individuals created a real estate bubble, and the Second Bank of the United States overcorrected by instituting tight lending practices.
  • Which answer best describes the Newburgh Conspiracy and George Washington's role in it?
    It was a movement within the Continental Army, after the war, to rise against the Continental Congress and replace it with one better able to pay the soldiers. Washington gave a speech opposing this movement strongly, and it collapsed.
  • Who was best known as the leader of the Knights of Labor in the 1880s?
    Terence Powderly
  • Which of the following people were not present at the Constitutional Convention?
    John Adams
  • 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
  • Which of the following is not the name of a beach that was used during the Normandy landings?
    Silver
  • Which answer best describes the Atlanta Compromise?
    It was a speech and agreement announced by Booker T. Washington in 1895, stating that the black community should focus on economic advancement rather than political rights.
  • Which of the following was not a measure implemented by South Carolina to prevent future slave rebellions after the Stono Rebellion?
    Because Spanish Florida was the attempted destination of the escaped slaves, Britain made concessions to Spain in return for better enforcement of the colonial border.
  • Which American Indian tribe was nearly destroyed in King Philip's War, starting in 1676?
    The Wampanoag
  • Which of the following was not a part of the Compromise of 1850?
    The residents of Kansas were permitted to vote on whether to allow slavery.
  • Which of the following groups was never a part of the Iroquois Confederation?
    Wyandot
  • What was the first railroad, in 1852, to reach the Ohio River from the Eastern Seaboard?
    The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
  • Before his capture of an arsenal in Virginia, how else did John Brown fight for the abolition of slavery?
    He had fought in some engagements in Kansas, and had killed five pro-slavery men in a massacre.
  • What was Elizabeth Key Grinstead known for in the English colonial period?
    She was an early slave who sued and won her freedom in the courts, before laws on slavery were made more strict.
  • All of the following groups opposed the American ratification of the Treaty of Versailles except for which one?
    Moderate Republicans
  • Which of the following was not an important consequence of the Erie Canal?
    New Orleans suffered a steep downtown in its fortunes, as Midwesterners turned almost exclusively to the Great Lakes and Erie Canal route for long-distance trade.
  • Which of the following is not something that was agreed to at the Tehran Conference in late 1943?
    The division of Germany into four occupation zones, which later coalesced into East Germany and West Germany.

These questions were answered correctly:

  • What did the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 most closely deal with?
    It created the Securities and Exchange Commission and provided for new regulations of the stock market.
  • What did the term "pet banks" refer to during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson?
    It referred to state banks which Jackson deposited federal funds into after withdrawing them from the Second Bank of the United States.
  • Jonathan Edwards was a key preacher in which religious movement?
    The First Great Awakening
  • 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.
  • 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 Southern Congressman became well-known for beating Senator Charles Sumner almost to death with a cane on the Senate floor, in 1856?
    Preston Brooks
  • Which two Congressional leaders were most responsible for drafting the Compromise of 1850?
    Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas
  • Which of the following statements about hobos is not accurate?
    Unlike tramps, hobos rarely tried to find work unless compelled by force or arrest.
  • What were the effects of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
    It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression.
  • Which of the following Confederate generals did not play an important role in the First Battle of Bull Run?
    Robert E. Lee
  • Which organization, founded in 1890, healed the schism that had emerged in the women's movement over the 15th Amendment? Susan B. Anthony was an early President.
    The National American Woman Suffrage Association
  • Which answer best describes the political background of Martin Van Buren?
    Van Buren was a Democrat and protégé of Andrew Jackson, and largely continued Jackson's policies during his own time as President.
  • What was the outcome of King Philip's War for the English and the Wampanoag in New England?
    Several hundred English settlers were killed, while the Wampanoag were almost annihilated. Many Indian survivors were sold into slavery.
  • Which of the following acts did not occur during the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson?
    The Sheppard-Towner Act, establishing federal funding for maternity and child care.
  • Which of the following people was instrumental in presenting the Albany Plan, an early attempt at colonial unification?
    Benjamin Franklin
  • What was Tecumseh's strategy during the War of 1812?
    Tecumseh allied his forces with British, believing that a British victory would help restrict western settlement.
  • James Buchanan avoided political controversy in the heated years before his election as President by taking on what role?
    He was the United States Minister to the United Kingdom during the Pierce Administration.
  • What did the Kellogg-Briand Pact attempt to end?
    War
  • Which colony did the people on the Mayflower form?
    Plymouth Colony
  • A series of bank runs during the 1930s culminated in the Emergency Banking Act of 1933, in the opening days of Roosevelt's term, after this many states suspended banking operations.
    36
  • Which incident most directly led to the creation of the Apollo Program's mission of putting a man on the moon?
    The launching of Yuri Gagarin into orbit by the Soviet Union, in 1961.
  • Which mistaken impression did Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15 lead to?
    That the United States intended to distribute 40 acres of farm land to each freed slave.
  • Which of the following books was not written by Mark Twain?
    The Turn of the Screw

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