U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 5
24 out of 40 correct (60.0%).
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Areas for improvement:
- The Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1877): 25.0% (1 out of 4)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- American Civil War
- Slavery in the United States
- Robert E. Lee
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Siege of Petersburg
- Benjamin Franklin
- Albany Plan
- Gang system
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Thomas Jefferson
- Confederate States of America
- Battle of Fort Sumter
- Apache
- Interchangeable parts
- American system of manufacturing
- Division of labour
- Machine tool
- American Enlightenment
- Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Literacy test
- Poll tax (United States)
- Reconstruction Era
- Northwest Ordinance
- Constitutional Convention (United States)
- Navajo people
- Spelman College
- John D. Rockefeller
- Harriet Tubman
These questions were missed:
- In which of the following positions did Thomas Jefferson not serve at some point during his life?Delegate to the Constitutional Convention, in 1787.
- Which of the following people did not have a large influence on the American Enlightenment?Samuel Johnson
- Which of the following Generals was most closely associated with the military campaigns which forced a number of Indian tribes to leave Ohio.Anthony Wayne
- Which of the following people was instrumental in presenting the Albany Plan, an early attempt at colonial unification?Benjamin Franklin
- 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 answer best describes the Siege of Petersburg?The Union Army, under Ulysses Grant, captured Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, after a nine-month engagement, in 1864-1865.
- Which of the following northerners was an early supporter of Spelman College, a college for black women founded in 1881?John D. Rockefeller
- Which of the following statements about Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is not accurate?Abraham Lincoln later said to Stowe, "So this is the little lady who started this great war."
- Which of the following people were not present at the Constitutional Convention?John Adams
- During the 19th century, which of the following statements about slavery is most accurate?Hundreds of thousands of slaves were sold and transported overland from the Upper South to the Deep South.
- Why did the 15th Amendment fail to mention poll taxes or literacy tests as unconstitutional obstacles to voting?The language was watered down because of concerns that not enough states would ratify the more strongly-worded version of this Amendment.
- How many slaves did Harriet Tubman help to escape before the Civil War began?70
- Approximately when did the Apache peoples migrate to the Southwest?Sometime between 1200 and 1500.
- How did the Navajo people obtain most of their food, historically?After the arrival of the Spanish, the Navajo took to herding large numbers of sheep and goats.
- All of the following states joined the Confederacy after the Battle of Fort Sumter except for which one?Texas
- Which of the following answers does not describe an aspect of the American system of manufacturing, as it was in the 19th century?Use of a skilled worker to assemble the mass-produced parts into a finished product.
These questions were answered correctly:
- Which of the following statements about the Roaring Twenties is inaccurate?A huge influx of postwar immigration from Europe helped influence the culture of cities like New York and Chicago in the 1920s.
- 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.
- On how many occasions did the NATO alliance mobilize a Soviet attack during the Cold War?Zero
- What was Martin Luther King Jr.'s position on the Vietnam War?King was an early and outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War.
- What right(s) is the 7th Amendment written to protect?It guarantees the right to a trial by jury for any non-trivial ($20 or more) civil case, and respects that jury's findings.
- The Supreme Court's Lochner v. New York decision began the Lochner era, in which the Supreme Court regularly stuck down which types of laws?Laws that regulated the working hours and conditions of employees.
- Which of the following books was not written by Mark Twain?The Turn of the Screw
- Which famous abolitionist published The Liberator from 1831 until the end of the Civil War?William Lloyd Garrison
- 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 of the following statements about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 is inaccurate?The law had a statute of limitations of seven years, after which an escaped slave was legally free from recapture.
- The Order of the Star Spangled Banner was a precursor to which political party?The Know Nothing Party
- Which of the following politicians was a strong supporter of the "Ten percent" plan?Abraham Lincoln
- Which of the following influential black leaders was not born into slavery?W.E.B. Dubois
- Which of the following things did Harriet Tubman not do after the Civil War began?She became a school teacher of freedmen and black children in the Reconstruction era South.
- What describes George Washington's role in the French and Indian War?He commanded the Virginia Regiment, the primary fighting unit for that colony.
- Henry Ford used all of the following methods to derive an advantage in producing the Model T except for which one?All Model T's were produced at a single factory in Detroit, in order to allow extremely precise management of the manufacturing process.
- 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
- What was the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, thereby making it effective on August 18, 1920?Tennessee
- Langston Hughes wrote all of the following poems except which one?A Raisin in the Sun
- 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 was the latest struggle in which Fort Detroit played a significant role?The War of 1812
- Joseph McCarthy's fruitless and unpopular investigation of which agency or organization led to his political downfall and eventual censure?The U.S. Army
- Which statement about John Marshall is not accurate?He was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
- Approximately how many years ago was the Chesapeake Bay first formed?10,000
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