U.S. History Quiz, Final Result

The final score on this quiz is a 3

24 out of 40 correct (60.0%).

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  • 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 long-term consequence of the Baby Boom?
    Baby Boomers began to vote in the late 1960s, and were much more likely to oppose the Vietnam War than older people were.
  • What was the last major battle of the Pacific Theatre in World War II?
    Okinawa
  • Who was the first President of the Tuskegee Institute?
    Booker T. Washington
  • Which of the following statements about the U.S. strategic bombing of Europe is not accurate?
    German war production declined after 1943 due to heavy damage from the bombings.
  • 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 statements about Susan B. Anthony is not historically accurate?
    Anthony was an honorary guest when the 19th Amendment was passed by the U.S. House and Senate.
  • Which of the following was not an argument that was used to justify the spoils system?
    It would restrict federal office-holding to people who had achieved the financial means (and therefore, the sound moral character) to contribute to winning politicans.
  • What was the ultimate outcome of the "Bleeding Kansas" struggle in the 1850s?
    Kansas was not admitted until the secession of the Southern states began, in spite of submitting three potential state Constitutions to the U.S. Congress.
  • All of the following statements about John Winthrop is accurate except for which one?
    He was an early advocate for government by consensus, and for greater democracy and expanded voting in the English colonies.
  • Which answer best describes the term "forty-eighters"?
    It described Europeans, primarily Germans, who immigrated to the United States after a series of failed revolutions in Europe in 1848.
  • Which of the following people were most responsible for initially developing the doctrine of Containment?
    George Kennan
  • Which religious minority did the Maryland Toleration Act, passed in 1649, most directly benefit?
    Catholics
  • A "Border Ruffian" during the "Bleeding Kansas" struggle was most likely to become one of these during the Civil War?
    Bushwhacker
  • The Open-Door Policy, announced in 1899, was designed to protect American business interests in which country or region?
    China
  • What was the role and impact of Frederick Douglass on the Freedmen's Savings Bank?
    Douglass was the final President of this bank, being misled into assuming the role by its previous leadership, who had gutted its financial assets.

These questions were answered correctly:

  • What was the primary goal of the Farmers' Holiday Association, active in the early 1930s?
    It attempted to coordinate the withholding of farm products from the market, in order to raise prices and slow the rate of farm foreclosures.
  • In what city was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated, on April 4, 1968?
    Memphis, Tennessee
  • Which country was invaded in 2001 as a direct result of the September 11 attacks?
    Afghanistan
  • What was the substance of the Freeport Doctrine, articulated by Stephen A. Douglas in his debates with Abraham Lincoln?
    Douglas tried to finesse the issue of slavery in the territories, by supporting the Supreme Court while arguing that slavery could never be established in a territory if the residents refused to enforce its protections.
  • Which of the following Amendments did Abraham Lincoln support during his time as President?
    The 13th Amendment, stating, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United States."
  • What was an important long-term consequence of Marbury v. Madison?
    It established the power of judicial review for the Supreme Court.
  • The Wilmot Proviso is associated with the aftermath of which American war?
    The Mexican-American War
  • What right(s) is the 9th Amendment written to protect?
    Just because certain individual rights are protected in the Constitution, it does not mean that other rights are denied.
  • Which American Indian tribe was nearly destroyed in King Philip's War, starting in 1676?
    The Wampanoag
  • 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 answer best describes the Triangular Trade of the 17th-19th centuries?
    It was the three-way trade between the Americas, Great Britain, and Africa that transported many slaves to what is now the United States.
  • Which of the following is not a defiant behavior (by the standards of the time) that was associated with flappers in the 1920s?
    Growing long, freely-flowing hair
  • The Erie Canal connects which two cities in New York?
    Buffalo and Albany
  • Which answer best describes the Nullification Crisis, in 1832-33, and Andrew Jackson's role in it?
    South Carolina, led by John Calhoun, asserted that it could nullify the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832, and ignore those laws within its state. Jackson strongly disagreed, but a compromise tariff was passed.
  • What, approximately, was the annual inflation rate in the United States when Gerald Ford began his Whip Inflation Now campaign?
    12 percent
  • Why did John Wilkes Booth assassinate Abraham Lincoln in 1865?
    Booth was a Confederate sympathizer who was enraged by the South's defeat, and more specifically by a speech Lincoln made after Lee's surrender, suggesting that freed slaves might have the right to vote.
  • Which of the following women was the first to be elected to Congress, in either house?
    Jeanette Rankin
  • Scott Joplin was a famous composer of which music genre, in the early 1900s?
    Ragtime
  • Which of the following societal trends was not a factor in the Harlem Renaissance?
    The state of New York and the federal government created extensive programs in the 1920s to fund artists of all backgrounds.
  • Which country was defeated first -- Germany or Japan?
    Germany surrendered in May 1945, while Japan formally surrendered on September 2, 1945 in Tokyo Bay.
  • Which answer best describes the Siege of Vicksburg?
    The Union Army, under Ulysses Grant, captured the last remaining Confederate foothold on the Mississippi River, in 1863.
  • 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 Andrew Jackson's position on "internal improvements", or federal infrastructure spending in modern terms?
    Jackson believed that, by and large, such spending was an avenue for corruption and disproportionately benefited elite business interests.
  • What did the Wilmot Proviso attempt to do?
    It would have prohibited slavery in all territory acquired from Mexico during the Mexican-American War.

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