U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 3
22 out of 40 correct (55.0%).
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U.S. History Resources
Areas for improvement:
- Early and Antebellum America (1789-1860): 45.5% (5 out of 11)
- Cultural History: 41.7% (5 out of 12)
- Black History: 42.9% (3 out of 7)
- Ethnic History: 0.0% (0 out of 1)
- The Pre-Contact Era (through 1513): 50.0% (2 out of 4)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- Flatboat
- Slavery in the United States
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
- Transcendentalism
- Order of the Star Spangled Banner
- Know Nothing
- Wade–Davis Bill
- Reconstruction Era
- Radical Republican
- Abraham Lincoln
- American Civil War
- Emancipation Proclamation
- New Deal
- Agricultural Adjustment Act
- Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938
- Prince Hall
- Desegregation busing
- Compromise of 1850
- Espionage Act of 1917
- Navajo people
- Hogan
- Clarence Darrow
- Scopes Trial
- Apache
- Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Comstock laws
- Post–World War II baby boom
These questions were missed:
- Which of the following was not a key tenet of the transcendentalist movement?Individuals should actively engage in politics to drive a progressive agenda.
- Approximately when did the Apache peoples migrate to the Southwest?Sometime between 1200 and 1500.
- During which of the following time periods was flatboat traffic at its heaviest?The 1840s
- 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.
- All of the following people, except which one, have been charged under the Espionage Act of 1917?Smedley Butler
- What was an important long-term effect of the Comstock Law, passed in 1873?By limiting the dissemination of materials on sexuality and specifically birth control, the law likely delayed the widespread use of it for many years.
- 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 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 difference between a flatboat and a steamboat?A flatboat was smaller than a steamboat and did not have an engine -- it was used for downstream travel only.
- The Order of the Star Spangled Banner was a precursor to which political party?The Know Nothing Party
- Which Amendment outlawed the poll tax as a condition for voting?The 24th Amendment
- 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.
- Which of the following is not a notable case of attorney Clarence Darrow?He defended future heavyweight champion Jess Willard on murder charges, resulting from the death of his opponent in a boxing match.
- To what extent did the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 change the previous Agricultural Adjustment Act?Due to a Supreme Court challenge of the initial law, the second law replaced the method of funding the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Other aspects remained largely the same.
- The hogan was a primary dwelling of which native group?The Navajo
- Radical Republicans made this proposal in response to the "Ten percent" plan, which they saw as too lenient.The Wade-Davis Bill
- 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 statements about the Emancipation Proclamation is not accurate?The Proclamation immediately freed about 500 thousand slaves from Confederate states, who had either escaped or lived in areas that the Union had captured.
These questions were answered correctly:
- The Tennessee Valley Authority was created in 1933 as a federally owned corporation in what industry?Electric utilities
- Which of the following women was the first to be elected to Congress, in either house?Jeanette Rankin
- Which of the following language groups were the Powhatan a part of?Algonquian
- Which Chief Justice is best known for handing down the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision?Roger B. Taney
- Which of the following was not a precedent for the creation of rapid deployment militia (minutemen) in New England?Militia had skirmished against the British in Boston during the turmoil over the Stamp Act in 1765.
- Which of the following companies was broken up by the Supreme Court, on the grounds that it was a monopoly, under the Sherman Antitrust Act?Standard Oil
- This man was the first Whig to win a Presidential election, in 1840.William Henry Harrison
- 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
- 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.
- Who was the only Vice President of the Confederate States of America?Alexander Stephens
- How many people died in the September 11 attacks?3,000
- Which of the following people was instrumental in presenting the Albany Plan, an early attempt at colonial unification?Benjamin Franklin
- Which of the following was a theological issue that Anne Hutchinson and the Puritans disagreed on?Hutchinson supported a "covenant of grace", while the Puritans supported a "covenant of works".
- 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.
- 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
- About how many slaves lived in the United States at the start of the Civil War?7 million
- Which of the following was not a reason that the Second Bank of the United States was formed, in 1816?Regional private banks wanted a centralized banking authority to assist with financing and liquidity.
- Which Amendment gave Washington D.C. the right to vote in Presidential elections?The 23rd Amendment
- The Mississippian cultures shared all of the following characteristics except which one?A highly developed system of writing that later fell into disuse.
- Which school, the first in the United States for women's higher education, did Emma Willard start in 1814?Troy Female Seminary
- Which event made Pontiac a well known Ottawa leader?Pontiac led the Ottawa in a rebellion against the British and their colonists. The rebellion eventually spread from Michigan all the way into Pennsylvania.
- When the North American continent was first settled, what was the climate like?The world was in the midst of an Ice Age, and much of North America was cold, or covered by glaciers.
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