U.S. History Quiz, Final Result

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  • Who did Abraham Lincoln defeat to win reelection as President in 1864?
    George McClellan, a former Union general.
  • What was the legacy of Francis Townsend during the Great Depression?
    His successful activism for the Townsend Plan, to provide payments to retired people, spurred Franklin Roosevelt to push for the Social Security Act.
  • Which of the following albums was not performed by Marvin Gaye?
    Sex Machine
  • Which of the following did not contribute to the decline of the Chautauqua companies, who had provided entertainment, lectures, and shows to small towns and rural areas of the United States?
    World War II
  • Which of the following religious groups does not trace its roots, at least somewhat, to the Second Great Awakening?
    The Quakers
  • Which of the following movements was created, in no small part, in reaction to the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision?
    The Moral Majority
  • Who was the main European combatant of the colonies during King William's War?
    France
  • Aimee Semple McPherson was well known for all of the following things except which one?
    She was one of the first nationally-known evangelicals to extensively preach and campaign on behalf of conservative Republican politicians.
  • On how many occasions did the NATO alliance mobilize a Soviet attack during the Cold War?
    Zero
  • Approximately how many people died in Ireland during the Great Famine of the 1840s?
    1 million
  • All of the following musicians are not generally associated with jazz except which one?
    Chuck Berry
  • What did the Banking Act of 1933 most closely deal with?
    It established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and required the separation of commercial and investment banking ("Glass-Steagall").
  • Who was the founder of the American Federation of Labor?
    Samuel Gompers
  • Which of the following societal trends did not rapidly follow the approval of The Pill (the birth control pill) in 1960?
    Every state legalized the use of the pill for married and unmarried women by 1965.
  • Which general was ordered to clear the Bonus Army from Washington D.C.?
    Douglas MacArthur
  • 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.
  • At what point were the cliff dwellings of the Pueblo people, in the American southwest, abandoned by their occupants?
    Around 1300, due to climactic changes which reduced landfall and made the land too arid.
  • All of the following statements about a ward heeler is accurate except for which one?
    Ward heelers were usually high-ranking members in their party, and might be groomed to run for public office themselves.
  • Janet Reno was the first woman to serve in which Cabinet position?
    Attorney General
  • Who was the first President of the Tuskegee Institute?
    Booker T. Washington
  • All of the following answers about John Brown are accurate except for which one?
    Brown succeeded in capturing several plantations and in building a small force of around 200 men.
  • What did the Supreme Court's Engel v. Vitale decision do?
    It ruled that public schools could not require their students to say a prayer.
  • The Erie Canal connects which two cities in New York?
    Buffalo and Albany
  • Which of the following women was not an important women's suffrage advocate in the final years before the 19th Amendment?
    Aimee Semple McPherson
  • Which of the following transcendentalist books or essays was not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?
    Civil Disobedience
  • 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.
  • Who was the first recorded European to reach the Mississippi River?
    Hernando de Soto
  • 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.
  • Polish immigrants made up a significant part of the work force in all of the following industries except which one?
    Textile manufacturing
  • Which of the following was not a feature of indentured servitude in the United States?
    About 80% of all white arrivals in the colonies before the American Revolution were indentured servants.
  • Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in the Cabinet, under Franklin Roosevelt, serving 12 years as the Secretary of which Department?
    The Department of Labor
  • 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
  • The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill, in 1937, would have increased the size of the Supreme Court to how many justices? It was widely seen as an attempt by Franklin Roosevelt to pack the court.
    Fifteen
  • How many states allow some form of initiative or referendum, due largely to reforms from the Progressive Era?
    27 states allow either initiatives or referendums.
  • What was the purpose of the Neutrality Acts in the 1930s?
    They were a series of acts which generally restricted or prohibited the United States to sell arms to either side in a foreign conflict. Some of the acts made small exceptions or addressed specific situations.
  • Which of the following acts was forbidden under the Sedition Act of 1918, with violations punishable by 5-20 years in prison?
    It forbade the use of disloyal or abusive language about the United States government, flag, or military during World War I.
  • Which of the following is not a work by Herman Melville?
    The Red Badge of Courage
  • At what point were the cliff dwellings of the Pueblo people, in the American southwest, abandoned by their occupants?
    Around 1300, due to climactic changes which reduced landfall and made the land too arid.
  • 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.
  • Although its first charter was issued in 1629, the first permanent English settlement in the Province of Carolina was not established until what year?
    1653
  • What was the latest struggle in which Fort Detroit played a significant role?
    The War of 1812
  • Which of the following is not the name of a beach that was used during the Normandy landings?
    Silver
  • In 1841, shortly after he replaced William Henry Harrison, John Taylor's entire Cabinet resigned except for one person. Who was it?
    Daniel Webster
  • Which of the following mythical things was Francisco Vázquez de Coronado searching for on his expedition?
    The Seven Cities of Gold
  • In what year was the United States Constitution written?
    1787
  • The Tennessee Valley Authority was created in 1933 as a federally owned corporation in what industry?
    Electric utilities

These questions were answered correctly:

  • Which of the following was a trade of George Washington during his early days?
    Land surveyor
  • What was the most lasting legacy of Daniel Boone?
    He blazed the first good trail through the Cumberland Gap and founded the first white settlement in Kentucky.
  • Who used the phrase Iron Curtain to describe the Soviet Union and its satellites in a speech they made in 1946, making the term well-known to the American public?
    Winston Churchill
  • Which answer best describes the political background of James Monroe?
    Monroe was a former anti-federalist who more or less continued the legacy of Jefferson and Madison.
  • Which answer best describes the Battle of Antietam?
    The Confederate Army, under Robert E. Lee, was moving north into Maryland in 1862. The Union Army met Lee and forced his Army to retreat.
  • Which speaker preceded Abraham Lincoln before he made the Gettysburg Address?
    Edward Everett
  • Which of the following works was a key part of Walt Whitman's creative output?
    Leaves of Grass
  • Which of the following answers best describes the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
    It was an act that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, for example in public facilities or accommodations, or in employment.
  • What was an important long-term consequence of Marbury v. Madison?
    It established the power of judicial review for the Supreme Court.
  • Andrew Jackson won a plurality of the popular vote in the 1824 Presidential election. Which two opponents did he accuse of stealing that election in a "corrupt bargain"?
    John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay
  • What was the last major battle of the Pacific Theatre in World War II?
    Okinawa
  • What was a key objective of George Washington when he made his attack that resulted in the Battle of Trenton?
    Washington hoped that a successful attack and victory against the British would slow their advance and galvanize his own troops and supporters, who were despondent after a series of defeats.
  • 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.
  • Who was the main European combatant of the colonies during King William's War?
    France
  • Which of the following answers best describes the Three-Fifths Compromise at the Constitutional Convention?
    Each state could count three-fifths of their slave population towards the apportionment for seats in the House of Representatives.
  • Under what circumstances was the importation of slaves into the United States abolished?
    It was outlawed in 1808 by federal law -- the earliest date allowed by the Constitution.
  • A "Border Ruffian" during the "Bleeding Kansas" struggle was most likely to become one of these during the Civil War?
    Bushwhacker
  • Which individual, Governor of New York and one-time failed Presidential candidate, provided the funding and political backing for the Erie Canal?
    Dewitt Clinton
  • What was a lasting geographical consequence of the Quaternary Glaciation?
    The resulting glaciers formed the Great Lakes in the middle of North America.
  • 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.
  • Which future state was closely associated with the opening of new territory for white settlement and "land runs" in the late 19th century?
    Oklahoma
  • Who was the first President of the Republic of Texas?
    Sam Houston
  • Which of the following groups were most likely to support the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
    Lower-class Southerners who hoped to acquire cheap/free homesteads in Georgia and other parts of the South.
  • Which future President was wounded at the Battle of Trenton?
    James Monroe
  • What was the legacy of Francis Townsend during the Great Depression?
    His successful activism for the Townsend Plan, to provide payments to retired people, spurred Franklin Roosevelt to push for the Social Security Act.
  • In what year was the Treaty of Ghent signed (not the year it was ratified), ending the War of 1812?
    1814
  • Which answer most accurately describes the colonists' position on the English Civil War?
    The Puritan colonies of New England were more likely to support the Parliamentarians, while the Anglican colonies such as Virginia were more aligned with the Royalists.
  • Which answer best describes the early years of Frederick Douglass?
    Douglass was born and raised on a plantation in Maryland, on the eastern shore of the state.
  • The creation of Brook Farm, a communal farm in Massachusetts, was inspired by which religious or social movement?
    Transcendentalism
  • Which of the following people was not a prominent Loyalist during the American Revolution?
    Alexander Hamilton
  • Which of the following episodes in Europe most heavily contributed to the immigration of Jewish people to the United States, in the late 19th century?
    The assassination of Tsar Alexander II and a resulting wave of anti-Jewish violence in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland (all part of the Russian Empire at that time).
  • 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.
  • During the 1950s, the CIA was involved in a coup or rebellion in all of the following countries except which one?
    Greece
  • How was Washington D.C. established as the nation's capital?
    The First U.S. Congress established Washington as the capital in 1790, choosing a Southern site in return for other compromises to the Federalists.
  • 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 was not a feature of indentured servitude in the United States?
    About 80% of all white arrivals in the colonies before the American Revolution were indentured servants.
  • Ida Tarbell became a well known muckraker for her book attacking which American business magnate?
    John D. Rockefeller
  • What was Martin Luther King Jr.'s position on the Vietnam War?
    King was an early and outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War.
  • Which of the following was not an immediate consequence of the First Battle of Bull Run?
    The Confederate Army continued to move north, invading Maryland and causing panic in Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania.
  • How many times was Martin Luther King Jr. jailed during his life?
    29
  • The Erie Canal connects which two cities in New York?
    Buffalo and Albany
  • The Federal Trade Commission was created as a progressive reform under which President?
    Woodrow Wilson
  • Which of the following was not a restriction placed on the conduct or privileges of most slaves?
    Slaves were not permitted to celebrate major holidays such as Christmas.
  • Under what circumstances was the importation of slaves into the United States abolished?
    It was outlawed in 1808 by federal law -- the earliest date allowed by the Constitution.
  • 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
  • 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 did Harry Truman's Executive Order 9981 do?
    It desegregated the Armed Forces, and was implemented over the next few years.
  • What was Chester A. Arthur's political experience before he assumed the Presidency of the United States?
    He was in charge of customs collections for the Port of New York.
  • 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".

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