U.S. History Quiz, Final Result

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22 out of 40 correct (55.0%).

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  • Which of the following was a significant cause of Polish, and to a lesser extent, Jewish immigration to the United States in the 19th century?
    Poverty in Austrian Galicia
  • What was the purpose of the Olive Branch Petition?
    It affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflict.
  • Which answer best describes what "personal liberty laws" were in the 19th century?
    They were laws passed by many Northern states to counter the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850, for example by allowing jury trials for escaped slaves and forbidding state authorities from cooperating in their capture.
  • Approximately how many years ago was the Chesapeake Bay first formed?
    10,000
  • Who was the first colonial figure to grow tobacco as a cash crop?
    John Rolfe
  • What was the importance of the Stabilization Act of 1942?
    It controlled prices and wages to prevent inflation during the war.
  • Approximately how many race riots occurred in the United States during the summer of 1967, often known as the long hot summer?
    159
  • Margaret Mead, an anthropologist, studied the sexual behavior of people in which foreign location? Her work was controversial and seen by many as undermining the values of monogamy.
    Samoa
  • The Supreme Court overturned Munn v. Illinois in 1886 with Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois. Which federal law was most directly passed in response to this case?
    The Interstate Commerce Act
  • What was a "Gibson Girl" around the turn of the 20th century?
    It was a cartoon series that semi-comically depicted a modern, confident, fashionable woman and her happenings, but did not involve her in the women's political movements of the time.
  • Which of the following factors did not contribute to an influx of farmers to the Great Plains, many of whom would later become the backbone of the Farmer's Alliance and populist movement?
    Prime farmland in California and Oregon was largely occupied by the 1870s, and younger settlers began to move east towards Montana and Colorado.
  • Which of the following musicians was not influential in the early development and popularity of rock and roll, in the 1950s?
    Marvin Gaye
  • Which Amendment lowered the minimum voting age from 21 to 18?
    The 26th Amendment
  • Janet Reno was the first woman to serve in which Cabinet position?
    Attorney General
  • Which of the following people did not have a large influence on the American Enlightenment?
    Samuel Johnson
  • Which of the following was not a tactic used by the Continental Association to enforce its boycott, between 1774 and the outbreak of fighting in 1775?
    Exports from the colonies to Britain, Ireland, or the British West Indies were immediately cut off.
  • Which of the following is not a quotation from the Declaration of Sentiments?
    "He has subjected her to taxation without the right of representation in the legislature."
  • Which of the following people, with his adaption of "Jump Jim Crow", helped popularize blackface in the 1830s?
    Thomas D. Rice

These questions were answered correctly:

  • Which of the following points is not one that is made in Judith Sargent Murray's On the Equality of the Sexes, published in 1790?
    Voting is an expression of equality, and women cannot have equal respect until they also have the vote.
  • Which of the following does the "Corrupt Bargain" refer to, in its early 19th century usage?
    The alliance between supporters of John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay to elect Adams in the 1824 election. Andrew Jackson had won a plurality of electoral votes, but not a majority, and lost the final vote in the House of Representatives.
  • Which state was admitted to the United States as a result of the Compromise of 1850?
    California
  • What was the motive for Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of John F. Kennedy?
    There was no clear motive, and the Warren Commission determined that Oswald acted alone, although many theories have proliferated.
  • Which of the following is not a song by Madonna?
    Time After Time
  • In what city was Jane Addams's Hull House located?
    Chicago
  • What events led to the Embargo Act of 1807?
    Britain and France seized numerous American ships as contraband of war, with each country trying to cut off trade to the other.
  • Which Amendment gave Washington D.C. the right to vote in Presidential elections?
    The 23rd Amendment
  • 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 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.
  • George Whitefield was an early example of which type of preacher?
    Evangelical
  • Which of the following statements about the North American fur trade is not accurate?
    The fur trade was in decline by the mid 1700s.
  • The United States military suffered more fatalities fighting against a rebellion in this territory, obtained from Spain, than it did in the Spanish-American War itself.
    The Philippines
  • 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.
  • Which of the following best describes the Battle of Midway in World War II?
    It was a decisive American naval victory against a Japanese fleet near Midway island in the central Pacific.
  • What was Omar Bradley most noted for in World War II?
    He was a five-star General who commanded all U.S. ground forces in Western Europe.
  • Which of the following movements or policies did Sojourner Truth not strongly advocate for during her life?
    The Exoduster movement of blacks away from the South after Reconstruction.
  • On which river did Robert Fulton help to build a successful steamboat line, proving the benefits of the technology?
    The Hudson River
  • 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.
  • Which early president is most closely associated with the begin of the "spoils system" in the federal government?
    Andrew Jackson
  • Which church, founded by Richard Allen in 1816, is the oldest independent Protestant denomination founded by black people in the world?
    The African Methodist Episcopal Church
  • The Liberal Republican Party was founded for all of the following reasons except which one?
    It advocated the passage of a constitutional amendment, limiting the President to two terms in office.

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