U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 4
24 out of 40 correct (60.0%).
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Areas for improvement:
- Women's History: 0.0% (0 out of 6)
- Ethnic History: 25.0% (1 out of 4)
- Cultural History: 50.0% (7 out of 14)
- The Pre-Contact Era (through 1513): 0.0% (0 out of 2)
- The Colonial Period (1513-1775): 33.3% (1 out of 3)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- Combined oral contraceptive pill
- Immigration Act of 1924
- United States Constitution
- Constitutional Convention (United States)
- Fallen woman
- Hernando de Soto
- Mississippi River
- Irish diaspora
- Coffin ship
- Cult of Domesticity
- Susan B. Anthony
- Lynching in the United States
- Confederate States of America
- James Buchanan
- Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- United States Bill of Rights
- Dominion of New England
- Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon
- Daughters of Bilitis
- Dorothea Dix
- Franklin Pierce
- Grace Hopper
- Appalachian Mountains
These questions were missed:
- Which of the following was not a reason that colonists generally opposed the Dominion of New England?Governor Andros signed peace treaties with multiple Indian tribes which the colonists felt were too generous.
- Which of the following statements about the Appalachian Mountains is accurate?The Appalachians were once as high as the Rocky Mountains are today.
- A "fallen woman" was a euphemism for what, in the early 1900s?A prostitute
- Which of the following statements about lynching is inaccurate?Northern politicians made little attempt to enact federal legislation against lynching.
- In what year was the United States Constitution written?1787
- 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 aspect of the "Cult of Domesticity", a term used to describe social norms for women in the mid-1800s?A good woman would do whatever it took to maintain the financial solvency of a home, even it meant working as a teacher or a local seamstress.
- What was the term "coffin ship" created to describe in the 1800s?Ships which sailed to the United States from Ireland with immigrants and did not provide adequate food or living space -- leading to mortality rates of around 30%.
- What was the long-term effect of the Immigration Act of 1924 on American demographics?Immigration to the United States shrank across the board. The level of immigration from Italy and Eastern Europe was particularly targeted for reduction by the law.
- Which answer best describes the relationship between the Bill of Rights and the laws of each state?The Bill of Rights was only applicable to the federal government until the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868.
- Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon founded the Daughters of Bilitis in 1955 to advocate for what cause?Lesbian civil and political rights
- Which of the following is not a notable contribution of Grace Hopper to computing technology?She was a key early employee of IBM and helped with the development of mainframe computing.
- Dorothea Dix inspired the passage of federal legislation to fund the construction of insane asylums, but the proposed law was vetoed by which President?Franklin Pierce
- Who was the first recorded European to reach the Mississippi River?Hernando de Soto
- What was James Buchanan's position in the last months of his term, after the Southern states began to secede?Buchanan stated that secession was illegal, but that going to war to stop it was also illegal.
- 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.
These questions were answered correctly:
- Which public figure was the subject of Walt Whitman's poem, "O Captain! My Captain!"?Abraham Lincoln
- 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.
- Which of the following best describes the role of Chester Nimitz, a U.S. commander during World War II?He was a Fleet Admiral in the Pacific and devised and executed a large part of the island-hopping strategy there.
- What was John Smith's role in the founding of Virginia?He led the colony during its most tenuous early days, enforcing discipline and establishing the location, before leaving in 1609.
- Which answer best describes the early life of Lyndon Johnson?Johnson was born in poverty in the Texas hill country, west of Austin.
- What did the Nixon Doctrine state, in the context of the Cold War?It stated that the United States would assist in the defense and developments of allies and friends, but would not undertake all the defense of the free nations of the world.
- Which answer best describes the political ideals of Jacksonian Democracy and Andrew Jackson?Supported the expansion of the vote, opposed to monopolies and elites, and supported more Western settlement. Ignored the issue of slavery in the name of unity.
- Which of the following transcendentalist books or essays was not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?Civil Disobedience
- Which Amendment was passed in response to concerns that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was unconstitutional.The 14th Amendment
- In which area did the Civil Rights Act of 1968 increase the protections of the federal government?Housing
- Which of the following states became an important destination for Swedish and Norwegian immigrants in the late 19th century?Minnesota
- Which of the following people had been approached by John Brown about his raid and declined to participate?Frederick Douglass
- Article Two of the Constitution establishes which branch of the national government?The Executive Branch
- What was the objective of the Committee for Public Information?It waged a national, coordinated speaking and propaganda campaign to build public support for the war effort during World War I.
- The Lecompton Constitution, if approved, would have allowed slavery in which U.S. state?Kansas
- What was the purpose of the "lily-white" movement in the late 1900s?It was a faction within the Republican Party that wanted to compete with Democrats in the South, around the turn of the 20th century, by driving black leaders out of the party.
- Which of the following was not a part of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, outlining his vision of the post-World War I world?The limitation of the German Army to 100,000 men after the war, and the imposition of substantial reparations to be paid by Germany to the victories allies.
- Which of the following statements about blackface is inaccurate?Blackface was rarely performed outside of the United States, and was generally looked down upon in Canada and Europe.
- The Panic of 1873 led to which economic event?The Long Depression
- Which of the following was not passed during Lyndon Johnson's Administration?The National Labor Relations Act
- Which of the following was an important, immediate precursor to the Establishment clause in the First Amendment?The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
- What is significant about the Boston Manufacturing Company in American industrial history?It built the first integrated spinning and weaving factory in the world to manufacture textiles.
- Under what circumstances was the Central Intelligence Agency founded?It was established in 1947, consolidating other intelligence departments which had operated during World War II.
- All of the following musical terms are associated with slaves and other workers in the antebellum South except for which one?Blues
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