U.S. History Quiz, Final Result

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23 out of 40 correct (57.5%).

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  • 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.
  • How did the Navajo people obtain most of their food, historically?
    After the arrival of the Spanish, the Navajo took to herding large numbers of sheep and goats.
  • Miles Davis was a famous musician in the 1950s and afterwards in what genre?
    Jazz
  • Which of the following statements about the Appalachian Mountains is accurate?
    The Appalachians were once as high as the Rocky Mountains are today.
  • 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 groups was never a part of the Iroquois Confederation?
    Wyandot
  • 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.
  • How were bison most commonly hunted in pre-contact and prehistoric times?
    The Plains Indians generally set traps and used costumes or fires to herd the bison into them, or over the sides of cliffs.
  • Scott Joplin was a famous composer of which music genre, in the early 1900s?
    Ragtime
  • How many times was Martin Luther King Jr. jailed during his life?
    29
  • What was an objection by the Federalist Party to the Louisiana Purchase?
    The Federalists argued that it was unconstitutional for the United States to acquire any additional territory that it did not possess in 1789.
  • What was Elizabeth Freeman most noted for?
    She won her freedom in the Massachusetts Supreme Court, in 1781, in a decision that implicitly ended slavery in that state.
  • Robert La Follette Sr., a long-time progressive Republican, ran for President as a third-party candidate in which election? He received 17% of the nation's popular vote.
    1924
  • Which of the following is a U.S. state or territory that Christopher Columbus set foot on during his life?
    Puerto Rico
  • 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.
  • What subject does the 11th Amendment deal with?
    It attempts to clarify under what circumstances a U.S. state can be subject to a lawsuit by the federal government or by citizens of a different state.
  • Ernest Hemingway first became well-known for his novel The Sun Also Rises portraying the Lost Generation after World War I. Where does much of this novel take place?
    Spain

These questions were answered correctly:

  • What was Tecumseh's strategy during the War of 1812?
    Tecumseh allied his forces with British, believing that a British victory would help restrict western settlement.
  • Which of the following was not a part of the Treaty of Paris in 1783?
    The United States would obtain all land between the Mississippi and the Atlantic Ocean that was south of Canada, including eastern Louisiana and Florida.
  • Which journalist was briefly charged with conspiracy and espionage for releasing the Pentagon Papers, which revealed falsehoods that had been used to draw the U.S. into the Vietnam War?
    Daniel Ellsberg
  • Which of the following statements about lynching is inaccurate?
    Northern politicians made little attempt to enact federal legislation against lynching.
  • Which civil rights organization did Martin Luther King Jr. help establish? He was the first President of this organization.
    The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
  • The Supreme Court's Lochner v. New York decision began the Lochner era, in which the Supreme Court regularly stuck down which types of laws?
    Laws that regulated the working hours and conditions of employees.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • What was the importance of the Liberty Ship in World War II?
    It was a simple, standardized transport ship that was easy to construct. Enough could be produced to easily make up for losses from submarine warfare.
  • Which global event loomed as a specter for southern slaveowners throughout the 19th century, in the context of the executions of Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner?
    The Haitian Revolution of Toussaint Louverture
  • What was the objective of the Freedmen's Bureau?
    It was an agency that was intended to generally aid freed slaves in the South during the first years after the Civil War.
  • In what year was the United States Constitution written?
    1787
  • 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.
  • What was notable about Theodore Roosevelt's involvement in the Coal Strike of 1902?
    It was the first labor action in which the federal government intervened as a relatively neutral mediator.
  • Which of the following answers best describes Cahokia?
    It was a large settlement on the banks of the Mississippi River which held up to 40,000 people and had several large mounds which still exist.
  • In which city did the Stonewall Riots occur? They are commonly seen as a turning point in the history of gay activism.
    New York
  • During its peak, areas with substantial incidents of lynching were correlated with each of the following factors except which one?
    The African American population was relatively small and isolated.
  • At the height of the postwar Baby Boom, in the late 1950s, the fertility rate per woman reached which point (vs. 1.9 in 2014)?
    3.7
  • Which of the following regulatory agencies was created under Lyndon Johnson's Administration?
    The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  • What was the primary environmental hazard that Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, advocated against?
    The use of pesticides
  • Which Southern Congressman became well-known for beating Senator Charles Sumner almost to death with a cane on the Senate floor, in 1856?
    Preston Brooks
  • What was the nature of the law that was upheld in Munn v. Illinois?
    The Court upheld a law setting maximum rates that private companies could charge for the storage and transport of agricultural products, mainly aimed at grain elevators and railroads.
  • What was a key argument advanced in the Massachusetts Circular Letter, in response to the Townshend Acts?
    The Townshend Acts were unconstitutional because the colony of Massachusetts was not represented in Parliament.

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