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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Areas for improvement:
- Military History: 25.0% (2 out of 8)
- The Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1877): 33.3% (2 out of 6)
- American Indian History: 0.0% (0 out of 2)
- The Pre-Contact Era (through 1513): 0.0% (0 out of 2)
- Black History: 50.0% (4 out of 8)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- American Civil War
- Denmark Vesey
- Nat Turner
- Colin Powell
- War of 1812
- War hawk
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Transcendentalism
- Border states (American Civil War)
- Great Famine (Ireland)
- Confiscation Acts
- First Battle of Bull Run
- Jeannette Rankin
- Women's suffrage in the United States
- Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Wampanoag people
- King Philip's War
- Compromise of 1850
- Chester A. Arthur
- Tom Thumb (locomotive)
- Ku Klux Klan
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- I Have a Dream
- Social Darwinism
- Chesapeake Bay
These questions were missed:
- Which American Indian tribe was nearly destroyed in King Philip's War, starting in 1676?The Wampanoag
- Approximately how many years ago was the Chesapeake Bay first formed?10,000
- Which historian is most responsible for popularizing the term "Social Darwinism", decades after that ideology enjoyed its greatest popularity under a various terminology.Richard Hofstadter
- What was significant about the Tom Thumb?It was the first railroad locomotive to be powered by a steam engine.
- Which of the following statements about Colin Powell is not accurate?He publicly opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, and resigned from the Bush Administration shortly afterwards.
- Which of the following was not considered a "border state" during the Civil War?Tennessee
- 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 answer best describes the organization of the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1860s?A large number of distinct groups and individuals perpetrated violence under the Klan's name, in a decentralized fashion.
- 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
- Which of the following is not a quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech?"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
- A person from which of the following groups was least likely to be a "war hawk" in the run-up to the War of 1812?New England merchants who feared a loss of trade from reduced shipping.
- 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.
- What was the name of two acts, early in the Civil War, which authorized the confiscation of Confederate property and slaves?The Confiscation Acts
- 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 women was the first to be elected to Congress, in either house?Jeanette Rankin
- 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.
- Which of the following transcendentalist books or essays was not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?Civil Disobedience
- Approximately how many people died in Ireland during the Great Famine of the 1840s?1 million
These questions were answered correctly:
- 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.
- What was the primary environmental hazard that Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, advocated against?The use of pesticides
- What was a long-term legacy of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?They were an early example of a written constitution in the colonies.
- Edgar Allen Poe is often considered a pioneer of what genre or literary technique?Detective fiction
- Which state was admitted to the United States as a result of the Compromise of 1850?California
- Which of the following was a controversy related to the Free Exercise clause in the First Amendment?Whether Congress had the power to restrict polygamy, a religious practice, among Mormons in U.S. states and territories.
- 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.
- Compared to the New Deal Coalition, which group was significantly less likely to participate or be represented in the New Left?Labor union members
- Which of the following was not a key tenet of the transcendentalist movement?Individuals should actively engage in politics to drive a progressive agenda.
- 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.
- What did Jacob Riis seek to expose with his photojournalism in How the Other Half Lives?The conditions in the slums and tenements of New York, many of which were populated by recently arrived immigrants.
- What was the last major battle of the Pacific Theatre in World War II?Okinawa
- Approximately what percentage of known lynching victims in the United States were black?73 percent
- Although Abraham Lincoln won a majority of the electoral vote in the 1860 election, he won only this percent of the popular vote.39.7 percent
- The trial of John Peter Zenger is considered to be on important influence on the passage of which Constitutional Amendment?The 1st Amendment (freedom of the press)
- Which of the following was not a consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Kennedy's resulting agreement with Khrushchev?The United States agreed to not intervene in the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.
- 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
- When did holding companies first emerge in the United States?Holding companies were primarily an innovation of the 1880s and 90s, as a way to get around antitrust laws.
- What was the American Federation of Labor's basic strategy during the first years of its existence?The AFL formed as an association of trade unions, and strictly limited its focus to bargaining for better wages and working conditions for its own members, avoiding partisan politics.
- Which of the following influential black leaders was not born into slavery?W.E.B. Dubois
- 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.
- Which of the following was not an event that contributed to the First Red Scare, a period of anti-Communist frenzy after World War I.The assassination of the Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, by a self-professed radical socialist.
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