U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 3
21 out of 40 correct (52.5%).
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U.S. History Resources
Areas for improvement:
- Cultural History: 33.3% (5 out of 15)
- Black History: 12.5% (1 out of 8)
- The Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1877-1929): 20.0% (1 out of 5)
- Women's History: 37.5% (3 out of 8)
- The Postwar and Modern Age (1945-present): 37.5% (3 out of 8)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- Advertising
- Edward Bernays
- Frederick Douglass
- John Brown (abolitionist)
- Jamestown, Virginia
- Sojourner Truth
- Bacon's Rebellion
- Slavery in the colonial United States
- National Road
- James Monroe
- Harlem Renaissance
- Anne Hutchinson
- Blackface
- Tehran Conference
- World War II
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Wilma Rudolph
- Richard Nixon
- Comprehensive Child Development Bill of 1972
- George F. Kennan
- Containment
- Cold War
- Second-wave feminism
- Gloria Steinem
- Bebop
- Social justice
- John D. Rockefeller
- Spelman College
These questions were missed:
- What was significant about the National Road, on which construction began in 1811?It was the first major initiative taken by the federal government to build a highway.
- What would the Comprehensive Child Development Bill of 1972 have provided federal funding for, had it not been vetoed by Richard Nixon?A national day care system
- Which of the following people had been approached by John Brown about his raid and declined to participate?Frederick Douglass
- Which of the following statements about Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is not accurate?Abraham Lincoln later said to Stowe, "So this is the little lady who started this great war."
- 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 of the following people were most responsible for initially developing the doctrine of Containment?George Kennan
- What was Wilma Rudolph best known for?She was the first American woman to win three gold medals in track at a single Olympics.
- Which of the following musicians is closely associated with the bebop style of jazz?Charlie Parker
- Edward Bernays is best-known as a pioneer of which industry?Advertising and Marketing
- Which of the following people was not an early advocate for the social justice movement in the late 19th century?William Graham Sumner
- All of the following writers are associated with the Harlem Renaissance except which one?Alice Walker
- Which of the following is not something that was agreed to at the Tehran Conference in late 1943?The division of Germany into four occupation zones, which later coalesced into East Germany and West Germany.
- 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".
- 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.
- Who was Jamestown, Virginia named after?King James I of England
- Which of the following was an important long-term consequence of Bacon's Rebellion, in 1676?Because many indentured servants had joined the rebellion, Virginia's planters came to rely more heavily on slaves and hardened the colony's racial lines.
- Which of the following statements about Gloria Steinem is inaccurate?She created the feminist saying, A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
- 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.
- Which of the following northerners was an early supporter of Spelman College, a college for black women founded in 1881?John D. Rockefeller
These questions were answered correctly:
- 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.
- What was the first railroad, in 1852, to reach the Ohio River from the Eastern Seaboard?The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
- 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.
- What was the primary objective of the Selma to Montgomery marches?The passage of a Voting Rights Act
- Which of the following statements about St. Augustine, Florida is not true?It was the original capital of Florida when it became a state, in 1845.
- 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.
- Which of the following groups or organizations was not closely associated with the Redeemer movement that forced Republicans and blacks out of the Southern political process.The National Rifle Association
- Which of the following people wrote The Feminine Mystique? This book is commonly credited as a milestone in the feminist movement.Betty Friedan
- Which of the following clauses was not a part of the Missouri Compromise?No free state would be admitted in the future, without a slave state being admitted simultaneously to keep an equal balance between free and slave states, and vice versa.
- 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%.
- Approximately how long ago did the Rocky Mountains form?Around 60 million years ago, during the Laramide orogeny.
- Which of the following was not an impact on American religious practice that resulted from the Second Great Awakening?A more clear separation that emerged between religious revivals, and the social and political movements of the times.
- What was a key element of the Virginia Plan, as it was initially presented to the Constitutional Convention?The Virginia Plan called for a bicameral legislature with membership apportioned according to population, which would benefit populous states like Virginia.
- 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
- Joseph McCarthy's fruitless and unpopular investigation of which agency or organization led to his political downfall and eventual censure?The U.S. Army
- 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
- How many articles are in the United States Constitution, not including the Preamble?Seven
- Under what circumstances was the Province of New Jersey founded?New Jersey was initially part of New Amsterdam, but was taken by the English along with New York and parceled out as a separate colony.
- In what year was the Treaty of Ghent signed (not the year it was ratified), ending the War of 1812?1814
- The Order of the Star Spangled Banner was a precursor to which political party?The Know Nothing Party
- What was Phillis Wheatley best known for?She was a notable African-American poet in the 1770s, read in both the colonies and in Britain.
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