U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 4
23 out of 40 correct (57.5%).
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Areas for improvement:
- Women's History: 0.0% (0 out of 5)
- The Revolution and Constitution (1775-1789): 0.0% (0 out of 3)
- The U.S. Constitution: 20.0% (1 out of 5)
- The Postwar and Modern Age (1945-present): 42.9% (3 out of 7)
- U.S. Presidents: 33.3% (1 out of 3)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- United States Constitution
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Neutrality Acts of 1930s
- Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Confederate States of America
- James Buchanan
- 1967 Detroit riot
- Long hot summer of 1967
- American Civil War
- Forty acres and a mule
- Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15
- Spelman College
- Post–World War II baby boom
- Field holler
- Call and response
- Blues
- American Equal Rights Association
- First Continental Congress
- Congregational church
- Grace Hopper
- Constitutional Convention (United States)
- John Adams
- Committee of Detail
- Oregon Trail
These questions were missed:
- What is an accepted estimate for the percentage of people who died while attempting the Oregon Trail?4 percent
- Which city saw the worst rioting, in terms of lives lost and property destruction, during the disorders of 1967?Detroit
- 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.
- Which answer best describes the judicial positions of Sandra Day O'Connor?O'Connor was a moderate conservative on the Court who sometimes acted as the swing vote in important cases.
- What right(s) is the 7th Amendment written to protect?It guarantees the right to a trial by jury for any non-trivial ($20 or more) civil case, and respects that jury's findings.
- All of the colonies except for this one sent delegates to the First Continental Congress?Georgia
- What was the purpose of the Committee of Detail at the Constitutional Convention?It wrote the first draft of the United States Constitution, based on agreements that had been reached during the first few weeks of the Convention.
- What was the purpose of the Neutrality Acts in the 1930s?They were a series of acts which generally restricted or prohibited the United States to sell arms to either side in a foreign conflict. Some of the acts made small exceptions or addressed specific situations.
- Which of the following women is not a notable alumnus of Spelman College, in Atlanta?Shirley Chisholm
- Which mistaken impression did Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15 lead to?That the United States intended to distribute 40 acres of farm land to each freed slave.
- What was the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, thereby making it effective on August 18, 1920?Tennessee
- The Puritans in New England were broadly part of which Christian church?The Congregational Church
- 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.
- 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
- What was the purpose of the American Equal Rights Association?To secure equal rights, and especially the right of suffrage, irrespective of race, color or sex.
- All of the following musical terms are associated with slaves and other workers in the antebellum South except for which one?Blues
- 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.
These questions were answered correctly:
- Which of the following statements about sharecropping is inaccurate?Sharecropping was a system that only applied to black tenants.
- What did the "Ten percent" plan for Reconstruction propose?A state could be reintegrated into the Union when 10% of it's 1860 voters had taken on oath of allegiance to the United States.
- Which of the following was not a consequence of tobacco's supremacy in colonial Virginia, North Carolina, and Maryland?Large tobacco growers tried to buy additional land in Pennsylvania, coming into conflict with the Quaker settlers of that region.
- 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.
- What did the epithet of "Slave Power" refer to in the antebellum era?It was a term used by Free Soilers, and then Republicans, to refer to the upper-class of the South which dominated that region's politics and advocated for the expansion of slavery.
- 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.
- Which general was ordered to clear the Bonus Army from Washington D.C.?Douglas MacArthur
- Which city in the United States was a primary destination for Polish immigrants in the 19th century?Chicago
- Harry Truman's high-profile confrontation with which labor leader over a coal strike helped earn him a place of enmity among unions?John L. Lewis
- Which of the following was not a reason for Russia to sell Alaska?Russia was in the middle of a war with the Ottoman Empire and wanted to transfer troops out of Alaska.
- Which of the following was not a common argument made by the "free silver" movement?Free silver would eliminate the federal debt by allowing the government to quickly repay its creditors.
- What was the purpose of the Platt Amendment?It specified seven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops from Cuba, and was used to control that country's politics until the 1930s.
- What was an important short-term consequence of the Black Codes?Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 14th Amendment.
- Which treaty opened the way for the creation of Oregon Territory?The Oregon Treaty
- What was the immediate cause of the embargo that caused the 1973 Oil Crisis?In the midst of the Yom Kippur War, Richard Nixon asked Congress for emergency military aid for Israel.
- Which country was invaded in 2001 as a direct result of the September 11 attacks?Afghanistan
- Which of the following was not a long-term consequence of the California Gold Rush?The gold rush made most of the new arrivals wealthy or at least somewhat prosperous, and gave California a reputation as a land of opportunity within the United States.
- 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
- Who was the first recorded European to reach the Mississippi River?Hernando de Soto
- Which term was used as a nickname for the area of western New York where Mormonism was founded?The Burned-Over District
- Which of the following works was a key part of Walt Whitman's creative output?Leaves of Grass
- Which of the following was not an abuse that the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 attempted to remedy?It outlawed the use of dangerous substances like heroin, morphine, and cocaine in medicines.
- Which of the following types of businesses made the most extensive use of telegraphy in its early years?Railroads
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