U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 3
19 out of 40 correct (47.5%).
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Areas for improvement:
- Economic History: 33.3% (6 out of 18)
- Women's History: 0.0% (0 out of 5)
- Cultural History: 37.5% (6 out of 16)
- The Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1877-1929): 40.0% (4 out of 10)
- Black History: 25.0% (1 out of 4)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- United States Constitution
- Mark Twain
- Gilded Age
- New Jersey Plan
- Constitutional Convention (United States)
- Blackface
- Free Soil Party
- Frances Perkins
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Harlem Renaissance
- California Gold Rush
- Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Bison hunting
- Agricultural Adjustment Act
- New Deal
- Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938
- Ten percent plan
- Reconstruction Era
- Abraham Lincoln
- People's Party (United States)
- Farmers' Alliance
- Supremacy Clause
- Jane Addams
- Settlement movement
- Anne Hutchinson
- Insular Cases
- Billie Holiday
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
- Field holler
- Call and response
- Blues
- American system of manufacturing
- Division of labour
- Machine tool
- Interchangeable parts
- Post–World War II baby boom
These questions were missed:
- All of the following musical terms are associated with slaves and other workers in the antebellum South except for which one?Blues
- Which of the following is not a song that was sung by Billie Holiday?Maybelene
- What was a fear or concern that guided the introduction of the New Jersey Plan at the Constitutional Convention?Larger states would control the workings of the new federal government if proportional representation was used in the legislature.
- 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.
- All of the following writers are associated with the Harlem Renaissance except which one?Alice Walker
- What topic did the insular cases deal with during the 19th century?They were a series of Supreme Court decisions which held that full constitutional rights do not automatically extend to all places under American control, which was relevant to the Spanish-American War.
- Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in the Cabinet, under Franklin Roosevelt, serving 12 years as the Secretary of which Department?The Department of Labor
- To what extent did the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 change the previous Agricultural Adjustment Act?Due to a Supreme Court challenge of the initial law, the second law replaced the method of funding the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Other aspects remained largely the same.
- Which person coined the term "Gilded Age" to describe the late 1800s?Mark Twain
- What was the most important consequence of the Free Soil Party?It established the anti-slavery positions on the western territories that would later became an essential part of the Republican platform.
- 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 of the following does not follow from the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution?The supremacy of the federal government is not limited by the original seven articles of the Constitution, although subsequent Amendments did limit it in some areas.
- Which of the following answers does not describe an aspect of the American system of manufacturing, as it was in the 19th century?Use of a skilled worker to assemble the mass-produced parts into a finished product.
- Which Founding Father and longest-surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence also helped create the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad?Charles Carroll of Carrollton
- Which of the following statements about blackface, specifically in the 1830s and 40s, is inaccurate?Blackface generally provided an authentic look at the trials and travails of slavery.
- 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 was not an important long-term consequence of the Baby Boom?Baby Boomers began to vote in the late 1960s, and were much more likely to oppose the Vietnam War than older people were.
- 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.
- Which of the following politicians was a strong supporter of the "Ten percent" plan?Abraham Lincoln
- Jane Addams was best known as a pioneer of which movement?The settlement house movement
- The Farmer's Alliance most directly led to the founding of which political party?The People's Party
These questions were answered correctly:
- 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 was Omar Bradley most noted for in World War II?He was a five-star General who commanded all U.S. ground forces in Western Europe.
- The Supreme Court overturned Munn v. Illinois in 1886 with Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois. Which federal law was most directly passed in response to this case?The Interstate Commerce Act
- What was not a reason that the House of Burgesses was established in Virginia?The legislature was meant to replace the colonial governor, after a serious of ineffective leaders and near revolts.
- Which President said, "If I can catch any man with a hyphen in this great contest I will know that I have got an enemy of the Republic." about "hyphenated Americans"?Woodrow Wilson
- What was the ultimate outcome of the "Bleeding Kansas" struggle in the 1850s?Kansas was not admitted until the secession of the Southern states began, in spite of submitting three potential state Constitutions to the U.S. Congress.
- What was the ultimate outcome of the "Bleeding Kansas" struggle in the 1850s?Kansas was not admitted until the secession of the Southern states began, in spite of submitting three potential state Constitutions to the U.S. Congress.
- What was the ultimate outcome of the "Bleeding Kansas" struggle in the 1850s?Kansas was not admitted until the secession of the Southern states began, in spite of submitting three potential state Constitutions to the U.S. Congress.
- Which of the following did not contribute to the decline of the Chautauqua companies, who had provided entertainment, lectures, and shows to small towns and rural areas of the United States?World War II
- Radical Republicans made this proposal in response to the "Ten percent" plan, which they saw as too lenient.The Wade-Davis Bill
- Which of the following people was a longtime leader of the Nation of Islam?Elijah Muhammad
- 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.
- In what year was the Treaty of Ghent signed (not the year it was ratified), ending the War of 1812?1814
- Which of the following best describes the Guadalcanal Campaign in World War II?It was the invasion of a Pacific island by Marines in 1942, the first in a long series of "island-hopping" maneuvers.
- 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.
- In what important way did the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 change previous precedents on slavery in the United States?By allowing for the possibility of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska, it overturned the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
- Which of the following was an important, immediate precursor to the Establishment clause in the First Amendment?The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
- Before his capture of an arsenal in Virginia, how else did John Brown fight for the abolition of slavery?He had fought in some engagements in Kansas, and had killed five pro-slavery men in a massacre.
- Which of the following transcendentalist books or essays was not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?Civil Disobedience
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