U.S. History Quiz, Final Result
The final score on this quiz is a 3
22 out of 40 correct (55.0%).
stalapaneni
U.S. History Resources
Areas for improvement:
- Economic History: 33.3% (4 out of 12)
- The Postwar and Modern Age (1945-present): 16.7% (1 out of 6)
- Military History: 44.4% (4 out of 9)
- Political History: 51.9% (14 out of 27)
- Cultural History: 50.0% (6 out of 12)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- American Civil War
- Gilded Age
- Madonna
- World War I
- Committee on Public Information
- History of the Jews in the United States
- History of the Poles in the United States
- Italian American
- International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
- 1953 Iranian coup d'état
- 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Cold War
- Open Door Policy
- Greenback (money)
- Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Mapp v. Ohio
- Albany Plan
- Benjamin Franklin
- Mississippian culture
- Abraham Lincoln
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Patriot (American Revolution)
- Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
- Boston Manufacturing Company
- Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon
- Daughters of Bilitis
- Pearl S. Buck
- Comstock laws
- Freedmen's Bureau
- Reconstruction Era
These questions were missed:
- 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.
- Which of the following statements about the Emancipation Proclamation is not accurate?The Proclamation immediately freed about 500 thousand slaves from Confederate states, who had either escaped or lived in areas that the Union had captured.
- Pearl Buck won a Pulitzer Prize and was the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. Her novels generally took place in which country?China
- Which of the following was not a feature of the Gilded Age?Advancements in working conditions and worker safety, and a reduction of fatalities on railroads and in coal mines.
- The Freedmen's Bureau was in operation from 1865 until what year?1872
- Which of the following people was instrumental in presenting the Albany Plan, an early attempt at colonial unification?Benjamin Franklin
- The Mapp v. Ohio decision strengthened the protections of which Amendment?The 4th Amendment
- Which of the following is not a change in immigration policy that began with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?It rescinded a provision prohibiting the immigration of homosexuals to the United States.
- Immigrants from which of the following ethnicities did not provide a significant portion of the membership to the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union?Swedish
- 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.
- What was an important long-term effect of the Comstock Law, passed in 1873?By limiting the dissemination of materials on sexuality and specifically birth control, the law likely delayed the widespread use of it for many years.
- The Open-Door Policy, announced in 1899, was designed to protect American business interests in which country or region?China
- Which of the following is not a song by Madonna?Time After Time
- To finance the Civil War, the United States issued Greenbacks as currency. Which of the following was used to back this currency?They were backed by the United States government, but not by any precious metal
- Historians estimate that about what percentage of white colonials supported the Patriot cause in the American Revolution?40-45 percent
- Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon founded the Daughters of Bilitis in 1955 to advocate for what cause?Lesbian civil and political rights
- During the 1950s, the CIA was involved in a coup or rebellion in all of the following countries except which one?Greece
- The Mississippian cultures shared all of the following characteristics except which one?A highly developed system of writing that later fell into disuse.
These questions were answered correctly:
- Besides the surrender of a British army, what was an important positive effect of the Battle of Saratoga for the United States?France realized that the Americans had hope of winning the war, and began fully aiding the colonists by sending soldiers, donations, loans, military arms, and supplies.
- Charles Lindberg was well-known during his life for all of the following things except which one?Late in his life, Lindberg became a prominent advocate against manned space travel and the Apollo program, saying that these programs wasted money and distracted from more important issues on Earth.
- Who was the first President of the Tuskegee Institute?Booker T. Washington
- Margaret Mead, an anthropologist, studied the sexual behavior of people in which foreign location? Her work was controversial and seen by many as undermining the values of monogamy.Samoa
- Which answer best describes the political background of Martin Van Buren?Van Buren was a Democrat and protégé of Andrew Jackson, and largely continued Jackson's policies during his own time as President.
- Overall, how did the American public feel about Andrew Johnson's impeachment?Johnson was not a popular President, but most people opposed his impeachment.
- Jonathan Edwards was a key preacher in which religious movement?The First Great Awakening
- Which of the following individuals was not considered a "political boss" of an urban political machine?Al Smith
- Which of the following tribes did Sacagawea come from?Shoshone
- Which religious minority did the Maryland Toleration Act, passed in 1649, most directly benefit?Catholics
- 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.
- 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
- Which incident most directly led to the creation of the Apollo Program's mission of putting a man on the moon?The launching of Yuri Gagarin into orbit by the Soviet Union, in 1961.
- Which of the following statements about sharecropping is inaccurate?Sharecropping was a system that only applied to black tenants.
- A "fallen woman" was a euphemism for what, in the early 1900s?A prostitute
- What was the position of Frederick Douglass on women's suffrage?Douglass supported women's suffrage, but broke with many in the movement by supporting the ratification of the 15th Amendment, even though it did not include women.
- What did Harry Truman's Executive Order 9981 do?It desegregated the Armed Forces, and was implemented over the next few years.
- Which of the following was not a common rationale for Prohibition, or the banning of alcohol sales under the 18th Amendment?Urban Catholics believed that the quality of life and reputation of their neighborhoods would be improved under Prohibition.
- What events led to the Embargo Act of 1807?Britain and France seized numerous American ships as contraband of war, with each country trying to cut off trade to the other.
- Jane Addams was best known as a pioneer of which movement?The settlement house movement
- Which of the following mythical things was Francisco Vázquez de Coronado searching for on his expedition?The Seven Cities of Gold
- 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.
The 1-5 rating provided is an approximation, includes no written response questions, and is not guaranteed to be calibrated with the scores received on similar tests. It is derived from both your overall success rate, and from the difficulty of the questions that you answer correctly and incorrectly.