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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Areas for improvement:
- The Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1877-1929): 11.1% (1 out of 9)
- The Pre-Contact Era (through 1513): 0.0% (0 out of 2)
- Black History: 42.9% (3 out of 7)
- Women's History: 0.0% (0 out of 1)
- American Indian History: 50.0% (2 out of 4)
At least one question missed covering the following topics:
- Andrew Carnegie
- Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
- Province of Maryland
- Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Cliff dwelling
- Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Lynching in the United States
- Insular Cases
- Tehran Conference
- World War II
- Upton Sinclair
- Field holler
- Call and response
- Blues
- Second Great Migration (African American)
- Dawes Act
- Elizabeth Key Grinstead
- Chesapeake Bay
These questions were missed:
- Which of the following was not something that Andrew Carnegie devoted significant philanthropic resources to?Parochial schools and churches
- Which Amendment lowered the minimum voting age from 21 to 18?The 26th Amendment
- 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 was not something that Andrew Carnegie devoted significant philanthropic resources to?Parochial schools and churches
- Which of the following was not something that Andrew Carnegie devoted significant philanthropic resources to?Parochial schools and churches
- Which of the following was not something that Andrew Carnegie devoted significant philanthropic resources to?Parochial schools and churches
- Which of the following was not something that Andrew Carnegie devoted significant philanthropic resources to?Parochial schools and churches
- Which of the following is not a topic that Upton Sinclair covered in one of his muckraking novels?A political novel about a popular Senator who becomes President, then imposes fascist rule.
- In which region of the country was opposition to the 16th Amendment, allowing for a federal income tax, the strongest?New England
- At what point were the cliff dwellings of the Pueblo people, in the American southwest, abandoned by their occupants?Around 1300, due to climactic changes which reduced landfall and made the land too arid.
- 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 not a large source of labor in the Province of Maryland by the mid-1700s?Indian slaves
- At the end of the Civil War, a little over 90% of black Americans lived in the South. What was this percentage after the Second Great Migration ended, around 1970?53 percent
- What was Elizabeth Key Grinstead known for in the English colonial period?She was an early slave who sued and won her freedom in the courts, before laws on slavery were made more strict.
- Approximately how many years ago was the Chesapeake Bay first formed?10,000
- Robert La Follette Sr., a long-time progressive Republican, ran for President as a third-party candidate in which election? He received 17% of the nation's popular vote.1924
- Which of the following was not an element of the Dawes Act, in 1887?Any remaining land in a reservation after allotments were finished would remain in the hands of the tribe in question, to manage as the tribe deemed fit.
- Which of the following statements about lynching is inaccurate?Northern politicians made little attempt to enact federal legislation against lynching.
- 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.
These questions were answered correctly:
- 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 an immediate consequence of the Battle of Antietam?Ulysses Grant was recalled from the west to take overall command of the Union Army.
- The creation of Brook Farm, a communal farm in Massachusetts, was inspired by which religious or social movement?Transcendentalism
- Which speaker preceded Abraham Lincoln before he made the Gettysburg Address?Edward Everett
- 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 an immediate consequence of the Battle of Antietam?Ulysses Grant was recalled from the west to take overall command of the Union Army.
- Which speaker preceded Abraham Lincoln before he made the Gettysburg Address?Edward Everett
- Wilson was incapacitated by a stroke for the final year of his Administration. Parts of which Constitutional Amendment address this situation?The 25th Amendment
- What did the Supreme Court's Engel v. Vitale decision do?It ruled that public schools could not require their students to say a prayer.
- Which answer best describes what the Coffin Handbills were?They were a series of attacks by supporters of John Quincy Adams in 1828, that accused Andrew Jackson of numerous murders and bloodthirsty military actions during his rise from obscurity to national prominence.
- The Ku Klux Klan experienced a revival in the 1920s. Which of the following was not advocated for by the Klan during this period?Believing the Democratic Party had become too infused with foreigners, the Klan worked for the election of Republicans, in contrast to its role in the 1870s.
- Which of the following people was a longtime leader of the Nation of Islam?Elijah Muhammad
- What was a particularly unique belief of the Shakers, a Christian group that came to prominence during the Second Great Awakening?The Shakers believed that all forms of sexual intercourse were sinful and enforced the practice of celibacy in their communities.
- Which of the following was not a consequence to the United States of the Great Famine and the Irish diaspora?The Democratic Party gained a significant bloc of support by attacking Irish immigrants, until it changed course after the Civil War.
- Which of the following, from the point of view of the English Crown, was not a benefit of the proprietary colony?Such colonies allowed all colonists a voice in the local government, minimizing the chance of unrest.
- Andrew Jackson won a plurality of the popular vote in the 1824 Presidential election. Which two opponents did he accuse of stealing that election in a "corrupt bargain"?John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay
- All of the colonies except for this one sent delegates to the First Continental Congress?Georgia
- 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.
- All of the following proposals in Harry Truman's Fair Deal failed to pass in Congress except which one?Federal funding for slum clearance and the construction of public housing
- What was Hiram Rhodes Revels best known for?He was the first black man to become a United States Senator.
- What did the Corwin Amendment state and what was its purpose?It was proposed shortly before the inauguration of President Lincoln, and would have forbidden any additional Constitutional Amendments to restrict slavery where it already existed. It was an 11th hour attempt at compromise before the Civil War.
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