U.S. History Quiz, Final Result

The final score on this quiz is a 3

23 out of 40 correct (57.5%).

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  • Which answer best describes the term "forty-eighters"?
    It described Europeans, primarily Germans, who immigrated to the United States after a series of failed revolutions in Europe in 1848.
  • The People's Party, also known as the Populist Party, drew its strongest support from which constituency?
    Farmers
  • 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.
  • Which of the following statements about the U.S. strategic bombing of Europe is not accurate?
    German war production declined after 1943 due to heavy damage from the bombings.
  • 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
  • Jane Addams was best known as a pioneer of which movement?
    The settlement house movement
  • What law or decision effectively caused the repeal of the Missouri Compromise?
    The Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • 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.
  • Which civil rights organization did Martin Luther King Jr. help establish? He was the first President of this organization.
    The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
  • Which of the following was not a program implemented by the Freedman's Bureau during Reconstruction?
    It helped freed slaves who wished to leave the South, migrate to other regions of the country.
  • The Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education allowed federal courts to require school districts to bus students to achieve racial balance. In what year was the case decided?
    1971
  • What was an early use of executive privilege, by George Washington?
    Washington refused to provide documents to the House of Representatives that related to the negotiation of the Jay Treaty with Great Britain.
  • Which of the following events most directly led to prejudice against Poles in the United States, at least for a time?
    The Assassination of William McKinley
  • Which "independent", a former confidant of Abraham Lincoln, provided the decisive vote on the Electoral Commission which settled the Election of 1876 in favor of Rutherford Hayes?
    David Davis
  • Which war or conflict did the XYZ Affair most directly lead to?
    The Quasi-War
  • Miles Davis was a famous musician in the 1950s and afterwards in what genre?
    Jazz
  • What was the name of two acts, early in the Civil War, which authorized the confiscation of Confederate property and slaves?
    The Confiscation Acts

These questions were answered correctly:

  • The War Production Board was in charge of all of the following during World War II except what?
    Production of films and speeches aimed at improving civilian morale.
  • What was the name of George Washington's plantation?
    Mount Vernon
  • Which of the following areas did not become a United States territory or protectorate for some amount of time as a result of the Spanish-American War and the Treaty of Paris?
    Santo Domingo
  • Which of the following factors did not contribute to the extensive cattle economy and cattle drives of Texas and the West?
    Freed slaves provided a cheap, reliable source of labor for herding and tending to cattle.
  • Dorothea Dix was a 19th century social reformer who primarily focused on which issue?
    The treatment of the indigent insane
  • What right(s) is the 5th Amendment written to protect?
    No person can be forced to testify against themselves in a criminal case.
  • Which policy proposal did Coxey's Army primarily focus on during their march to Washington in 1894?
    The creation of public works jobs by the government to reduce unemployment
  • Which of the following women was not an important women's suffrage advocate in the final years before the 19th Amendment?
    Aimee Semple McPherson
  • What was the legacy of Francis Townsend during the Great Depression?
    His successful activism for the Townsend Plan, to provide payments to retired people, spurred Franklin Roosevelt to push for the Social Security Act.
  • Approximately how many blacks were killed in the aftermath of Nat Turner's rebellion, both legally and through mob violence?
    About 250
  • What was a typical working week, in hours, for the women who worked in the Lowell mills in the 1830s and 40s?
    75 hours
  • Which of the following people was not a prominent Loyalist during the American Revolution?
    Alexander Hamilton
  • Which answer best describes what "personal liberty laws" were in the 19th century?
    They were laws passed by many Northern states to counter the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850, for example by allowing jury trials for escaped slaves and forbidding state authorities from cooperating in their capture.
  • What group did the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry advocate for politically?
    Farmers
  • Who was the first President of the Tuskegee Institute?
    Booker T. Washington
  • 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
  • What was a common nickname for the British soldiers/army during the Revolutionary period?
    Red coats
  • How did Rutherford B. Hayes ultimately respond to the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
    After a few weeks, Hayes dispatched federal troops to several cities in order to put down the strikes, so that the nation's rail traffic could begin to move again.
  • Which of the following is a legacy of John Marshall's time on the Supreme Court?
    Marshall established the Supreme Court as a powerful American institution, the Court having been considered a minor body under the three previous Chief Justices.
  • 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".
  • The Electoral College deadlock between Thomas Jefferson and which other person led to the passage of the 12th Amendment?
    Aaron Burr
  • What does the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution do?
    It protects the rights of states and individuals, by reserving for them those rights which are not granted to the United States government.
  • 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.

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