U.S. History Quiz, Final Result

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26 out of 40 correct (65.0%).

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  • 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.
  • Which of the following voting groups is not generally considered to have been part of the New Deal Coalition?
    Rural farmers from the Northeast and New England
  • Which of the following agencies had the largest role in the creation of the internet?
    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • Which of the following people did not have a large influence on the American Enlightenment?
    Samuel Johnson
  • George Whitefield was an early example of which type of preacher?
    Evangelical
  • Which of the following people was instrumental in presenting the Albany Plan, an early attempt at colonial unification?
    Benjamin Franklin
  • The creation of Brook Farm, a communal farm in Massachusetts, was inspired by which religious or social movement?
    Transcendentalism
  • Which of the following women did not heavily advocate for women's suffrage in the United States?
    Emma Goldman
  • The Pullman Strike began when George Pullman cut wages and refused to recognize the American Railway Union, which had been founded by whom?
    Eugene Debs
  • Aimee Semple McPherson was well known for all of the following things except which one?
    She was one of the first nationally-known evangelicals to extensively preach and campaign on behalf of conservative Republican politicians.
  • Although Abraham Lincoln won a majority of the electoral vote in the 1860 election, he won only this percent of the popular vote.
    39.7 percent
  • Which of the following was not a legacy of American Enlightenment thought in the 1700s?
    An increased respect for a government by consent of the governed and the social contract, influenced by Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and Jacques Rousseau.
  • 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
  • In the context of Reconstruction, which answer best describes who the Redeemers were?
    White supremacist southerners who sought to return control of state governments and federal representatives to themselves, and to limit the civil rights of former slaves and other free blacks.

These questions were answered correctly:

  • What did the Copperhead faction advocate for during the Civil War?
    Copperheads were anti-war Democrats who demanded immediate peace with the Confederacy.
  • This state was the first to secede from the Union after the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860?
    South Carolina
  • 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.
  • In the Texas Revolution, migrants from other areas of the South created an independent republic by rebelling against which nation?
    Mexico
  • Which future President built his national reputation by commanding the army that defeated Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa's forces at Tippecanoe?
    William Henry Harrison
  • What did the Judiciary Act of 1801 do?
    It reorganized the federal court system by creating new courts and changing how vacancies would be filled. This allowed for several appointments to be made by John Adams in the final days of his Administration.
  • 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)
  • What did the Supreme Court rule in the Williams v. Mississippi decision?
    It took a strict interpretation of the 15th Amendment which allowed states to require poll taxes and literacy tests.
  • What was the importance of the Liberty Ship in World War II?
    It was a simple, standardized transport ship that was easy to construct. Enough could be produced to easily make up for losses from submarine warfare.
  • What was Elizabeth Freeman most noted for?
    She won her freedom in the Massachusetts Supreme Court, in 1781, in a decision that implicitly ended slavery in that state.
  • The Nye Committee, the talk radio programs of Father Charles Coughlin, and the speech War is a Racket by Smedley Butler all helped build support for which political position?
    Isolationism
  • 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
  • Who was the founder of the American Federation of Labor?
    Samuel Gompers
  • What was the largest source of new slaves in the colonial United States?
    Most were imported from the Caribbean.
  • Which of the following was not a grievance in the Declaration of Independence?
    That the British had allied with the French without the colonists consent, and were requiring the colonies to accept French ships in their ports.
  • 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.
  • John Marshall was one of the most important members of which early American political party?
    The Federalist Party
  • 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.
  • What was Prince Hall best known for during the Revolutionary period?
    He was a prominent African-American freemason who created a black mason hall and is a father of Black Freemasonry.
  • What was the main argument against slavery made in The Impending Crisis of the South by Hinton Rowan Helper?
    Slavery was an inefficient practice and a barrier to industrialization and economic progress in the South, benefitting a tiny minority at the expense of the many.
  • Which answer best describes the political background of James Monroe?
    Monroe was a former anti-federalist who more or less continued the legacy of Jefferson and Madison.
  • 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 a large source of labor in the Province of Maryland by the mid-1700s?
    Indian slaves
  • What did the Currency Act do, and why did it become a grievance in the colonies?
    It restricted the colonies from paying British merchants with paper money backed by the various colonies, causing deflation and economic troubles, because such money almost always depreciated in relation to the British pound.
  • Which city was Al Capone's liquor empire based out of?
    Chicago
  • Which Amendment outlawed the poll tax as a condition for voting?
    The 24th Amendment

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