Answers
1. What was the source of the following
phrase: “Government of the people,
by the people, for the people”?
a. The speech: “I have a Dream”
b. Declaration of Independence
c. U.S. Constitution
d. Gettsyburg Address (22%)
2. Who was the leading advocate for the
U.S. entry into the League of Nations?
a. George C. Marshall
b. Woodrow Wilson (69%)
c. Henry Cabot Lodge
d. Eleanor Roosevelt
3. What was the lowest point in American
fortunes in the Revolutionary War?
a. Saratoga
b. Bunker Hill
c. Valley Forge (38%)
d. Fort Ticonderoga
4. Who was the “Father of the Constitution”?
a. George Washington
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. Benjamin Franklin
d. James Madison (23%)
5. Who was the president of the United
States at the beginning of the Korean War?
a. John F. Kennedy
b. Franklin D. Roosevelt
c. Dwight Eisenhower
d. Harry Truman (73%)
6. The Emancipation Proclamation issued
by Lincoln stated that:
a. Slaves were free in areas of the
Confederate states not held by the Union (35%)
b. The slave trade was illegal
c. Slaves who fled to Canada would be
protected
d. Slavery was abolished in the Union
7. The Battle of the Bulge occurred during
a. The Vietnam War
b. World War II (37%)
c. World War I
d. The Civil War
8. Are Beavis and Butthead
a. A radio show
b. Television cartoon characters (99%)
c. A musical group
d. Fictional soldiers
9. The Monroe Doctrine declared that:
a. The American blockade of Cuba was in
accord with international law
b. Europe should not acquire new territories
in the Western Hemisphere (62%)
c. Trade with China should be open to all
Western nations
d. The annexation of the Philippines was
legitimate
10. Which of the following was a prominent
leader of the Abolitionist Movement?
a. Malcolm X
b. Martin Luther King Jr.
c. W.E.B. Du Bois
d. Frederick Douglass (73%)
11. Social legislation passed under
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great
Society Program included:
a. The Sherman Antitrust Act
b. The Voting Rights Act (30%)
c. The Tennessee Valley Authority
d. The Civilian Conservation Corps
12. Who was the European who traveled
in the United States and wrote down
perceptive comments about what he
saw in Democracy in America?
a. Lafayette
b. Tocqueville (49%)
c. Crevecoeur
d. Napoleon
13. Who said, “I regret that I have only
one life to give for my country”?
a. John F. Kennedy
b. Benedict Arnold
c. John Brown
d. Nathan Hale (40%)
14. When was Thomas Jefferson president?
a. 1780–1800
b. 1800–1820 (45%)
c. 1820–1840
d. 1840–1860
e. 1860–1880
15. The Scopes Trial was about:
a. Freedom of the press
b. Teaching evolution in the schools (61%)
c. Prayer in the schools
d. Education in private schools
16. Who was “First in war, first in peace,
first in the hearts of his countrymen”?
a. George Washington (42%)
b. Woodrow Wilson
c. Dwight Eisenhower
d. Abraham Lincoln
Percentages of correct answers come from the final weighted results of interviews with 556 students.
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