Lesson 1K.1.1

1K.1.1 From Civil War to World War, 1865–1920 Quiz: AQA History, Unit 10

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The 20 questions

  1. Which President was impeached by the House of Representatives in 1868 but acquitted by the Senate by a single vote?

    • Abraham Lincoln
    • Rutherford Hayes
    • Andrew Johnson
    • Ulysses S. Grant

  2. Which amendment of 1865 abolished slavery throughout the United States?

    • The Nineteenth Amendment
    • The Fifteenth Amendment
    • The Fourteenth Amendment
    • The Thirteenth Amendment

  3. Which 1868 amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalised in the United States and guaranteed equal protection of the laws?

    • The Fourteenth Amendment
    • The Seventeenth Amendment
    • The Thirteenth Amendment
    • The Fifteenth Amendment

  4. Which political compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the last Southern states?

    • The Missouri Compromise
    • The Kansas-Nebraska Act
    • The Compromise of 1850
    • The Compromise of 1877

  5. Which 1883 Act established a merit-based system for US federal jobs to reduce patronage?

    • Sherman Antitrust Act
    • McKinley Tariff
    • Pendleton Act
    • Dawes Act

  6. Which 1887 Act created the first US federal regulatory agency to supervise railroad rates and business practices?

    • Sherman Antitrust Act
    • Clayton Antitrust Act
    • Interstate Commerce Act
    • Elkins Act

  7. Which 1890 US law was the first federal Act passed to outlaw trusts and monopolies in trade?

    • Federal Reserve Act
    • Sherman Antitrust Act
    • Clayton Antitrust Act
    • Pendleton Act

  8. Which agrarian political party, formed in 1892, campaigned for free silver and federal regulation of railroads?

    • The Socialist Party
    • The Greenback Party
    • The Populist Party
    • The Progressive Party

  9. Which famous 1896 speech by William Jennings Bryan attacked the gold standard?

    • Free Silver address
    • Atlanta Compromise
    • Cross of Gold speech
    • Bimetallic Plea

  10. Which 1898 war between the United States and Spain led to the acquisition of the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam?

    • The Spanish-American War
    • The Russo-Japanese War
    • The Mexican-American War
    • The Boer War

  11. Which 1903 treaty gave the United States the rights to construct and control the Panama Canal Zone?

    • Platt Amendment
    • Treaty of Paris
    • Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
    • Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

  12. Which 1913 amendment to the Constitution allowed the federal government to levy an income tax?

    • The Sixteenth Amendment
    • The Twentieth Amendment
    • The Seventeenth Amendment
    • The Eighteenth Amendment

  13. Which 1920 amendment granted women the right to vote in all American elections?

    • The Fifteenth Amendment
    • The Twenty-first Amendment
    • The Nineteenth Amendment
    • The Eighteenth Amendment

  14. Which 1913 Act established a national central banking system in the US to regulate money and credit?

    • Glass-Steagall Act
    • National Bank Act
    • Underwood Tariff Act
    • Federal Reserve Act

  15. Which British ocean liner was sunk by a German U-boat in May 1915, killing over 100 US citizens?

    • Titanic
    • Maine
    • Lusitania
    • Arabic

  16. How many years separated the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 and the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920?

    • 65 years
    • 45 years
    • 55 years
    • 75 years

  17. How many years separated the Compromise of 1877 and the Spanish-American War in 1898?

    • 25 years
    • 17 years
    • 29 years
    • 21 years

  18. How many years separated the Pendleton Act of 1883 and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913?

    • 36 years
    • 30 years
    • 24 years
    • 40 years

  19. Which political deal resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction in 1877?

    • Compromise of 1850
    • Amnesty Act
    • Missouri Compromise
    • Compromise of 1877

  20. Which US President introduced the Progressive 'Square Deal' programme to regulate big business and protect consumers?

    • William Howard Taft
    • Warren G. Harding
    • Woodrow Wilson
    • Theodore Roosevelt

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