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Example Question #2 : U.S. Intellectual And Cultural History
Which of the following is NOT true about Joseph Smith?
Smith started Mormonism in New York.
Smith was killed in the Illinois Mormon War after being jailed.
Smith practiced and preached polygamy.
Smith claimed to have found tablets written by a lost tribe of Israel.
Smith published the Book of Mormon from the tablets he found, and hoped it would replace the Bible.
Smith published the Book of Mormon from the tablets he found, and hoped it would replace the Bible.
Smith said he had found tablets from a lost tribe of Israel. He wrote the tablets into a book called the Book of Mormon, which he believed should not replace the Bible. All other answer choices are true. After finding trouble in New York, Smith moved his followers to Ohio, Missouri, and then Illinois. After Smith was killed in Illinois, Brigham Young moved the Mormons to Utah.
Example Question #3 : U.S. Intellectual And Cultural History
The principle of separate but equal was established by .
Brown v. Board of Education
Gibbons v. Ogden
Freemen v. United States Government
Wesbery v. Sanders
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a case that appeared before the Supreme Court in 1896. It established the legality and constitutionality of state laws, mostly in the South, that had required segregation of public facilities under the guise of “separate but equal.” It remained protected by law until 1954, when the Brown v. Board of Education decision reversed it.
Example Question #4 : U.S. Intellectual And Cultural History
The American inventor, Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) is credited with the invention of what?
Morse Code
The Breese-Morse interchangeable part
The combustible engine
The pulley block
The assembly line
Morse Code
Samuel Finley Breese Morse is credited as co-inventor of Morse Code: a way of sending text as a series of on-off tones, clicks, or lights that can be deciphered by a trained listener.
Example Question #5 : U.S. Intellectual And Cultural History
Who authored The Age of Reason?
James Madison
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Adams
Thomas Paine
The Age of Reason was written by Thomas Paine and published at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Paine was an American revolutionary who lived in France throughout the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon. In The Age of Reason Paine attacks organized religion and paints the Catholic Church as corrupt and morally bankrupt. It is a classic example of Enlightenment and deist literature. It was also a bestseller in the United States and led to a massive revival of Deism amongst the American middle and upper classes.
Example Question #5 : U.S. Intellectual And Cultural History
A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States was known as what?
A prohibitionist
A sectionalist
An abolitionist
An advocate
A teetotaler
An abolitionist
A person who wanted to abolish slavery in the United States (and elsewhere) was known as an abolitionist.
Example Question #6 : U.S. Intellectual And Cultural History
What did Francis Scott Key write as he watched the British attack Fort McHenry in Baltimore in 1814?
Hail, Columbia
My Country, 'Tis of Thee
The Pledge of Allegiance
The Star-Spangled Banner
America the Beautiful
The Star-Spangled Banner
Held captive during the attack on Fort McHenry, Francis Scott Key wrote his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry" from which the lyrics for the Star-Spangled Banner were taken.
Example Question #7 : U.S. Intellectual And Cultural History
What historical term is used to describe the period of United States history prior to the Civil War?
The Antebellum Era
The Era of Manifest Destiny
The Reconstruction Era
The Era of Good Feelings
The Gilded Age
The Antebellum Era
The term used to describe the historical period between the American Revolution and the Civil War is the Antebellum Era. The term "antebellum" directly means before the war. In the context of the United States it is generally used to refer to the Southern United States prior to the Civil War.
Example Question #8 : U.S. Intellectual And Cultural History
In 1831, William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his weekly newspaper, The Liberator, which advocated what?
The abolition of slavery
The end of the British presence in Canada
The dissolution of the American Republic for a more direct democracy
The secession of the South from the Union
The end of taxes
The abolition of slavery
In 1831, William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his weekly newspaper, The Liberator, which advocated the abolition of slavery. Garrison, a white man from Massachusetts, was one of the abolition movement's most prominent figures.
Example Question #11 : U.S. Intellectual And Cultural History
Who invented the telephone?
Thomas Edison
Cyrus McCormick
Alexander Graham Bell
Eli Whitney
Samuel Morse
Alexander Graham Bell
The invention of the telephone was an ongoing and convoluted process throughout the mid-nineteenth century; however, popular history and patent law credits Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Thomas Watson with the invention of the telephone, in 1875.
Example Question #12 : U.S. Intellectual And Cultural History
Noah Webster supported __________.
the rights of East-Asian immigrants in New York City
an outbreak of war with France during the administration of President John Adam
a greater focus on public health
the education of students towards strong national identity
the rights of slave owners in the Kansas territory
the education of students towards strong national identity
Noah Webster was an early American lexicographer and educational reformer. Webster wrote extensive textbooks teaching generations of young Americans how to read, write, and spell. He is credited with helping secularize and nationalize the American education process.
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