Historical Figures and Events Quiz

Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the following document that was read at the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848.

• Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

• Women’s Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Declaration of Women’s Rights

Andrew Carnegie advocated an idea called the Gospel of Wealth which was a belief that:

• Wealth is a blessing from God and therefore the wealthy should be seen as divine

• Wealth should be equally distributed among the people by the government

• The wealthy should pursue philanthropy and give away their money to worthy causes

• The wealthy should be unencumbered by the government in their drive to acquire wealth

Roger Sherman famously proposed the Connecticut Compromise or Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention that dealt with the following issue:

• Method of electing the president

• How to count slaves towards representation in Congress

• Method of representation in Congress

• Development of a Bill of Rights

Who wrote that democratic institutions like those in America would eventually supplant the aristocratic governments in Europe in his book Democracy in America?

• Marquis de Lafayette

• John Locke

• Matthew Lyon

• Alexis de Tocqueville

Who spoke out against equal rights for slaves after the Civil War saying “it would excited unfriendly feelings between the two races”?

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Andrew Johnson

• Jefferson Davis

The John Peter Zenger trial is important in American History because it illustrated the need for all of the following except:

• Due process of the law

• Protection of a free press

• Protection of religious liberty

• No excessive bail

What English philosopher wrote the excerpt 'No peace and security among mankind—let alone common friendship—can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.'?

• Thomas Hobbes

• Thomas Paine

• John Locke

• Robert Morris

During Carrie Chapman Catt’s long life as a reformer she advocated all of the following except:

• Using militant strategies to get women the right to vote

• Passage of a constitutional amendment granting women’s suffrage

• Passage and enforcement of child labor laws

• Pursuing state reforms to help advance the cause of women’s suffrage

During America’s sectional crisis in the lead up to the Civil War, this person advocated the doctrine of popular sovereignty whereby new states determined their status as slave or free based on the vote of the people.

• Henry Clay

• Andrew Jackson

• John C. Calhoun

• Stephen Douglas

John Quincy Adams assisted with all of the following important moments in early American history except:

• Acting as counsel for the slaves who revolted aboard the Amistad

• Helping to formulate the Monroe Doctrine as the Secretary of State under President Monroe

• Helping negotiate the Louisiana Purchase on behalf of Thomas Jefferson

• Negotiation of the Adams-Onis Treaty