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Trivia Facts Quiz: Test Your General Knowledge!
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By Ecurtis | Updated: Mar 21, 2022
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1.
What was a sum of money paid in exchange for the right to vote called?
Poll tax
Voters tax
Land tax
Position tax
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2.
She discovered a comet in 1847 and taught herself astronomy?
Emily Dickinson
Maria Mitchell
Mrs. Rondeau
Maria Henry
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3.
Dr. Crawford Long and Dr. William Morton develop a substance that produced numbness during surgery?
Anesthetic
Numbness
Motrin
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4.
This artist created the Hudson River School?
Joseph Henry
Sidney Mount
Hudson
Thomas Cole
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5.
Who spearheaded the campaign for common (public) schools?
Horace Mann
Thomas Gallaudet
Samuel Gridley
Prudence Crandall
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6.
Which state created the first Board of Education?
Massachusetts
Maine
Vermont
Missouri
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7.
Children from well-to-do families in the early 1800s generally?
Attended public schools
Attended private schools
Were sent to military schools
Did not need to be educated
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8.
Common schools were supported by?
Wealthy families
Taxes
Immigrants
Donations
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9.
The first college opened exclusively for African Americans was?
Lincoln University
Amherst College
Oberlin College
Gallaudet University
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10.
Support for public schools was strengthened because of the large number of?
Immigrants to the U.S.
Illiterate federal workers
Gangs among children
Teachers moving to the U.S.
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11.
Henry David Thoreau refused to?
Pay a poll tax
Serve in the army
Say the Pledge of Allegiance
Publish his work
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12.
Who wrote the "sketch book" ?
Edgar Allen Poe
Washington Irving
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
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13.
Who ran the Perkins Institution for the blind for 44 years?
Samuel Gridley Howe
Thomas Gallaudet
Cathrine Beecher
Prudence Crandall
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14.
"Clotel" was the first published fiction by an African American, who wrote it?
Edgar Allen Poe
William Wells Brown
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emily Dickinson
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15.
Whose poems were "easy to understand and full of optimism"?
Walt Whitman
Henry David Thoreau
Edgar Allen Poe
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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16.
Who was the first great American fictional hero?
Natty Bumpo
Rip Van Winkle
Sleepy Hollow
Herman Melville
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17.
McGuffey's Readers taught reading skills and?
Arithmetic
Health
Morals
Geography
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What was a sum of money paid in exchange for the right to vote called?
She discovered a comet in 1847 and taught herself astronomy?
Dr. Crawford Long and Dr. William Morton develop a substance that...
This artist created the Hudson River School?
Who spearheaded the campaign for common (public) schools?
Which state created the first Board of Education?
Children from well-to-do families in the early 1800s generally?
Common schools were supported by?
The first college opened exclusively for African Americans was?
Support for public schools was strengthened because of the large...
Henry David Thoreau refused to?
Who wrote the "sketch book" ?
Who ran the Perkins Institution for the blind for 44 years?
"Clotel" was the first published fiction by an African...
Whose poems were "easy to understand and full of optimism"?
Who was the first great American fictional hero?
McGuffey's Readers taught reading skills and?
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