Proficiency Test: United States History
Questions and Answers 2025-2026
Edition.
Social Contract (Declaration) - Answer We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed.
What is the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments referred as? - Answer Reconstruction
amendments
What is the 13th amendment? - Answer abolished all slavery
What is the 14th amendment? - Answer Anyone born in the US is a citizen of the US.
What is the 15th amendment? - Answer All men of all races may vote in any state they live in.
Failed to allow women suffrage.
What were black codes a response to and what was a reaction to the black codes? - Answer
They were a response to the 13th amendment from the south. They gave blacks some rights but
made it clear that they were still inferior to whites. The government tried to stop this by passing
the civil rights act.
What did the Jim Crow Laws start? - Answer segregation
watch ¨Growth, Cities, and Immigration: Crash Course US History #25¨ - Answer done
Dawes Act - Answer Indian land was separated into allotments for Indian families who chose
to assimilate to white culture.
John D. Rockefella - Answer richest man ever, owned 90% of America´s oil industry.
, Thomas Edison - Answer improved telegraph system, assosiated with the lightbulb.
Alexander Graham Bell - Answer associated with telephone
Bessemer Process - Answer Changed the steel industry
What is muckraking? - Answer a form of journalism where writers fought for reform political
corruption in big buisnesses
Ida Tarbell - Answer famous muckraker who broke up the Rockefeller Oil Monopoly and
invented investigative writing.
Upton Sinclair - Answer wrote the famous book called ¨the jungle¨ about the meat processing
industry. The government stepped in and put regulations on the meat industry so it may be
clean and safe.
Temperance Movement - Answer anti alcohol
Who was George Pullman - Answer A rich man who established a town to continue his income
through taxes and rent. He was hit hard by the recesssion of 1893 and lost money. He decided
to lower wages so balance it all out and people revolted.
Susan B. Anthony - Answer founded the National Women's Suffrage Association in 1869
Jane Adams - Answer pushed for settlement houses and was a widely known spokesperson for
women suffrage.
Eugene V. Debs - Answer revolted against Pullman and got sent to prison for intecepting mail
illegally.
Haymarket Riot - Answer A few civilians were killed by police and a rally gathered in protest of
the police the next night. Police were sent into the riot to break it up and as police advanced
into the crowd and unknown person threw a bomb at the police. 8 people were convicted
without evidence, 4 were executed, and 2 committed suicide.
Questions and Answers 2025-2026
Edition.
Social Contract (Declaration) - Answer We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed.
What is the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments referred as? - Answer Reconstruction
amendments
What is the 13th amendment? - Answer abolished all slavery
What is the 14th amendment? - Answer Anyone born in the US is a citizen of the US.
What is the 15th amendment? - Answer All men of all races may vote in any state they live in.
Failed to allow women suffrage.
What were black codes a response to and what was a reaction to the black codes? - Answer
They were a response to the 13th amendment from the south. They gave blacks some rights but
made it clear that they were still inferior to whites. The government tried to stop this by passing
the civil rights act.
What did the Jim Crow Laws start? - Answer segregation
watch ¨Growth, Cities, and Immigration: Crash Course US History #25¨ - Answer done
Dawes Act - Answer Indian land was separated into allotments for Indian families who chose
to assimilate to white culture.
John D. Rockefella - Answer richest man ever, owned 90% of America´s oil industry.
, Thomas Edison - Answer improved telegraph system, assosiated with the lightbulb.
Alexander Graham Bell - Answer associated with telephone
Bessemer Process - Answer Changed the steel industry
What is muckraking? - Answer a form of journalism where writers fought for reform political
corruption in big buisnesses
Ida Tarbell - Answer famous muckraker who broke up the Rockefeller Oil Monopoly and
invented investigative writing.
Upton Sinclair - Answer wrote the famous book called ¨the jungle¨ about the meat processing
industry. The government stepped in and put regulations on the meat industry so it may be
clean and safe.
Temperance Movement - Answer anti alcohol
Who was George Pullman - Answer A rich man who established a town to continue his income
through taxes and rent. He was hit hard by the recesssion of 1893 and lost money. He decided
to lower wages so balance it all out and people revolted.
Susan B. Anthony - Answer founded the National Women's Suffrage Association in 1869
Jane Adams - Answer pushed for settlement houses and was a widely known spokesperson for
women suffrage.
Eugene V. Debs - Answer revolted against Pullman and got sent to prison for intecepting mail
illegally.
Haymarket Riot - Answer A few civilians were killed by police and a rally gathered in protest of
the police the next night. Police were sent into the riot to break it up and as police advanced
into the crowd and unknown person threw a bomb at the police. 8 people were convicted
without evidence, 4 were executed, and 2 committed suicide.
