10/10
Super easy test.
10/10 I agree with Inner, all of the questions were fairly easy, with the exception of the Turner one.
10/10. But I have a degree in American history. Somehow answering obscure questions about Frederick Jackson Turner becomes like a 4th grade level question when you’ve actually read The Significance of the Frontier in American History. 
In fact, I’m interested to know if other people who know a lot about American history were actually more tripped up by the “easy” questions. I often tend to find those harder in answering questions that fall within my specialized fields of knowledge, simply because I know it’s just not as simple as they teach you in school. As has been mentioned above, when you’ve actually studied history at a deeper level you know there are multiple factors and chains of causation and all kinds of complicated things that go into any event, just not a list of names and dates.
But I agree with President Johnny Gentle that no 10 question test is going to demonstrate proficiency at anything, especially when it’s patched together from tests designed for entirely different educational levels.
+1
You can just study history for personal enjoyment but I think it’s better when you’re getting more out of it than just entertainment.
8/10. But I’m not american, and have never studied american history. The George Washington foreign policy and closing of the frontier questions tripped me up.
Ditto to both.
Yes, because what Turner had to say about the frontier is utterly and directly relevant to critical voting issues today.
10/10. Had to guess on the frontier one.
That’s a good technique, though, for producing meaningful results. (Ten questions is still too small to mean much, and this particular set was still skewed easy.) Ideally, you’d want a couple questions that almost everybody should get right, and a couple that hardly anybody will, and a range in between.
Again you miss my point. I’m not arguing for history as mere entertainment.
I’m arguing that the study of history is about developing an ability to think, to analyze, to make connections and to evaluate evidence. To the extent that history is useful, it should be useful precisely because it develops these abilities. It’s not simply about collecting some historical knowledge and learning to “apply this knowledge in other situations”; it’s about learning to think in a particular way, which can help in all sorts of different areas of life.
I got all 10 correct but some of them were a bit tricky. These were not your everyday factoid questions, nor the usual blisteringly obvious multiple choice answers - many of the answers seemed at first glance very similar to each other unless you either knew the right answer outright, or knew for sure the true context of the other answers.
This was one of the ones I got partly by elimination. I suppose meat came from North America - salted meat. Lots of animals left on the continent at the time, you know, buffalo and whatnot. But it also struck me as somehow dubious. However only one answer had rum coming from the West Indies, and you KNOW that was true, so that’s the answer.
The other one I made an educated guess on was about George Washington’s foreign policy. I mostly remember his legacy as (1) stepping down after 2 terms (his most important precedent), and (2) dealing with Shay’s Rebellion. But I recognized the other two statements as the Monroe Doctrine (“all of the Americas are our backyard”) and Truman Doctrine (supporting “free peoples” against “oppressive governments” worldwide).
10/10
9/10. Missed the question about Washington’s foreign policy. Can I still vote?
9/10. I didn’t get the one about Washington.
10/10. Very easy test.
8/10. Missed the Washington one (hey, the early Americans were fighting against monarchies, it seemed like a reasonable answer) and, um, the Korean War one. The only defense I have on that is I skipped the post-1900 history classes in school, and the Vietnam war was close enough in time to choose them. Canuck is still pleased with results.
9/10. My lack of knowledge about how early factories took over from craftsmen cost me a perfect score.
9/10 sneaky georgie.
No, you’re supposed to know from matching up the date in the question to the industrial revolution. If you studied Marxist literary criticism* in college, you would have gotten a refresher on the decline of the cottage system.
- It’s fun! I did a Marxist analysis of Drop Dead Fred. Imaginary friends are the cottage system, the medication to eliminate them is the industrial revolution…