HISTORY A LEVEL MAKING OF A
SUPERPOWER AQA EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Railroad carries 1 million passengers - ANSWER-1882
Standard Oil America's first trust - ANSWER-1882
Secretary of the Navy, William Hunt, - ANSWER-1882
Chinese Exclusion Act - ANSWER-1882
Number of lynchings 1882 - 1899 - ANSWER-2,500
Only ... of eligible black children enrolled in schools (Gilded Age) - ANSWER-2/5
Pendleton Act - ANSWER-1883
Supreme Court strikes down 1875 Civil Rights Act - ANSWER-1883
Immigrants during the Gilded Age - ANSWER-10 million
Presidency of Cleveland (1) - ANSWER-1885-1889
Percentage of labour force in manufacturing and mechanical industries of foreign
birth/parentage (Gilded Age) - ANSWER-56%
Haymarket Bomb - ANSWER-1886
Knights of Labor membership by 1886 - ANSWER-700,000
American Federation of Labor - ANSWER-1886
Number of labour strikes in 1886 - ANSWER-1,400
Land Grants from federal government to railways - ANSWER-70 million hectares
American Protective Association set up - ANSWER-1887
Reservation land held by Native Americans in 1870 - ANSWER-138 million hectares
Interstate Commerce Act - ANSWER-1887
Expanded treaty of friendship with Hawaii (Pearl Harbour) - ANSWER-1887
,Dawes General Allotment Act - ANSWER-1887
Pan-American Conference - ANSWER-1889
Presidency of Benjamin Harrison - ANSWER-1889-1893
Beginning of 'Jim Crow' laws - ANSWER-1890
McKinley Tariff - ANSWER-1890
Battle of Wounded Knee - ANSWER-1890
US Census Bureau declares end of the frontier - ANSWER-1890
Sherman Silver Purchase Act - ANSWER-1890
Sherman Anti-Trust Act - ANSWER-1890
1 in 7 Americans were foreign born in - ANSWER-1890
African Americans living in the South in 1890 - ANSWER-90%
Pittsburgh Steelworker's Strike - ANSWER-1892
Formation of Populist Party - ANSWER-1892
Anti-Saloon League formed - ANSWER-1892
Fourteenth Amendment - ANSWER-1868
Cotton in 1890 sold for... - ANSWER-half its 1860 price
First Transcontinental Railroad - ANSWER-1869
Dominican Republic offers itself for colonisation - ANSWER-1869
Average Southerner's income 1870 - ANSWER-2/3 of the Northern average
Fifteenth Amendment - ANSWER-1870
Percentage of 'carpetbaggers' in the South - ANSWER-2%
All rebel states successfully readmitted - ANSWER-1870
Black officeholders in 1870 - ANSWER-More than for next 100 years
Immigrants during the 1870s - ANSWER-2.8 million
Protective tariff duties (Reconstruction Era) - ANSWER-As high as 50%
, Presidency of Grant (Republican) - ANSWER-1869 - 1877
First National Park at Yellowstone - ANSWER-1872
Britain pays $15.5 million in compensation for aiding the Confederacy - ANSWER-
1872
First Panic - ANSWER-1873
Second gold rush in the Black Hills of Dakota - ANSWER-1874
Party workers employed by NY Customs House (Gilded Age) - ANSWER-1,000
Bribe paid to Roscoe Conkling by metal importers in 1874 - ANSWER-$50,000
Whiskey Ring Scandal - ANSWER-1875
Great Sioux War - ANSWER-1876
Great Railroad Strike - ANSWER-1877
South Carolina children in school by 1880 - ANSWER-6x more than in 1870
Presidency of Hayes (Republican) - ANSWER-1877-1881
Presidency of Garfield - ANSWER-1881-1881
Anti-Semitic riots in the south and west - ANSWER-1881
Presidency of Arthur - ANSWER-1881-1885
Second Panic (unemployment hits 20%) - ANSWER-1893
Presidency of Cleveland (2) - ANSWER-1893-1897
Pullman Strike - ANSWER-1894
Immigration Restriction League - ANSWER-1894
Cleveland intervenes in Venezuela - ANSWER-1895
Booker T. Washington's 'Atlanta Compromise' - ANSWER-1895
Amount spent by Mark Hanna on McKinley's campaign - ANSWER-$3 million
Gold Democrat Convention in Indiapolis - ANSWER-1896
In the 1896 election Bryan... - ANSWER-carried 22 states in the West and South, but
lost by 100 electoral college votes
SUPERPOWER AQA EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Railroad carries 1 million passengers - ANSWER-1882
Standard Oil America's first trust - ANSWER-1882
Secretary of the Navy, William Hunt, - ANSWER-1882
Chinese Exclusion Act - ANSWER-1882
Number of lynchings 1882 - 1899 - ANSWER-2,500
Only ... of eligible black children enrolled in schools (Gilded Age) - ANSWER-2/5
Pendleton Act - ANSWER-1883
Supreme Court strikes down 1875 Civil Rights Act - ANSWER-1883
Immigrants during the Gilded Age - ANSWER-10 million
Presidency of Cleveland (1) - ANSWER-1885-1889
Percentage of labour force in manufacturing and mechanical industries of foreign
birth/parentage (Gilded Age) - ANSWER-56%
Haymarket Bomb - ANSWER-1886
Knights of Labor membership by 1886 - ANSWER-700,000
American Federation of Labor - ANSWER-1886
Number of labour strikes in 1886 - ANSWER-1,400
Land Grants from federal government to railways - ANSWER-70 million hectares
American Protective Association set up - ANSWER-1887
Reservation land held by Native Americans in 1870 - ANSWER-138 million hectares
Interstate Commerce Act - ANSWER-1887
Expanded treaty of friendship with Hawaii (Pearl Harbour) - ANSWER-1887
,Dawes General Allotment Act - ANSWER-1887
Pan-American Conference - ANSWER-1889
Presidency of Benjamin Harrison - ANSWER-1889-1893
Beginning of 'Jim Crow' laws - ANSWER-1890
McKinley Tariff - ANSWER-1890
Battle of Wounded Knee - ANSWER-1890
US Census Bureau declares end of the frontier - ANSWER-1890
Sherman Silver Purchase Act - ANSWER-1890
Sherman Anti-Trust Act - ANSWER-1890
1 in 7 Americans were foreign born in - ANSWER-1890
African Americans living in the South in 1890 - ANSWER-90%
Pittsburgh Steelworker's Strike - ANSWER-1892
Formation of Populist Party - ANSWER-1892
Anti-Saloon League formed - ANSWER-1892
Fourteenth Amendment - ANSWER-1868
Cotton in 1890 sold for... - ANSWER-half its 1860 price
First Transcontinental Railroad - ANSWER-1869
Dominican Republic offers itself for colonisation - ANSWER-1869
Average Southerner's income 1870 - ANSWER-2/3 of the Northern average
Fifteenth Amendment - ANSWER-1870
Percentage of 'carpetbaggers' in the South - ANSWER-2%
All rebel states successfully readmitted - ANSWER-1870
Black officeholders in 1870 - ANSWER-More than for next 100 years
Immigrants during the 1870s - ANSWER-2.8 million
Protective tariff duties (Reconstruction Era) - ANSWER-As high as 50%
, Presidency of Grant (Republican) - ANSWER-1869 - 1877
First National Park at Yellowstone - ANSWER-1872
Britain pays $15.5 million in compensation for aiding the Confederacy - ANSWER-
1872
First Panic - ANSWER-1873
Second gold rush in the Black Hills of Dakota - ANSWER-1874
Party workers employed by NY Customs House (Gilded Age) - ANSWER-1,000
Bribe paid to Roscoe Conkling by metal importers in 1874 - ANSWER-$50,000
Whiskey Ring Scandal - ANSWER-1875
Great Sioux War - ANSWER-1876
Great Railroad Strike - ANSWER-1877
South Carolina children in school by 1880 - ANSWER-6x more than in 1870
Presidency of Hayes (Republican) - ANSWER-1877-1881
Presidency of Garfield - ANSWER-1881-1881
Anti-Semitic riots in the south and west - ANSWER-1881
Presidency of Arthur - ANSWER-1881-1885
Second Panic (unemployment hits 20%) - ANSWER-1893
Presidency of Cleveland (2) - ANSWER-1893-1897
Pullman Strike - ANSWER-1894
Immigration Restriction League - ANSWER-1894
Cleveland intervenes in Venezuela - ANSWER-1895
Booker T. Washington's 'Atlanta Compromise' - ANSWER-1895
Amount spent by Mark Hanna on McKinley's campaign - ANSWER-$3 million
Gold Democrat Convention in Indiapolis - ANSWER-1896
In the 1896 election Bryan... - ANSWER-carried 22 states in the West and South, but
lost by 100 electoral college votes
