Influential Figures in 19th-Century America Quiz

Test your knowledge of 19th-century American history with questions on Lincoln, suffrage, abolition, industrialists, and more.

#1

Who was the 16th President of the United States?

Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
James Buchanan
#2

Which 19th-century American poet is known for works such as 'The Raven' and 'Annabel Lee'?

Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost
Edgar Allan Poe
#3

Which 19th-century movement aimed at limiting the consumption of alcoholic beverages in the United States?

Prohibition Movement
Temperance Movement
Abolition Movement
Women's Suffrage Movement
#4

Which 19th-century American inventor is credited with the development of the telegraph and Morse Code?

Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Samuel Morse
Eli Whitney
#5

What religious movement, emphasizing simplicity and communal living, gained prominence in the 19th century with communities like Oneida and Amana?

Shaker Movement
Mormonism
Quakerism
Spiritualism
#6

Which influential figure is known for advocating women's suffrage in the 19th century?

Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
#7

What was the main focus of the Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848?

Abolition of slavery
Women's rights
Labor rights
Native American rights
#8

Who was the chief leader of the Nez Perce tribe during their resistance to forced removal in the late 19th century?

Sitting Bull
Geronimo
Crazy Horse
Chief Joseph
#9

What major event in American history occurred in 1865 with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee?

Emancipation Proclamation
Civil War begins
Battle of Gettysburg
Appomattox Court House surrender
#10

Who was the 19th-century African American abolitionist and former slave who became a prominent speaker and writer?

Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Nat Turner
#11

Who was the 19th-century American naturalist and artist known for his illustrations of birds in 'The Birds of America'?

John James Audubon
John Muir
Henry David Thoreau
James Audubon
#12

Who authored the famous anti-slavery novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mark Twain
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry David Thoreau
#13

Which 19th-century industrialist is associated with the steel industry and philanthropy?

John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
#14

Who was the founder of the American Red Cross and a nurse during the Civil War?

Dorothea Dix
Clara Barton
Florence Nightingale
Mary Edwards Walker
#15

What religious movement gained prominence in 19th-century America, emphasizing personal conversion and salvation?

Unitarianism
Transcendentalism
Second Great Awakening
Quakerism
#16

Which Supreme Court case in the 1850s intensified the sectional controversy over slavery by declaring the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional?

Marbury v. Madison
Dred Scott v. Sandford
McCulloch v. Maryland
Plessy v. Ferguson
#17

Who was the 19th-century American transcendentalist author of 'Walden' and 'Civil Disobedience'?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry David Thoreau
Edgar Allan Poe

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