Posted on 01/13/2010 8:47:26 AM PST by Lucky9teen
I didn’t even know you could do it at the site. I wrote my answers on the back of an envelope and checked em after.
18 / 20. I knew I got “shays rebellion” as soon as I clicked it.
Also, who is this Solomon guy?
Took this at the web site and got 20 questions of which I got 17 correct - Missed who was the Slave who spied for US at Yorktown, matched “Life, Liberty ... “ to Constitution (head slap) and what led to the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Not bad but not as good as I would like. If I had gotten 95% I would have been quite satisfied.
I have a bit of studying to do, it appears.
Prove to me that answers 'b', 'c' AND 'd' are FALSE by the question's wording. If you add "immediately" it would have a single answer.
You got 20 of 20 possible points.
Your score: 100%
You have knowledge!
The questions at the site must change because Jon & Kate didn’t show up along with some others.
I attribute my score to the fact that I homeschooled my child for five years and retaught myself all of the history I had brain dumped years ago. I will admit that I took an educated guess at the last Polish immigrant question.
Yea, baby!
by your logic any answer from 13 to 50 would be correct...
Whilst exploring the site, I found this great quote:
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
~Albert Einstein
Someone buy Congress a clue!
The authors of this test might want to read, The Reformation of Rights, regarding the Reformation’s influence, and Calvin specifically, for the real philosophic basis of our founding. John Locke was only put an “Enlightenment” gloss on points made a century earlier by ardent Christians.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2009/janfeb/17.28.html?start=1
Studied in isolation, you're correct.
However, when you appreciate the whole combination as you study history, then each date, name and location is a piece of the whole that gives you the full story.
Names are people. Knowing who did what can teach you important things. Learning more about important people in history helps you to understand how that person became influential and why.
Dates establish the order of events. They are very important for understanding causation. What happened when is a key to understanding why things are the way they are.
Places are frequently important as well, because your location influences what you see and hear, who your associates are. Where you live influences the way you think. Also, much of history revolves around war. Location is extremely important information when studying war.
History is about understanding why things are the way they are, and how they came to be that way. It's about causes and effects. Choices and their consequences.
If you love the principles embodied in the Constitution, as you have indicated, then you would benefit a great deal from studying how they came to be in there, who put them there and why.
History helps you learn from the successes and failures of others. That's much better than trying to survive all the mistakes yourself.
ML/NJ
Not bad....I’m not much of a history buff....or at least I wasn’t until all this crap started with Obama and his administration:
You got 16 of 20 possible points.
Your score: 80%
Well I missed 9 but one of those were the number of kids Jon and Kate had so it doesn’t count!
I got 19 out of 20 correct.
ML/NJ
Correct [grin] since I did take logic in school and do program computers for correct responses. Only 'seven' is wrong since there were 13 signatory Colonies / States / Commonwealths to the Articles of Confederation [1781] under whom the Continental Congress was authorized and could then create the Continental Army that won the war.
Please tell me you are a teacher unlike my mere pedantry. Such clear statements should not be lost but instead passed on. I am NOT being sarcastic, I am in admiration.
I also LOVE your tag line! All too true I fear!
I love to teach (computer topics, mostly), but no, it's not my profession. I love learning even more!
I have FR and many FReepers to thank for my recently acquired love of history. I have learned more US history in the past 5 or so years on FR than I did in all my previous formal education.
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