History of Kentucky
Under President Lincoln's plan of compensated emancipation, if Kentucky would set a definite date for the end of slavery he would recommend that slaveholders receive a payment of _______________ per slave from the United States.
$400
How many conventions did it take Kentucky to achieve statehood?
10
How many seats did Kentucky have in the House of Representatives in 1861?
10
What year was the first settlement on Corn Island established?
1778
How many African Americas from Kentucky enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War?
23,703
How many casualties did Confederate forces suffer at the Battle of Mill Springs on January 19, 1862?
522
In 1820 what percentage of Kentucky's population was English in ethnic origin?
56.6
What was the number of official counties in Kentucky at the point of statehood?
9
All but one of the following were features of the American Plan or American System Henry Clay devised to elect himself President?
A low tax on foreign imports
Who was Simon Kenton?
A man who saved Daniel Boone's life.
Which of the following statements is most accurate about Kentucky political leaders in the decades prior to the Civil War?
A new generation began to manage state and national affairs.
Who was Gabriel Arthur?
A white man who came into Kentucky with a Tomahittan war party.
A Kentuckian who believed that slavery was a morally evil institution and that it should be ended immediately without compensation to slaveholders for slaves that were set free was a/an
Abolitionists
What problem did Thomas Jefferson have when he decided to purchase the Louisiana Territory from France?
According to Jefferson's views on the constitution, the U.S. government was forbidden from purchasing land.
Which of the following statements is not correct regarding the feuds that erupted in Kentucky?
Actions taken were generally honorable
What native of Henderson County lead a raid in 1862 that resulted in the first Confederate capture of a town north of the Mason-Dixon line?
Adam Johnson
What was one of the most common health complaints among Kentucky residents prior to the Civil War?
Ague
What was the result of Kentucky's isolation and limiting situations?
An intense provincialism
Which one of the following is not part of the Southern Literary Renaissance?
Annie Fellows Johnston
Where did Mary Draper Ingles live when she was captured by Shawnee Indians on July 8, 1755?
At Drapers Meadow in Montgomery County, VA.
Which of the following figures most accurately describes the number of people killed as a result of the Rowan County War?
At least 20 people died
Where was Israel Boone killed?
At the Battle of Blue Licks
Which of the following was generally not a leisure activity popular in Kentucky during the last half of the nineteenth century?
Basketball
Why were slaveholders hesitant to provide education for their slaves?
Because they feared literacy might make it easier for slaves to run away.
Which of the following best describes the relationship Robert "Old Duke" Wickliffe practiced with the slaves he owned?
Benign Paternalism
Which of the following was not an early settlement in Kentucky?
Berea
Which one of the following was not considered a guerrilla by Union officials during the Civil War?
Braxton Bragg
Which of the following men led the Traveling Church?
Captain William Ellis
What produced the most striking and far-reaching change for Native Americans living in North America during the Late Prehistoric period?
Contact with Europeans
What is John Lair noted for?
Creating the renfro valley barn dance
What political did most Kentuckians belong to during the Washington Administration?
Democratic-Republican
Who was sent by the Loyal Land Company to explore into Kentucky?
Dr. Thomas Walker
What former Union soldier formed Loyal Leagues to protect blacks from white violence in Kentucky?
Elijah Marrs
Prior to 1820, the ethnic origin of Kentucky's population was primarily
English
The Ku Klux Klan would most likely not support which of the following positions?
Equality under the law for all Americans
Which of the following did not happen as a result of or during the Civil War?
Farm prices declined
From 1712 until 1776 Kentucky was part of what Virginia County?
Fincastle County
In 1993, where did Kentucky rank in the nation as a producer of motor vehicles?
Fourth
Which Kentucky governor was the first to make a real effort to establish a system of public education?
Gabriel Slaughter
Who was the Confederate telegraph operator who confused Union commanders by sending them misleading orders?
George "Lightening" Ellsworth
Who did delegates at a Harrodsburg meeting on June 6, 1776 select to travel to Virginia and ask for aid?
George Rogers Clark and John Gabriel Jones.
Which one of the following was not an action taken during the Civil War to suppress Confederate sympathizers?
Governor Bramlette was imprisoned
Which one of the following was not a county at the time of statehood for Kentucky?
Hardin
What happened to Confederate Governor George W. Johnson?
He died of wounds received in battle
Which one of the following is not a trend that has characterized the coal industry in Kentucky?
In general, jobs in the mining industry have increased due to mechanization within the coal industry.
What Kentucky author was known as the Duke of Paducah?
Irvin S. Cobb
What Kentucky resident is the author of the first important Yiddish literature produced in America?
Israel J Schwartz
Which of the following statements most accurately describes life in the early forts and stations present in Kentucky?
It was generally dangerous.
Which of the following events is associated with the Battle of Blue Licks?
It was the battle at which Israel Boone, Daniel's son was killed.
What Kentucky governor was known as the Boy Governor because at 30 years of age he barely met the constitutional qualifications for holding the job?
J.C.W. Beckham
What Kentuckian was nominated by the Southern Democratic Party as its presidential candidate in the 1860 election?
John C. Breckinridge
Who was the first Kentucky writer of note to deal with the evolving character of the Appalachian region?
John Fox Jr
What explorer may have left the first record of coal deposits in Kentucky?
John Howard
What former congressman and judge was murdered on the streets of Frankfort in March 1879?
John Milton Elliott
Which of the following was not a characteristic of Kentuckians during the last half of the nineteenth century?
Kentuckians believed there was a great need to examine and reexamine the basic arrangements of their lives.
Which one of the following was not a factor that spurred nativism in Kentucky and in the United States?
Kentucky's population was 20 percent foreign-born in 1850.
Who described heaven as a "mere Kentucky of a place" in a sermon?
Lewis Craig
What cities competed with Louisville economically prior to the Civil War?
Lexington and Cincinnati
What city was the place where Kentucky first confronted the industrialization of the United States?
Louisville
What two towns saw a macadamized road constructed between them in 1830?
Maysville and Washington
How many people did the Spanish Flu kill in Kentucky during 1918-19?
More than 14,000
What was the pioneer population of Kentucky estimated to be during the late Spring of 1776?
Not more than 200
From the mid-1970s to 1987, what proportion of cattle farms in Kentucky ceased production?
One-third
Kentucky's first constitution was based on the constitution of which state?
Pennsylvania
Who preached what is generally considered the first known sermon in Kentucky?
Rev John Lyth
Who headed the Transylvania Company?
Richard Henderson
Which one of the following agricultural crops was least successful in Kentucky?
Silk
_____________________was a woodsman equal to Daniel Boone in skills who carried messages from fort to for under hazardous conditions.
Simon Kenton
Which of the following was not found in Kentucky's Second Constitution?
Slavery was abolished
Which one of the following was not part of the 1850 Kentucky state constitution?
Slavery was abolished
Which one of the following was someone who identified themselves as a Progressive least likely to support?
Taking land out of conservation
What position did John C. Breckinridge take on neutrality?
That it was untenable and impracticable
What did an 1878 medical study find?
That one thousand of Kentucky's five thousand doctors had never attended a medical school.
What did Williams v Blair rule?
That the Replevian Law violated both the state and federal constitutions.
Which one of the following was not a purpose churches in Kentucky served during the last half of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century?
The Church served as a form of community government in rural areas.
The forty-six banks the Kentucky General Assembly chartered in 1818 to provide financial services to Kentuckians were called
The Forty Thieves
What was the largest Freedman's Bureau school in the Bluegrass Country of Kentucky?
The Howard School
A pioneer living in which region of Kentucky was least likely to have a conflict involving overlapping land claims?
The Jackson Purchase
Where did most of the Kentucky statehood conventions meet?
The Mercer County Courthouse
Which of the following was not associated with migration of settlers to Kentucky?
The Mississippi River
Which of the following parties was a landless man for whom Kentucky had not been a land of opportunity likely to be attracted to?
The Partisans
What was the name of the Indian trail which crossed Kentucky from the Cumberland Gap to the Ohio River?
The Warrior's Path
What did Kentucky model its first constitution on?
The constitution of Pennsylvania
Which of the following statements is most accurate about the meaning of the word "Kentucky"?
The exact meaning of the word is not known.
What geographic feature is located near Louisville?
The falls of the ohio
Which of the following statements is accurate regarding the status of women in Kentucky prior to the Civil War?
The profession was closed to females
When the British ship Leopard fired upon the American ship Chesapeake how did most Kentuckians react?
They demanded retaliation
Why did Whigs generally oppose the 1850 Constitution?
They saw the consitution as a Democratic Party product.
How did American colonists react to issuance of the Proclamation of 1763?
They vehemently protested against the line.
What Trappist Monk living in the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani gained international acclaim as a writer?
Thomas Merton
What national magazine in 1952 listed the Louisville Courier-Journal among the nation's four best newspapers?
Time
Which of the following statements best describes union activity in the Kentucky mountains?
Unions might have been active in Kentucky as early as the 1850s and were certainly active in Kentucky by the 1870s.
Kentucky's desire to separate from Virginia was influenced by all but one of the following
Virginia's threat to abolish slavery
Which two parties comprised Kentucky's second two party system?
Whigs and Democrats
What was the most typical reaction of white Kentuckians to the poverty blacks endured in Kentucky after slavery ended?
Whites were generally angry at the newly freed blacks.
Who was in charge of distributing "Lincoln Guns" in Kentucky?
William Bull Nelson
Who replaced Robert Anderson as head of the Department of the Cumberland in the Civil War?
William T. Sherman
In March 1782 a group of Indian warriors from what tribe attacked Strode's Station, about twenty miles from Boonesborough, killing two settlers and wounding another.
Wyandot
