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8th Grade History Test 12 Flashcards

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amendment that prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol

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18th

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amendment that repealed prohibition

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21st

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President known as the Great Humanitarian

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Herbert Hoover

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the oldest permanent settlement in the United States

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St. Augustine

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invented the telegraph

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Samuel Morse

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two American cities that suffered terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001

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New York city and Washington, D.C.

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political party formed out of dislike for President Jackson and his powerful Presidency

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Whig

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What was a hornbook?

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a board with printed Scripture and the alphabet

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the code name for America’s atomic bomb project

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Manhattan Project

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Where the Japanese made their final stand and lost nearly all their remaining ships in World War II

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Battle of Leyte Gulf

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What was the Holocaust?

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the murder of over six million Jews

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religious group who wrote the first classical music composed in America

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Moravians

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the first city to be bombed with an atomic weapon

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Hiroshima

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the first European known to travel the length of Asia

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Marco Polo

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Who said, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”?

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Nathan Hale

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the first permanent English settlement in North America

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Jamestown

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the name given to the President’s advisers

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Cabinet

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patriot who declared, “Give me liberty or give me death”

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Patrick Henry

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the purpose of the checks and balances system

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to balance the powers of the three branches of government

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20
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served as president of the Confederacy during the Civil War

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Jefferson Davis

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21
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Why was the Ole’ Deluder Satan Act passed in Massachusetts?

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to make sure children learned how to read and write

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former shoe salesman who became a great evangelist across America

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D. L. Moody

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entrepreneur made his fortune in the oil industry

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J. D. Rockefeller

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hymns who wrote “Blessed Assurance” and many other hymns in the late 1800s

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Fanny crosby

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colony that John Winthrop described as “a city upon a hill”

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Massachusetts Bay

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the first shot of the Civil War was fired here

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Fort Sumter

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What agreement eliminated tariffs and other trade restrictions between the United States, Canada, and Mexico?

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NAFTA

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“Father of the Constitution”

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James Madison

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29
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invented the reaping machine

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Cyrus McCormick

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best-known missionary to the Indians

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David Brainerd

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discovered the Mississippi River

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Hernando de Soto

32
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wrote History of Plymouth Plantation

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William Bradford

33
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searched for the fabled fountain of youth

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Ponce de Leon

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invented the steel plow

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John Deere

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led the Rough Riders in the battle of San Juan Hill

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Persian Gulf War

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Colin Powell

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general who led troops into combat in Operation Desert Storm

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Norman Schwarzkopf

38
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Communist leader of Soviet Union who signed the INF treaty with President Reagan in 1987

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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dictator of Iraq who invaded Kuwait, sparking the Persian Gulf War

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Saddam Hussein

40
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first woman justice appointed to the Supreme Court

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Sandra Day O’Connor

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conservative Prime Minister of Great Britain during the Reagan Administration

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Margaret Thatcher

42
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leader of the al Qaeda terrorist network during the 9-11 attacks

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Osama bin Laden

43
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President known as the Great Communicator

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Ronald Reagan

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Chief Justice appointed to the Supreme Court in 2005 by George W. Bush

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John G. Roberts

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President who initiated the “war on terror” after 9-11

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George W. Bush

46
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the Indian guide who accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition

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Sacagawea

47
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posted the Ninety-five Theses, sparking the Protestant Reformation

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Martin Luther

48
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the fastest overland communication service before the telegraph

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Pony Express

49
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the name for evangelists who rode on horseback and conducted church services on the frontier

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circuit-riders

50
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the Nazi dictator of Germany during World War II

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Adolf Hitler

51
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the famous poem by Francis Scott Key that became our national anthem

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“The Star-Spangled Banner”

52
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The Louisiana Purchase ___ the size of the United States

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doubled

53
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the natural pass in the Appalachian Mountains that allowed settlers to travel west

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Cumberland Gap

54
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the un-Biblical theory that Charles Darwin promoted

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evolution

55
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Armistice Day is now celebrated as

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Veterans Day

56
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the first nation largest in the “war on terror”, which was known to have sheltered al Qaeda terrorists

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Afghanistan

57
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John Dewey is known as the

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Father of Progressive Education

58
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amendment that gave Congress power to tax incomes

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16th

59
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developed hundreds of uses for the peanut

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George Washington Carver

60
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struck an iceberg and sank in 1912

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Titanic

61
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became the first black American to achieve the rank of four-star general in the United States Armed Forces

A

Chappie James

62
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led a movement to have prayer and Bible-reading banned from the public schools

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Madalyn Murray O’Hair

63
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the first ten amendments to the Constitution

A

Bill of Rights

64
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cavalry commander who was killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn

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General George A. Custer

65
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state known as the “Lone Star Republic”

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Texas

66
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What did President Roosevelt call his massive government welfare program?

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New Deal

67
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In what war did the United States lead UN forces to liberate Kuwait in 1991?

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Persian Gulf War

68
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What was Charles Lindbergh’s plane named?

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The Spirit of St. Louis

69
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founded the settlement of Providence, Rhode Island

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Roger Williams

70
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the Soviet Union collapsed during the administration of President

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George H. W. Bush

71
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the German soldiers that King George hired to fight the colonists

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Hessians

72
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the first Roman Catholic President

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President Kennedy

73
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scandal that forced President Nixon to resign from office

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Watergate

74
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William Penn founded both Pennsylvania and

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Delaware

75
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President George W. Bush created the U. S. Department of ___ to promote the safety of the American people.

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Homeland Security

76
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President Reagan’s conservative economic views became known as

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Reaganomics

77
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Identify the locations on a map of the Western Hemisphere.

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Brazil
Mexico
Canada
United States
Greenland
West Indies
Hudson Bay
Caribbean Sea
Panama
Gulf of Mexico

8th Grade History: America Land I Love (12 decks)

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