8th Grade History Test 12

Question 1

amendment that prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol

Answer 1

18th

Question 2

amendment that repealed prohibition

Answer 2

21st

Question 3

President known as the Great Humanitarian

Answer 3

Herbert Hoover

Question 4

the oldest permanent settlement in the United States

Answer 4

St. Augustine

Question 5

invented the telegraph

Answer 5

Samuel Morse

Question 6

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

Answer 6

New York city and Washington, D.C.

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Whig

Question 8

What was a hornbook?

Answer 8

a board with printed Scripture and the alphabet

Question 9

the code name for America’s atomic bomb project

Answer 9

Manhattan Project

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Question 11

What was the Holocaust?

Answer 11

the murder of over six million Jews

Question 12

religious group who wrote the first classical music composed in America

Answer 12

Moravians

Question 13

the first city to be bombed with an atomic weapon

Answer 13

Hiroshima

Question 14

the first European known to travel the length of Asia

Answer 14

Marco Polo

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Nathan Hale

Question 16

the first permanent English settlement in North America

Answer 16

Jamestown

Question 17

the name given to the President’s advisers

Answer 17

Cabinet

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Patrick Henry

Question 19

the purpose of the checks and balances system

Answer 19

to balance the powers of the three branches of government

Question 20

served as president of the Confederacy during the Civil War

Answer 20

Jefferson Davis

Question 21

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

Answer 21

to make sure children learned how to read and write

Question 22

former shoe salesman who became a great evangelist across America

Answer 22

D. L. Moody

Question 23

entrepreneur made his fortune in the oil industry

Answer 23

J. D. Rockefeller

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Fanny crosby

Question 25

colony that John Winthrop described as "a city upon a hill"

Answer 25

Massachusetts Bay

Question 26

the first shot of the Civil War was fired here

Answer 26

Fort Sumter

Question 27

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

Answer 27

NAFTA

Question 28

"Father of the Constitution"

Answer 28

James Madison

Question 29

invented the reaping machine

Answer 29

Cyrus McCormick

Question 30

best-known missionary to the Indians

Answer 30

David Brainerd

Question 31

discovered the Mississippi River

Answer 31

Hernando de Soto

Question 32

wrote History of Plymouth Plantation

Answer 32

William Bradford

Question 33

searched for the fabled fountain of youth

Answer 33

Ponce de Leon

Question 34

invented the steel plow

Answer 34

John Deere

Question 35

led the Rough Riders in the battle of San Juan Hill

Answer 35

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Colin Powell

Question 37

general who led troops into combat in Operation Desert Storm

Answer 37

Norman Schwarzkopf

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Saddam Hussein

Question 40

first woman justice appointed to the Supreme Court

Answer 40

Sandra Day O'Connor

Question 41

conservative Prime Minister of Great Britain during the Reagan Administration

Answer 41

Margaret Thatcher

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Osama bin Laden

Question 43

President known as the Great Communicator

Answer 43

Ronald Reagan

Question 44

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

Answer 44

John G. Roberts

Question 45

President who initiated the "war on terror" after 9-11

Answer 45

George W. Bush

Question 46

the Indian guide who accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition

Answer 46

Sacagawea

Question 47

posted the Ninety-five Theses, sparking the Protestant Reformation

Answer 47

Martin Luther

Question 48

the fastest overland communication service before the telegraph

Answer 48

Pony Express

Question 49

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

Answer 49

circuit-riders

Question 50

the Nazi dictator of Germany during World War II

Answer 50

Adolf Hitler

Question 51

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

Answer 51

"The Star-Spangled Banner"

Question 52

The Louisiana Purchase ___ the size of the United States

Answer 52

doubled

Question 53

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

Answer 53

Cumberland Gap

Question 54

the un-Biblical theory that Charles Darwin promoted

Answer 54

evolution

Question 55

Armistice Day is now celebrated as

Answer 55

Veterans Day

Question 56

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

Answer 56

Afghanistan

Question 57

John Dewey is known as the

Answer 57

Father of Progressive Education

Question 58

amendment that gave Congress power to tax incomes

Answer 58

16th

Question 59

developed hundreds of uses for the peanut

Answer 59

George Washington Carver

Question 60

struck an iceberg and sank in 1912

Answer 60

Titanic

Question 61

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

Answer 61

Chappie James

Question 62

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

Answer 62

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Question 63

the first ten amendments to the Constitution

Answer 63

Bill of Rights

Question 64

cavalry commander who was killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn

Answer 64

General George A. Custer

Question 65

state known as the "Lone Star Republic"

Answer 65

Texas

Question 66

What did President Roosevelt call his massive government welfare program?

Answer 66

New Deal

Question 67

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

Answer 67

Persian Gulf War

Question 68

What was Charles Lindbergh's plane named?

Answer 68

The Spirit of St. Louis

Question 69

founded the settlement of Providence, Rhode Island

Answer 69

Roger Williams

Question 70

the Soviet Union collapsed during the administration of President

Answer 70

George H. W. Bush

Question 71

the German soldiers that King George hired to fight the colonists

Answer 71

Hessians

Question 72

the first Roman Catholic President

Answer 72

President Kennedy

Question 73

scandal that forced President Nixon to resign from office

Answer 73

Watergate

Question 74

William Penn founded both Pennsylvania and

Answer 74

Delaware

Question 75

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

Answer 75

Homeland Security

Question 76

President Reagan's conservative economic views became known as

Answer 76

Reaganomics

Question 77

Identify the locations on a map of the Western Hemisphere.

Answer 77

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