8th Grade History Test 4

Question 1

invented the steel plow

Answer 1

John Deere

Question 2

traveled with Lewis and Clark

Answer 2

Sacagawea

Question 3

invented a much-improved sewing machine

Answer 3

Elias Howe

Question 4

won the Battle of Lake Erie

Answer 4

Oliver Hazard Perry

Question 5

served as director of the National Bank

Answer 5

Nicholas Biddle

Question 6

invented the reaper

Answer 6

Cyrus McCormick

Question 7

worked with the transatlantic cable

Answer 7

Cyrus Field

Question 8

served as President Jackson’s Vice President

Answer 8

Martin Van Buren

Question 9

sold territory of Louisiana to United States

Answer 9

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 10

improved the power loom and built textile factories in New England

Answer 10

Francis Cabot Lowell

Question 11

which country had a terrible potato famine that caused much hardship

Answer 11

Ireland

Question 12

The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 settled the boundary between which two countries?

Answer 12

Canada and the United STates

Question 13

the trail that Daniel Boone cleared through the Cumberland Gap

Answer 13

the Wilderness Road

Question 14

In which war was Washington, D.C. burned?

Answer 14

War of 1812

Question 15

Which compromise preserved peace between the North and South?

Answer 15

the Missouri Compromise

Question 16

The Louisiana Purchase ___ the size of the United States.

Answer 16

doubled

Question 17

Which Vice President wrote a pamphlet in support of states’ rights?

Answer 17

John C. Calhoun

Question 18

The man sent by President Jefferson to explore the lands form the aRkansas River to the Rockies

Answer 18

Lieutenant Zebulon Pike

Question 19

the “man from Tennessee” who won the Presidency in 1828

Answer 19

Andrew Jackson

Question 20

Alexander Hamilton died in a duel with

Answer 20

Aaron Burr

Question 21

To stop land speculation in the West, President Jackson issued a _____ requiring that all public lands be paid for in silver and gold.

Answer 21

Specie Circular

Question 22

The ____, though short-lived, was the fastest overland communication service before the telegraph.

Answer 22

Pony Express

Question 23

“dark and bloody ground”

Answer 23

Kentucky

Question 24

won from the British as a result of the War for Independence

Answer 24

Northwest Territory

Question 25

valley littered with fossils

Answer 25

Big Bone Lick

Question 26

controlled by Russian traders

Answer 26

Alaska

Question 27

considered by the south to be the “Tariff of Abominations”

Answer 27

Tariff of 1828

Question 28

Where was a great American victory won after the War of 1812 was over?

Answer 28

New Orleans

Question 29

Who invented the telegraph?

Answer 29

Samuel Morse

Question 30

What is an entrepreneur?

Answer 30

one who risks personal loss to develop and market new products or ideas

Question 31

America’s greatest science teacher

Answer 31

Louis Agassiz

Question 32

the senator from Massachusetts was the greatest orator in Congress

Answer 32

Daniel webster

Question 33

What did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 provide for?

Answer 33

public schools with religious instruction

Question 34

What territorial governor led an American force that defeated the Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe?

Answer 34

William Henry Harrison

Question 35

Which inventor made important improvements on the sewing machine?

Answer 35

Isaac Merrit Singer

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Whig

Question 37

What famous poem did Frances Scott Key write?

Answer 37

“The Star-Spangled Banner”

Question 38

What famous author used his experiences as a steamboat pilot to write books such as Life on the Mississippi?

Answer 38

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

Question 39

What was the name for the sleek, record-breaking sailing ships built in America?

Answer 39

clipper ships

Question 40

What mountain is named after the famous explorer Zebulon Pike?

Answer 40

Pike’s Peak

Question 41

What policy warned European powers against interfering in the Western Hemisphere?

Answer 41

Monroe Doctrine

Question 42

In what ways did the War of 1812 benefit the United States in the years to come?

Answer 42

The United States and Great Britain began to respect each other’s claim in North America. The war encouraged the grown of American Industry. The diminished threat from England encouraged settlement in the West.

Question 43

Know the following locations on a map. STUDY IT!

Answer 43

Cape Cod
Chesapeake Bay
North Carolina
Florida
Hudson River
New York
Georgia
Maine
Long Island
Cape Hatteras