8th Grade History Test 6 (Semester Exam)

Question 1

What did the colonists call the Seven Years’ War?

Answer 1

French and Indian War

Question 2

Which was not a type of colonial government?

Answer 2

democratic

Question 3

What trailblazer claimed the Bible and a rifle as his “two best friends”?

Answer 3

Jedediah Smith

Question 4

Who is known as “the Father of Texas”?

Answer 4

Stephen Austin

Question 5

What land purchase doubled the size of America?

Answer 5

Louisiana Purchase

Question 6

What was the largest wagon rain ever to go west?

Answer 6

Great Migration

Question 7

Who explored much of Mexico and conquered the powerful Aztec empire?

Answer 7

Hernando Cortes

Question 8

Why was the Ole Deluder Satan Act passed in Massachusetts?

Answer 8

to make sure that children learned to read the Bible

Question 9

In what city did wagon trains heading West usually start?

Answer 9

Independence, Missouri

Question 10

What Indian tribe endured much suffering on the “Trail of Tears”?

Answer 10

Cherokee

Question 11

Which was the first permanent English colony founded in the New World?

Answer 11

Jamestown

Question 12

What colony did the Pilgrims establish?

Answer 12

Plymouth

Question 13

Who is known as the “Pathfinder of the Seas” because of his work with oceanography?

Answer 13

Matthew Maury

Question 14

Why was America named after America Vespucci?

Answer 14

He was the first to realize that a new continent had been found.

Question 15

Who was the commanding officer of the Americans at the Alamo?

Answer 15

Colonel William Travis

Question 16

What 18-minute battle won Texan independence from Mexico?

Answer 16

Battle of San Jacinto

Question 17

Who was elected to be the first President of the Republic of Texas?

Answer 17

Sam Houston

Question 18

What colony did John Winthrop describe as “a city upon a hill”?

Answer 18

Massachusetts Bay

Question 19

What battle involved the first major amphibious landing of American forces?

Answer 19

Veracruz

Question 20

What is Peter Cartwright best remembered as?

Answer 20

circuit-riding preacher

Question 21

Who founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church?

Answer 21

Richard Allen

Question 22

Why did most Americans move West?

Answer 22

to seek new land and better opportunity for their families

Question 23

Why did the Cayuse Indians kill Marcus Whitman?

Answer 23

They thought he was allowing their children to die

Question 24

How did Independence Rock receive is name?

Answer 24

Wagon trains usually reached it in July.

Question 25

``` Which of the following men became a missionary to Japan? Matthew Perry Jonathan Goble Townsmen Harris Marcus Whitman ```

Answer 25

Jonathan Goble

Question 26

promoted transcendentalism

Answer 26

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 27

wrote History of Plymouth Plantation

Answer 27

William Bradford

Question 28

said "Give me liberty, or give me death!"

Answer 28

Patrick Henry

Question 29

wrote Moby Dick

Answer 29

Herman Melville

Question 30

explored Kentucky

Answer 30

Daniel Boone

Question 31

wrote the Blue-Backed Speller

Answer 31

Noah Webster

Question 32

published Poor Richard's Almanac

Answer 32

Ben Franklin

Question 33

said "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."

Answer 33

Daniel Webster

Question 34

wrote Huckleberry Finn

Answer 34

Samuel Clemens

Question 35

declared himself dictator of Mexico

Answer 35

Santa Anna

Question 36

opened Japan up to trade

Answer 36

Matthew Perry

Question 37

"Father of the Santa Fe Trail"

Answer 37

William Becknell

Question 38

"Old Rough and Ready"

Answer 38

Zachary Taylor

Question 39

discovered Hawaii

Answer 39

James Cook

Question 40

"Father of Western African Missions"

Answer 40

Lott Carey

Question 41

James Fenimore Cooper is famous for writing the

Answer 41

Leather stocking Tales

Question 42

The pioneer wagons heading West were known as

Answer 42

prairie schooners

Question 43

The ____ Treaty opened up Japan to missionary activity.

Answer 43

Townshend Harris

Question 44

John McLoughlin was given the title "Father of ___."

Answer 44

Oregon

Question 45

John Deere invented the

Answer 45

steel plow

Question 46

William McGuffey is best known for his ___ textbooks.

Answer 46

reading

Question 47

Cyrus McCormick invented the

Answer 47

mechanical reaper

Question 48

What vehicle did Jonathan Goble invent to transport his ill wife?

Answer 48

rickshaw

Question 49

What state is called the "Lone Star Republic"?

Answer 49

Texas

Question 50

In which battle did Jim Bowie and Davy Crocket die?

Answer 50

Alamo

Question 51

What was the name of the great revival that swept America in the 1700s?

Answer 51

Great Awakening

Question 52

Who nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany, sparking the Protestant Reformation?

Answer 52

Martin Luther

Question 53

What famous poem did Francis Scott Key write?

Answer 53

"The Star-Spangled Banner"

Question 54

From what country did America purchase the Louisiana Territory?

Answer 54

France

Question 55

The ___ ing and queen, Ferdinand and Isabella, sponsored Columbus's expedition.

Answer 55

Spanish

Question 56

____ was the first modern European explorer to set foot on the mainland of North America.

Answer 56

John CAbot

Question 57

The colony of ___ was founded as a refuge fore debtor prisoners to work and pay off their debts.

Answer 57

Georgia

Question 58

The idea that the colonies existed solely for the good of their Mother Country was called

Answer 58

mercantilism

Question 59

The ___ Act required colonists to furnish British soldiers with certain supplies and living quarters.

Answer 59

Quartering

Question 60

Lord North repealed all of the Townshend Acts except the

Answer 60

tea tax

Question 61

The formal ceremony in which a President is officially placed in office is called

Answer 61

inauguration

Question 62

The most widely used textbook in colonial America was the

Answer 62

New England Primer

Question 63

____ was nicknamed "Old Tippecanoe."

Answer 63

William Henry Harrison

Question 64

____ made further improvements on the power loom.

Answer 64

Francis Cabot Lowell

Question 65

Study your maps of the Western Hemisphere and the United States.

Answer 65

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