8th Grade History Test 8

Question 1

list 3 reasons Chicago became a great, prosperous city

Answer 1

new inventions

Question 2

What took place at Promontory Point, Utah, in 1869?

Answer 2

workers completed the first transcontinental railroad

Question 3

former shoe salesman who became a great evangelist across America

Answer 3

D. L. Moody

Question 4

man who was saved at the Pacific Garden Mission and later founded 67 rescue missions

Answer 4

Mel Trotter

Question 5

invented by Thomas Alva Edison

Answer 5

incandescent light bulb

Question 6

how did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune

Answer 6

steel

Question 7

the term for one who risks personal loss to develop and market a new product

Answer 7

entrepreneur

Question 8

with which inventor did Thomas Watson work

Answer 8

Alexander Bell

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Fanny Crosby

Question 10

considered to be the greatest inventor in American history

Answer 10

Thomas Edison

Question 11

made his fortune in the oil industry

Answer 11

John D. Rockefeller

Question 12

invention Christopher Sholes is remembered for

Answer 12

typewriter

Question 13

D. L. Moody’s song leader

Answer 13

Ira Sankey

Question 14

the first modern American skyscraper

Answer 14

Wainwright Building

Question 15

George Washington Carver developed hundreds of uses for the

Answer 15

peanut

Question 16

area considered sacred by the sioux Indians

Answer 16

Black Hills

Question 17

legislative act that encouraged the Indians to take up farming or ranching

Answer 17

Dawes Act

Question 18

territory in which gold was discovered in 1858

Answer 18

Colorado

Question 19

the legislative act that opened the Great Plains for settlement in 1862

Answer 19

Homestead Act

Question 20

year the United States census said the frontier had been settled

Answer 20

1890

Question 21

a common the of housing for settlers on the prairie

Answer 21

sod houses

Question 22

chief who led the Indians in the battle at Little Bighorn

Answer 22

Crazy Horse

Question 23

drilled the first oil well

Answer 23

Edwin Drake

Question 24

called the period 1865-1900 the “Gilded Age”

Answer 24

Mark Twain

Question 25

What did Sir Henry Bessemer develop?

Answer 25

steel-making process

Question 26

legislated the Pendleton Act

Answer 26

Chester Arthur

Question 27

only President to serve two non-consecutive terms

Answer 27

Grover Cleveland

Question 28

favored a gold standard

Answer 28

William McKinley

Question 29

shot after four months in office by a disappointed political office seeker

Answer 29

James Garfield

Question 30

first Democrat to be elected President after Civil War

Answer 30

Grover Cleveland

Question 31

provided for examinations for civil-service workers

Answer 31

Pendleton Act

Question 32

known as the "Centennial State"

Answer 32

Colorado

Question 33

regulated railroads

Answer 33

ICC

Question 34

states that segregation was legal

Answer 34

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 35

first state to allow women's suffrage

Answer 35

Wyoming

Question 36

The Otis Brothers produced

Answer 36

elevators

Question 37

President influential in admitting six western states during his term

Answer 37

Benjamin Harrison

Question 38

the Populist party also included those supporting a __ policy

Answer 38

free silver

Question 39

became President after the assassination of President Garfield

Answer 39

Chester Arthur

Question 40

General Lew Wallace wrote

Answer 40

Ben-Hur

Question 41

became famous as "the Hoosier poet"

Answer 41

James Whitcomb Riley

Question 42

poet whose works were not published until after her death

Answer 42

Emily Dickinson

Question 43

the artist who became well-known for painting cowboys and Indians

Answer 43

Frederic Remington

Question 44

nicknamed "the March King"

Answer 44

John Philip Sousa

Question 45

the two artists who provided us with a pictorial history of American life in the 19th century

Answer 45

Currier and Ives

Question 46

author of Little Women

Answer 46

Louisa May Alcott

Question 47

Why did many farmers want the government to print more paper money in the decades following the Civil War? Why would this practice actually hurt the economy?

Answer 47

The farmers wanted the government to print more money and increase the supply of money in circulation because it would bring inflation, the rapid increase of prices. They believed that inflation could increase the prices they received for their crops and make it easier to pay off their loans. The problem with this practice is that inflation makes it more difficult for everyone, including farmers, to buy the things they need.

Question 48

How did the philanthropy of men like Andrew Carnegie help all Americans?

Answer 48

Andrew Carnegie and others like him invested money and effort that created thousands of jobs. They also gave much of their wealth away to needy individuals and private charities. During his life, Carnegie gave away more than $350 million. He donates 7,000 pipe organs to churches and built over 3,000 public libraries.

Question 49

Study the map of Mexico

Answer 49

STUDY IT!!!