J8 U.S. History Exam Study Guide

Question 1

What female monarch sponsored Christopher Columbus’s exploration to go to the East Indies by going West?

Answer 1

Queen Isabella.

Question 2

What conquistador took control over the Incan empire in Peru?

Answer 2

Francisco Pizarro.

Question 3

What person told Columbus that he had discovered a “New World” instead of finding the East Indies?

Answer 3

Amerigo Vespucci.

Question 4

What Viking discovered the “New World” before Columbus but wasn’t given credit because he didn’t inhabit it?

Answer 4

Leif Ericson.

Question 5

What man saved Jamestown by saying,”He that does not work does not eat”.

Answer 5

John Smith.

Question 6

What pastor during the Great Awakening preached “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”.

Answer 6

Jonathan Edwards.

Question 7

What evangelist during the Great Awakening preached to a crowd of 20,000 people without a megaphone?

Answer 7

George Whitefield.

Question 8

Which King was America’s last since the War for Independence?

Answer 8

George III.

Question 9

Who wrote about the common sense thing to do was to separate from the British?

Answer 9

Thomas Paine.

Question 10

What speaker said, “Give me liberty or give me death!”

Answer 10

Patrick Henry.

Question 11

Who is a famous inventor, the original author of the Declaration of Independence, and soon to be president of the United States of America?

Answer 11

Thomas Jefferson.

Question 12

Who was a schoolmaster that later became America’s first spy and said, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”?

Answer 12

Nathan Hale.

Question 13

What British General lost and surrendered at Yorktown?

Answer 13

General Cornwallis.

Question 14

What level-headed American General was leader of the Continental army and was soon to be a the first president of the United States of America?

Answer 14

George Washington.

Question 15

What Bible scholar found the Bill of Rights, wrote some of the Constitution and The Federalist Papers and part of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, and one day become president?

Answer 15

James Madison.

Question 16

Who was a lawyer, and was to become the second president, and was a peace talker for the Treaty of Paris?

Answer 16

John Adams.

Question 17

What 2 men were sent, by President Jefferson, on expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase?

Answer 17

Lewis and Clark.

Question 18

What Shoshone Indian woman came along on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to guide them?

Answer 18

Sacagawea.

Question 19

Who was the war hero of the Battle of New Orleans and later president?

Answer 19

Andrew Jackson.

Question 20

Who was the son of John Adams, became president, and ran for Congress?

Answer 20

John Quincy Adams.

Question 21

Who was the Speaker of the House and saved America from a Civil War three times, and became president.

Answer 21

Henry Clay.

Question 22

Who was a Senator for Congress and attacked nullification point by point?

Answer 22

Daniel Webster.

Question 23

Who was Monroe’s Secretary of War, became Andrew Jackson’s Vice President, and became leading defender of states’ rights?

Answer 23

John C. Calhoun.

Question 24

What president was the hero at the Battle of Tippecanoe, had the longest inauguration speech, and the first to die in office?

Answer 24

William Henry Harrison.

Question 25

What woodsman opened up the lands of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee?

Answer 25

Daniel Boone.

Question 26

Who invented the telegraph and Morse Code

Answer 26

Samuel F. B. Morse.

Question 27

Who invented the steel plow?

Answer 27

John Deere.

Question 28

Who invented the mechanical reaper?

Answer 28

Cyrus McCormick.

Question 29

Who invented the cotton gin and made interchangeable parts?

Answer 29

Eli Whitney.

Question 30

What Mexican president turned crazy and destroyed the Texans at the Alamo?

Answer 30

Santa Anna.

Question 31

What American commander made the Bowie knife and served in the fight of the Alamo?

Answer 31

Jim Bowie.

Question 32

What legendary Tennesseean became one of the men in charge of the Alamo.

Answer 32

Davy Crockett.

Question 33

Who was the main commander of the Alamo?

Answer 33

William Travis.

Question 34

What commander helped Jim Bowie fight in the Alamo?

Answer 34

Sam Houston.

Question 35

What mechanic found gold while digging deeper in the channel?

Answer 35

James W. Marshall.

Question 36

What president successfully completed Manifest Destiny and was known as the Manifest Destiny President?

Answer 36

James K. Polk.

Question 37

What general had a nickname “Old Rough and Ready” and served in the Mexican War; he also become president but died in office?

Answer 37

Zachary Taylor.

Question 38

What Italian explorer thought he had made it to the East Indies in 1492?

Answer 38

Christopher Columbus.