Wenn's 8th Grade US History Exam Review Toll (2nd Semester)

Question 1

This is another name for southern white Republicans

Accepted Answer

Scalawags

Question 2

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was intended to support

Accepted Answer

slave revolts

Question 3

Which of the following was NOT an advantage for the South

Accepted Answer

Large Population

Question 4

Black Codes did all of the following except

Accepted Answer

Give African Americans the right to vote

Question 5

Commanding General of the Confederacy

Accepted Answer

Robert E. Lee

Question 6

Name the Northern Strategy during the Civil War

Accepted Answer

Anaconda plan

Question 7

President Lincoln was cautious about issuing the Emancipation Proclamation because

Accepted Answer

He didn't want loyal slave states to leave the union

Question 8

These are northerners who went south after the Civil War

Accepted Answer

Carpetbaggers

Question 9

Three of the famous Speeches from Lincoln were

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1st Inaugural, Gettysburg Address, 2nd Inaugural

Question 10

Early battles of the Civil War showed that

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The war would be long and bloody

Question 11

Person who rents land and farms it in exchange for a part of what the farmer grows is a/an

Accepted Answer

Sharecropper

Question 12

Andrew Johnson became the president the 17th president in between

Accepted Answer

Lincoln and Grant

Question 13

What is the best, most valuable and most interesting subject in school is...

Accepted Answer

History (Yup, it's not a trick question

Question 14

What state was known as the Lone Star Republic?

Accepted Answer

Texas

Question 15

Sea to shining sea is a phrase to describe...

Accepted Answer

Manifest Destiny

Question 16

Largest battle of the Civil War, was Lee's final attempt to fight in the North

Accepted Answer

Gettysburg

Question 17

As a result of the Emancipation Proclamation, in 1863

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Abolition of slavery became the main goal of the Civil War

Question 18

Two leaders of the Women's Movement that held the Seneca Falls Convention

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

Question 19

What type of warfare did General Grant and General Sherman institute in order to win the war?

Accepted Answer

Total war

Question 20

"Bleeding Kansas" in 1856 was coined due to

Accepted Answer

the fights between abolitionists and proslavery factions

Question 21

Which group would not agree with Manifest Destiny

Accepted Answer

Native Americans

Question 22

This Amendment banned slavery

Accepted Answer

13th Amendment

Question 23

The Underground Railroad was organized by

Accepted Answer

Harriet Tubman

Question 24

Which of the following is NOT a result of the Civil War

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Women received the right to vote

Question 25

Which of the following was NOT an advantage for the North

Accepted Answer

Fighting on their home soil

Question 26

Camps in the Civil War were locations

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All of these are correct

Question 27

The Dred Scott case

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African Americans were not citizens of the United States

Question 28

Rebuilding the South after the Civil War

Accepted Answer

Reconstruction

Question 29

When factory machines replaced hand tools...

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Industrial Revolution

Question 30

A place where the Confederates surrendered

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Appomattox Courthouse

Question 31

The father of Public Education

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Horace Mann

Question 32

The reconstruction was a period of time after the Civil War, that lasted from---to

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1865-1877

Question 33

This Amendment made all persons born in the U.S. citizens

Accepted Answer

14th Amendment

Question 34

Plessy vs Ferguson , 1896, consolidated the policy of

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Segregation, separate but equal

Question 35

Suffrage is the right to

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vote

Question 36

US government agency founded to help former slaves

Accepted Answer

Freedman's Bureau

Question 37

Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 at Ford's Theater and Andrew ________ became president.

Accepted Answer

Johnson

Question 38

The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) resulted in

Accepted Answer

All the above

Question 39

This amendment made it illegal to deny a person the right to vote based on their race

Accepted Answer

15th Amendment

Question 40

All three amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) have in common the following

Accepted Answer

They intended to bring freedmen closer to full citizenship

Question 41

What happened to Andrew Johnson after violating the tenure of office act

Accepted Answer

He was impeached

Question 42

President of the Confederacy

Accepted Answer

Jefferson Davis

Question 43

Political doctrine that consisted of states believing they had the right to cancel federal laws

Accepted Answer

Nullification doctrine

Question 44

This declared that segregation was legal as long as facilities were separate but equal

Accepted Answer

Plessy V. Ferguson

Question 45

Which event finally caused the Southern states start to seceding?

Accepted Answer

Lincoln's election

Question 46

Jim Crow laws: one result of poll taxes and literacy tests was

Accepted Answer

Few African Americans could vote in the South

Question 47

The disputed election of 1876 helped to bring about

Accepted Answer

The end of Reconstruction

Question 48

Which of the following aspects made the agricultural economy possible in the South

Accepted Answer

Fertile soil and warm weather

Question 49

What effect did the Alamo have on Texans?

Accepted Answer

Encouraged them to keep fighting

Question 50

What was an effect of the Emancipation Proclamation

Accepted Answer

Meant the Union was fighting to end slavery

Wenn's 8th Grade US History Exam Review Toll (2nd Semester)

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