Abeka 8th grade History Test 6

Year of Pilgrim landing at New Plymouth

1620

Year of Stamp Act congress

1765

Year of Treaty of Paris

1783

Year of the Constitutional Convention

1787

Year of the Louisiana Purchase

1803

Year of Treaty of Ghent

1814

Year of Missouri Compromise

1820

year of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty

1842

Year of the California Gold Rush

1849

Year of Emancipation Proclamation

1863

Year of end of Civil War

1865

The Father of American Missions

Adoniram Judson

Who was the first president to be impeached

Andrew Johnson

Bloodiest single day battle

Antietam

The first U.S. government after the War for Independence was established by the

Articles of Confederation

Most decisive battle of the Civil War

Battle of Gettysburg

Confederate loss of the Mississippi River

Battle of Vicksburg

The final battle of the War for Independence

Battle of Yorktown

Tuskegee Institute was founded by

Booker T. Washington

The best-known evangelist of the Second Great Awakening

Charles Finney

battle that cleared the way for a Union invasion of Georgia

Chattanooga

The person that is remembered as the Angel of the Battlefield is

Clara Barton

Who invented the reaping machine

Cyrus McCormick

Who was the nationally famous Tennessee frontiersman, marksman, and former congressman that fought at the Alamo

Davy Crockett

battle where "Stonewall" Jackson got his nickname

First Battle of Bull Run

The first battle of the Civil War

Fort Sumter

Union general that led the Peninsula Campaign

George B McClellan

Defeated the Confederate army at Gettysburg

George G. Meade

Who is remembered as the most powerful voice of the First Great Awakening

George Whitefield

Atlanta

Georgia

The largest wagon train ever to go west was known as the

Great Migration

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Who presented the Compromise of 1850

Henry Clay

Public primary school for all children was promoted by

Horace Mann

Why was the Missouri Compromise significant

It provided a balance by admitting Maine as a free state and Missouri to be a slave state

Who negotiated the purchase that completely settled the southern border of the US?

James Gadsden

First permanent English settlement in the New World

Jamestown

The president of the Confederate States of America was

Jefferson Davis

The abolitionist who led a raid at Harper's Ferry was

John Brown

The half-million square miles of land granted to the United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was known as the

Mexican Cession

What was the government policy that prevented European colonization of the Western Hemisphere

Monroe Doctrine

The most widely used textbook

New England Primer

Albany

New York

Who was the author of the Blue-backed Speller

Noah Webster

Who founded Five Points Mission as the first settlement house in New York City

Phoebe Palmer

What law divided the former Confederacy into five military districts with military officers to govern them

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Which colony set a precedent for religious freedom in America

Rhode Island

Commanded Confederate Army of Northern VA

Robert E. Lee

The first successful steamboat was developed by

Robert Fulton

Whose presidency officially ended Reconstruction in the South

Rutherford B. Hayes

The first elected president of the Republic of Texas

Sam Houston

Christopher Columbus first landed on an island that he named

San Salvador

A major turning point of the War for Independence was the Battle of

Saratoga

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

South Carolina

Whom did Abraham Lincoln debate during his Illionois senatorial campaign

Stephen A. Douglas

Who established a large settlement in Texas

Stephen Austin

How did the North and South compare to each other during the Civil War?

The South fought in familiar territory for most of the war, but the North had more manpower for their

Why was the Civil War fought?

The south wanted to preserve state's rights and slavery; The North sought to preserve the Union

Slavery in the US was outlawed through the

Thirteenth Amendment

The Cherokee forced relocation was called the

Trail of Tears

Who captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson for the Union

Ulysses S. Grant

The series of escape routes for slaves escaping the South were called the

Underground Railroad

Richmond

Virginia

The author of History of Plymouth Plantation

William Bradford

Union general that led the March to the Sea from Atlanta

William Tecumseh Sherman

Trade in the East was revived by the

crusades

a person who risks personal loss to develop and market a new product

entrepreneur

The type of government that the U.S. Constitution provided for was a

federal republic