Semester Review 8th Grade History

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What was the goal of Manifest Destiny?

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To expand America's borders

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Which answer best describes the impact of improved transportation on American life?

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Improved transportation made shipping faster and cheaper, thereby lowering prices.

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What was the goal of assimilation?

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For Native Americans to change their ways so they were more like people of European descent.

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What was the main benefit of the factory system?

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It cut costs and made workers more efficient.

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The majority of workers in the cotton textile mills in the early 1800s were…

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unmarried women

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Philadelphia was one of the first …

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planned cities in the United States

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What was the goal of the social reform movement?

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to make changes through law to improve the community

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What two key reform movements gave rise to the women's suffrage movement? Options: Health and education reform, Anti-slavery and temperance, Factory reform and women's health

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Anti-slavery and temperance

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Which American writer did the most to gain a wide audience for Transcendentalism?

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Which set of issues led to the Civil War? Economics, religion, boundaries, Politics, education, voting rights, Slavery, politics, economics

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Slavery, politics, economics