8th Grade History Final

“Abolition” was the word used to describe the cause of outlawing: 

• Alcohol

• Penitentiaries

• Slavery

• Divorce

The Industrial Revolution began in the

• shipping industry

• textile industry

• mining industry

• farming industry

Which of the following allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter the Union as a  free state?

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Industrial Revolution

• Increased immigration

• Urbanization

What social reform cause was celebrated at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848?

• Prohibition

• Mental asylums

• Abolition

• Women’s rights

Which African American abolitionist started a newspaper called The North Star?

• Frederick Douglass

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

When was the Second Great Awakening?

• 1620s

• 1740s

• 1770s

• 1820s and 1830s

Suffrage is?

• The right to vote.

•  The right to own property.

• The right to move from state to state.

• The obligation to serve in the military in time of war.

Perhaps the most well known revivalist in the Second Great Awakening was

• Charles G. Finney

• Joseph Smith

• Mother Ann Lee

• John Humphrey Noyes

Slavery and cotton growing were closely linked because?

• Most cotton plantations were owned by slave traders.

• Cotton growing required a great deal of labor.

• Enslaved workers preferred cotton over other crops.

• The price of cotton was low.

A merchant living in the interior of America in the early 1800’s would mostly use ________ to transport his goods to markets in the east.

• The Railroad

• Canals

• The Sea

• Turnpikes