2nd Semester Review - 8th U.S. History

An inventor with an idea for mass producing guns with interchangeable parts and also invented the cotton gin.

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Slater

• Richard Arkwright

• Robert Fulton

What effect did the book, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, have on American society in the 1850s?

• Americans began rioting to protest the publishing of the book

• Americans started questioning the morality of slavery

• Most Americans began to commit acts of civil disobedience in order to protest slavery

• The institution of slavery was abolished

The 14th Amendment

• voting rights for newly freed Africans

• Outlawed slavery in the United States

• Allowed females to vote

• Define citizenship in the United States

In 1830, President ____________________ pushed the Indian Removal Act through Congress.

• John Quincy Adams

• Henry Clay

• Andrew Jackson

• James Madison

What was the cause of the Civil War?

• constitutional issues

• states rights

• slavery

• Northern aggression

A violent, terroristic white supremacist group was the

• Ku Klux Klan

• Jim Crows

• Black Codes

On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. What was John Brown's goal?

• to overthrow the government

• to start a slave rebellion

• to capture escaped slaves

• to fight against abolitionists

Which former slave helped other slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad?

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• Nat Turner

_______ used the technology of the steam engine to build the first commercial steamboat to be able to travel upstream.

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Slater

• Richard Arkwright

• Robert Fulton

How did Dorothea Dix succeed in providing better conditions for the mentally ill in the U.S.?

• She organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848

• She managed to establish asylums

• She provided free education for every child

• She improved their work conditions