8th Grade U.S. History Final Exam

This was the first permanent English settlement in America.

• Plymouth

• Jamestown

• Roanoke

• Salt Lake City

In this document the US stated their freedom from British control.

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Treaty of Paris

In general, why were MOST of the New England colonies founded?

• make money
• better soil
• economic opportunity
• religious freedoms

What was the document that the men signed aboard the ship in the New World which intended to be an agreement for a democratic set of laws?

• The Jamestown Compact
• The Mayflower Compact
• The Jamestown Agreement
• The Mayflower Agreement

Southern General from Virginia who led the South's largest army and lost a major battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

• Jefferson Davis
• Robert E. Lee
• Abraham Lincoln
• Ulysses S. Grant

3 day battle that the South lost and is considered the turning point in the war

• Gettysburg
• Fort Sumter
• The Atlanta Campaign
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

The 13th Amendment

• gave former slaves citizenship

• gave former slaves the right to vote

• gave slaves their freedom

• gave women the right to vote

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution ...

• abolished slavery

• gave former slaves their citizenship

• gave former slaves the right to vote

• gave women the right to own property

Cities populations grew in the West, expand in communication and commerce, and growth in settlers are due to-

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Klondike Gold Rush

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

• The Telegraph

Sherman and Grant used this strategy, which the goal was make the Confederacy give up or lose the will to win?

• Anaconda Plan Warfare

• Trench Warfare

• Guerrilla Warfare

• Total War