Semester Review 8th Grade History

What was the goal of Manifest Destiny?

• To expand America's borders

• To remove Native Americans

• To create an alliance with Mexico

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

•  Improved transportation made it easier for Americans to take vacations.

• Improved transportation caused most horse sellers to go out of business.

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

What was the goal of assimilation?

• For Native Americans to learn to read and write

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

• For Native Americans to farm the land west of the Mississippi River

What was the main benefit of the factory system?

• It cut costs and made workers more efficient.

•  It gave people their first chance to support themselves.

•  It reduced pollution caused by family -based power sources

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

• children

• unmarried women

• women who were slaves

Philadelphia was one of the first …

• planned cities in the United States

• cities that banned textile factories

• areas that refused immigration

What was the goal of the social reform movement?

• to get people to engage in good things instead of "sins"

• to attract new, active members to churches

• to make changes through law to improve the community

What two key reform movements gave rise to the women's suffrage movement?

• Health and education reform

• Anti-slavery and temperance

• Factory reform and women's health

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

• Davy Crockett

• Herman Melville

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

Which set of issues led to the Civil War?

• Economics, religion, boundaries

• Politics, education, voting rights

• Slavery, politics, economics