ABeka 8th grade History (America Land I Love) Test 4

Wilderness Road

The trail that Western settlers used to travel through the Cumberland Gap was the

Sacagawea

The Shoshone girl that accompanied Lewis and Clark was

Zebulon Pike

The southern half of the Louisiana Territory was explored by

Aaron Burr

Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel by

Henry Clay

The leading War Hawk before the War of 1812 was

Oliver Hazard Perry

The Battle of Lake Erie was won by Oliver

Washington , D.C.

During the War of 1812 , the British army burned the city of

Cherokee tribe

The tribe that was forcibly moved to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears was the

Nat Turner

A slave rebellion in Virginia was led by

Specie Circular

The statement that required all public lands to be bought with gold and silver was the

entrepreneur

A person who risks personal loss to create and market new ideas or products is a ( n )

Ohio

What was the first state of the Northwest Territory to be admitted to the Union ?

France

What country sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States ?

New Orleans

What was the last great battle of the War of 1812 ?

Daniel Webster

What senator from Massachusetts was the greatest orator in Congress

Henry Clay

Who proposed the Compromise Tariff of 1833 ?

caucus

What is a closed meeting of political party leaders ?

Andrew Jackson

What president vetoed the Bank Charter Bill in 1832 ?

steamboats

What development made New Orleans a major commercial port ?

steam locomotives

What was the most significant development of the transportation revolution ?

Land was becoming scarce , and Americans sought greater opportunities for their families .

Why did Americans desire to move farther west in the early 1800s ?

Nations respected the United States , and England and the United States would work together to resolve conflicts .

How did the War of 1812 affect U.S. foreign relations ?

The tariff increased the profit of northern manufacturers at the expense of the south .

How did the Tariff of 1828 cause division between the north and the south ?

Lowell provided his employees with housing , education , food , and recreation

How did Francis Cabot Lowell bring higher standards to U.S. factories ?

1819

Spain ceded Florida to the United States

1842

Webster - Ashburton Treaty

1803

Louisiana Purchase

1814

end of War of 1812

1858

transatlantic cable laid

Kentucky

What was the first frontier state to be admitted to the Union ?

Francis Scott Key

Who was the author of " The Star - Spangled Banner " ?

Treaty of Ghent

What treaty ended the War of 1812 ?

Monroe Doctrine

What policy prohibited European powers from new colonization of the Western Hemisphere ?

John Quincy Adams

Who won the " favorite sons " election

John C. Calhoun

What vice president wrote a pamphlet on his views of the Tariff of 1828 ?

secession

What is the term for a state breaking away from the Union ?

Whig

What political party was created out of dislike for President Jackson ?

William Henry Harrison

Who was the first president to die in office ?

Elizabeth Blackwell

Who was the first female physician in the United States ?

applied science or technology

What is the practical use of scientific knowledge ? (

John Deere

developed the steel plow

Eli Whitney

invented the cotton gin

Francis Cabot Lowell

improved the power loom

Robert Fulton

developed the steamboat

DeWitt Clinton

opened the Erie Canal

Samuel F. B. Morse

invented the telegraph

Isaac Singer

improved the sewing machine

Matthew Maury

chose the location of the transatlantic cable

Horace Wells

used nitrous oxide to ease the pain of dental work

Cyrus McCormick

developed the reaping machine

Match each location with the correct number

8. North Carolina

5. Long Island

6. Allegheny Mountains

9. Tennessee River

1. Maine

2. New York

11. Okefenokee Swamp

4. Pennsylvania

3. Hudson River

10. Georgia

Essay : Explain the significance of the Missouri Compromise . Include the reason for the compromise , the main politician involved in creating the compromise , and the results of the compromise .

• The growing rivalry between the north and the south created a need for a political balance when adding new states to the Union .

• As speaker of the House , Henry Clay was incredibly influential in bringing the two sides to an agree ment and creating the compromise .

• The Missouri Compromise resulted in Maine being admitted to the Union as a free state and Missouri being admitted as a slave state . It also prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of the latitude 36 ° 30 ' , ensuring that here would still be a balance between free states and slave states .