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8th Grade Social Studies History Carnival Questions for 1 st Five Presidents and Industrialization

1st Five Presidents

Question 1 One of the things that George Washington had to deal with as our first President was.. national debt from the Revolutionary War French soldiers in the frontier Spanish ships attacking American ports a major slave rebellion

Answer national debt from the Revolutionary War

Question #2 Washington selected this man to be the first Secretary of the Treasury whose plans included a national bank, tariffs on imports, and paying off all war debts. He would become a founder of the Federalists : Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin John Adams Alexander Hamilton

Answer Alexander Hamilton

Question #3 In Washington’s Farewell Address, he warns the country of the following two things:   Slave rebellions and Spanish naval attacks Dangers of political parties and foreign alliances Civil war and national debt American traitors and Native American spies

Answer Dangers of political parties and foreign alliances

Question #4 The first two political parties in our history were the: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans Whigs and Federalists Democratic-Republicans and Know Nothings Free Soil and Republicans

Answer Federalists and Democratic-Republicans

Question #5 During the Adams Presidency, the incident where three French agents demanded bribe money from American delegates in Paris to negotiate with their government was known as the : French Bribery Incident Paris Affair Adams debacle XYZ Affair

Answer XYZ Affair

Question #6 Adams and the Federalist Congress passed these two very unconstitutional laws designed to get rid of French immigrants and to silence criticism of his government : The Alien and Sedition Acts The Anti-French Acts The Anti-Press Acts The Federalist Acts

Answer The Alien and Sedition Acts

Question #7 To oppose the Alien and Sedition Acts, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison introduced the idea of “state’s rights” in these two documents that they wrote : The States Rights essays The Alien and Sedition Resolutions The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions The Unconstitutional Arguments

Answer The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Question #8 In what year did our third President, Thomas Jefferson, buy the Louisiana Territory from France ? 1776 1803 1620 1861

Answer 1803

Question #9 The Supreme Court case that introduced the idea of judicial review and declared the judicial branch as the sole determiners of the constitutionality of a law was : Plessy vs. Ferguson Dred Scot vs. Sandford Gibbons vs. Ogden Marbury vs. Madison

Answer Marbury vs. Madison

Question #10 What two men did Jefferson send to explore the newly purchased Louisiana Territory in 1804-1806 ? Adams and Hamilton Jefferson and Madison Lewis and Washington Lewis and Clark

Answer Lewis and Clark

Question #11 What war between the United States and Great Britain occurred during James Madison’s Presidency ? The Revolutionary War The War of 1812 The French and Indian War The Civil War

Answer The War of 1812

Question #12 One of the reasons that the U.S. and Britain go to war in 1812 is because the British were kidnapping and keeping American sailors. This action was also known as : Oceanic abductions British lawlessness Impressment Naval slavery

Answer Impressment

Question #13 During the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote a poem while witnessing the Battle of Fort McHenry, the poem later becoming our national anthem. What is the name if this poem ? The Star-Spangled Banner The Ballad of Fort McHenry To Anacreon in Heaven The Ballad of Francis

Answer The Star-Spangled Banner

Question #14 What American general became a war hero after defeating the British at the Battle of New Orleans ? George Washington Andrew Jackson William Henry Harrison Zachary Taylor

Answer Andrew Jackson

Question #15 After the war of 1812, the U.S entered a time period of high national unity, patriotism, booming economy, no political fighting, and increased industrial production. This period was known as the : Era of Industrial Production Era of Monroe Era of Good Feelings Era of Nationalism

Answer Era of Good Feelings

Question 16 President James Monroe issued a warning to European nations to stay out of the western hemisphere for colonization or re-colonization purposes. This 1823 warning was known as the : Monroe Doctrine European anti-colonization Act Monroe Spanish Address South American Protection Act

Answer Monroe Doctrine

Industrialization: Economies of the North and South

Question 1 Eli Whitney became famous for inventing the following two things :   mechanical reaper and the steel plow telegraph and the steamboat the cotton gin and interchangeable parts cotton mill and the locomotive

Answer the cotton gin and interchangeable parts

Question 2 In 1807, Robert Fulton invented this device that greatly improved river and canal transportation: steamboat cotton gin telegraph steel plow

Answer steamboat

Question 3 These two men invented the steel plow and the mechanical reaper, which greatly improved the methods of farming grains such as wheat and corn and that led many people to the Great Plains.   Robert Fulton and Samuel Morse Francis Cabott Lowell and Samuel Slater John Deere and Cyrus McCormick Eli Whitney and Samuel Morse

Answer Francis Cabott Lowell and Samuel Slater

Question 4 The invention of the ________ created a demand for more land to plant cotton in the southeast, leading to the removal of Native Americans and greatly increased the number of slaves in the south. mechanical reaper Lowell Mill cotton gin telegraph

Answercotton gin

Question 5 The first textile mill that used the “factory system”, produced finished cloth, and hired many young girls to work the machines was built by this man: Francis Cabott Lowell Benjamin Franklin Samuel Slater Thomas Edison

Answer Francis Cabott Lowell

Question 6 Samuel Morse invented a system of symbols called Morse Code which was used with this other of his inventions : mechanical reaper Lowell Mill cotton gin telegraph

Answer telegraph

Question 7 In which region of the United States did the vast majority of the industrial revolution take place ? the southern region the northern region the western region the European region

Answer the northern region

Question 8 Despite the industrial revolution’s effects on the country, the south remained primarily ________________ economy . a factory system an agricultural a technological a shipbuilding

Answer an agricultural

Question 9 Despite the industrial revolution’s effects on the country, the south remained primarily ________________ economy . a factory system an agricultural a technological a shipbuilding

Answer a factory system

Question 10 Which of the following is an example of a textile ? marble floor tile wooden table horse saddle cloth apron

Answer cloth apron

Question 11 The Industrial Revolution can BEST be defined as a…   Period of decline in the use of machines in manufacturing and production Military conflict between farmers and the government, based on price fixing Period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production Domestic conflict between labor and manufacturers over wages and benefits

Answer Period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production

Question 12 Which of the following inventions greatly improved the efficiency and productivity of factories especially when machines broke down?   Interchangeable parts Steamboat Telegraph Erie Canal

Answer Interchangeable parts

Question 13 In order to improve working conditions and demand higher wages, many workers got together and formed:   New states New laws Unions Street gangs

Answer Unions

Civil War 1

1. What was the main goal of the North at the beginning of the Civil War ? End Slavery Recognition as a country Bring the South back into the Union Gain control of Canada

Bring the South back into the Union

2. What were the four slave states that remained loyal to the Union called? Loyal States Union States Slave States Border States

Border States

3. Which of the following generals was the Supreme Commander of the Confederate Army ? George McLellan Robert E. Lee James Longstreet Ambrose Burnside

Robert E. Lee

4. Which of the following was a Southern advantage during the Civil War ? More industry fighting on their own ground More population better railroad system

fighting on their own ground

5. Which of the following was NOT a part of the Northern Anaconda war plan ? Getting the Natives to fight the South Gain control of the Mississippi River Blockade southern ports Capture Richmond, Virginia

Getting the Natives to fight the South

6. What was the most famous African-American regiment during the Civil War ? 54 th Massachusetts 50 th Mississippi 32 nd Connecticut 89 th New Hampshire

54 th Massachusetts

7. What was the main goal of the South at the beginning of the war ? to invade and conquer the north to get Mexico to join them to be recognized as an independent nation to cause a rebellion by Natives

to be recognized as an independent nation

8. In March 1864, who did Lincoln place in charge of all Union armies? George B. McClellan Stonewall Jackson Ulysses S. Grant Ambrose Burnside

9. What battle was the single bloodiest day of the Civil War? Chancellorsville Antietam Bull Run Shiloh

Antietam

10 . What two battles are considered to be the turning points of the Civil War? Vicksburg and Shiloh Bull Run and Fredericksburg Vicksburg and Gettysburg Gettysburg and Antietam

Vicksburg and Gettysburg