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SS.8.A.4.8- Expansion People
Test Description: Review for test on people from political, economic and social expansion
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1) Who was a woman who fought for the rights of prisoners and the mentally ill?
A
Dorothea Dix
B
Lucretia Mott
C
Harriet Beecher Stowe
D
Sojourner Truth
2) Who was a preacher who led the temperance movement?
A
Cyrus McCormick
B
Brigham Young
C
Charles Grandison Finney
D
Lyman Beecher
3) Who was President during the Mexican-American War and gained the land of the Oregon Territory, Texas, and the Mexican Cession?
A
Zachary Taylor
B
Horace Mann
C
James Polk
D
Sam Houston
4) Who was the American General who led the Americans to victory in the Mexican-American War and later became President?
A
James Polk
B
Zachary Taylor
C
Frederick Douglass
D
Thomas Galluadet
5) What woman originally name Isabella Baumfree fought for women's rights and against slavery by giving fiery and dramatic speeches?
A
Dorothea Dix
B
Sojourner Truth
C
Harriet Tubman
D
Susan B. Anthony
6) Who led the common school movement, and pushed for more teacher training and longer school years?
A
Horace Mann
B
John Deere
C
Nat Turner
D
Samuel Morse
7) Who founded the first school for the hearing impaired?
A
Stephen Austin
B
Horace Mann
C
Robert Fulton
D
Thomas Gallaudet
8) Who published the abolitionist newspaper the Liberator and founded the American Anti-Slavery Society?
A
Francis Cabot Lowell
B
Ralph Waldo Emerson
C
Frederick Douglass
D
William Lloyd Garrison
9) Who invented the commercial steamboat?
A
Samuel Slater
B
Nat Turner
C
Peter Cooper
D
Robert Fulton
10) Who published the anti-slavery newspaper the North Star, and was an escaped slave who gave speeches against slavery?
A
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
B
Nat Turner
C
Henry David Thoreau
D
Frederick Douglass
11) Who invented the cotton gin and the idea of interchangeable parts?
A
Samuel Slater
B
Eli Whitney
C
Francis Cabot Lowell
D
Samuel Morse
12) Who was the Native leader of the Fox and Sauk Indians who fought to keep their land in Illinois?
A
Tecumseh
B
Osceola
C
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
D
Black Hawk
13) Who was a popular transcendentalist writer who pushed for Americans to follow their own beliefs?
A
Eli Whitney
B
Ralph Waldo Emerson
C
Lyman Beecher
D
Lucretia Mott
14) Who developed a system of placing all of the steps of production in one factory, and hired women and girls to work in those factories?
A
Francis Cabot Lowell
B
John Deere
C
James Polk
D
Robert Fulton
15) Who invented the telegraph?
A
Samuel Morse
B
Samuel Slater
C
John Deere
D
Horace Mann
16) Who snuck out of England and came to America with the plans for factories in his head?
A
Cyrus McCormick
B
Brigham Young
C
Samuel Slater
D
Black Hawk
17) Who led the Texans at the Battle of San Jacinto where they won against Mexico and forced them to recognize Texas' independence?
A
Stephen Austin
B
Osceola
C
Henry David Thoreau
D
Sam Houston
18) Who was an important leader in the Second Great Awakening and held many religious revivals?
A
Frederick Douglass
B
Samuel Morse
C
Charles Grandison Finney
D
Sojourner Truth
19) Who was a transcendentalist writer who pushed for Americans to be self-reliant and live in nature?
A
Robert fulton
B
Dorothea Dix
C
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
D
Henry David Thoreau
20) Who led the most violent slave in the United States in 1831?
A
Zachary Taylor
B
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
C
Nat Turner
D
Frederick Douglass
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