8th History- Answer Review Questions and Study for Test and Quiz.
8th History Review Questions
What did the American Temperance Union work to stop?
What did the Transcendentalists worship?
What do we call education that passes accumulated knowledge of the past to the present generation?
What group of authors became a favorite in American homes and schools?
What Indian tribe experienced suffering and hardship on the "Trail of Tears"?
What is the name for counterfeit church groups that teach salvation by works?
What movement was begun in the US by Josiah Holbrook?
What society was organized in 1816 to distribute Bibles to frontier families?
What was America's greatest contribution to the field music?
What was one of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales?
What was one of the most popular learning techniques in town schools?
What was the name for evangelists who rode regular routes on horseback, conducting church services on the frontier?
What was the term for the group of American poets who emphasized family values and patriotism in their works?
Which was the first state to outlaw the use of liquor?
Who accompanied Lott Carey to Liberia?
Who are the two authors whose understanding of man's fallen nature made them perhaps two of the greatest novelists of the 1800s?
Who became the first Baptist missionary to Japan?
Who controlled the curriculum, instruction, and overall operation of local schools?
Who discovered the Hawaiian Islands in 1778?
Who founded New Harmony?
Who founded NYC's first settlement house?
Who founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church?
Who improved the treatment of the mentally ill?
Who invented a written language for the Cherokee people?
Who is best remembered for his reading textbooks?
Who is famous for his dictionaries and the Blue Backed Speller?
Who is remembered for his paintings of George Washington?
Who opened Japan to missionaries?
Who opened Japan to trade?
Who pioneered the camp meeting revival?
Who started NYC's first Sunday school?
Who united all but two of the Hawaiian Islands under his rule?
Who was known as the "Father of American Missions"?
Who was known as the "Father of Western African Missions"?
Who was responsible for the start of public education?
Who was the great Methodist circuit rider who preached the gospel in KY and TN for 20 years?
Who was the leading evangelist of the Second Great Awakening?
Who was the Methodist evangelist that John Wesley sent to America in 1771 to establish churches and Bible studies on the frontier?
Who was the only American poet honored in England's Westminster Abbey?
Who was the Transcendentalist that wrote Walden?
Who worked to achieve tax-supported public schools?
Who wrote "Old Ironsides"?
Who wrote "Rip Van Winkle"?
Who wrote "Snowbound?
Who wrote "The Tell-Tale Heart"?
Who wrote about frontier life in his Leatherstocking Tales?
Who wrote Moby Dic k?
Who wrote over 200 songs, including "Swanee River" and "Oh! Susanna"?
Who wrote the first dictionary of the American language?
Who wrote The Last of the Mohicans?
Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?
Who wrote The Song of Hiawatha?
8th History Test Study Guide
Matching: (2 sections with 6 questions in each) Match the description with the correct name.
Multiple Choice: (11) Choose the word or phrase which will best answer the question.
Matching: (8) Match the author with the correct work.
Modified True/False: (5)
Short Answer: (6) Write the correct answer in the blank
Map: (7) Arkansas, Indiana, Lake Michigan, Mississippi River, Missouri, Missouri River, North Dakota
Essay: (answer in good paragraph form) What was the philosophy of education in the 1800s? What role did parents play in the education system?
Chapter 11
People
Francis Asbury
James McGready
Peter Cartwright
Charles G. Finney
Sequoya
Richard Allen
Henry David Thoreau
Robert Owen
James Cook
Kamehameha I
Adoniram Judson
Colin Teague
Lott Carey
Commodore Matthew Perry
Townsend Harris
Jonathan Goble
Catherine Ferguson
Dorothea L. Dix
Phoebe Palmer
Places
New Harmony
Liberia
Terms
Circuit riders
Camp meeting revival
American Bible Society
"Trail of Tears"
Negro spiritual
Transcendentalism
Walden
Cults
American Temperance Union
Chapter 12
People
Noah Webster
William McGuffey
Horace Mann
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Greenleaf Whittier
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
Stephen Foster
Terms
Traditional education
Blue-Backed Speller
McGuffey's Readers
Spelling bee
Schoolroom or Fireside Poets