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8th Grade United States History Test in 1928

(Picture this! You're a student in 1928...This is the type of test you would be presented.  Complete your answer and proceed to
check them...
Good LUCK!)
 

1) What is the ³Spoils System?²
What has taken the place of it?
How did Jackson get rid of the United States Bank?
What was the result?

2) State fully why slavery developed in the South but died out in the North.

3) Discuss any of the following briefly.
 
  a) Compromise of 1850
b) Teapot Dome Affair
c) ³54 ­ 40 or Fight²
d) Nullification

4) What are the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments of the Constitution of the United States.

5) Of these five territorial acquisitions of the United States, tell how and from who each was obtained.
 
a) Louisiana Purchase
b) Alaska
c) Puerto
d) Guam
e) Hawaii

6) Dates and Events. Following is list of dates and events. Copy the proper date in the blank by the event to which it belongs.
 


1820.....1803.....1808.....1889.....1863

a) Battle of Gettysburg1820
a) Admission of South Dakota to the Union
b) Missouri Compromise
c) Louisiana Purchase
d) Importation of slaves prohibited
 

7) Who invented the following: cotton gin, steamboat, sewing machine, aeroplane, reaper, electric light, wireless telegraph.
Tell how one has affected the development of the United States.
 


a) Cotton gin
b) Steamboat
c) Sewing machine
d) Areoplane
e) Reaper
f) Electric light
g) Wireless telegraph

 

8) Four nations that fought in the World War were:

The American Legion is composed of ______________.

Two great farmers¹ organizations are:
Has the United States joined the League of Nations?
______________ was the first man to make an aeroplane flight from the United States to France.
The government is now using aeroplanes in our ______________ service.

 

9) State briefly the facts concerning Lincoln¹s death and tell what effect this had on Reconstruction in the South.