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Grade 8 Formation of the USA
Which of the following BEST describes Mexico's attitude toward the annexation of Texas as an American state?
  1. Mexico was in favor of it because they believed it would improve trade with the United States.
  2. Mexico was against it because they thought Texas would dam the Nueces River.
  3. Mexico was against it because the government had never officially recognized Texas's independence.
  4. Mexico was against it because the United States wanted to set the boundary of Texas and Mexico at the Nueces River.
Grade 8 Formation of the USA
Alaska was once a possession of Russia.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 8 Formation of the USA
The American form of Romanticism was called
  1. abolition.
  2. reformation.
  3. individualism.
  4. transcendentalism
Grade 8 Formation of the USA
Much of the Spanish-speaking population of the United States lives in a section of the country that was
  1. purchased from Great Britain.
  2. once part of Mexico
  3. purchased from France.
  4. known as the Oregon territory.
Grade 8 Formation of the USA
Which of the following forced the Miami and Shawnees to give up their claims to the land in present-day Ohio?
  1. Treaty of Paris
  2. XYZ Affair
  3. Battle of Fallen Timbers
  4. Reign of Terror
Grade 8 Formation of the USA
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Grade 8 Formation of the USA
Which two writers started to change the tone of American literature by writing stories that explored psychology and human emotions?
  1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Walt Whitman
  2. Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne
  3. Louisa Alcott and Stephen Foster
  4. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
Grade 8 Formation of the USA
By the 1820s, the lands beyond the frontier that most Americans were interested in settling were
  1. Oregon and the Southwest.
  2. Montana and the Great Plains.
  3. Missouri and Florida.
  4. Ohio and the Rocky Mountains.
Grade 8 Formation of the USA
Why did John Sutter want to keep the discovery of gold a secret?
  1. It was not real gold.
  2. He wanted to keep the area for his empire.
  3. He wanted to tell everyone.
Grade 8 Formation of the USA
What did Great Britain do to American ships and sailors?
  1. Feed them.
  2. Play ball with them.
  3. Race them.
  4. Kidnap them.
Grade 8 Formation of the USA
The earliest American colleges were founded largely to
  1. educate men about politics.
  2. train businessmen and businesswomen.
  3. educate men for the ministry.
  4. teach English to foreign-speaking colonists.
Grade 8 Formation of the USA
Why did the California gold rush cause crime rate to rise so high?
  1. miner spent 2 hours a day sifting through the mud
  2. men drowned there sorrows at the movies
  3. miners spent 10 hours a day in freezing water with no end result
Grade 8 Formation of the USA
Who is the Father of the Constitution?
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