8th Grade History Test 5

Question 1

founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church

Answer 1

Richard Allen

Question 2

“Father of American Missions”

Answer 2

Adoniram Judson

Question 3

started New York City’s first Sunday school

Answer 3

Catherine Ferguson

Question 4

improved the treatment of the mentally ill

Answer 4

Dorothea L. Dix

Question 5

founded New York City’s first settlement house

Answer 5

Phoebe Palmer

Question 6

opened Japan to trade

Answer 6

Matthew Perry

Question 7

discovered the Hawaiian Islands in 1778

Answer 7

James Cook

Question 8

became the first Baptist missionary to Japan

Answer 8

Jonathan Goble

Question 9

accompanied Lott Carey to Liberia

Answer 9

Colin Teague

Question 10

united all but two of the Hawaiian Islands under his rule

Answer 10

Kamehameha I

Question 11

“Father of Western African Missions”

Answer 11

Lott Carey

Question 12

opened Japan to missionaries

Answer 12

Townshend Harris

Question 13

the leading evangelist of the Second Great Awakening

Answer 13

Charles Finney

Question 14

great Methodist circuit rider who preached the gospel in Kentucky and Tennessee for 20 years

Answer 14

Peter Cartwright

Question 15

pioneered the camp meeting revival

Answer 15

James McGready

Question 16

What did the Transcendentalists worship

Answer 16

nature

Question 17

the first state to outlaw the use of liquor

Answer 17

Maine

Question 18

the society organized in 1816 to distribute Bible to frontier families

Answer 18

American Bible Society

Question 19

What did the American Temperance Union work to stop?

Answer 19

the consumption and sale of alcohol

Question 20

the Indian tribe that experienced hardship and suffering on the “Trail of Tears”

Answer 20

Cherokee

Question 21

the name of the socialist community founded by Robert Owen

Answer 21

New Harmony

Question 22

What did Horace Mann work to achieve?

Answer 22

tax-supported public schools

Question 23

What is William McGuffey best remembered for?

Answer 23

his reading textbooks

Question 24

Wrote Moby Dick

Answer 24

Herman Melville

Question 25

Wrote the Last of the Mohicans

Answer 25

James Fenimore Cooper

Question 26

Wrote "Snowbound"

Answer 26

John Greenleaf Whittier

Question 27

Wrote The Scarlet Letter

Answer 27

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 28

Wrote The Song of Hiawatha

Answer 28

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 29

Wrote "Rip Van Winkle"

Answer 29

Washington Irving

Question 30

Wrote "Old Ironsides"

Answer 30

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Question 31

Wrote Great Expectations

Answer 31

Charles Dickens

Question 32

Wrote "The Tell-Tale Heart"

Answer 32

Edgar Allan Poe

Question 33

famous for his dictionaries and the Blue-Backed Speller

Answer 33

Noah Webster

Question 34

book written by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau

Answer 34

Walden

Question 35

one of the most popular learning techniques in the town schools

Answer 35

spelling bee

Question 36

a good example of one of James Fenimore Cooper's Hudson River tales

Answer 36

Leatherstocking

Question 37

wrote over two hundred songs, including "Swanee River," "My Old Kentucky Home," and "Oh! Susanna."

Answer 37

Stephen Foster

Question 38

the name for counterfeit church groups which teach salvation by works rather than salvation by grace through faith

Answer 38

cults

Question 39

the name of the Cherokee Indian who invented a written language for his people

Answer 39

Sequoya

Question 40

America's greatest contribution to the field of music

Answer 40

the spiritual

Question 41

the name for evangelists who rode regular routes on horseback, conducting church services on the frontier

Answer 41

circuit riders

Question 42

the term for the group of American poets who emphasized family values and patriotism in their works

Answer 42

Schoolroom Poets (or Fireside Poets)

Question 43

the Methodist evangelist that John Wesley went to America in 1771 to establish churches and Bible studies on the frontier

Answer 43

Francis Asbury

Question 44

Know these locations on a map of the central United STates

Answer 44

``` Missouri Mississippi River Lake Michigan Arkansas North Dakota Missouri River Indiana ```

Question 45

Discuss the philosophy of education in the 1800s. What role did parents play in the educational system?

Answer 45

Early schools preached traditional education, which passes the accumulated knowledge of the past to the present generation. Parents controlled the curriculum, instruction, and overall operation of local schools.