Quiz Answers – Eighth Grade History

Question #1: In what year did the Pilgrims from the Mayflower voyage land at Plymouth Rock?

Correct Answer: 1620

Question #2: What was the name of the American women’s suffragist who organized the campaign in the 1910’s to get the nineteenth amendment passed and afterwards spent fifty years as the leader of the National Women’s Party? 

Correct Answer: Alice Paul

Question #3: Joseph Smith was an American religious leader who founded which of the following religions? 

Correct Answer: Mormonism

Question #4: Which of the following was a term for the crowded and run-down apartments most people in the cities lived in during the 19th and 20th centuries? 

Correct Answer: Tenements

Question #5: What was the name of the final Queen of Hawaii who was overthrown by a movement to have the islands join the United States? 

Correct Answer: Liliuokalani

Question #6: Which American President was the commander of United States forces in The Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812? 

Correct Answer: Andrew Jackson

Question #7: Who was the first female American Secretary of State? 

Correct Answer: Madeleine Albright

Question #8: In the early 1990’s, what South African legal system of segregation and discrimination came to an end?

Correct Answer: Apartheid 

Question #9: What Underground Railroad Conductor was nicknamed “Black Moses” because of how many people they delivered into freedom? 

Correct Answer: Harriet Tubman

Question #10: When Thomas Jefferson accepted the Louisiana Purchase, what French ruler did he buy this new land from? 

Correct Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

Question #11: The term “sodbuster” was a nickname used in nineteenth century America for people of what occupation?  

Correct Answer: Great Plains Farmer

Question #12: Which of the following terms means a system where one party controls all governmental functions and, therefore, most aspects of the lives of the citizenry? 

Correct Answer: A totalitarian state

Question #13: What President campaigned with the promise of a “Square Deal,” or equal chance of success, for all Americans? 

Correct Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Question #14: What was the name of the rebellion from 1786-1787 that was one of the primary reasons Americans decided to replace the Articles of Confederation? 

Correct Answer: Shays’s Rebellion

Question #15: The musician Scott Joplin was responsible for the popularization of which of the following musical genres in his time? 

Correct Answer: Ragtime

Question #16: Which of the following terms refers to the patronage system of rewarding supporters with political power? 

Correct Answer: The Spoils System

Question #17: What legendary African-American regiment of Union soldiers in the Civil War was recruited by Frederick Douglas and led the attack on Fort Wagner in 1863?

Correct Answer: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment

Question #18: On December 25th 1901, Cuba accepted what amendment to its constitution that allowed the United States to involve itself in their politics and have control over Guantanamo Bay? 

Correct Answer: The Platt Amendment 

Question #19: The dreadful event known as the Bataan Death March that claimed the lives of thousands of P.O.W.’s happened during which of the following wars?

Correct Answer: WWII

Question #20: What battle on September 13th 1759 was the deciding battle of the French and Indian War? 

Correct Answer: The Battle of Quebec

Question #21: What was the name of the trials set up after World War Two that convicted Nazi leaders of their crimes against humanity?  

Correct Answer: The Nuremberg Trials

Question #22: The day known as “Black Tuesday” was the first official day of which of the following dreadful historical periods? 

Correct Answer: The Great Depression

Question #23: What late 1800’s philanthropist opened up the legendary charitable institution Hull House in Chicago to help the poor in her time?  

Correct Answer: Jane Addams

Question #24: In the late twentieth century, the Communist organization Khmer Rouge took over which of the following Asian countries? 

Correct Answer: Cambodia 

Question #25: What is the name of the famous Native American woman who served as a guide on the legendary Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the land gained from the Louisiana Purchase? 

Correct Answer: Sacagawea

Question #26: What man led the first voyage around the entire earth, though he died before seeing it to its completion? 

Correct Answer: Ferdinand Magellan

Question #27: What was the code-name for the World War Two Allied invasion of Europe? 

Correct Answer: Operation Overlord

Question #28: The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allowed The United States to use military force against which country without a formal declaration of war? 

Correct Answer: Vietnam

Question #29: What state was settled thanks in part to the missions set up there by friar Junipero Serra? 

Correct Answer: California

Question #30: What is the name of the location where gold was discovered on January 24th 1848 to begin the California Gold Rush? 

Correct Answer: Sutter’s Mill

Question #31: What newspaper was started by the famous entrepreneur and journalist William Randolph Hearst? 

Correct Answer: The New York Journal

Question #32: The Treaty of Kanagawa opened up trade between America and ports in what country?  

Correct Answer: Japan

Question #33: What man wrote the book Uncle Tom’s Children to expose to the world the violence that was being perpetrated against southern African-Americans in his day? 

Correct Answer: Richard Wright

Question #34: What was the nickname for the period in American history stretching throughout the late 1800’s and early 1900’s that was coined by Mark Twain and was meant to express the gap between the rich and the poor of the time?

Correct Answer: The Gilded Age

Question #35: Aqueducts were channels used in ancient American civilizations to aid agriculture by transporting what? 

Correct Answer: Water