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NAEP US History Grade 8 - Question List

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56. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved-I do not expect the house to fall-but I do expect it will cease to be divided.The statement was made by
  1. George Washington
  2. Thomas Jefferson
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Theodore Roosevelt
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57. The phonograph was invented by
  1. Samuel Morse
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Thomas Edison
  4. Cyrus McCormick
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58. The Great Awakening of the 1730's was important because it led people in the American colonies to
  1. increase toleration for Roman Catholics
  2. examine the different positions of men and women in society
  3. reaffirm that God gave kings their right to rule
  4. question the authority of church and government leaders
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59. A city of ruins, of desolation, of vacant houses, of widowed women, of rotting wharves, of deserted warehouses . . . acres of pitiful and voiceless barrenness-that is Charleston. The news report best supports which statement?
  1. Cities on the coast saw the worst of the fighting in the Civil War.
  2. During the Civil War urban areas in the South suffered.
  3. The destruction of cities had little effect on the progress of the Civil War.
  4. The Civil War had little effect on city life in the North.
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60. What was the main reason that many leaders in Great Britain leaned toward supporting the Confederacy in the Civil War?
  1. Plantation owners in Britain held slaves.
  2. Most British immigrants to the United States lived in the South.
  3. Britain relied on Southern cotton for its factories.
  4. British politicians wanted to make the United States weaker so that they could conquer it.
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