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NAEP US History Grade 8 - Question List

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66. The purpose of the Underground Railroad was to
  1. make transportation to the western frontier easier
  2. take Native Americans to reservations in the West
  3. provide an escape route for slaves fleeing their masters
  4. provide a way for European immigrants to move to the Midwest
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67. 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. - Abraham Lincoln, 1858What did Abraham Lincoln mean in this speech?
  1. The South should be allowed to separate from the United States.
  2. The government should support slavery in the South.
  3. Sometime in the future slavery would disappear from the United States.
  4. Americans would not be willing to fight a war over slavery.
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68. The first permanent English settlement in North America was
  1. St. Augustine
  2. Santa Fe
  3. Jamestown
  4. New Amsterdam
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69. Which group of Americans followed what has become known as the "Trail of Tears" when they were forced to leave their homes?
  1. Japanese Americans
  2. Irish Americans
  3. Cherokee Indians
  4. Mormons
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70. . . . we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that govern- ment of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. - Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863When Lincoln talked about "these dead" he was referring to
  1. soldiers killed in a Civil War battle
  2. workers who died building the railroad
  3. slaves killed while trying to escape
  4. women killed while working as nurses in the Civil War
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