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EIGHTH GRADE QUIZ ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION -- Whose history is it, anyway? 1) Secondary; 2) Primary; 3) Secondary; 4) Primary PART ONE -- What we know from things we find in the ground 1) mastodons; 2) False; 3) False; 4) Woodland; 5) Mississippian; 6) They have been destroyed by farmers or developers PART TWO -- Tribes and clans 1) False; 2) False; 3) True; 4) False; 5) Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw and Shawnee PART THREE -- The first Europeans 1) False; 2) 1541; 3) disease, specifically smallpox; 4) the Cumberland Gap; 5) False; 6) William Bean PART FOUR -- Tennessee's bloody origins 1) False; 2) False; 3) 4) True; 4) Smallpox; 5) Because there was a river, a spring and a salt lick there; 6) Rachel Donelson; 7) for the British PART FIVE -- New nation and statehood 1) False; 2) False; 3) True; 4) executive, legislative and judicial; 5) John Sevier; 6) Knoxville; 7) John Sevier PART SIX -- Tennessee's wild west era 1) False; 2) False; 3) The Natchez Trace; 4) Chickasaw Purchase of 1818; 5) Memphis; 6) The distance it took to ride a horse from one edge of the county to the courthouse and back PART SEVEN -- Andrew Jackson 1) False; 2) False; 3) True(However, Andrew Jackson was not Rachel's one and only husband; she was married twice) 4) False; 5) False(he defeated the British); 6) John Quincy Adams; 7) South Carolina; 8) The Hermitage PART EIGHT -- The Trail of Tears 1) Sequoyah; 2) see the text; 3) John Marshall; 4) Tsali PART NINE -- Railroads and westward expansion 1) eminent domain; 2) False; 3) James K. Polk; 4) Sam Houston; 5) William Walker PART TEN -- The coming war 1) False(one in four); 2) Because the land in West Tennessee was more conducive to large farms and to growing cotton; 3) False; 4) True; 5) Andrew Johnson PART ELEVEN -- Slaughter, death and chaos 1) False; 2) Champ Ferguson; 3) Fort Donelson; 4) True; 5) Andrew Johnson PART TWELVE -- Reconstruction 1) 1872; 2) poll; 3) see explanation |
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