8th Grade History Test 9 (Quarter Exam)

formed the Standard Oil Company

served two terms nonconsecutively

Who defended the Bible and won the Scopes trial?

Why did the League of Nations and the Kellogg-Briand Pact fail to prevent war?

What Union general led the March to the Sea from Atlanta?

first to be impeached

established the first successful labor union

Who was a skyscraper architect?

Yellow journalism tells a story using the scenery, customs, and dialect of a particular region of the country

popularized the progressive movement

The first major battle of the Civil War was at Bull Run

founder of the Grange

What act created a privately controlled central banking system under the sponsorship of the government?

Why did the United States hold onto several Pacific Islands after the Spanish-American War?

The 16th Amendment gave Congress the power to tax personal incomes

offered land and citizenship to the head of an Indian family

NBC was the first commercial broadcasting station

Who was the baseball evangelist from the 1900s?

Who is considered the Father of Progressive Education?

greatest war hero from World War I

What was the first state to grant women voting rights?

What country pulled out of World War I with the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

Who is known as the Hoosier poet?

What state was admitted to the Union during the Civil War?

What amendment prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages?

What U.S. amendment outlawed slavery?

What President proposed the League of Nations?

What is Elisha Otis remembered for inventing?

Henry Bessemer built the largest steel manufacturer in the world

proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act

represented South Carolina

provided for Cuban Independence

In the Zimmermann note Germany promised land from the United States to Mexico

Who made the first nonstop transatlantic flight?

Why was the Age of Industry also called the Gilded Age?

served as President during the Civil War

According to Booker T. Washington, what is the best way to be successful?

What economic system successfully affected the Age of Industry in the United States?

Who was the greatest inventor America has ever produced?

Study the Timelines Mrs. Rister gave you

What senator declared his loyalty to the Union in the 7th of March Speech?

The Democratic Party was the first to express that the government could solve practically all problems

Who was one of the earliest progressive leaders?

I will study Map 15

Who is remembered as the March King?

The Teller Resolution stated that the United States intended only to free Venezuela

supported Dollar Diplomacy

controlled immigration of Japanese laborers to the United States

Who was the Union commanding officer at the end of the Civil War?

What act required men of specific ages to register with local draft boards?

set a precedent for government regulation of business

What city was destroyed by a fire in 1871 that led to the architecture of the modern skyscraper?

What organization was created by leaders of Communism that met in Moscow?

one of the first men to reach the North Pole

found the NAACP

Clara Barton founded the Hull House to help improve living conditions for women

How did false philosophies such as Modernism and evolution affect the United States?

balanced the upset between slave and free states

President McKinley passed an act that made gold the only standard for monetary value