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8th Grade Quarterly Assessment
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1
Ellis Island is located on what coast?
West Coast
East Coast
2
Top inventions that were made in the late 1800's included all but ____________
airplane
car
telephone
computer
3
The invention that made automobile making faster and efficient was the ___________
train tracks
stop sign
assembly line
lightbulb
4
What immigration center did the Japanese use?
Angel Island
Ellis Island
5
In the stock market, you make an investment by buying a stock or share. True or False.
False
True
6
What effect did the mining boom have on the size of the population in the West?
population decreased
population increased
population stayed the same
7
True or False: The railroad expansion had a positive and negative impact.
False
True
8
True or False: The Hungarians and Russians used Ellis Island?
True
False
9
Are you READY for this exam?
not at all
a little bit
wait, there's a test tomorrow
most definitely
10
Ellis Island was the used by all immigrants except Japanese or Chinese, true or false?
True
False
11
Henry Ford's invention of the automobile Model-T lead to the making of the ________________
assembly line
skyscraper
airplane
12
How did railroads affect the price of cattle?
price of cattle decreased
price of cattle increased
13
What immigration center did the Germans use?
Ellis Island
Angel Island
14
What immigration center did the Chinese use?
Angel Island
Ellis Island
15
What does transcontinental mean?
leaving the continent
going from one side of the continent to the other
joining two continents
16
Elisha Otis made skyscrapers possible by inventing what?
safety elevator
ladders
escalators
skyline
17
Railroads, trolley cars and subways were new transportation that provided what to city people
faster ways of travel
increase in travel prices
road blocks and traffic jams
18
New farming methods affected the Great Plains, which one was not a farming method?
dry farmings
plastic hooks
barbed wire
windmills
19
The railroad expansion had a negative impact on ___________
no one
farmers
Native Americans
African Americans
20
What immigration center did the Hungarians use?
Ellis Island
Angel Island
21
What immigration center did the Italians use?
Ellis Island
Angel Island
22
People from the South and Eastern Europe emigrated to the United States due to all except______
new life/job
poverty
buy a car
23
If you were to emigrate from Italy to the United States, what social class would you belong to?
middle class
low class
high class
24
What immigration center did the Poles use?
Ellis Island
Angel Island
25
If you were to emigrate to the United States, your job was most likely not at a _____________?
department store
sweatshop
factory
26
African Americans who migrated from Southern states into Kansas were known as ______
sharecroppers
exodusters
homesteaders
27
Which coast is Angel Island located on?
West Coast
East Coast
28
What automaking process did Ford create that made automaking faster?
mass production
Model T
assembly line
29
What invention did Henry Ford invent?
Ford T
T Model
Model T
Ford 1000
30
Which island was used by Japanese and Chinese immigrants to become US citizens?
Angel Island
Pacific Island
Ellis Island
31
There were four ways new farming technology affected the Great Plains. Which one is not?
power tractors
windmills
barbed wire
dry farming
32
Boss Tweed was a corrupt New York boss. What did his political cartoon portray?
greed and money hungry
stability and fame
style and pose
33
True or False: In the stock market, if sales in the company are good, so is your investment.
false
true
34
Mining camps become boomtowns due to the discovery of __________ and development of __________?
gold and cattle
gold and railroads
35
Which one is NOT a way in which you can consolidate a business?
changing out the employees of the business
running a company out of business
buying a company
36
In the 1900's, two groups experienced discrimination, which group did not have that experience?
women
whites
blacks
37
When someone donates their money to a charitable cause, it is known as
vertical integration
Philanthropy
Stock
38
If you were to emigrate to the United States, what type of building would you live in?
loft
two story house
mansion
tenement
39
___________means to become part of the american culture?
associate
annexation
astrolabe
assimilate
40
Congress gave 160 free acres of land to settlers known as ___________?
Homestead Act
Dawes Act
Stamp Act
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What is it called when someone donates their money to a charitable cause?
philanthropy
stock
vertical integration