8th Grade Midterm Review

What allows voters to remove elected officials from office before the end of their terms?

Liliuokalani was the Queen of what island?

This was a new military tactic, fighting defensively from deep ditches.

System of messengers on horseback that carried mail.

He was president of the US after Lincoln was assassinated.

Who was sent to open Japan to American bases and trade?

General of the American Expeditionary Forces who believed in troop training before combat.

As a result of the Spanish American War, why did the U.S want to build the Panama Canal?

He refused Lincoln's offer and instead became the commander of the Confederate Army.

He assassinated Abraham Lincoln in April of 1865.

A British passenger ship sunk by German U-boats.

This law prohibited manufacture and sale of alcohol.

What were the factors that led to the Great War?

What tragedy finally motivated leaders to pass laws ensuring building safety?

What group provided food, education and emergency medical care for former slaves?

This law granted women the right to vote.

Forced 300 mile journey of the Navajo to the reservation was called the Long Trail of Tears.

He was the leader of the Radical Republicans.

What were Midwesterner that sympathized with the South and opposed abolition known as?

Area where foreign nation had trading privileges/made laws.

Who organized the collection of medicine and supplies for the Union?

What was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War?

The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in what area?

Vicksburg's citizens ate horses, dogs, and rats during the siege.

What three occupations helped to move Americans westward in the late 1800's?

Which act gave government owned land to small farmers?

The Bolsheviks were Germans who overthrew Russia's government.

Commander of Union forces in western campaign & took control of the entire Union Army.

Where were the “old immigrants” who arrived in America during the 1800's from?

During WWI, the US government limited freedoms through the Espionage Act.

African American cavalry in charge of maintaining order on the frontier.

What was the the process of rebuilding and transforming the South called after the Civil War?

What secret society opposed civil rights for African Americans and used violence/terror?

This guaranteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job.

He earned the nickname “Stonewall” for his bravery.

Secret telegram from Germany to Mexico plotting against the US.

What did the Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson establish?

Total war was a tactic used by Sherman which he destroyed civilian and economic resources.

Most of the nation's people, factories and railroad tracks were located where?

Jefferson Davis strategically waited for a Union Victory to proclaim southern slaves free.

The USS Maine was believed to be attacked by Spain, thus sparking the Spanish American War.

All of the following led to Germany's surrender during WWI EXCEPT?

Sec of State Seward was applauded and admired by his peers for acquiring Alaska from Russia.

Lee surrendered to Grant in what small town, thus ending the Civil War?

What was NOT a result of the Transcontinental Railroad?

The sale of Liberty Bonds provided millions of dollars to the Central Powers.

Who were the first African American military unit that led a charge on Fort Wagner?

New immigrants were often forced to take low-paying industrial jobs.

Progressives made efforts to improve problems of society during the 1800's.

An alliance of France, Britain, and Russia at the start of WWI.

Told European Powers to stay out of the the Western Hemisphere.

The Ghost Dance was religious movement promised the arrival of paradise for Native Americans.

What was the United States global policy in the late 1800's/early 1900's?

The heir to the Austria Hungary throne who was assassinated, sparking WWI.

Chinese nationals rebelling against Europeans and Americans.

Most of the war was spent in a stalemate, which means neither side has a clear victory.

The United States promoted its economic interest in China with:

Southern African Americans looking for new life in the West.

The Fifteenth Amendment made slavery illegal throughout the US.

What killed more people than the WWI?

What immigrant groups comprised 85% of the transcontinental workforce?

An alliance of Germany ,Austria Hungary and the Ottoman Empire at the start of WWI.

Lincoln's plan for readmitting states into the Union was called the Wade Davis Bill.

This journalist/photographer became famous for exposing NYC tenement life of immigrants.

Author of "Little House on the Prairie", she wrote about life on the Great Plains.

What powerful organizations used legal & illegal ways to get their candidates elected?

This group took a harsh stance against southern states and tried to evoke change.