8th Grade Social Studies Final Review

Question 1

Groups of African Americans walked from here to Montgomery for a chance to end segregation.

Accepted Answer

Selma, Alabama

Question 2

Where government sent Africans to a white school to hopefully end segregation. Elizabeth Ekford

Accepted Answer

Little Rock, Alabama

Question 3

Formed Standard Oil Trust

Accepted Answer

John D. Rockefeller

Question 4

Leader of Russia who wanted to make it communist; pulled Russia out of the war

Accepted Answer

Vladimir Lenin

Question 5

Secretary of State who bought Alaska from Russia

Accepted Answer

William Seward

Question 6

Who was Grapes of Wrath written by

Accepted Answer

John Steinback

Question 7

Site where 250,000 peaceful citizens raised awareness to support civil rights movement

Accepted Answer

Washington DC

Question 8

Monarch of Germany who fled to Holland and gave up his throne after end of WWI

Accepted Answer

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Question 9

What did US want to stop in Cold War

Accepted Answer

Communism

Question 10

Dealt with Germany severely; treaty at the end of the war.

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Versailles

Question 11

Gave women the right to vote

Accepted Answer

19th amendment

Question 12

Fascism

Accepted Answer

Blind Loyalty

Question 13

Civil War timeline

Accepted Answer

1861-1865

Question 14

Where Rosa Parks refused to give her seat

Accepted Answer

Montgomery, Alabama

Question 15

Country invaded by Mussolini's Italian armies

Accepted Answer

Ethiopia

Question 16

American general; occupied Morocco & Algeria & got Rommel's troops to surrender in WWII

Accepted Answer

Eisenhower

Question 17

Not a main goal of the New Deal

Accepted Answer

Replace

Question 18

When was Pear Harbor

Accepted Answer

December 7, 1941

Question 19

Oliver Brown sued the board of education because of school segregation

Accepted Answer

Topeka, Kansas

Question 20

Country that Hitler & Stalin split; invaded on both sides by Germany and Soviets

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 21

Banned discrimination in public facilities outlawed discrimination in the work place.

Accepted Answer

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 22

WWII Timeline

Accepted Answer

1939-1945

Question 23

Barred all states from denying African American males the right to vote

Accepted Answer

15th amendment

Question 24

Who won the election of 1932?

Accepted Answer

FDR

Question 25

When did women earn the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

1920

Question 26

WW1 Timeline

Accepted Answer

1914-1918

Question 27

Country invaded by Japanese in WWII

Accepted Answer

Manchuria

Question 28

Active First Lady; served as FDR's "eyes and ears"

Accepted Answer

Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 29

People born in the US are citizens; States may not pass laws that take away a citizen's rights

Accepted Answer

14th amendment

Question 30

Commanded American Expeditionary Forces WWI

Accepted Answer

John Pershing

Question 31

Sent telegraph to Mexico convince them in assisting them in war; get US territory back

Accepted Answer

Arthur Zimmerman

Question 32

Which was not a cause of WWI

Accepted Answer

Fascism

Question 33

Site where 4 African Americans sat at a "whites only" counter & refused to move.

Accepted Answer

Greensboro, NC

Question 34

Portion of Czechoslovakia populated largely by German people; given to Hitler in Munich Pact

Accepted Answer

Sudetenland

Question 35

Provided relief to people displaced by the civil war; taught freedmen to read and write.

Accepted Answer

Freedman's Bureau

Question 36

When did US enter WWI

Accepted Answer

1917

Question 37

Borrowing money in order to buy stocks

Accepted Answer

Buying on the Margin

Question 38

Improved nation's infrastructure

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PWA

Question 39

Took control of steel industry & made his own well-known steel company

Accepted Answer

Andrew Carnegie

Question 40

Act gave financial aid to the disabled+retired and gave temporary payments to the unemployed

Accepted Answer

Social Security

Question 41

Hired people to work in parks & forests planting trees & building reservoirs

Accepted Answer

CCC

Question 42

What was Black Tuesday

Accepted Answer

Stock Market Crash

Question 43

Became a popular industry during industrial revolution

Accepted Answer

Steel industry

Question 44

What is prohibition?

Accepted Answer

Ban on alcohol

Question 45

NOT a cause of the Dust Bowl

Accepted Answer

Overpopulation

Question 46

businesses owned by many investors

Accepted Answer

Corporation

Question 47

1865; Banned slavery

Accepted Answer

13th amendment

Question 48

American bombing on Nagasaki date

Accepted Answer

August 9, 1945

Question 49

Turned Italy into the world's first Fascist state

Accepted Answer

Mussolini

Question 50

Protected bank depositors & guaranteed individual deposits up to $2500

Accepted Answer

FDIC

Question 51

American bombing on Hiroshima date

Accepted Answer

August 6, 1945

Question 52

When did the stock market crash?

Accepted Answer

October 29, 1929

8th Grade Social Studies Final Review

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8th Grade Social Studies Final Review

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