8th Grade Social Studies BLITZ

Question 1

What is the name of ONE of the diseases that led to many deaths of Native Americans?

Accepted Answer

small pox

Question 2

Which statement is best supported by the data in the table?

Accepted Answer

More soldiers died from disease than from wounds

Question 3

Which president formally ends Reconstruction with the Compromise of 1877?

Accepted Answer

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 4

Dividing power between the states and the national government is…

Accepted Answer

separation of powers

Question 5

Which two countries were fighting during the French and Indian War?

Accepted Answer

Britain and France

Question 6

The Stamp Act required colonists to…

Accepted Answer

Purchase stamps for all legal documents

Question 7

Which NC document was a precursor to the American Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

Halifax Resolves, Mecklenberg Resolves

Question 8

Which events puts the United States into World War II?

Accepted Answer

Pearl Harbor

Question 9

What does the word "antebellum" mean?

Accepted Answer

before the war

Question 10

The Edenton Tea Party was the first instance of...

Accepted Answer

women's rights movment

Question 11

Which condition increased the negative effects of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Factories had to decrease production because of LOW demand

Question 12

Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves...

Accepted Answer

In areas of the Confederacy that were still in rebellion

Question 13

Congress paid $20k to each of the surviving Japanese Americans interned during WWII because...

Accepted Answer

many Americans believed it was unjust and unnecessary

Question 14

Where did D-Day happen?

Accepted Answer

Normandy, France

Question 15

Industrialization leads to urbanization which leads to__________________

Accepted Answer

modernization

Question 16

The system of checks and balances is best illustrated by the power of

Accepted Answer

the President to veto a bill passed by Congress

Question 17

The North’s rapid economic growth during the Civil War was stimulated by...

Accepted Answer

increased government demand for many products

Question 18

What was the name of the project to develop and test an atomic bomb?

Accepted Answer

Manhattan Project

Question 19

Public disregard for Prohibition and for laws prohibiting gambling indicates that

Accepted Answer

attempts to legislate morality may be met with resistance

Question 20

Which famous process was perfected by Henry Ford and the Model T Car?

Accepted Answer

Assembly Line

Question 21

What does this image represent?

Accepted Answer

westward expansion, Manifest Destiny

Question 22

Which factor made the strongest contribution to the development of religious freedom in the US?

Accepted Answer

promises in the Constitution encourage religious tolerance

Question 23

Who does a loyalist support?

Accepted Answer

British

Question 24

Which ship sank and was one of the causes of the U.S. entering WWI?

Accepted Answer

H.M.S. Lusitania

Question 25

Before the Civil War, slavery expanded in the South rather than the North because

Accepted Answer

Large plantations meant the South used more slave labor

Question 26

Central NC farmers upset with unfair taxes and corrupt colonial officials were called _______?

Accepted Answer

Regulators

Question 27

What is something the Europeans brought to the Americas during the Columbian Exchange?

Accepted Answer

guns and iron tools

Question 28

The Colonial Era, developments such as town meetings & the est. of the House of Burgesses shows

Accepted Answer

steps in the growth of representative democracy

Question 29

What are the 3 "Reconstruction" amendments?

Accepted Answer

13, 14, 15

Question 30

One way in which the Constitution differed from the Articles of Confederation was...

Accepted Answer

created a national government having three branches

Question 31

The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s was a period when African Americans...

Accepted Answer

created noteworthy works of art and literature

Question 32

During the early 1800s, the United States placed few restrictions on immigration because...

Accepted Answer

the industrial economy was creating new jobs

Question 33

Industrialization led to ____________________.

Accepted Answer

urbanization

Question 34

The election results shown below on this map most clearly reflect the influence of:

Accepted Answer

Sectional differences

Question 35

Which type of map shows the detailed info about natural features, such as rivers & mountains?

Accepted Answer

physical

Question 36

Which of the following was NOT involved with the Compromise of 1850?

Accepted Answer

Civil War Reconstruction ends in the South

Question 37

Most of North Carolina's large cities are located in this region.

Accepted Answer

Piedmont

Question 38

At the turn of the century, why did most immigrants to the United States settle in cities?

Accepted Answer

Jobs were readily available.

Question 39

Which of the following was NOT an invention from the Industrial Revolution (1790 - 1840)?

Accepted Answer

Bessemer Process

Question 40

Which of the following was NOT a cause of World War 1?

Accepted Answer

Isolationism

Question 41

Which of the following Revolutionary War battles did not take place in the Carolinas?

Accepted Answer

Lexington & Concord

Question 42

During World War II, women and minorities made economic gains mainly because

Accepted Answer

shortage of traditional labor created new work opportunities

Question 43

What was the largest cash crop that Jamestown relied on?

Accepted Answer

tobacco

Question 44

Which of the following was a cause of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Buying on the Margin (Credit)

Question 45

Who was the famous Robber Baron/business leader of the Steel Industry from the 1870's - 1905?

Accepted Answer

Andrew Carnegie

8th Grade Social Studies BLITZ

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8th Grade Social Studies BLITZ

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