Grade 8 Midterm Exam Review 2020

Question 1

Thomas Edison's research lab was called...

Accepted Answer

the Invention Factory

Question 2

Settlement houses offered...

Accepted Answer

services to the poor

Question 3

Which did not contribute to the growth of cities?

Accepted Answer

tenements and crime

Question 4

The Transcontinental Railroad...

Accepted Answer

connected the East with the West

Question 5

Which would a nativist agree with?

Accepted Answer

Immigrants steal jobs from americans

Question 6

Which group would accept the ideas of Social Darwinism?

Accepted Answer

factory owners

Question 7

A land rush in 1889 broughts thousands of settlers to...

Accepted Answer

Oklahoma

Question 8

Which amendment guaranteed equal protection of the laws?

Accepted Answer

14th Amendment

Question 9

Which general is known for his march to the sea?

Accepted Answer

William Sherman

Question 10

Lincoln's main goal for Reconstruction was...

Accepted Answer

quickly restore the Union

Question 11

How did the South react to Lincoln becoming president?

Accepted Answer

Southern states began seceding from Union

Question 12

What did the Wilmot Proviso say?

Accepted Answer

Land gained from Mexico would be free

Question 13

Which was not a reason for the rise of the Cattle Industry?

Accepted Answer

Native Americans beginning to farm

Question 14

The KuKlux Klan was created because...

Accepted Answer

whites were angry about losing power

Question 15

What point was made in the Dred Scott decision?

Accepted Answer

Slaves were property, even in a free state

Question 16

Which is an example of a "Jim Crow"law?

Accepted Answer

laws making African Americans use separate cars on trains

Question 17

Why was fort Sumter attacked?

Accepted Answer

South thought Lincoln was arming the fort

Question 18

Was the North or the South a more industrialized economy?

Accepted Answer

North

Question 19

The Homestead act encouraged people to move West because it...

Accepted Answer

offered free land to those willing to farm it

Question 20

What did the Freedmen's Bureau do?

Accepted Answer

Provide relief to people displaced by the war

Question 21

California entered the Union as afree state in the...

Accepted Answer

Compromise of 1850

Question 22

Which was not a reason for the fall of the Cattle Industry?

Accepted Answer

Native Americans take back their land

Question 23

Which did not cause the growth of newspapers?

Accepted Answer

the newspapers focus on Women's rights

Question 24

The Battle of Wounded Knee meant the...

Accepted Answer

end of Indian wars

Question 25

Who was Roger Taney?

Accepted Answer

judge who decided the Dred Scott case

Question 26

Why was public education improved after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

to develop an educated work force

Question 27

Which describes the "Wild West?"

Accepted Answer

gun-slinging cowboys and exciting adventures

Question 28

Which was a not a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Accepted Answer

Missouri Comp. declared unconstitutional and overturned

Question 29

Why did the Union not draft African Americans?

Accepted Answer

Leaders felt it may turn Northern whites against war

Question 30

How did the government help farmers on the Plains?

Accepted Answer

offering the Homestead act

Grade 8 Midterm Exam Review 2020

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Grade 8 Midterm Exam Review 2020

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