8th Grade Social Studies Final

The Civil War began at the battle of ____________

• Fort Sumter

• Antietam

• Gettysburg

• Shiloh

The amendment states that the right of citizens of the united states to vote shall not be denied was the ___________ amendment

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

During the Civil War, job opportunities for women included all of the following except

• Factory jobs

• nurses

• teachers

• soldiers

Why did the admission of California alarm southerners?

• It upset the balance between free and slaves states

• It gave California more representatives than other states in congress

• Southerners feared the slave trade would end in California

• It overturned the Missouri Compromise

The amendment that banned slavery was the _______ amendment.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

The myth about the "Wild West" came from the idea that the West was a place of....

• chaos

• trouble

• adventure

• travel

The amendment that states all people born or naturalized in the United States are citizens is the ______ amendment.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

___________ would agree that immigrants steal jobs from people ho were not born in our country.

• Colonists

• Ironclads

• Border states

• Nativists

Abraham Lincoln's plan for reconstruction stated that ten percent of a state's voters swore to an oath of loyalty to the United States, the voters could organize a new state government.

• ten percent plan

• reservation

• espionage act

• radical reconstruction

This connected the United States from East to West coast

• transcontinental railroad

• sedition act

• subsides

• vigilantes