8th Grade Final Review #2

The exaggerated newspaper headlines about the explosion of the Maine that contributed to the start of the Spanish American War are an example of

• yellow journalism

• censorship

• local color

People who opposed immigration and discriminated against new immigrants because their cultures were seen as too different were

• anarchists

• communists

• nativists

A special election that allows voters to choose their party’s candidates for general elections is called a

• initiative

• primary

• referendum

A rise in prices with a decrease in the value of money is known as

• inflation

• depression

• recession

Literacy tests and poll taxes were both examples of

• actions taken to help promote labor reform

• laws intended to break up monopolies

• efforts used to prevent African Americans from voting

Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, and Jacob Riis were all

• muckrakers

• sharecroppers

• robber barons

Which President’s foreign policy included using Big Stick Diplomacy to secure the building of the Panama Canal and domestic policies included conservation and trust busting?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Theodore Roosevelt

• William Howard Taft

Who served as president at the start of the Cold War?

• William McKinley

• Harry S. Truman

• Abraham Lincoln

Who was president during World War I?

• Woodrow Wilson

• William Howard Taft

• Theodore Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency was most shaped by what events?

• World War I and the sinking of the Titanic

• the Spanish American War and the assassination of McKinley

• the Great Depression and World War II