8th Grade US History End of Year Quiz

How did industrialization have a NEGATIVE impact on society?

• a. Created more jobs in cities

• b. Increase need of Child Labor

• c. Created safer working conditions

• d. Increased pay

How did Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle contribute to a change in the government’s role in the economy?

• a. It weakened public support for national labor unions.

• b. It called for the nationalization of several industries.

• c. It led to federal legislation to regulate the food industry.

• d. It increased opposition to federal regulatory agencies

A common goal of Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, and Ida Tarbell was to:

• a. encourage government officials to decrease the regulation of business

• b. publicize the achievements of the captains of industry

• c. create a demand for new political parties to replace the two major parties

• d. increase public awareness of social, political, and economic problems

What was a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?

• a. All child labor became illegal

• b. Imprisonment of labor union officials

• c. Laws regulating safety in factories

• d. The closing of garment factories

What was President Woodrow Wilson’s stated policy toward the warring nations of Europe prior to United States entry into World War I?

• a. neutrality

• b. containment

• c. internationalism

• d. dollar diplomacy

Which set of events related to World War I is in the correct chronological order?

• a. Lusitania sunk→ World War I begins → United States declares war on Germany → Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated

• b. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated → World War I begins → Lusitania sunk→ United States declares war on Germany

• c. Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated → United States declares war on Germany → Lusitania sunk→ World War I begins

• d. United States declares war on Germany → Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated → World War I begins → Lusitania sunk

Which event is referred to in these headlines?

“Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassinated!” “Germany sinks Lusitania using Unrestricted submarine warfare” “Peace Treaty Signed at Versailles!”

• a. Revolutionary War

• b. World War II

• c. World War I

• d. Cold War

President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points was a plan to:

• a. acquire European colonies

• b. control European trade

• c. prevent future wars

• d. limit imports to the United States

Identify the main reason for the rise of organized crime during the 1920s?

• a. More people were living in rural areas

• b. The manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was illegal

• c. Federal laws limited the power of the police

• d. The automobile improved access to suburban areas

In the 1930s, the New Deal programs showed that:

• a. Government should NOT get involved in big business

• b. State governments should give up commerce inside their states

• c. The Federal Government MUST help the people’s economic well-being.

• d. The United States Constitution was NOT relevant to the 20th-century life.