8th Grade Final Exam Review (2023)

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause were all created during the late 1800s to restrict the voting rights of

• Native American Indians

• Women

• Immigrants

• African Americans

Beginning in the late 1800s, poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were used to

• protect important civil rights

• improve public education

• prevent African Americans from voting

• restrict immigration

The “separate but equal” principle established by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) resulted in the

• continuation of racial segregation

• forced integration of schools in the South

• loss of citizenship for African Americans

• elimination of Jim Crow Laws

What advantage did the South have over the North during the Civil War?

• greater manufacturing

• more effective navy

• better government

• more capable military leaders

The constitutional amendments adopted during the Reconstruction period dealt primarily with the

• method of choosing United States senators

• expansion of the rights of African Americans

• prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages

• extension of voting rights to women

During the Reconstruction Era, one reason for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan was to

• prevent formerly enslaved persons from exercising their rights

• encourage immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe

• support the South during the Civil War

• eliminate sharecropping in the Southern states

In the late 1800s, rapid urbanization was mainly the result of the

• shortage of land for new farms

• federally funded city redevelopment projects

• impact of industrialization

• migration of formerly enslaved persons to the West

During the Progressive Era, muckrakers were best known for

• forming new political parties

• organizing protest rallies and marches

• serving in Congress and state legislatures

• exposing harmful practices of business and government

A characteristic of the free-enterprise system is that

• stockholders are guaranteed a profit

• governments control product choices

• foreign trade is discouraged

• businesses compete for consumer dollars

The United States was drawn into World War I mainly because of

• exaggerated stories by yellow journalists

• the unrestricted use of submarine warfare

• a direct attack on an American military base

• commitments made to the United Nations