8th Grade Final Exam Review

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

• Native Americans

• Women

• Immigrants

• African Americans

During the early 1900's, large numbers of African Americans from the South found better job opportunities...

• in northern cities

• in Pacific Coast lumber yards

• on southwestern ranches

• on Great Plains farms

Which heading best completes the partial outline?

I. __________________

A. Workers face hardships

B. Labor reforms are developed

C. Towns and cities grow

D. Giant corporations are created

• Government ends regulation of business

• Progressive movement changes American lives

• American citizens get new responsibilities

• United States becomes an industrial nation

Mass production is a term that can best be defined as the...

• number of hours employees are required to work

• manufacture of large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply

• profit made by a large business corporation

• formation of a business monopoly

A muckraker was a writer or journalist who...

• supported monopolies

• opposed the growth of labor unions

• encouraged an end to slavery

• exposed corruption in government and business

In the period from 1890 to 1910, most immigrants from eastern and southern Europe settled in large cities of the Eastern United States primarily because...

• farmland had become very scarce

• factory jobs were available for unskilled workers

• there was much less discrimination in those cities

• they came mainly from large cities in their home countries

During the period 1840-1920, from which area did the largest number of immigrants come to the United States?

• Asia

• Canada

• Germany

• Great Britain and Ireland

The goal of the Open door Policy of the United States was to...

• establish military control of Latin America

• protect US trading rights in China

• encourage Japanese immigration to the US

• allow for free trade with the Phiippines

According to this cartoonist, what is President Theodore Roosevelt's policy on trusts?

• Good trusts must be destroyed

• Good trusts must be controlled; bad trusts broken up

• Trusts must use their resources to protect the environment

• Only bad trusts should be regulated

A primary goal of the Progressive movement during the early 1900's was to...

• end overseas expansion

• eliminate labor unions

• limit the power of big business

• increase immigration