8th gr finals review 2024 (partial)

Match the following Reconstruction Amendments to their description

• African American men the right to vote

• 14th Amendment

• banned slavery

• 15th amendment

• citizenship to all people born in the US

• 13th Amendment

1. 1. ​ (a)   2.​ (b)   3.​ (c)   4.​ ​ (d)   5.​ ​ (e)   6. General Lee is defeated at Gettysburg 7. Events at Appomattox

• Lincoln is elected president
• southern states secede
• first shots fired at Fort Sumter
• Shiloh and Antietam battles
• Lincoln signs Emancipation Proclamation

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Angel Island

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(b) Ellis Island

• mostly immigrants from Europe

• New York

• difficult to enter USA here

• mostly Chinese immigrants

• easier to enter USA here

• California

This side won the Civil War. ​ (a)  

• Union
• Confederacy

Match the following

• Terence Powderly

• leader of Knights of Labor

• Samuel Gompers

• angel of the battlefield

• Clara Barton

• leader of the AFL

Match the following inventions to their inventors!

• Wright Brothers

• gas powered airplane

• Edison

• lightbulb

• Graham Bell

• telephone

Abolition was the fight to end ​ (a)   .

• slavery
• reservations
• unions
• telegraphs
• strikes

The ​ (a)   won the Civil War.

• North
• South

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Union Pacific Railroad

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(b) Central Pacific Railroad

• Irish immigrants did much of the work

• more dangerous because of blasting through mountains

• Chinese immigrants did much of the work

MATCH!

• Robert E. Lee

• battlefield nurse, saved many lives, angel of the battlefield

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Confederate General, unpredictable

• Clara Barton

• Union General, later became president, from Galena, Illinois

• Abraham Lincoln

• Union general, slow to make decisions

• George McClellan

• president in the North during the Civil War