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WorksheetsBodamer Social Studies 8 Mid Term Review
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Type of rule in which the military is in charge and citizens’ rights are suspended.
a)
Martial Law
b)
Military Cuo
c)
Socialism
d)
Tyranny
2.
Union commander in the west who eventually commanded the entire army to victory.
a)
McClellan
b)
Lee
c)
Grant
d)
Sherman
3.
Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.
a)
Search and Seizure
b)
Habeas Corpus
c)
Miranda Rights
4.
Assassinated President Lincoln
a)
Lee Harvey Oswald
b)
George McClellan
c)
Andrew Johnson
d)
John Wilkes Booth
5.
Successor to Lincoln who proposed a lenient plan of Reconstruction.
a)
U.S. Grant
b)
Andrew Johnson
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
James Buchanan
6.
The nation’s first black U.S. Senator.
a)
Hiram Revels
b)
W.E.B. DuBois
c)
Booker T. Washington
d)
Homer Plessy
7.
Southern whites who opposed secession.
a)
Carpetbaggers
b)
Homesteader
c)
Scalawags
d)
Sharecropper
8.
Name given to northern whites who went south to start businesses or pursue political office.
a)
Carpetbaggers
b)
Homesteader
c)
Scalawags
d)
Sharecropper
9.
The bringing of formal charges against a public official.
a)
Indictment
b)
Impeachment
c)
Recall
d)
Referendum
10.
His Supreme Court case created the term “separate but equal”.
a)
Homer Plessy
b)
W.E.B DuBois
c)
Booker T. Washington
11.
A laborer who works the land for the farmer who owns it, in exchange for a share of the value of the crop.
a)
Homesteader
b)
Sodbuster
c)
Sharecropper
12.
A laborer who works the land for the farmer who owns it, in exchange for a share of the value of the crop.
a)
Homesteader
b)
Sodbuster
c)
Sharecropper
13.
Settlers who acquired free land from the government.
a)
Sodbuster
b)
Homesteader
c)
Sharecropper
14.
Another name for Plains farmers.
a)
Sodbuster
b)
Homesteader
c)
Sharecropper
15.
Known as the “Great Commoner”, he ran for President in 1896.
a)
U.S. Grant
b)
William Jennings Bryan
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
Woodrow Wilson
16.
Document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention.
a)
Constitution
b)
Assembly Line
c)
Patent
d)
Monopoly
17.
Created many inventions including the light bulb.
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
J.D. Rockefeller
c)
Alexander Graham Bell
d)
Henry Ford
18.
Created many inventions including the telephone.
a)
J.D. Rockefeller
b)
Henry Ford
c)
Thomas Edison
d)
Alexander Graham Bell
19.
Perfected mass-production and made the automobile available to millions of Americans.
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Henry Ford
c)
J.D. Rockefeller
d)
Alexander Graham Bell
20.
In 1903, successfully tested the first gas-powered airplane.
a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
Wright Brothers
c)
J.D. Rockefeller
d)
Andrew Carneige
21.
Someone who sets up a new business to create a profit.
a)
Entrepreneur
b)
Monopoly
c)
Patent
d)
Trust
22.
A company that controls most or all business in a particular industry.
a)
Entrepreneur
b)
Trust
c)
Monopoly
d)
Patent
23.
Started out in the railroad business and then made his fortune in the steel industry.
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
J.D. Rockefeller
c)
Alexander Graham Bell
d)
Henry Ford
24.
Made his money in the oil industry by forming Standard Oil Company.
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
J.D. Rockefeller
c)
Henry Ford
d)
Thomas Edison
25.
Group of corporations run by a single board of directors.
a)
Trust
b)
Monopoly
26.
The system in which privately owned businesses compete freely.
a)
Socialism
b)
Communism
c)
Free Enterprise
d)
Martial Law
27.
Unions negotiate with management for workers as a group.
a)
Collective Bargaining
b)
Collective Agreeing
c)
Referendum
d)
Recall
28.
Process of becoming a part of another culture.
a)
Immigration
b)
Assimiliation
c)
Integration
29.
A process by which people may vote to remove an elected official from office.
a)
Recall
b)
Referendum
c)
Election
d)
Impeachment
30.
A way for people to vote directly on a proposed new law.
a)
Recall
b)
Referendum
c)
Capitalism
d)
Impeachment
31.
A term for crusading journalists.
a)
Muckraker
b)
Entrepreneur
c)
Yellow Journalism
d)
Suffragist
32.
Became president when President McKinley was assassinated. Was the youngest president at age 42.
a)
Franklin Roosevelt
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
William Jennings Bryan
33.
A person working to destroy monopolies and trusts.
a)
Monopolist
b)
Trustbuster
c)
President
d)
Entrepreneur
34.
People who worked for women’s right to vote.
a)
Suffragist
b)
Entrepreneur
c)
Trust Buster
d)
Muckraker
35.
Former slave who was self-educated and urged blacks to learn a trade and move up gradually in society.
a)
George Washington Carver
b)
W.E.B DuBois
c)
Booker T. Washington
36.
First black to earn a PhD from Harvard and was a founding member of the NAACP.
a)
W.E.B DuBois
b)
Booker T. Washington
c)
George Washington Carver
37.
A person who opposes all forms of government.
a)
Communist
b)
Federalist
c)
Anarchist
d)
Anti-Federalist
38.
A term used to describe the sensational reporting style of newspapers.
a)
Mcukraker
b)
Yellow Journalism
c)
Sensationalism
39.
A group of pardons.
a)
Amnesty
b)
Impeachment
c)
Scalawag
d)
Patent
40.
The freeing of enslaved persons.
a)
Amnesty
b)
Referendum
c)
Emancipate
d)
Patent
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