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8th Grade Social Studies Final Review

Total questions: 53

Worksheet time: 31mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
The Plessy v. Ferguson case held that segregation was a violation of the 14th Amendment.
a)
True
b)
False
2.

Lincoln's 1863 declaration freeing slaves in the Confederacy (states in rebellion). The war goal now included slavery.

a)

New Deal

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

12th Amendment

3.
Abolished slavery in the US
a)
13th amendment
b)
14th amendment
c)
15th amendment
d)
16th amendment
4.
All people born in the US are US citizens who have rights.
a)
13th amendment
b)
14th amendment
c)
15th amendment
d)
16th amendment
5.
All men, regardless of race, can vote in US elections
a)
13th amendment
b)
14th amendment
c)
15th amendment
d)
16th amendment
6.
This court decision made racial segregation legal ("separate but equal")
a)
Plessy V Ferguson
b)
Brown V Board of Education
c)
Plessy V Board of Education
d)
Brown V. Ferguson
7.
What areas were racially segregated?
a)
Schools
b)
Housing
c)
Public Transportation
d)
All of these answers
8.
Tests given to African Americans at the voting polls.
a)
Literacy Tests
b)
Voting tests
c)
Government Tests
d)
Poll tests
9.
A tax that had to be paid before a citizen was able to vote
a)
Poll tax
b)
Vote tax
c)
Literacy tax
d)
Segregation tax
10.
All male citizens have the right to vote regardless of race.  Which amendment is this?
a)
15th
b)
3rd
c)
26th
d)
14th
11.
Every person born or naturalized in the US is a citizen.  Which amendment is this?
a)
12th
b)
22nd
c)
15th
d)
14th
12.
Slavery is abolished.  Which amendment is this?
a)
13th
b)
15th
c)
24th
d)
19th
13.
Women's suffrage (right to vote).  Which amendment is this?
a)
18th
b)
19th
c)
10th
d)
12th
14.

Expanded interstate (between states) commerce (trade) nationwide- economic impact

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

Sharecropper

c)

Transcontinental Railroad

15.

Gradual process by which machines replaced hand tools

a)

Industrial Revolution

b)

Transcontinental Railroad

c)

Imperialism

16.
Where is Ellis Island located?
a)
Pacific Ocean
b)
South of Florida
c)
New York City Harbor
d)
Washington D.C.
17.
What national monument is located near Ellis Island?
a)
The White House
b)
The Statue of Liberty
c)
Mount Rushmore
d)
The Washington Monument
18.
What was Ellis Island?
a)
An amusement park
b)
An immigration center in New Jersey
c)
An immigration center in New York
d)
The first capital of the United States
19.

Journalist who exposed corruption and other problems of the late 1800s and early 1900s.

a)

Immigrant

b)

Rooselvelt

c)

Muckraker

20.
Used the new invention of flash powder to take photos of the living conditions of poor immigrants in New York City.
a)
Mathew Brady
b)
Jacob Riis
c)
Lewis Hine
d)
Robert Capa
21.
Wrote "How the Other Half Lives," describing poverty, crime, and diseases affecting immigrant neighborhoods
a)
Lewis Hine
b)
Jacob Riis
c)
Lincoln Steffens
d)
Louis Brandeis
22.
Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?
a)
Jacob Riis
b)
Lewis Hines
c)
Ida Tarbell
d)
Upton Sinclair
23.

Policy of powerful countries seeking to control the economic and political affairs of weaker countries or regions

a)

Containment

b)

Imperialism

c)

Isolationism

24.

Policy issued by Secretary of State John Hay in 1899 that allowed a nation to trade in any other nation's sphere of influence in China. It assured that the United States had equal trading rights.

a)

Yellow Journalism

b)

Containment

c)

Open Door Policy

25.

News reporting often biased or untrue, that relies on sensational stories and headlines (encouraged a war against Spain)

a)

Yellow Journalism

b)

Muckraker

c)

Fireside Chat

26.

Shortened the shipping route between the Atlantic and the Pacific

a)

Northwest Passage

b)

Panama Canal

c)

Hudson-Mohawk Canal

27.

Reason or result of the Spanish- American War? The United States emerged as a world power

a)

Reason

b)

Result

28.

Reason or result of the Spanish-American War? Americans wanted to protect its business interests

a)

Reason

b)

Result

29.
What sparked World War I?
a)
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
b)
Assassination of Archduke Marmaduke
c)
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdahand
d)
Assassination of Archduke Kaiser Wilhelm
30.
What answer is NOT a reason why America joined WWI?
a)
Zimmerman Telegram
b)
Unrestricted Subwarfare
c)
Member of the allies
d)
Lusitania sinking
31.

In what ways did women help with the war effort at home during World War I?

a)

Worked in factories and conservation

b)

Joined the Army

c)

Drive tanks and Airplanes

d)

Join the American Red Cross

32.
engineer, entrepreneur introduced the assembly line production of automobiles
a)
Glenn Curtis
b)
Edsel Ford
c)
Henry Ford
d)
Jack Chevrolet
33.
prohibits the sale, manufacture and distribution of alcohol
a)
17th Amendment
b)
18th Amendment
c)
19th Amendment
d)
16th Amendment
34.
granting women the right to vote
a)
16th Amendment
b)
17th Amendment
c)
18th Amendment
d)
19th Amendment
35.
style many women adopted of shorter dresses shorter hair rejecting the more tradition fashion and lifestyle
a)
Women's Liberation
b)
Flapper
c)
Bird
d)
Suffrage
36.
What type of music became a new trend during this time in the 1920s?
a)
Jazz
b)
Hip-hop
c)
Country
d)
Blues
37.

Occurred in October 1929 due to many stocks being purchased on credit

a)

Submarine Warfare

b)

World War I

c)

Stock Market Crash

38.

Group of shacks in which the homeless lives during the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover opposed (against) direct federal aid (help) for the unemployed.

a)

Social Security Act

b)

Hooverville

c)

Harlem Renaissance

39.
Which government agency gives benefits to people when they are retired or unemployed?
a)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
b)
Securities and Exchange Commission
c)
Tennessee Valley Authority
d)
Social Security Admistration
40.

Programs of President FDR to end the Great Depression

a)

Open Door Policy

b)

Stock Market Crash

c)

New Deal

41.

In Roosevelt's speech after ____ ,he called it , " A day that will live in infamy."

a)

Normandy ,France

b)

Invasion of North Africa

c)

Pearl Harbor , Hawaii

d)

Bombing of Japan

42.

Everything listed below EXCEPT which one was a way that Texas aided in the war effort.

a)

Sending left over paper to make explosives.

b)

Rationing food

c)

Gathering and donating scrap metal.

d)

Housing prisoners of war.

43.

What event marked the beginning of The Great Depression?

a)

Banks closing

b)

Stock Market Crash of 1929

c)

Black Friday

d)

Unemployment rates rising

44.

What was the code name of the atomic bomb?

a)

Operation Overlord

b)

D-Day

c)

It had no name

d)

Manhattan Project

45.
Who made the statement "An Iron Curtain has descended across the continent"?
a)
President Roosevelt
b)
Joseph Stalin
c)
Winston Churchill
d)
President Harry Truman
46.
What major country was behind the "Iron Curtain"?
a)
Germany
b)
Japan
c)
United States
d)
Soviet Union
47.
What was the Berlin Wall a symbol of?
a)
Communism
b)
Democracy
c)
Neither
d)
Both
48.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
a)
Supplying food and goods to Berlin
b)
Taking people from East Berlin to West Berlin
c)
Dropping of bombs on Berlin
49.

The Korean War...

a)

Had an invasion which was the first military action of the Cold War

b)

Occurred after the assassination of archduke of Franz Ferdinand

c)

Was a result of the Civil Rights movement

50.

President Kennedy and President Johnson sent troops to _______ to limit the spread of communism.

a)

Vietnam

b)

Korea

c)

China

51.
 An African American women who was asked to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama was
a)
Harriet B. Stowe
b)
Rosa Parks
c)
Michelle Obama
d)
Coretta King
52.
Brown vs. Board of Education was a famous case heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1954. The court ruled that it is illegal to:
a)
Allow children to work long hours in factories
b)
Segregate schools based on people’s skin color
c)
Pay black people less than white people for similar work
d)
Return an escaped slave to his/her master  
53.
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks were part of what movement in the 1950s and 1960s?
a)
Anti-Immigration Movement
b)
Free Silver Movement
c)
Urban Renewal Movement
d)
Civil  Rights Movement

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