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WorksheetsSocial Studies 8 Grade
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
Match the following words to their definition
Contentious
To cause or likely to cause an argument
Ingratiate
To bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please
Detriment
The state of being harmed or damaged
Assimilate
To take in and understand fully
Mortified
cause someone to feel embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated
Match the following words to definition.
Benign
Gentle and kindly
Reactionary
Characterized by reaction, especially opposition to progress or liberalism; extremely conservative.
Census
An official count or survey of a population
Bygone
Belonging to an earlier time
Confined
restricted in area or volume; cramped
What does prominent mean?
To promise or to take an oath
To be important; famous
To be extraordinary or fantastic
To be active or to workout
Select 3 labor sectors impacted American industrialization.
Wood
Steel
Railroad
Medical
Garment
When the United States industrialized it transformed from a reliance of (a)
to a reliance of goods in factories.
How did transportation improvements help industrialize our country?
It didn't
These advances in travel and transport helped drive settlement in the western regions of North America and were integral to the nation's industrialization
It helped by making sure that workers would get to there job on time so that America can prove to be a better country
It helped so that we can go from place to place
What is a monopoly
The game Monopoly
A business that controls an industry.
A line of stores in a town or a suburb
A person with a top hat
Who were Scalawags?
Pirates
White Southerners
A group of women
A person to evil to imagine
What was the Jim Crow era?
It was when black people where not slaves but had few rights
It was when there was a poultry disease and 50% of American birds died
A guy named Jim Crow was at the peak of his acting career
Who where carpetbaggers?
People who sold false carpets
People that moved from the north to the south who supported reconstruction
What is an immigrant?
A person that interrogates someone
A person that moves to a different country for freedom and refuge
Someone that stowaways on a ship
True or false Immigrants moved to the U.S.A because of freedom fair payment and that they are promised a job but cannot vote.
True
False
How did cultural bias or prejudice impact immigration policies?
People did not want cultural changes in the U.S.A
They did not wan't to be shown as to have mercy
They did not wan't jews in the U.S
What was an Economic argument used by natives against immigration?
They didn't wan't the U.S to get over populated
The U.S.A did not wan't different kinds of race
The U.S didn't wan't to get to rich
The U.S didn't want Germans because of World War ||
What industry did Andrew Carnegie own?
Railroad
Steel
Agriculture
Skilled
