WorksheetsReview for Mid year assessment grd 8
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 16mins
This amendment to the Constitution ends slavery:
14 th
13th
16th
1st
The 14th amendment states if you are born in the US you are a citizen. This amendment was put in place to specifically to help this group of people:
Immigrants
Women
African Americans
White Males
The purpose of the 15th amendment is:
Grant voting rights to African Americans
Give suffrage to women
Prevent those who aren't citizens of the US from voting
To free slaves
The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments are known as the Reconstruction Amendments because:
They helped women gain equality
They ended the Civil War
They allowed for open immigration to the US
They helped give rights to the newly freed slaves
The purpose of the Jim Crow laws was:
To free slaves throughout the south
To segregate the races
To prevent women from gaining equal rights
To prevent immigrants from gaining suffrage
This Supremem Court Case will make segregation legal throughout the US. "Seperate but equal is legal"
Marbury v. Madison
Hernandez v the US
The Dred Scott Case
Plessy v. Ferguson
An accurate description of how Native Americans were treated by the government during Westward Expansionsim would be:
Abused, harsh, given broken promises and broken treaties
Allowed to follow their native customs
Fair and equal treatment
The American government didn't have any interaction with Native Americans during the age of Manifest Destiny
What was the main cause for Indian Wars:
Women trying to obtain voting rights
African Americans wanting to end segregation throughout the nation
White settlers moving west to take over land
The government looking outside the boarders of the US to expand overseas and create new colonies
What reasons did the government have for wanting to expand west to the Pacific Ocean?
More land, gold, more markets to sell goods, other natural resources.
New colonies in overseas areas
To spread Christianity
To stop immigration to the US
In what ways did Native Americans adapt to the environment?
They built railroads for transportation and created new towns
They sold the buffalo hides for a profit and brought the animal to near extinction
They used the buffalo for food, shelter, weapons, and tools
They became farmers and worked the land next to white settlers in harmony
Emma Lazarus was poet. She wrote the New Colosuss, a poem welcoming the tired, the poor, the huddled massess. On what US landmark is this poem found?
The San Fransico Bridge
The Empire State Building
The Freedom Tower
The Statue of Liberty
One positve aspect of immigration during the Industrial Revolution was:
Cheap labor
Overcrowding
Diseases
steerage
Negative aspects of immigration during the Industrial Revolution were:
Overcrowding, higher crime rates, spread of diseases, and abundance of poverty
Cheap labor that did not need to be skilled in order to perform tasks on the assembly line
Open colonies for the US to gain new natural resources
Closed boarders and immigration laws
An accurate definition of a nativist would be:
Someone who is in favor of immigration
A person who wants women to gain suffrage
Someone who is against immigration
Emma Lazarun
All of the following contributed to what era in American history: the abundance of natural resources, an unrestricted view of big business by the government, open immigration, and new technology:
The Reconstruction Era
The 1920s
The Great Depression
The Industrial Revolution
What choice would best fit with Big Business and the age of Industry:
The 13th amendment, Jim Crow laws, and Plessy v. Ferguson
Monopolies, trusts, poor working conditions, and lobbying to protect business
Prosperity, fun first, new technology, and installment buying
The assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand, The Battle of the Marne, and the Treaty of Versailles
This law was established to attempt to end the creation of monopolies:
The Sherman Anti Trust Act
The Emergency Quota Act
The Interstate Commerce Act
The National Origins Act
This law was enacted to prevent railroads from overcharging farmers:
The Sherman Anti Trust Act
The Interstate Commerce Act
The National Origins Act
The Emergency Quota Act
In an attempt to prevent big business from taking advangae of consumers they passed the following acts during the age of Industry:
The Emergency Quota Act and the National Origins Act
The Volstead Act and the Jim Crow laws
The Sherman Anti Trust Act and The Interstate Commerce Act
The 13th amendment and the 16th amendment
During the Industrial Revolution, writers tried to expose the truth and corruption of big business and its effects. These writers hoped to bring about change. They were known as:
Immigrants
Suffragists
Muckrackers
Tattletales
Jacob Riiis was a muckraker. He tried to expose how the poor in urban (city) areas were hurting. Identify the name of the book he wrote:
The Jungle
The Abuses of Big Business
The Cities and their Poor
How the Other Half Lives
Some effects of urban (city) growth were:
prosperity for all and new technology
A declaration of war
movement to the west to settle all the land between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans
Overcrowding, spread of diseases, increase in crime and pollution
All of the following are examples of MUCKRAKERS EXCEPT:
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lewis Hine
3 reasons labor unions formed are:
An influx in immigration,
the fear of Communism, and the beginning of WW1
The abolishment of slavery, freedmen needed citizenship, and African Americans demanded voting rights
Poor working conditions,
low pay, and long hours
The invention of the car, installment buying and on margin buying
Which of the following choices would best describe the Progressive Era?
An era of change and positive reform in the United States
An era of great change for African Americans in which they gained their freedom
A time when the world was at war
The belief that the US should expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Changes that occurred during the Progressive Era were:
Laws were passed to protect consumers from harmful elements in their food, child labor was limited, laws to protect consumers from big business were enacted
African Americans gained voting rights, freedmen' Bureau was established, and African Americans were elected to government
Alcohol was illegal, organized crime increased, and speakeasies developed
The US took over new lands outside of the US boarders with the hopes of finding new natural resources
As part of his Square Deal, Teddy Roosevelt tried to protect American consumers with the following laws:
The Emergency Quota Act and the National Origins Act
The Volstead Act and The 21st amendment
The Espionage Act and The Selective Service Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act
The purpose of the Pure Food and Drug Act was:
To limit the number of immigrants allowed to enter the US
To have young men give their names to the government in case there was a need to build up the military quickly
To grant women suffrage
To list ingredients on food and medicine in order to alert the public of what they were ingesting
All of the following are primary sources EXCEPT:
A diary entry from a soldier during WW1
Letters from Alice Paul to the president of the US requesting suffrage for women
A video taken at the time of the attacks on the Twin Towers of 9/11
A textbook that explains why the US believed in Manifest Destiny
All of the following are examples of a secondary source EXCEPT:
A diary of a nurse written during the Battle of the Marne
An encyclopedia article about the Spanish American War
The biography of Woodrow Wilson
A website about the Flu pandemic of 1918
An accurate definition of an enduring issue would be:
A challange or problem that society has faced and debated across time
An area around us in which we live and the effects we have on it
The state of having connections or relationships with other people
a new method of addressing a problem
