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Review for Mid year assessment grd 8

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This amendment to the Constitution ends slavery:

a)

14 th

b)

13th

c)

16th

d)

1st

2.

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:

a)

Immigrants

b)

Women

c)

African Americans

d)

White Males

3.

The purpose of the 15th amendment is:

a)

Grant voting rights to African Americans

b)

Give suffrage to women

c)

Prevent those who aren't citizens of the US from voting

d)

To free slaves

4.

The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments are known as the Reconstruction Amendments because:

a)

They helped women gain equality

b)

They ended the Civil War

c)

They allowed for open immigration to the US

d)

They helped give rights to the newly freed slaves

5.

The purpose of the Jim Crow laws was:

a)

To free slaves throughout the south

b)

To segregate the races

c)

To prevent women from gaining equal rights

d)

To prevent immigrants from gaining suffrage

6.

This Supremem Court Case will make segregation legal throughout the US. "Seperate but equal is legal"

a)

Marbury v. Madison

b)

Hernandez v the US

c)

The Dred Scott Case

d)

Plessy v. Ferguson

7.

An accurate description of how Native Americans were treated by the government during Westward Expansionsim would be:

a)

Abused, harsh, given broken promises and broken treaties

b)

Allowed to follow their native customs

c)

Fair and equal treatment

d)

The American government didn't have any interaction with Native Americans during the age of Manifest Destiny

8.

What was the main cause for Indian Wars:

a)

Women trying to obtain voting rights

b)

African Americans wanting to end segregation throughout the nation

c)

White settlers moving west to take over land

d)

The government looking outside the boarders of the US to expand overseas and create new colonies

9.

What reasons did the government have for wanting to expand west to the Pacific Ocean?

a)

More land, gold, more markets to sell goods, other natural resources.

b)

New colonies in overseas areas

c)

To spread Christianity

d)

To stop immigration to the US

10.

In what ways did Native Americans adapt to the environment?

a)

They built railroads for transportation and created new towns

b)

They sold the buffalo hides for a profit and brought the animal to near extinction

c)

They used the buffalo for food, shelter, weapons, and tools

d)

They became farmers and worked the land next to white settlers in harmony

11.

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?

a)

The San Fransico Bridge

b)

The Empire State Building

c)

The Freedom Tower

d)

The Statue of Liberty

12.

One positve aspect of immigration during the Industrial Revolution was:

a)

Cheap labor

b)

Overcrowding

c)

Diseases

d)

steerage

13.

Negative aspects of immigration during the Industrial Revolution were:

a)

Overcrowding, higher crime rates, spread of diseases, and abundance of poverty

b)

Cheap labor that did not need to be skilled in order to perform tasks on the assembly line

c)

Open colonies for the US to gain new natural resources

d)

Closed boarders and immigration laws

14.

An accurate definition of a nativist would be:

a)

Someone who is in favor of immigration

b)

A person who wants women to gain suffrage

c)

Someone who is against immigration

d)

Emma Lazarun

15.

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:

a)

The Reconstruction Era

b)

The 1920s

c)

The Great Depression

d)

The Industrial Revolution

16.

What choice would best fit with Big Business and the age of Industry:

a)

The 13th amendment, Jim Crow laws, and Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Monopolies, trusts, poor working conditions, and lobbying to protect business

c)

Prosperity, fun first, new technology, and installment buying

d)

The assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand, The Battle of the Marne, and the Treaty of Versailles

17.

This law was established to attempt to end the creation of monopolies:

a)

The Sherman Anti Trust Act

b)

The Emergency Quota Act

c)

The Interstate Commerce Act

d)

The National Origins Act

18.

This law was enacted to prevent railroads from overcharging farmers:

a)

The Sherman Anti Trust Act

b)

The Interstate Commerce Act

c)

The National Origins Act

d)

The Emergency Quota Act

19.

In an attempt to prevent big business from taking advangae of consumers they passed the following acts during the age of Industry:

a)

The Emergency Quota Act and the National Origins Act

b)

The Volstead Act and the Jim Crow laws

c)

The Sherman Anti Trust Act and The Interstate Commerce Act

d)

The 13th amendment and the 16th amendment

20.

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:

a)

Immigrants

b)

Suffragists

c)

Muckrackers

d)

Tattletales

21.

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:

a)

The Jungle

b)

The Abuses of Big Business

c)

The Cities and their Poor

d)

How the Other Half Lives

22.

Some effects of urban (city) growth were:

a)

prosperity for all and new technology

b)

A declaration of war

c)

movement to the west to settle all the land between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans

d)

Overcrowding, spread of diseases, increase in crime and pollution

23.

All of the following are examples of MUCKRAKERS EXCEPT:

a)

Upton Sinclair

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

d)

Lewis Hine

24.

3 reasons labor unions formed are:

a)

An influx in immigration,

the fear of Communism, and the beginning of WW1

b)

The abolishment of slavery, freedmen needed citizenship, and African Americans demanded voting rights

c)

Poor working conditions,

low pay, and long hours

d)

The invention of the car, installment buying and on margin buying

25.

Which of the following choices would best describe the Progressive Era?

a)

An era of change and positive reform in the United States

b)

An era of great change for African Americans in which they gained their freedom

c)

A time when the world was at war

d)

The belief that the US should expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean

26.

Changes that occurred during the Progressive Era were:

a)

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

b)

African Americans gained voting rights, freedmen' Bureau was established, and African Americans were elected to government

c)

Alcohol was illegal, organized crime increased, and speakeasies developed

d)

The US took over new lands outside of the US boarders with the hopes of finding new natural resources

27.

As part of his Square Deal, Teddy Roosevelt tried to protect American consumers with the following laws:

a)

The Emergency Quota Act and the National Origins Act

b)

The Volstead Act and The 21st amendment

c)

The Espionage Act and The Selective Service Act

d)

The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act

28.

The purpose of the Pure Food and Drug Act was:

a)

To limit the number of immigrants allowed to enter the US

b)

To have young men give their names to the government in case there was a need to build up the military quickly

c)

To grant women suffrage

d)

To list ingredients on food and medicine in order to alert the public of what they were ingesting

29.

All of the following are primary sources EXCEPT:

a)

A diary entry from a soldier during WW1

b)

Letters from Alice Paul to the president of the US requesting suffrage for women

c)

A video taken at the time of the attacks on the Twin Towers of 9/11

d)

A textbook that explains why the US believed in Manifest Destiny

30.

All of the following are examples of a secondary source EXCEPT:

a)

A diary of a nurse written during the Battle of the Marne

b)

An encyclopedia article about the Spanish American War

c)

The biography of Woodrow Wilson

d)

A website about the Flu pandemic of 1918

31.

An accurate definition of an enduring issue would be:

a)

A challange or problem that society has faced and debated across time

b)

An area around us in which we live and the effects we have on it

c)

The state of having connections or relationships with other people

d)

a new method of addressing a problem