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American History Grade 8 Exam 1 Review

Total questions: 67

Worksheet time: 46mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who became President after President Lincoln died?

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Ulysses S. Grant

d)

Woodrow Wilson

2.

Black Codes were created to assure that freed former slaves would have _________________ rights.

a)

equal

b)

lesser

c)

more

d)

the same

3.

What was the name given to laws that restricted the rights of freed people?

a)

Jimmy Codes

b)

Black Codes

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Slave Codes

4.

This is the name of the period of time the followed the end of the Civil War.

a)

Building Era

b)

Reconstruction Era

c)

Rebuild Era

d)

Post Civil War Era

5.

Landowners allowed farmers to use their fields in exchange for a share of the crop they grew, this was known as _____________

a)

mixed farming

b)

multiple cropping

c)

tilling

d)

sharecropping

6.

This amendment abolished (ended) slavery in the whole country.

a)

19th Amendment

b)

15th Amendment

c)

13th Amendment

d)

14th Amendment

7.

The ____________ Amendment grants citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States. This meant that all African Americans that were enslaved were now American citizens.

a)

14th

b)

15th

c)

16th

d)

19th

8.

The ______________ Amendment gave all African American MEN the right to vote. It was illegal to deny African American men the right to vote.

a)

14th

b)

16th

c)

13th

d)

15th

9.

According to this amendment no state can deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.

a)

12th Amendment

b)

13th Amendment

c)

14th Amendment

d)

15th Amendment

10.
The 15th Amendment gave African Americans the right to...
a)
citizenship.
b)
vote.
c)
own land.
d)
hold political office.
11.
Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction called for...
a)
punishing the South.
b)
reconciliation and not punishing the South.
c)
literacy tests be required for voting.
d)
Jim Crow laws to be passed.
12.
Why did sharecroppers remain poor?
a)
The South flooded during Reconstrucion
b)
They owed money to the landowners, never getting out of debt
c)
The sun never shone on crops
d)
Animals ate all the crops
13.

How did Cornelius Vanderbilt build his wealth?

a)

Automobile Industry

b)

Railroad and Shipping Industry

c)

Oil Industry

d)

Steel Industry

14.

What is Andrew Carnegie known for?

a)

Oil Company

b)

Steel Company

c)

Automobile Company

d)

Railroad Company

15.

What company did John D. Rockefeller start that made him an industrial capitalist?

a)

Premium Oil

b)

Rockefeller Oil

c)

American Oil

d)

Standard Oil

16.

What is a monopoly?

a)

A company that has no competition

b)

A game that takes a long time to play

c)

A company that goes out of business

d)

A company that lays off workers

17.
Which group had a racial hatred of immigrants, since they took jobs from Americans for lower wages. 
a)
Nativists
b)
Political bosses
c)
Miners
d)
Labor leaders
18.
Which law expanded competition and eliminated trusts and monopolies?
a)
Interstate Commerce Act 
b)
Homestead Act
c)
Sherman AntiTrust Act
d)
Dawes Act
19.

Why was it called the "Gilded Age"?

a)

America had many organizations for immigrants to join.

b)

America looked bright and shiny from the outside, but had problems, like corruption.

c)

It was beginning to build many large cities, with skyscrapers.

20.

The process of blending American Indians into the rest of American culture was called:

a)

expansionism

b)

gilding

c)

mechanization

d)

assimilation

21.

Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller created monopolies. What is a monopoly?

a)

When one person or company controls a market

b)

a board game created by Rockefeller and Carnegie

c)

a law that gave them advantages in business

22.

This invention created steel, which was used to build railroads and skyscrapers:

a)

the telegraph

b)

the Bessemer Process

c)

the Model T

d)

The light bulb

23.

Which of the following was NOT an important invention of the Gilded Age?

a)

telephone

b)

Internet

c)

electricity

d)

automobile

24.

During the Gilded Age, immigrants often lived in parts of cities that were:

a)

crowded, run down, and filthy

b)

beautiful and new

c)

spacious

d)

the most expensive

25.

Boss Tweed became rich from taking "kickbacks". What are kick backs?

a)

Bribes

b)

Karate

c)

Expensive shoes

d)

None of the Above

26.

Boss Tweed's true form of keeping power was through

a)

Voter Fraud & Extortion

b)

Terrorism

c)

Education

d)

Military Force

27.
What was a city government marked by corruption, bribery, and Kickbacks (common during the Gilded Age) called?
a)
credit mobilier
b)
political machine
c)
corrected democracy
d)
electoral politics
28.

What is the main idea of the cartoon?

a)

Political Corruption

b)

Laissez Faire

c)

Monopoly

d)

Social Darwinism

29.

Who coined the phrase "Muckrackers"?

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

Teddy Roosevelt

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

Jacob Riis

30.
Which president supported progressive ideas such as conservation and the regulation of public health? 
a)
William McKinley
b)
Teddy Roosevelt
c)
Calvin Coolidge
d)
Herbert Hoover
31.
1906- Wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. (Helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act) 
a)
Upton Sinclair 
b)
Lincoln Steffens 
c)
Jacob Riis 
d)
Frank Norris 
32.
Journalists who exposed practices of monopolies and big business
a)
Gump Mushers
b)
Muckrakers
c)
Scalawags
d)
Dirt Diggers
33.
Law that requires company to properly label food and medicines
a)
Medicine Man
b)
Food Amendment
c)
Label Lemons
d)
Pure Food and Drug Act
34.
Which condition most directly led to the passage of the Sherman Antitrust act?
a)
The establishment of business combinations that dominated industry
b)
The popularity of the Socialist Party of the United States
c)
The successful efforts of union leaders to organize American workers
d)
The high unemployment rate following an economic crisis
35.

According to Progressives, who should fix society's problems?

a)

big business

b)

social organizations

c)

churches

d)

government

36.

One way to limit African-american voting was to require this fee.

a)

literacy fee

b)

poll tax

c)

head tax

d)

voting fee

37.

Amendment giving women the right to vote

a)

Fourteenth

b)

Nineteenth

c)

Prohibition

d)

Suffrage

38.

writer who exposes wrongdoing

a)

suffrage

b)

referendum

c)

recall

d)

muckraker

39.

the right to vote; a major goal of women reformers

a)

initiative

b)

segregation

c)

suffrage

d)

muckraker

40.

winner of the 1912 Presidential election

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

Woodrow Wilson

c)

William Howard Taft

d)

Upton Sinclair

41.

President Theodore Roosevelt's program of progressive reforms designed to protect the common people against big business

a)

Square Deal

b)

NAACP

c)

Seventeenth Amendment

d)

Jim Crow Laws

42.

Organization founded in 1909 to promote full racial equality

a)

Progressive Movement

b)

NAACP

c)

NAWSA

d)

Niagara Movement

43.
What is nationalism?
a)
Love for one's country and desire to have that country independent.
b)
When nations want to control all countries.
c)
The battle between countries over unclaimed territories
d)
The process of becoming a nation and world power.
44.
What is an alliance?
a)
An agreement between nations to defend one another.
b)
An agreement between nations to trade with one another.
c)
When nation's pick teams to fight against.
d)
Groups of countries that finished nationalism.
45.
Which of the following is not a part of the Central Powers?
a)

The Ottoman Empire

b)
Austria Hungary
c)
France
d)
Germany
46.
Which of the following countries are not a part of the Allied Powers?
a)
Serbia
b)
Italy
c)
Austria-Hungary
d)
France
47.
What is a U-boat?
a)
A German Battle Ship
b)
An American Passenger Ship
c)
A German Submarine
d)
A French Aircraft
48.
What is a trench?
a)
System used in war that extends over 100 miles
b)
A way to fight wars in open land
c)
A type of Guerilla Warfare
d)
The strategy the US used to defeat France
49.
Which of the following is not a reason the US joined WW1?
a)
Attack on American-owned Trade Ships
b)
Sinking of the Lusitania
c)
Zimmerman Telegram
d)
Yellow Journalism
50.
Where is Versailles?
a)
France
b)
The United States
c)
Germany
d)
The Soviet Uniont
51.

League of Nations

a)

A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. It was first proposed in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson, although the United States never joined the League of Nations.

b)

As part of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was ordered to pay fines to the Allies to repay the costs of the war.

c)

1917 - Germany sent this to Mexico instructing an ambassador to convince Mexico to go to war with the U.S.

d)

British passenger liner sunk in 1915 that helped sway American opinion of the war.

52.

Reparations

a)

As part of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was ordered to pay fines to the Allies to repay the costs of the war.

b)

American citizens were lending money to the government to pay for the war.

c)

Law passed by Congress in 1917 that required all men from ages 21 to 30 to register for the military draft

d)

British passenger liner sunk in 1915 that helped sway American opinion of the war.

53.

Armistice

a)

Agreement to stop fighting

b)

As part of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was ordered to pay fines to the Allies to repay the costs of the war.

c)

Law passed by Congress in 1917 that required all men from ages 21 to 30 to register for the military draft

d)

Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.

54.

Zimmerman Note

a)

A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.

b)

A situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible

c)

1917 - Germany sent this to Mexico instructing an ambassador to convince Mexico to go to war with the U.S.

d)

British passenger liner sunk in 1915 that helped sway American opinion of the war.

55.

Trench Warfare

a)

to prepare for war

b)

A form of warfare where soldiers fight from trees.

c)

Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States

d)

A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.

56.

Stalemate

a)

A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.

b)

A situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible

c)

German submarines

d)

British passenger liner sunk in 1915 that helped sway American opinion of the war.

57.

Central Powers

a)

Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States

b)

Mexico

c)

Australia

d)

Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire

58.

During World War I, tanks were used on the western front primarily to:

a)

lead infantry advances across no-man's-land and into enemy territory

b)

destroy railroads and bridges used by enemy troops

c)

release chemical weapons in advance attacks on enemy positions

d)

launch long-range rockets at enemy aircraft

59.

The Fourteen Points reflected President Woodrow Wilson's belief that:

a)

Intervention in the affairs of other nations was never justifiable.

b)

Travel among nations should be regulated by an international organization.

c)

No country should be allowed to spend more on defense than any other country.

d)

Cooperation among international leaders was essential to maintaining world peace.

60.

Who was the President during World War I?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Woodrow Wilson

c)

Teddy Roosevelt

d)

Franklin Roosevelt

61.

What is displayed in the image?

a)

Trench Warfare

b)

Hide and Seek Warfare

c)

Ditch Warfare

d)

Bunker Warfare

62.

What is the name of the plan that called for forces to quickly win at the Western Front and then battle Russia on the Eastern Front?

a)

Anaconda Plan

b)

10% Plan

c)

Compromise of 1850

d)

Schlieffen Plan

63.

What was the first major battle on the Western Front?

a)

Battle of Lexington and Concord

b)

Battle of Marne

c)

Battle of Somme

d)

Battle of Verdun

64.

What country bordered Germany on the Western Front?

a)

Russia

b)

Japan

c)

Great Britain

d)

France

65.

Which country WAS NOT among the "Big Four" powers at the Versailles Peace Conference?

a)

France

b)

Great Britain

c)

Italy

d)

Russia

66.

What country's goal at the Versailles Peace Conference was to "bring Germany to its knees" and make it pay for the war?

a)

France

b)

Great Britain

c)

Italy

d)

United States

67.

As a result of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany lost land to all of the following countries EXCEPT:

a)

Czechoslovakia

b)

France

c)

Poland

d)

Switzerland

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