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8th Grade NC History 3rd Quarter Review
Test Description: 8th Grade NC 3rd quarter review
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1) Which of the following was NOT invented after the Civil War?
A
Westinghouse Air-Brake
B
Automoblile
C
Cotton Gin
D
Telephone
2) A robber Baron is:
A
A politician that used bribery to triumph during the Gilded Age
B
A wealthy industrialist who took advantage of the industrial revolution and form monopolies
C
A republican that was sympathetic to the cause of ending Jim Crow
D
A criminal during wartime
3) Which of the following is a cause of the Great Depression
A
The loss of the gold standard
B
The Crash of the Stock Market
C
Money lost from prohibition
D
WWII
4) Which of the following is a cause for US neutrality during WWI?
A
The sinking of the Lusitania.
B
The Zimmerman note
C
none of these
D
The multicultural population throughout the United States.
5) Which of the following is a major outcome of the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik?
A
The Cold War
B
The U2 Spy Plan incident
C
A increase in the focus of science education in public schools
D
The US decision to launch the Manhattan Project.
6) Jim Crow laws were:
A
Laws that created voting districts to drawn in a way that they favored a particular political party.
B
Laws that legalized segregation and discrimination of African Americans in public places
C
None of these
D
Laws that allowed schools to integrate in the 1960s and 1970s.
7) The Dawes Act:
A
Prohibited the sale and consumption of Alcohol
B
Allowed the United States to declare war on Germany
C
Began the sale of Indian land not being used for farming
D
Forced the end of Child Labor
8) Which of the following US presidents was known for his Big Stick Policy?
A
Lincoln
B
Woodrow Wilson
C
Theodore Roosevelt
D
Franklin D Roosevelt
9) Which of the following was NOT a major goal of Progressive Reformers in the early 1900s?
A
Prohibition of Alcohol
B
ending child labor
C
Abolition of slavery
D
Protection of worker's rights
10) The Panama Canal allowed
A
Travel between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea
B
Connection between the Great Lakes and the Hudson river
C
Navigation of the Mississippi
D
Navigation through Central America from the Pacific to the Atlantic
11) The ruling in the case Plessy V. Ferguson stated:
A
That the government must act in order to combat the poverty the Great Depression had created
B
President Andrew Jackson was not allowed to move the Cherokee people from their land
C
That separate was equal but equal was the law
D
That FDR was not allowed to pack the Supreme Court
12) Which of the following was NOT a major goal of the Labor Movement in the United States?
A
Ending Child labor
B
condemning US Imperialism
C
Creating safer work conditions
D
8-hour workday
13) What was the Great Migration?
A
A book written by Teddy Roosevelt
B
A legendary movement of birds that took place in St. Augustine, FL in the Winter of 1927
C
A wave of Immigration from Ireland to New York in the 1880s
D
The movement of African Americans from the rural south to the Urban North in the early 1900s
14) The difference between a horizontal and vertical monopoly is
A
Vertical monopolies focused on taking over each step in the production process
B
Vertical monopolies involved taking over all of one step in the production process
C
Vertical monopolies were not effective at helping get members of congress elected to office
D
Vertical monopolies were typically businesses based out of skyscrapers whereas horizontal monopolies had many locations
15) The word annex means:
A
To put a tax on foreign imports
B
none of these
C
To add a territory to your country
D
To declare war on
16) A monopoly is:
A
Government regulation of the economy
B
The ability for anyone to buy or sell a good
C
A tax put on foreign goods.
D
When only a single individual can sell a good or service
17) The Reconstruction Era was ended by which of the following events
A
The court case Plessy V. Ferguson
B
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
C
The Compromise of 1877
D
The end of the Civil War
18) An Empire is:
A
A country with a very large military
B
A nation that tries to take over other nations
C
A country that is ruled over by an emperor or a king
D
A country with a very powerful government
19) Which of the following is NOT a method that the Robber Barons used to control society?
A
working with Unions to increase wages
B
none of these
C
Forming vertical and horizontal monopolies
D
Creating political machines that rigged elections
20) The primary cause of WWI was
A
The assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand
B
Political corruption from the Robber Barons
C
none of these
D
German invasion of Africa
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