8th Grade NC History 3rd Quarter Review Question Preview (ID: 42070)

a) Government regulation of the economy

b) The ability for anyone to buy or sell a good

c) When only a single individual can sell a good or service

d) A tax put on foreign goods.

a) The court case Plessy V. Ferguson

b) The end of the Civil War

c) The Compromise of 1877

d) The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

a) A country with a very powerful government

b) A country with a very large military

c) A nation that tries to take over other nations

d) A country that is ruled over by an emperor or a king

a) Forming vertical and horizontal monopolies

b) Creating political machines that rigged elections

c) working with Unions to increase wages

d) none of these

a) Vertical monopolies were typically businesses based out of skyscrapers whereas horizontal monopolies had many locations

b) Vertical monopolies focused on taking over each step in the production process

c) Vertical monopolies involved taking over all of one step in the production process

d) Vertical monopolies were not effective at helping get members of congress elected to office

a) To put a tax on foreign imports

b) To declare war on

c) To add a territory to your country

d) none of these

a) 8-hour workday

b) Ending Child labor

c) condemning US Imperialism

d) Creating safer work conditions

a) A book written by Teddy Roosevelt

b) A wave of Immigration from Ireland to New York in the 1880s

c) A legendary movement of birds that took place in St. Augustine, FL in the Winter of 1927

d) The movement of African Americans from the rural south to the Urban North in the early 1900s

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) Laws that allowed schools to integrate in the 1960s and 1970s.

d) None of these

a) Forced the end of Child Labor

b) Prohibited the sale and consumption of Alcohol

c) Began the sale of Indian land not being used for farming

d) Allowed the United States to declare war on Germany

a) Franklin D Roosevelt

b) Theodore Roosevelt

c) Woodrow Wilson

d) Lincoln

a) Prohibition of Alcohol

b) Abolition of slavery

c) Protection of worker's rights

d) ending child labor

a) Connection between the Great Lakes and the Hudson river

b) Navigation through Central America from the Pacific to the Atlantic

c) Navigation of the Mississippi

d) Travel between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea

a) That FDR was not allowed to pack the Supreme Court

b) That separate was equal but equal was the law

c) That the government must act in order to combat the poverty the Great Depression had created

d) President Andrew Jackson was not allowed to move the Cherokee people from their land

a) Money lost from prohibition

b) WWII

c) The Crash of the Stock Market

d) The loss of the gold standard

a) The sinking of the Lusitania.

b) The multicultural population throughout the United States.

c) The Zimmerman note

d) none of these

a) A increase in the focus of science education in public schools

b) The US decision to launch the Manhattan Project.

c) The Cold War

d) The U2 Spy Plan incident

a) Political corruption from the Robber Barons

b) The assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand

c) German invasion of Africa

d) none of these

a) A republican that was sympathetic to the cause of ending Jim Crow

b) A politician that used bribery to triumph during the Gilded Age

c) A wealthy industrialist who took advantage of the industrial revolution and form monopolies

d) A criminal during wartime

a) Cotton Gin

b) Telephone

c) Automoblile

d) Westinghouse Air-Brake