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8th Grade Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The direct election of senators | Seventeenth Amendment |
| women were granted the right to vote | nineteenth amendment |
| Alcohol becomes illegal | eighteenth amendment |
| Created the Missouri Compromise | Henry Clay |
| Court Case: Argued in times of war groups such as Japanese Americans had limited rights | Koramatsu v. United States |
| These shanty towns developed during the Great Depression and were named after a President | Hoovervilles |
| Raids that were focused on weeding out the communists during the 1920's | Palmer Raids |
| Best Baseball Team | Red Sox |
| belief that all immigrants are bad, often immigrants themselves | nativists |
| Nicknamed the Trustbuster | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Anti Trust Law | Sherman Anti trust Act |
| Cause of the Civil War: made California a free state, enacted the fugitive slave act, popular sovereignty used to determine if a territory would become free or slave, banned slave trade in D.C | Missouri Compromise of 1850 |
| Gave all citizens the right to vote | Fifteenth Amendment |
| massive dust storm during the Great Depression that forced thousands of people to lose their farms | Dust Bowl |
| A set of laws to ensure segregation and discrimination in the South after the Civil War | Jim Crow Laws |
| Big Business that dominate a particular industry | monopoly |
| Muckraker who wrote how the other half lives | Jacob Riis |
| outlaws slavery | thirteenth amendment |
| letting the people determine the law based on a vote | popular sovereignty |
| Abolitionist who led a raid on Harper Ferry, cause of the Civil War | Jim Brown |
| Court Case; 1857: Slaves are property and do not have rights; cause of the Civil War | Dred Scott vs Sanford |
| Forcing the North to turn over all runaway slaves back to the South | Fugitive Slave Act |
| The period of time immediately following the Civil War, meant to rebuild the South , was a disaster | Reconstruction |
| President who ordered the drop of the Atomic Bomb | Truman |
| Act that guaranteed labor rights and the right to organize in 1935 | Wagner Act |
| Theodore Roosevelt ran for this third party in 1912 | Progressive Party |
| Set up assistance to the elderly as a new deal program | Social Security Act |
| Lincoln passed this law in 1863 that freed all slaves south of the Mason Dixon Line | Emancipation Proclamation |
| 1882 immigration act, excluded Chinese immigrants | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| Chinese immigrants helped build this | Transcontinental Railroad |
| The act helped settle the west by giving settlers 160 acres of free land | Homestead Act |
| Wrote The Jungle, exposed Chicago meat packing plant | Upton Sinclair |
| someone who exposes social or political corruption in the early 20th century | muckraker |
| Terrible hockey team, Dawson and Trevster's Favorite | Canadians |
| Period of time in the early 20th century where corruption and politics in politics and big business was tackled | Progressive Era |
| an abolitionist novel written by Harriet Beacher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| tax aimed at African American voters to prevent them from voting | poll tax |
| abolitionist leader of the Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman |
| Founded an abolitionist Newspaper ( The North Star), an escaped slave | Fredrick Douglas |
| movement against slavery | abolitionist |
| policy of taking over a country for its natural resources | imperialism |
| Idea that everybody gets an equal chance to succeed | Square Deal |
| President Responsible for bringing the country out of the Great Depression with his New Deal Programs | Franklin Roosevelt |
| means to pass or approve | ratify |
| President who passed the Square Deal | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Corrupt political boss who was brought down by Thomas Nast with political cartoons | Boss Tweed |
| Reasons immigrants came to the U.S | Pull factors |
| This area had more manufacturing during the Civil War | The North |
| This caused the immediate secession of the South in 1860 | Election of Lincoln |
| Immediate cause of World War 1 | Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand |
| Peace Plan of Woodrow Wilson after World War One | Fourteen Points |
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