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8th Grade Review
Broad review of 8th grade curriculum 2016-mixed for matching
Term | Definition |
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A--What made NC an attractive destination for new immigrants during the mid 1700's? | _________Good land was readily available. |
B--Highland Scots settled in what region of NC? | ________the Cumberland region or the Upper Cape Fear region |
C--What prompted Scots-Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch settlers to leave Pennsylvania and move to NC and other southern colonies? | _______They were Protestants who faced religious persecution by Catholic rulers in German states along the Rhine River |
D--What route did these settlers from Pennsylvania take to NC. | _______The Great Wagon Road |
E--What effects prompted the Pennsylvania Dutch to leave Germany and immigrate to North America? | _________Pennsylvania, from the coast to the Appalachians, was relatively heavily populated and cheap land was no longer available. |
F--What was the largest group of Pennsylvania Dutch to immigrate to NC in the 18th Century? | ________the Moravians |
What societal trait distinguished the Moravians from other North Carolinians? G-- | ________They were pacifists. |
ROAD TO REVOLUTION | ROAD TO REVOLUTION |
A--This drew an imaginary line down the Appalachians with no colonial settlement west of the line | _______Proclamation of 1763 |
B--required colonists to pay a direct tax on all paper used. Colonists had to use special paper from London for all paper products | _______Stamp Act |
C--Taxed the import of paint, lead, glass, paper and tea. Set up British courts in the colonies to enforce laws. | the Townshend Acts |
D--Response to Boston Tea Party. Closed Boston to all trade except food, fuel and provisions for British troops. Dissolved the colonial assembly of Massachusetts. | _______Intolerable Acts |
E--Five rioting Boston citizens shot by British troops | _______Boston Massacre |
F--American colonists refuse to buy British products until the Stamp Act is repealed. | _______Stamp Act Boycott |
G--Working class organization formed to protest the Stamp Act | _______Sons of Liberty |
H--King of England before and during the American Revolution | _______George II |
I--Economic theory that says a nation gets wealthy when more money flows into the country through exports than flows out through imports | _______Mercantilism |
J--Action by the Sons of Liberty to stop the sale of cheap British Tea in Boston. Tons of tea were dumped into the harbor. | _______Boston Tea Party |
K--First direct military confrontation between British troops and American militia. | _______Battles of Lexington and Concord |
L--What was the US's first government called | _______Articles of Confederation |
M--The Articles of Confederation government was intentionally made weak because of the fear of __________ | _______a strong central government that becomes a tyranny |
N--Under the Articles of Confederation the government had no power to ____ | _______tax |
O--Under the Articles of Confederation the government lacked a ___________ and thus lacked the power to make decisions quickly | _______a President or Chief Executive |
P--One important action that the Articles of Confederation government did take was the | _______Northwest Ordinance |
Q--The main function of the Northwest Ordinance was to set a procedure to ______________. | _______Admit new state |
ROAD TO THE CIVIL WAR | ROAD TO THE CIVIL WAR |
A--The question about slavery that actually led to the Civil War was | _______the extension of slavery into new western lands |
B--The issue of the spread of slavery into the Louisiana Purchase territories was temporarily settled by | _______the Missouri Compromise |
C--The Compromise of 1850 was made necessary because of the addition of what land to the US? | _______The Mexican Cession |
D--What part of the Compromise of 1850 was hated in the north | the new Fugitive Slave Law |
E--Popular Sovereignty was to decide what questions? | _______the question of whether to allow slavery in Utah, New Mexico, and Kansas |
F--What new technology led to the growth of slavery in the South? | _______the cotton gin |
G--What part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act caused the conflict called Bleeding Kansas? | _______popular sovereignty in the Kansas territory |
H--What North Carolina born President purposely provoked a war with Mexico in order to take California and other Mexican territory | _______James K Polk |
I--This book strengthened the abolitionist movement in the north | _______Uncle Tom's Cabin |
J--This man led a raid into Virginia in order to start a slave revolt | _______John Brown |
K--What event in 1860 triggered the secession of Southern states | _______The election of Abraham Lincoln |
L--People who wanted to end slavery immediately were called | _______abolitionists |
M--The first southern state to secede from the Union was | _______South Carolina |
The southern states that seceded formed what they considered a new nation called | _______The Confederate States of America |
The event that caused NC to secede was | _______Lincoln's call for troops to forcibly end the rebellion of the Southern States. |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION | _______INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION |
During the Industrial Revolution, human and animal power were replaced by | _______Water and steam power |
Steam power was put to use in transportation by | _______steam locomotives and steam ships |
During the Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1914) power for industry changed from mostly steam to | _______Hydroelectric power |
What invention made work and leisure independent of the natural light-dark daily cycle? | _______electric lights |
Huge increases in volume and large drops in the costs of goods produced by industry during the Second Industrial Revolution were the result of | _______mass production |
The practice of having each worker specialize in only one small part of a larger job is called | _______division of labor |
The increased speed of production from the use of assembly lines was only made possible because parts were | _______interchangeable |
Urbanization led to the creation of crowded, unsanitary, unhealthy living areas called | _______slums |
Good jobs in industry for managers, clerks and other business professionals led to the creation of the | _______ the middle class |
The working conditions during Industrial Revolution were unhealthy and dangerous because of the greed of bosses and the lack of | _______government regulations |
When workers join together and form a group to negotiate with their bosses they have formed a | _______labor union |
WORLD WAR I | WORLD WAR I |
The event that actually triggered the beginning of WWI was | _______the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand |
This cause of WWI meant that the beginning of even a small war in Europe would soon involve all of the most powerful countries. | _______Alliance system |
Competition between European nations for overseas colonies shows what cause of WWI? | _______Imperialism |
Once the initial attacks of both sides failed, this type of war in France began where neither side could break through the enemy lines. | _______trench warfare |
The German blockade of England was carried out by this type of warfare. | _______Unrestricted submarine warfare |
The Germans attacked the French town of Verdun in an attempt to "bleed the French white" in a battle of | _______attrition |
Unrestricted submarine warfare and the sinking of this ship were important reasons that the US entered WWI on the side of the Allies. | _______the Lusitania |
The German attempt to get Mexico to attack the US to keep America out of the war was revealed in the | _______Zimmerman Telegram |
After entering the war, the US government attempted to control the attitudes of the American people by the use of | _______propaganda |
In 1917, military defeats, huge casualties, and food shortages led to the overthrow of the Tsar and to the | _______Russian Revolution |
World War I was won by | _______the Allies |
The agreement that officially ended the war was | _______the Treaty of Versailles |
At the end of WWI, the monarchy in Russia was replaced by what kind of government? | _______Communist |
in contrast with earlier European wars, WWI was the first ________________ which required the entire nation to be directed to the goal of winning the war. | _______Total War |
After WWI the US Congress voted not to join the League of Nations because they followed this policy to avoid involvement in European conflicts. | _______Isolationism |
During WWI, many good jobs in the US had been filled by | _______women or African-American Men |
Fears in the US about revolutionaries and radicals became known as the | _______Red Scare |
FIGHTING THE CIVIL WAR | FIGHTING THE CIVIL WAR |
The northern strategy to win the war was called the | _______Anaconda Plan |
The Monitor vs. the Merrimack was the first | _______battle between ironclad ships. |
The year that the Civil War began was | _______1861 |
The year that the Civil War ended was | _______1865 |
The act of southern states leaving the Union to form their own country is called | _______secession |
The Battle of Antietam led Lincoln to | _______publish the Emancipation Proclamation |
The first state to secede from the Union in December 1860 | _______South Carolina |
What important goal was added to the Union cause by the Emancipation Proclamation | _______fighting the war to end slavery |
Union control of the Mississippi would accomplish what important Union war goal? | _______cutting the Confederacy in half |
Lee's second invasion of the North ended in the battle of | _______Gettysburg |
The Army of the Potomac was finally able to defeat the Army of Northern Virginia when this general was put into command | _______US Grant |
After taking Atlanta, Sherman's army began its | _______March to the Sea |
Sherman's army behaved better in North Carolina because that state | _______had a reputation for being reasonable and reluctant to secede. |
On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was assassinated by this Confederate sympathizer. | _______John Wilkes Booth |
RECONSTRUCTION | RECONSTRUCTION |
What was the name Lincoln's plan was known by? | _______the 10% Plan |
How were white southerners able to restrict the Freedmen from voting without violating the 14th amendment | _______They used the poll taxes and literacy tests. Grandfather Clause was used to allow white people to vote without those obstacles. |
What event led to the formal end of reconstruction? | _______The election of 1876 was a tie between Hayes and Tilden. This led to the Compromise of 1877 where Hayes became president and, in return, military occupation of the south ended. |