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Grade 8 Final
Grade 8 SS Final
Question | Answer |
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what was the missouri compromise of 1820 | imaginary line that separated the free states above it, and slaved states below it. missouri=slave to balance states |
kansas-nebraska act | allowed citizens of states to decide whether or not they were to be pro or anti slavery by popular sovereignty |
compromise of 1850 | agreement over slavery that admitted california to the union as free, allowed popular sovereignty in utah and new mexico, banned slave in dc, and passed fugitive slave law. |
john brown | killed pro slavery people n his raid on harper's ferry |
dred scott decision | slaves were property and not citizens |
what event made s. carolina secede from the union | election of lincoln |
emancipation proclamation | lincoln made this law to free slaves |
jefferson davis | president of the confederacy who was pro slavery |
general of the confederate army? union army? | c: robert e. lee; u: ulysses s. grant |
why was battle of gettsyburg turning point | union won |
lincoln's message in gettsyburg address | they were all americans and there should be no war |
why were casualties in civil war so high | americans against americans, not much medication with lots of disease and injuries |
where did confederates surrender to end civil war | appomattox courthouse in virginia |
what was the massachusetts 54th regiment | all black regiment that led the attack on fort wagner where most of them died |
who killed lincoln | john wilkes booth |
reconstruction | rebuilding the south after the war, life in the south would be like the north, no more slavery but colored experience segregation |
racism | prejudice and discrimination directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior |
what famous case established the separate but equal doctrine | plessy v ferguson |
jim crow laws | laws enforcing racial segregation |
how are the kkk and naacp opposite | kkk= against civil rights for colored; naacp= support civil rights |
rosa parks | african american woman who stood up for her rights on a bus |
montgomery bus boycott and was it a success | african americans did not ride the bus and it was successful |
little rock nine | group of nine african americans who were prevented from entering the racially segregated- little rock high |
what happened at the 16th st. baptist church | kkk bombed church |
medgar evers and how as justice served in 1993 | african american civil rights activist who served in WWII, apart of NAACP, and worked to overturn segregation in University of Mississippi and got his third case in 1993 |
president started civil rights act and why he never signed | JFK and assassinated |
president signed civil rights act into law | lyndon b. johnson |
how did WWI start in europe | assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand |
events drew US into WWI | Zimmerman’s Note and sinking of the Lusitania |
primary battle strategy in WWI | trench warfare |
treaty ended WWI and which country was blamed | treaty of Versailles and germany |
league of nations and did it work | alliance between countries admitted into it and it worked (but not for US because were not in it) |
main event caused US to get involved in WWII | pearl harbor |
executive order 9066 | signed by FDR which made certain areas military zones to evacuate Japanese who were considered threats |
how did US get ready for war | changed automobiles, factories began making weapons and tanks, more jobs, and got out of great depression |
what battle was the turning point for allies in pacific | battle of midway |
what battle led to liberation of france | d-day |
what notable event occurred at the battle of iwo jima | americans stormed beaches and japanese hid in 11 miles of tunnels to shoot at americans |
what was the nazi plan to exterminate all jews living in europe | holocaust |
president after FDR died in 1945 and eventually gave order to drop two atomic bombs on japan | Harry S. Truman |
what action/event ended war in pacific | iwo jima |