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8th Grade Wrap-Up
Final review of 8th grade US History- Mrs. Martin
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| WESTWARD EXPANSION | MANIFEST DESTINY |
| SOD HOUSES, BARBED WIRE, SODBUSTERS | GREAT PLAINS |
| You huddled masses yearning to breathe free... | IMMIGRANTS |
| Stop monopolies from forming | ANTITRUST ACT |
| Awful industrial accident that led to thousands of deaths in a textile factory | TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE |
| Progressive era folks who exposed corruption and greed | MUCKRAKERS |
| Early women's rights leader | Susan B. Anthony |
| Another early women's rights leader | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| famous waterway that shortens trade route between Atlantic and Pacific built during Teddy Roosevelt's era | Panama Canal |
| Final straw that set off the Great War (World War I) | Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| The main goal of this document, written by Woodrow Wilson, was to prevent future wars | FOURTEEN POINTS |
| A high point in the awareness of African American culture and contributions to American society | Harlem Renaissance |
| This led to the increased growth in the 1920s | consumerism |
| During the Great Depression, the shantytowns that began to grow because the President did not provide any aid to the poor. | Hoovervilles |
| A key event during the Great Depression | Stock Market Crash |
| During the Great Depression the Great Plains saw a severe drought. | The Dust Bowl |
| "...a date which will live in infamy..." | Pearl Harbor |
| During both world wars women worked here to support the war effort | FACTORIES |
| Provide aid to rebuild Western Europe after World War II | MARSHALL PLAN |
| Provide aid to CONTAIN THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM | TRUMAN DOCTRINE |
| This resulted from the opposing goals of the United States and the USSR | COLD WAR |
| A COLD WAR CONFLICT | KOREAN WAR |
| ANOTHER COLD WAR CONFLICT | VIETNAM WAR |
| Rosa Parks' actions led to this | Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| This President was involved in a scandal because he approved of illegal acts | Nixon |
| This was the name of the scandal when President Nixon approved of illegal acts | Watergate |
| America followed a policy in foreign affairs that kept it out of the business of others | isolationism |
| Before World War II, the US was committed to not taking sides, which is also called this. | neutrality |
| This document ended World War I but some argue led to World War II. | Treaty of Versailles |
| Freedom Riders and other sought to bring an end to laws that segregated and were sometimes called this. | Jim Crow laws |
| Germany had to pay for all the damages of World War I and those payments are called this. | reparations |
| newspapers that told exaggerated stories to sell more papers were using this technique | yellow journalism |
| FDR's solution to the problems of the Great Depression included public works projects and was called this. | New Deal |
| The 18th Amendment made the selling and making of alcohol illegal and was sometimes also called this. | Prohibition |
| This secret document between Germany and Mexico brought the United States into World War I. | Zimmerman Telegram |
| When this boat was sunk it was another factor that brought the US into World War I. | Lusitania |
| When the US wanted to help its Allies before World War II but didn't want to get involved it began the... | Lend Lease Acts |
| The period after the Civil War during which there was an effort to rebuild the South was called... | Reconstruction |
| This court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson. | Brown v. Board of Education |
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