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8th US Midterm JCoe
TWCA 8th grade midterm review 2011
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This steel industrialist donated $350 million as a philanthropist. | Andrew Carnegie |
| Gaining total control of the industry is called | a monopoly. |
| Since the late 1700s, technological innovations such as the steam engine have affected‐daily‐life‐by‐— | increasing industrial efficiency. |
| The combining of competing firms into one Corporation is called | horizontal integration. |
| People who invest in corporations by buying stock are called | shareholders. |
| With brother Wilbur watching, Orville Wright took off in the 1st engine powered plane and flew | 120 feet. |
| This man was responsible for creating the assembly line. | Henry Ford |
| Thomas Alva Edison's most important invention was the | electric lightbulb. |
| The inventor of the typewriter was | Christopher Scholes |
| This man laid a telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1866. | Cyrus Field |
| The growing railroad network paid the way for American industry to | expand into the West. |
| By the late 1880s, almost all railroad companies had adopted | a standard gauge |
| This man introduced improved dining cars, raising train travel to a new level of luxury. | George M. Pullman |
| Originally railroad tracks were made of | iron |
| After consolidation of the railroads, these powerful individuals controled the nation's rail traffic | railroad barons |
| The winner of the 1896 presidential election was | William McKinley |
| The Populist Party wanted to replace the country's gold-based currency system with a system based on | free silver |
| This group called for shorter hours for workers in a national income tax. | Populist Party |
| This network of farmers rallied against railroads and "money power." | Southern Alliance |
| The Grange tried to encourage economic self-sufficiency by setting up | cooperatives |
| Wovoka, a prophet, gave this dance to this suit to help them regain their former greatness. | Ghost dance |
| The important leader of the Lakota Sioux refused to sell the Black Hills of the Dakotas | Sitting Bull |
| About 300 Lakota Sioux men, women, and children were killed at | Wounded Knee |
| The southern plains were home to | Crow and Cheyenne |
| Burning a symbol and twin animals hide to show ownership is to | brand the animal |
| This marked the end of the cattle kingdom. | price collapse of the mid-1880s |
| This railroad would connect the Atlantic coast with the Pacific Coast | transcontinental railroad |
| Railroad construction was made possible by government financial aid and land grants called | subsidies |
| When mining booms were followed by mining busts "boom towns" turned into | ghost towns |
| In boomtowns these people dealt out their own brand of justice without benefit of judge or jury. | vigilantes |
| Most of the coal was deep underground in rich streaks of ore called | lodes |
| In support of immigration, Grace Abbott and Julia Clifford Lathrop founded the | Immigrants' Protective League. |
| Once in this country an immigrant's greatest challenge was in | finding work. |
| Immigrants with this could be refused permission to enter the United States. | a contagious illness |
| This greets immigrants at the New York harbor. | Statue of Liberty |
| Most immigrant could only afford to travel to the United States in | steerage. |
| The leader of the Pullman Strike was | Eugene V. Debs. |
| After this failure the steelworkers' union dwindled. | Homestead Strike |
| After this even many middle-class Americans associated the labor movement with terrorism and disorder. | Haymarket Riot |
| A tragic fire that broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory led the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union to push for | a safer working environment. |
| When unions represent workers in talking to management, it is called | collective bargaining. |
| Under imperialism, stronger nations attempt to | create empires by dominating weaker nations. |
| President William Howard Taft believed in maintaining influence through American investments, not what? | Military might or strength |
| The Spanish American War was the first war for the United States to | commit‐troops‐and‐ships‐to‐a‐two‐theatre‐war. |
| The Panama Canal was built to | create a shorter route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. |
| How much money did the United States pay Spain for the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico? | $20 million |
| Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Price for | negotiating a peace settlement between Russia and Japan. |
| President‐Theodore‐Roosevelt’s‐1904‐extension‐of‐the‐Munroe‐Doctrine‐in‐which‐he‐ asserted the right of the United States to intervene in the affairs of Latin American nations: | Roosevelt Corollary |
| Devotion‐to‐one’s‐nation: | nationalism |
| A force of United States Navy ships that undertook a world cruises in 1907: | Great White Fleet |
| American approach to China around 1900, favoring open trade relations between China and other nations: | Open Door Policy |
| Settlement of a dispute by a person or panel chosen to listen to both sides and come to a decision: | arbitration |
| This writer was both a realist and a regionalist. | Mark Twain |
| Joseph Pulitzer's and William Randolph Hearst's journalism style was known as | yellow journalism. |
| The nation's first subway opened in | Boston, Massachusetts. |
| At the turn of the century middle-class families lived in the | suburbs. |
| What was known as the "most dramatic new weapon" that added a new dimension to the fighting in World War I? | airship |
| Promise by the German government in 1916 that its submarines would warn ships before attacking them: | Sussex Pledge |
| According to a notice given by the Germans (which was posted in American newspapers), where were vessels warned NOT to travel or they risked being sunk? | waters near the British coastline |
| Who was the assassin of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary and where was he from? | Gavrilo Princip from Serbia |
| Policy‐of‐aggressively‐building‐up‐a‐nations’‐armed‐forces‐in‐preparation‐for‐war,‐as‐ well as giving the military more authority over the government and foreign policy: _______________________________________. | militarism |
| Why did Great Britain get involved in World War I? | Germany‐ignored‐Great‐Britain’s‐request‐to‐withdraw‐troops‐from‐Belgium. Great‐Britain‐had‐“friendly‐agreements”‐with‐France‐and‐Russia. Great Britain had signed a peace treaty with Belgium and demanded that Germany withdraw troops from Belgium. |
| The four causes of the Great War were militarism, alliances, imperialism, and ________________. | nationalism |
| How did the Zimmerman Note help bring the Unites States into the war? | The U.S. intercepted a secret note sent to Mexico saying that Germany promised North American land to Mexico if Mexico declared war on the Untied States. |
| Law passed in 1917 authorizing a draft of young men for military service in World War I: | Selective Service Act |
| What did Theodore Roosevelt do at the age of 40? | Resigned from the Navy Dept. to organize and lead a regiment of volunteers for the Cuba invasion. |
| A German floating airship | zeppelin |
| Which countries made up the Central Powers in 1914? | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Empire |
| What kind of people joined the Rough Riders? | Princeton‐football‐players,‐trail-wise‐cowboys,‐and‐full‐blooded‐ Indians. |
| 1919 treaty that ended World War I: | Versailles Treaty |
| A cease-fire or truce | armistice |
| This legislation was a response to the public's growing concern over trusts and monopolies. | Sherman Antitrust Act |
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