Name _______________________
Date ________ Period ________
8th Grade Final Review Sheet
Day 1
1. Define Abolition:
2. Describe several methods used by abolitionists to achieve their goals.
3. Define Nationalism:
4. Define Sectionalism:
5. What mistake did the Democratic Party make in the Election of 1860 which caused them
to lose the election?
6. List the advantages and disadvantages of the North during the Civil War.
7. List the advantages and disadvantages of the South during the Civil War.
8. Why did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
9. What was the main purpose of the Black Codes?
10. Define Share Cropping:
11. List three ways southerners prevented African Americans from voting.
12. What did the court decide in the case Plessy v Ferguson 1896?
13. List three ways African Americans fought for their civil rights?
14. Who was Rosa Parks?
15. What did the court decide in the case Brown v Board of Ed 1954?
16. How were Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X’s views on civil rights different?
17. What Industry did the Industrial Revolution start in?
18. What was the Treaty of Kanagawa?
19. Why was American in favor of an Open Door Policy in China?
20. What was the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
21. Define Imperialism:
Day 2
22. What was the primary purpose of Ellis Island?
23. What time period was Old Immigration? From which countries did the immigrants come
from during this period?
24. What time period was New Immigration? From which countries did the immigrants
come from during this period?
25. What are some PUSH FACTORS of each time period?
26. What are some PULL FACTORS of each time period?
27. What was mass production? How did this influence Industrialization?
28. What was a muckraker?
29. Why did labor unions develop?
30. Identify 4 new war technologies developed during WW I.
31. What were the causes of WW I?
32. What caused the sinking of the Lusitania?
33. What was the Zimmerman telegram?
34. What did Wilson mean when he stated “a return to normalcy?”
35. What were the 1920s best known for?
36. What was the Seneca Falls Declaration?
37. What was the quota system of the 1920s?
38. List the causes of the Great Depression.
39. What was FDR’s NEW DEAL?
40. What are four effects of the Stock Market Crash?
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8th Grade Final Review Sheet
Name _______________________
Date ________ Period ________
41. Define: Great Depression
42. Name four causes of the Great Depression.
43. What is the SSA (Social Security Act)?
Day 3
44. Explain the quote “A Date which will live in infamy”.
45. Explain the role of women on the home front during WW2.
46. Why did President Truman decide to drop the atomic bomb?
47. What is the Cold War?
48. List five major events/ conflicts of the cold war.
49. Define: containment
50. Who were the leaders of the United States during the major wars in the 20th century?
a. WW1 –
b. WW2 –
c. Korean War –
d. Vietnam War –
e. Persian Gulf War –
51. What were the turning points of the following conflicts:
a. Civil War –
b. WW1 –
c. WW2 –
52. Define: Guerilla Warfare
53. What Wars did we use Guerilla warfare?
Essential Questions
Conflict / War
What causes conflict?
How do people justify violence?
Government
What purpose does government serve?
What makes a good government?
Multiculturalism: Tolerance / Equality
Why are people intolerant?
Why do people strive for equality?
Technology
Is technology always progress?
Global Interdependence
How has America’s role in the world
changed?
How have world events changed America?
Reform
What actions spark major changes in
society?
Geography
How does where you live affect who you
are?
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