Name _________________________
Study Guide
9 Weeks Exam
Hour ______________
2nd Quarter
Mrs. Pearce
8th Grade
Reread Chapters 6-9 to refresh your memory.
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Define these terms:
Business cycle
Generator
Transcontinental railroad
Gilded age
Standard time
Urbanization
Ellis Island
Leisure
Ragtime
Angel Island
Jose Marti
Philanthropist
Muckraker
Corporation
Trust
Know how the Transcontinental Railroad affected Native Americans.
Know why the Railroad Strike of 1877 started.
Know why the Pullman Strike started.
Know how Carnegie gained control of the steel industry.
Know what the American Federation of Labor accomplished.
Identify problems people faced in tenements.
Know how Jane Addams improved urban life.
Identify what helped in the development of modern advertising.
Understand how Hearst and Pulitzer changed newspapers.
When did mail-order catalogs become popular?
Know how political machines gained control of local governments.
What were Jim Crow laws?
Understand how Booker T. Washington helped African American gain economic strength.
Identify what Ida B. Wells is known for.
Identify what W.E.B. DuBois is known for.
Know what it was like for Chinese immigrants upon their arrival at Angel Island.
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32. Know which group of consumers was targeted by manufacturers, advertisers and sellers in the
late 1800’s and early 1900’s.
33. Understand Plessy v. Ferguson
Define:
34. Melting pot
35. Peonage
36. Vaudeville
37. Tenement
38. Dime novels
39. Square deal
40. Know the acts Roosevelt signed into law because of Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle.
41. Know what Lillian Wald is known for.
42. Identify how senators were chosen before the 17th Amendment.
43. Understand why the 18th Amendment is considered a progressive reform.
44. Identify the third party candidate that split the Republican Party in 1912 and prevented Taft
from being reelected.
45. Know how Roosevelt’s use of the Sherman Antitrust Act affected Standard Oil.
46. What is Carry Nation known for?
47. What Amendment gave women the right to vote?
48. Know who ran for President as the Socialist Party candidate in the elections of 1908 and 1912.
49. Know what Jane Addams is known for.
50. Which was NOT supported by presidents Roosevelt, Taft, or Wilson? civil rights, trust-busting,
conservation, or women’s suffrage