1. 8th Grade Midterm Review
Created by: Ms.Yanik

3. Final Jeopardy
Era of
Reform 1800’s
A Dividing
Nation
Civil War
Reconstruction
Industrialism
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4. Which of the following goods were brought from Britain to West Africa?
Answer: Guns, clothes, and manufactured goods 4

5. Which of the following goods were brought from West Africa to the Americas?
Answer:Slaves 5

6. Why did the Europeans not enslave Native Americans?
Answer: They lacked immunity to diseases and 90% died out 6

7. Category 1-500
How did slavery affect the ethnic diversity of Central America and the Caribbean Islands?
(1) it resulted in an unmixted ethnicity
(2) it resulted in a diverse mixture of European, African, and Indian people
(3) it resulted in a mixture of industries
(4) all of the above

8. Although the Founding Fathers hoped slavery would die out on its own, slavery was expanded because
Answer: The cotton gin invention created a demand for cotton, increasing the demand for slave labor 8

9. How many slaves did the majority of white families in the Antebellum South own?
Answer:None 9

10. In early America between 1780-1819 what happened to slavery in the North?
Answer: The state governments voted to outlaw slavery in the North state by state 10

11. The dramatic shift from goods handmade in homes to machine-made goods is the
Answer: Industrial Revolution 11

12. Who were the South’s political leaders?
Answer: Wealthy plantation land owners 12

13. During the first part of the 1800’s, differences between the North, South, and West which led to the Civil War is called?
Answer: Sectionalism 13

14. Where did most immigrants in the 1840’s came from?
Answer: Ireland and Germany 14

15. What is Manifest Destiny?
Answer: Belief that America should take all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific. During the 1840’s It justified westward expansion 15

16. The citizens should decide whether or not to allow slavery in their territory  
Answer: popular sovereignty 16

17. Who was a runaway slave who risked his life giving speeches in Anti-slavery conventions. He knew how to read and wrote a newspaper named the North Star?
Answer: Fredrick Douglas 17

18. Who was Harriet Tubman ?
Answer:abolitionist leader was a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad 18

19. Who was William Lloyd Garrison ?
Answer: A radical abolitionist leader who created the newspaper the Liberator persuaded the American Anti-Slavery Society to endorse the concept of immediate emancipation. 19

20. What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin ?
Answer: A book that exposed the evils of slavery written by Harriet Beecher Stowe 20

21. Who decided popular sovereignty?
Answer: The people in the territory 21

22. Under the Missouri Compromise, what occurred when Missouri was admitted as a slave state?
Answer: Maine became a free state 22

23. What was the Compromise of 1850? ?
Answer: 1. Popular sovereignty would be used in New Mexico and Utah territories
2. California would be a free state 23

24. Who was Stephen Douglass?
Answer: senator from Illinois supported popular sovereignty 24

25. What did the Dred Scott decision rule about a slave in any U.S.
Territory?
Answer: a slave was private property even in a free territory 25

26. Why did John Brown seize the federal arsenal at Harpers’ Ferry Virginia ?
Answer:spark a slave uprising in Virginia. 26

27. The situation shown in the illustration demonstrates
Category 2-200
The situation shown in the illustration demonstrates
the operation of the
(1) Emancipation Proclamation
(2) poll tax
(3) slave codes
(4) Jim Crow laws
Which term best describes the practice shown in
this illustration?
populism
(2) integration
(3) socialism (4)segregation

28. 2-300
At the beginning of the Civil War, the South had a advantage over the North in
capital stock of banks
farm acreage
(3) railway mileage
(4) value of farmland
Which conclusion about the Civil War is supported by information in the chart?
(1) The North was expected to win the war quickly.
(2) The South would have a advantage in a long war.
(3) The South would have a larger, better-equipped fighting force.
(4) The North and the South were evenly prepared for the war.

29. DAILY DOUBLE

30. Double Jeopardy Question
What advantage did the South have over the North during the Civil War?
greater manufacturing
(2) more effective navy
(3) better government
(4) more capable military leaders

31. Category 3-100 What was the immediate cause of the secession
of Southern states from the Union prior to the
start of the Civil War?
(1) election of Abraham Lincoln to the
Presidency
(2) passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
(3) raid on Harpers Ferry by John Brown
(4) decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred
Scott case

32. Category 3-200
An issue that divided the North and South and led to the Civil War was the
length of the term of the president
(2) use of judicial review by the Supreme Court
(3) balance of power between the states and
the federal government
(4) application of the impeachment process

33. Category 3-300
Which reference is a primary source document of the Civil War?
(1) an encyclopedia article about the North’s
advantages over the South
(2) a biography of General Ulysses S. Grant
(3) a battlefield map drawn by a soldier serving
at the Battle of Gettysburg
(4) a book on the effects of the Civil War on the South

34. Category 3-400 By issuing the Emancipation Proclamation,
President Abraham Lincoln
lost Northern support for the war
(2) broadened Union war goals to include ending
Slavery
(3) strengthened the principle of states’ rights
(4) brought a quick end to the war

35. Category 3-500
In the years immediately following the Civil War, which change was brought about by the Industrial Revolution?
More goods were made at home.
(2) More people left cities to live on farms.
(3) More government regulation was placed on
big business.
(4) More machinery was used to make goods.

36. Category 4-100 The term carpetbaggers was used during
Reconstruction to describe
(1) Southern whites who supported Radical
Republican programs
(2) African Americans who gained control of
former Southern plantations
(3) Northerners who moved to the South
seeking personal gain
(4) formerly enslaved African Americans who
moved to the Wes

37. Category 4-200 The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were
added to the Constitution during the
Reconstruction period to
bring an end to the Civil War
(2) limit the powers of the president
(3) improve the operation of the electoral
College
(4) grant legal rights to African Americans

38. Category 4-300
The principle of “separate but equal” established by the Supreme Court in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) was used to
(1) provide reservation lands for Native
American Indians
(2) justify racial segregation of public facilities
(3) end the use of child labor
(4) expand the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill
of Rights

39. Category 4-400
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause were all created during the late 1800s to restrict the voting rights of
Native American Indians
(2) Women
(3) Immigrants
(4) African Americans

40. The constitutional amendments adopted during the Reconstruction period dealt primarily with the
method of choosing United States senators
(2) expansion of the rights of African Americans
(3) prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages
(4) extension of voting rights to women

41. FINAL JEOPARDY
Industrialism ?

42. Final Jeopardy Question