8th Grade Essential Word Review Practice Test

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U.S. defined areas of settlement for Native Americans
Wounded Knee, Chief Joseph, and Buffalo Soldiers
Homesteading, Mining, Vacqueros, and the Transcontinental Railroad
Unsettled areas of land which lasted until the Oklahoma Land Rush of  1889
Expansion of black economic and artistic opportunities in the U.S. in the 1920’s
Jazz and Poetry featured
Acts of Intolerance
Effort to preserve “traditional” American values in the face of “radicalism”
Isolationism
Nativism
Prohibition
Goal of Suffragettes, set forth by the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Guaranteed women the right to vote
“Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”
describes duties of citizenship
written by Thomas Jefferson, and ratified in Philadelphia July 4, 1776
Includes advertising and other efforts to guide public opinion
One-sided information designed to gain support for a cause
Character who depicts the U.S. during wartime
Espionage Act created to limit opposition
Selective Service created for manpower
Taxes and bonds used to raise money
Victory Gardens planted to provide support
Federal, state, and local
Power is shared, but federal is supreme
Washington D.C., Springfield, McLean County, and Bloomington
Agreement between two or more sides to settle a dispute
Great and 3/5 settled issues in Philadelphia in 1787
Henry Clay
19th Century idea that God blessed and desired U.S. growth and wanted the U.S. to spread from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean
Used to justify war with Mexico in 1846
Benefits trade and military activities of the U.S.
Shipping channel through Central America opened in 1914 as a result of direct U.S. intervention
Develop new products and ideas
Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and George Washington Carver
Sweatshops
Unions
Workers in a factory or company
Federal equals the first ten amendments
Freedom of  speech, press, assembly, petition, and religion
Illinois protects against discrimination in housing and employment
Limits government power and describes rights of citizens
Demands ‘equal protection’ for all under the law
Not originally enforced due to Jim Crow laws, but used to stop discrimination after Brown v. Board of Education case of 1954
Reconstruction effort to protect newly freed slaves in 1868
Enforces laws
Has appointment and veto powers
Includes president and governor
District/ circuit, Appellate, and Supreme levels
Federal members receive life terms
Interprets laws
Rules on issues of constitutionality
A written plan of government
Can be changed with amendments
Defines the government structures of the U.S.(1789) and Illinois(1970)
Congress equals U.S. House and U.S. Senate/ General Assembly equals Illinois House and Senate
Make laws
U.S. benefits from the elastic clause
 Reformers who fought against poverty and corruption and encouraged government regulations to solve social problems
Hull House and other settlement houses
The Jungle and other muckraking literature
Celebrated by Statue of Liberty dedication in 1886
Changes a culture by bringing in new ideas
Provides labor for an expanding economy
The relocation of people into a country due to push and pull factors
Individuals, not governments make economic decisions
Private ownership and control of property
Conservation and environmentalism
Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Trustbuster
Created by Franklin D. Roosevelt to provide relief, recovery, and reform for Great Depression
Expanded the role of the federal government in daily life
Period when Social Security Program began
Economic slump that began on Black Thursday, 1929 and lated until 1940.
Hoovervilles and the Dust Bowl
11:00 A.M., November 11, 1918
Original name for World War I
Sinking of the Lusitania
Trench Warfare
Installment buying
Mass entertainment
Resulted from the failure of Reconstruction and a booming economy in the North
South to North movement of U.S. blacks between 1900 and 1950 which produced Harlem and other “black” metropoli
Philanthropy
Robber Barons
Wealthy owners of giant corporations in the 'Gilded Age'

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