Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Grade Eight Test Review Questions

Question 1: John D. Rockefeller made nearly a billion dollars from this product?

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Question 2: What is the Sioux Indian translation of "Tatanka Iyotanka?"

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Question 3: This was Carnegie's main product: ________.

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Question 4:

The goal of a business consolidation was to reduce:

A. competition.
B. capital for investments.
C. profits.
D. technology.

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Question 5: Name two goals of the Populist Party.

1. Goal =

2. Goal =

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Question 6:

"Captains of Industry" was a positive name given to business tycoons in the age of industry--what was the negative nickname given to these same people?

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Question 7: This battle was fought in Southern Montana in 1876, creating a very negative reaction by the United States toward Native Americans.

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Question 8: The largest group of immigrants to the United States in the fifty years before the Civil War, and the twenty years following the Civil War?

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Question 9:

Andrew Carnegie wrote this famous persuasive essay to encourage tycoons to give their riches away.

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Question 10:

Bodie, California is an example of what kind of Western town?

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Question 11: The Plains Indians were sorrowful and outraged by the loss of this major natural resource when American settled in the West.

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Question 12: What city called Jane Addams' Hull House, a settlement house, home?

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Question 13:

Cornelius Vanderbilt was also called by this "captain of industry" nickname: ________

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Question 14: New immigrants to industrial cities often times lived in this kind of houses: ___________

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Question 15: How many immigrants arrived to the United States between 1865 to 1900.