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8th Grade Unit 18 Review

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  • In Plessy v Ferguson, the Supreme Court declared what ideas as legal?
    Separate but Equal, segregation
  • What is the full name of the Statue of Liberty?
    Liberty Enlightening the World
  • Which falls helped to power mills in Minneapolis
    Falls of St. Anthony
  • Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders and Buffalo Soldier played an important role in the Battle of
    San Juan Jill
  • Citizens of what country donated money to build the statue of liberty's pedestal?
    America.
  • Farmers who wanted to influence government decisions affecting them organized groups such as
    the Grange and the Populist Party
  • What term is used for the event that occured on April 2nd of 1889 when thousands of settlers poured into Indian Territory?
    Oklahoma Land
  • What event began in Mr. and Mrs. Patrick O'Leary's barn?
    Great Chicago Fire
  • Which immigrants brough cheese making skills from Europe?
    German and Scandinavian immigrants
  • Joseph Dart and Robert Dunbar invented what to help farmers in America's Breadbasket raise more grain
    John Deere's plow, Cyrus McCormick's reaper, steam-powered grain elevator.
  • What musical instrument was Sousa's idea?
    Sousaphone
  • How did geography help Chicago become the second largest city in the United States?
    Chicago had plenty of room to build homes, businesses, roads, and railroads in the plain beside Lake Michigan
  • What is the complete name of what president Grover dedicated in 1886 and what country's flag dropped from the statue's face during the dedication?
    Liberty Enlightening the World, France
  • Immigrants from New YOrk helped farmers in which state learn how to run dairy businesses?
    wisconsin
  • What is another name for the Statue of Liberty?
    Lady Liberty
  • Who was elected president in 1884 and 1892
    Grover Cleveland
  • Who was Benjamin Harrison's grandfather?
    William Henry Harrison
  • What song have Americans been enjoying on the fourth of July for more than 100 years?
    Stars and Stripes Forever
  • John Philip Sousa's father was a trombonist and took him to rehearsals for what band?
    The U.S. Marine Band also known as the President's Own
  • What act passed in 1890 made some thing large businesses did illegal?
    Sherman Antitrust act
  • Who helped Kansas become the Wheat state?
    German Russian Mennonites
  • Who was elected president in 1888?
    Benjamin Harrison
  • What island did President Harrison choose for an immigration station?
    Ellis Island