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Social Studies 8 Midterm Study Guide
Exam Date: Wednesday, January 24th!
This study guide will help you in preparing for the midterm esam in Social Studies. Use class notes,
old tests/quizzes, and other handouts in your binder to help review as well as the review games and
PowerPoint’s on Miss. Seymour’s web page. Take time to review each night. DO NOT wait until the
last day and try to “cram” for the test. Use study skills methods that work for you, such as:
Flash Cards
Split-Page Notes
Study with a Buddy
You will receive extra credit (ooohhh….aaahhhh…..) for each chapter you complete a vocabulary
extra-credit assignment for (that handout should be in your binder). That is due the day of the test and
you must use all vocabulary listed on this guide.
Questions?
lunch!
Need Extra Help? Come see me after school, 5th period, 7th period, or during
GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chapter 14 – North and South (1820-1860)
Cotton Kingdom
Slave Codes
Underground Railroad
Cottonacracy
Key Ideas
1. Create a venn diagram comparing life in the industrial North with that of the agricultural South.
2. SOUTH: South’s economy relied on slave trade and which crop? Who were the cottonocracy?
Who was Eli Whitney? What effect did his invention have on slavery?
Chapter 16 – Slavery Divided the Nation (1820-1861)
Sectionalism
Abolition/Abolitionists
States Rights
Popular Sovereignty
Fugitive
Confederacy
Secede/Secession
Reform/Reformer
Missouri Compromise
Kansas Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott Decision
Election of 1860
Fugitive Slave Law
John Brown & Harper’s Ferry
Key Ideas
1. Why did abolitionists believe slavery was wrong?
2. How did abolitionists protest slavery?
3. How did Americans attempt to settle the slavery issue?
4. How did the South see Lincoln’s election to the presidency in 1860? What would it mean to
the South?
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Chapter 17 – Torn By War (1861-1865)
Emancipate
Ironclads
Civil War
Border States
Fort Sumter
Gettysburg
Robert E. Lee
Surrender at Appomattox
Ulysses S. Grant
Jefferson Davis
Total War
Gettysburg Address
Emancipation Proclamation
Role of Women (Such as Clara Barton and Dorothea Dix)
Key Ideas
1. Causes of the Civil War (3 S’s)
2. Comparison of North and South at Start of War (military, economy, leaders, population, etc..)
3. Goals/Strategies to win the war of North and South
4. Emancipation Proclamation (What slaves did it free? How did it change the north’s war
goals?)
5. Role of African Americans in the War (54th Massachusetts Regiment – Glory movie)
6. Gettysburg Address (What was it, who gave it, why?
Chapter 18 – Reconstruction and the Changing South (1863-1896)
Reconstruction
Jim Crow Laws
Ku Klux Klan
Radical Republicans
Segregation
Freedmen
Freedmen’s Bureau
Plessy v. Ferguson
Andrew Johnson
Key Ideas
1. What were conditions in the South like after the Civil War?
2. Rival Plans for Reconstruction / What each stood for
- Lincoln’s 10% Plan
-Radical Republican’s Plan
3. Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th, and 15th - what each said)
4. Plessy v. Ferguson (What did the Supreme Court ruling say about segregation?)
5. Voting Restrictions passed by Southern whites that limited the voting rights of freedmen
-poll taxes
-literacy tests
-grandfather clause
Chapter 19 – The New West (1865-1914)
Transcontinental Railroad
Homestead Act
Dawes Act
Granger Movement
Chief Joseph
Reservation
Key Ideas
1. Groups of people who moved West, Reasons people moved west
2. What impact did mining and railroads have on the move west?
3. Why did Native Americans and white settlers come into conflict? What was the result?
4. What problems did farmers face on the plains?
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Chapter 20 – Industrial Growth (1865-1914)
Corporations
Monopoly
Stock
Dividend
Trust
Assembly Lines
Vertical Integration
Free Enterprise System
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Thomas Alva Edison
Samuel Gompers
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Mass Production
Key Ideas
1. Reasons why the U.S. grew as an industrial nation in the late 1800s? (4 reasons)
2. Child labor/why children worked/conditions under which they worked/efforts to stop
exploitation of children
3. What were working conditions like in the large factories in the late 1800s? How did they lead
to the formation of labor unions?
4. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire/ what resulted from this tragedy?
5. Pros and Cons of monopolies and trusts
Chapter 21 – A New Urban Culture (1865-1914)
Immigration
Cultural Diversity
Assimilation
Discrimination
Citizenship
Ellis Island
Chinese Exclusion Act
Push Factor
Pull Factor
Cultural Pluralism
Acculturation
Melting Pot Theory
Nativism
Old, New, Current Immigrants
Urbanization
Key Ideas
1. What motivated people to leave their homeland and come to the United States?
2. Be able to describe the three waves of immigration.
3. How did Americans treat immigrants?
4. Explain 4 ways that immigrants became part of American way of life?
5. Describe cities at the turn of the last century.