8th+grade+Midterm+Review+Sheet


 * 1) Southerners justified secession with the theory of
 * 2) This Confederate capital was only about 100 miles from Washington, D.C.
 * 3) After destroying Atlanta in 1864, William Tecumseh Sherman began a "march to the sea," heading toward
 * 4) This battle began when the Union cavalry surprised the Rebel infantry raiding the town for shoes.
 * 5) The main goal of the North at the beginning of the war was to
 * 6) Appomattox Court House is famous because it is the site of
 * 7) Congress passed this to prohibit the president from removing government officials without the Senate's approval.
 * 8) During this period Republicans in Congress easily overrode Johnson's vetoes and took charge of Reconstruction.
 * 9) The Central Pacific relied on these workers.
 * 10) This steel company owner was a great philanthropist.
 * 11) Anti labor feeling grew stronger after this bloody clash in Chicago.
 * 12) This legislation required that immigrants be able to read and write in some language.
 * 13) This settlement house was founded by Jane Addams.
 * 14) Many immigrants lived in these urban apartment slums.
 * 15) This man wrote //How the Other Half Lives//, a book that showed the terrible conditions of the tenements.
 * 16) This process gave voters the opportunity to accept or reject measures that the state legislature enacted.
 * 17) This allows voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from their jobs.
 * 18) The 1912 Bull Moose Party presidential candidate was
 * 19) Many Americans believed that these groups were becoming too large and had too much control over the economy.
 * 20) This amendment to the Constitution provided for the direct election of senators.


 * __Know the significance of f these people and ideas__**

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 * Harriet Beecher Stowe || fugitive ||
 * Roger B. Taney || Harpers Ferry, Virginia ||
 * John Brown || Compromise of 1850 ||
 * South Carolina || time zones ||
 * Central Pacific || Eugene V. Debs ||
 * Steel || Wright brothers ||
 * corporation || John D. Rockefeller ||
 * Robert La Follette || Eighteenth Amendment ||
 * civil servants || muckrakers ||
 * Nineteenth Amendment || Thomas Nast exposed him ||
 * Kickbacks || Dr. Carlos Montezuma ||
 * Sixteenth Amendment || Carry Nation ||