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Final Exam Study Guide
(Grade 8)
Overview: The 8th grade social studies final will be made up of one major essay accounting for 80% of the final exam grade and five short answer identification essays (see name, terms below) accounting for 20% of the final exam grade. The major essay will be a hybrid of several on-going topics from this year, to prepare students should review their essay prompts/outlines from previous study guides found in their notebooks
Names one should be familiar with:
Abraham Lincoln
Adolf Hitler
Alexander Hamilton Stevens
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Johnson
Booker T. Washington
Cecil Rhodes
Charles Darwin
Dred Scott
Eli Whitney
Franklin Roosevelt
George McClellan
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry Clay
Herbert Hoover
Huey Long
Jane Addams
Jefferson Davis
John Brown
John C. Calhoun
John Maynard Keynes
John Muir
John Rockefeller
Joseph Stalin
Karl Marx
Robert E. Lee
Robert Sherman
Sojourner Truth
Stephen A Douglas
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Ulysses S Grant
Upton Sinclair
W.E.B. DuBois
William "Boss" Tweed
William Howard Taft
William Jennings Bryan
William R. Hearst
Woodrow Wilson
Terms with which one should be familiar:
"Big Stick"
"peculiar institution"
“Share Our Wealth Plan”
“The Jungle”
“The Nadir”
Antietam
Bull Market
Bull Moose
Bull Run
Capitalism
Carpetbaggers
Civil Rights act of 1874
Communism
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1877
Confederate States of America
Constitutional Amendments (13-20)
Crittenden Compromise
Dawes Act of 1887
Emancipation Proclamation
Fascism
Federal Reserve Act
Free Market
Freeport Doctrine
Fugitive Slave Law
Gettysburg
Gilded Age
Grange
Group Think
Herrenvolk Democracy
Homestead Act of 1862
Interstate Commerce Act
Invisible Hand
Jacksonian Democracy
Jim Crow
Jingoism
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Ku Klux Klan
laissez-faire
Military Industrial Complex
Missouri Compromise
Muckraking
NAACP
Nativism
Nazism
New Deal Legislation
Nineteenth Amendment
Panic of 1873
Pearl Harbor
Plessy v Ferguson
Political Bosses
Poll Tax
Popular Sovereignty
Populist Party
Progressivism
Prohibition
Reconstruction
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Scalawag
Sharecropping
Sherman Antitrust Act
Social Catalysts of the 1920’s
Social Darwinism
Socialism
Temperance Movement
Tenant farmers
Tenure of Office Act
Thirteenth Amendment
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Utopianism
Wilmot Proviso
Women’s Sufferage Movement
Yellow Journalism
Zimmerman Telegram