Social Studies 8 Grade

Match the following words to their definition

• The state of being harmed or damaged

• Detriment

• To take in and understand fully

• Contentious

• cause someone to feel embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated

• Mortified

• To cause or likely to cause an argument

• Ingratiate

• To bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please

• Assimilate

Match the following words to definition.

• Gentle and kindly

• Bygone

• restricted in area or volume; cramped

• Benign

• Characterized by reaction, especially opposition to progress or liberalism; extremely conservative.

• Census

• An official count or survey of a population

• Confined

• Belonging to an earlier time

• Reactionary

What does prominent mean?

• To promise or to take an oath

• To be important; famous

• To be extraordinary or fantastic

• To be active or to workout

Select 3 labor sectors impacted American industrialization.

• Wood

• Steel

• Railroad

• Medical

• Garment

When the United States industrialized it transformed from a reliance of __________

to a reliance of goods in factories.

How did transportation improvements help industrialize our country?

• It didn't

• These advances in travel and transport helped drive settlement in the western regions of North America and were integral to the nation's industrialization

• It helped by making sure that workers would get to there job on time so that America can prove to be a better country

• It helped so that we can go from place to place

What is a monopoly

• The game Monopoly

• A business that controls an industry.

• A line of stores in a town or a suburb

• A person with a top hat

Who were Scalawags?

• Pirates

• White Southerners

• A group of women

• A person to evil to imagine

What was the Jim Crow era?

• It was when black people where not slaves but had few rights

• It was when there was a poultry disease and 50% of American birds died

• A guy named Jim Crow was at the peak of his acting career

Who where carpetbaggers?

• People who sold false carpets

• People that moved from the north to the south who supported reconstruction