8th Grade LEAP Review

Industrial Growth and Reform

1

This economic system emphasizes free markets and private ownership

Capitalism

2

She became a millionaire by selling beauty and hair products to Black women

Madam C.J. Walker

3

These business practices led to the creation of monopolies and trusts

Horizontal and Vertical Integration

4

He exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry

Upton Sinclar

5

This 1890 law tried to break up monopolies.

Sherman Antitrust Act

6

This group of farmers pushed for political reforms and helped create the Populist Party

Farmers' Alliance (Grange Movement)

7

This court case upheld segregation under “separate but equal.”

Plessy v. Ferguson

America Expands

1

These African American migrants moved west after Reconstruction

the Exodusters

2

This U.S. policy attempted to assimilate Native Americans

Dawes Act

3

This 1898 war gave the U.S. control over territories like Puerto Rico and the Philippines

Spanish-American War

4

This strategic waterway project connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Panama Canal

5

This historian claimed the frontier shaped American democracy

Frederick Jackson Turner

6

This 1893 event gave the U.S. full control over Hawaii

Annexation of Hawaii

7

These battles between the U.S. Army and Plains tribes marked the end of Native resistance

Battles of Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee

World War 1

1

His assassination triggered WWI

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

2

This telegram proposed a German-Mexican alliance against the U.S

Zimmerman Telegram

3

U.S. soldiers and citizens supported the war effort in this way

Liberty bonds, victory gardens, or enlistment

4

These laws restricted speech during the war

Espionage and Sedition Acts

5

This Supreme Court case upheld restrictions on speech during wartime

Schenck v. United States

6

President Wilson’s peace plan after WWI

Fourteen Points

7

This treaty officially ended WWI but helped lead to WWII

Treaty of Versailles

Between the Wars

1

This 1920 law banned the sale of alcohol.

Prohibiton

2

This movement celebrated African American culture in the 1920s

Harlem Renaissance

3

These 1920s innovations transformed American homes and lifestyles.

Radios, cars, or appliances

4

This amendment finally gave women the right to vote in 1920

19th Amendment

5

This disaster devastated Louisiana and changed federal flood control policy

Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927

6

He became a powerful political figure in Louisiana and the U.S. during the 1930s

Huey Long

7

This event fueled anti-communist fears after WW1

Red Scare

Great Depression and New Deal

1

This October 1929 event triggered the Great Depression

Stock Market Crash

2

These communities of makeshift homes were named after an unpopular president

Hoovervilles

3

This natural disaster in the Great Plains worsened economic hardship

Dust Bowl

4

This president introduced the New Deal to combat the Depression

Franklin D. Roosevelt

5

This New Deal program built national parks and employed young men.

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

6

This law protected bank accounts during the Depression

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

7

This program gave aid to the elderly and unemployed

Social Security Act

World War 2

1

This attack brought the U.S. into WWII

Pearl Harbor

2

These were the two major military alliances during WWII

Allies and Axis Powers

3

This beach invasion marked the turning point in the European Theater

D-Day (Battle of Normandy)

4

This top-secret project developed the atomic bomb.

Manhattan Project

5

These Native Americans used their language to transmit secret codes.

Navajo Code Talkers

6

He led the U.S. forces in the Pacific during WWII.

Douglas MacArthur

7

These boats, built in Louisiana, were crucial to the Allied invasion.

Higgins Boats

The Cold War

1

This economic and political system in the USSR opposed capitalism

Communism

2

This imaginary divide separated democratic and communist Europe.

Iron Curtain

3

This 1962 standoff nearly caused nuclear war

Cuban Missile Crisis

4

This war ended in a stalemate and divided a country at the 38th parallel

Korean War

5

This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism

Containment

6

This senator led a witch hunt for communists in the U.S.

Joseph McCarthy

7

This 1989 event symbolized the end of the Cold War.

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Civil Rights Movement

1

This case ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional.

Brown v. Board of Education

2

She refused to give up her seat, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Rosa Parks

3

He delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

4

This 1965 law banned literacy tests for voting.

Voting Rights Act

5

These peaceful protests challenged lunch counter segregation.

Sit-ins

6

This Louisiana girl integrated an all-white elementary school.

Ruby Bridges

7

This group organized the Freedom Rides and nonviolent protests.

CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)

Modern America

1

This 2008 event marked a historic moment in U.S. politics.

Election of Barack Obama

2

These 2005 storms devastated Louisiana.

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

3

This agency was created after 9/11 to protect national security.

Department of Homeland Security

4

These events in 1993 and 2001 signaled rising global terrorism.

World Trade Center bombings

5

This U.S. military action was a response to Iraq invading Kuwait.

Persian Gulf War

6

This event on September 11, 2001, changed U.S. foreign policy.

9/11 Terrorist Attacks

7

This war began after 9/11 to combat terrorism in Afghanistan.

War on Terror (Afghanistan War)