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STAAR: Exploration & Colonization Review

STAAR: Exploration & Colonization Review

Assessment

Interactive Video

Social Studies

8th Grade

Hard

8.2A, 8.3A, 8.3B

Standards-aligned

Created by

Melynda Escobedo

FREE Resource

68 questions

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1.

SLIDE QUESTION

30 sec • Ungraded

2.

SLIDE QUESTION

30 sec • Ungraded

3.

DRAW QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

What is a strategy that is used for "Gold" when discussing reasons for exploration?

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4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why did European explorers search for the Northwest Passage?

To find the legendary Seven Cities of Gold

To discover new technology for crossing the Atlantic Ocean

To find the legendary waters of the Fountain of Youth

To discover a new sea route to Asia

Tags

8.2A

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Which motive best completes the diagram?

To promote free enterprise

To extend democracy

To expand empires

To found utopian communities

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8.2A

6.

DRAW QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

What is a strategy that is used for "God" when discussing reasons for exploration?

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7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the INITITAL reason many European explorers sailed to the Americas?

To find new trade routes to Asia

To form military alliances

To spread Christianity to Africa

To find new sources of cheap labor

Tags

8.2A

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