STAAR - 8th History Final Review - Part 2

Which statement accurately describes the reasons for establishing Plymouth and Jamestown?

• Both colonies were established to bring wealth to stockholders
• Plymouth’s founders intended to produce raw materials, while Jamestown’s founders expected to discover gold.
• Both colonies were established to limit the expansion of other European empires.
• Plymouth was founded as a refuge from religious persecution, while Jamestown was founded for commercial profit.

This excerpt provides one example of which constitutional principle?

• Federalism
• Checks and balances
• Popular sovereignty
• Individual rights

What was another reason Congress passed this act in 1862?

• To promote settlement in the West
• To protect industry in the Northeast
• To improve transportation in the South
• To improve transportation in the South

The numbered river on this map played a major role in

• the defeat of British troops at the Battle of Saratoga
• the exploration of new territory acquired from France
• the defeat of British invaders at the Battle of Fort McHenry
• the settlement of territory previously claimed by the Dutch

This sequence of events resulted in the adoption of the

• Articles of Confederation
• Bill of Rights
• Treaty of Paris
• Declaration of Independence

The U.S. foreign policy illustrated in this cartoon was intended to 

• prevent further European colonization in the Western Hemisphere
• deter Spain from inciting revolution in former U.S. colonies
• encourage European powers to invest in Latin America
• keep the war between France and Spain from spreading to Latin America

The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in order to

• establish legal requirements for the education of former slaves
• mandate fair labor contracts between African American workers and plantation owners
• abolish the institution of slavery
• protect the voting rights of African American men

Which statement best explains the changes shown in this table?

• Slaves from the Upper South were moved to the Lower South to work on cotton plantations
• The Upper South experienced an agricultural labor shortage in the antebellum period.
• Slaves were transferred from the Lower South to the Upper South to work in newly built factories.
• The Lower South lost population as settlers migrated west to establish new plantations.

What was one effect of these events on the 1828 presidential election?

• Votes were cast by secret ballot.
• Property qualifications for voting were strengthened.
• Poll taxes were reduced.
• Voter participation increased.

Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment?

• The popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska Act
• The positions taken in the Know-Nothing Party platform
• The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War
• The opposition by southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation