Jackson 8th Grade STAAR Review

Jackson 8th Grade STAAR Review

8th Grade

21 Qs

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Jackson 8th Grade STAAR Review

Jackson 8th Grade STAAR Review

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 made cotton growing in the south to become very efficient, and therefore profitable, for southern farmers. This lead to which of the occurrences:

I and II only
I and III only
II and III only
I, II, and III

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The key issue of the Nullification Crisis was a debate over:

Individual power of states over federal authority 
Abolition of slavery 
Women’s right to vote and run for office 
Relocation of Indians to western territories

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Andrew Jackson dispatched naval ships to Charleston harbor and warned South Carolina that its action to void the Tariff of 1832 within its territory was treason.  This was his response to:

Indian Removal Act
Industrial Revolution
Missouri Compromise
The Nullification Crisis

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Andrew Jackson believed that:

South Carolina farmers could determine their own level of taxation
South Carolina was correct in its assertion that it could secede from the Union over the Tariff of 1832
South Carolina did not have the authority to nullify a federal law and call it unconstitutional
South Carolina was no longer a slave state under federal law

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why were southern states against the higher tariffs enacted by Congress?

It would make it more difficult to export crops.
It would give northern farmers an economic advantage.
It would give slaves more individual rights.
It would prevent manufacturing businesses from growing.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did the southern plantation system influence the northern economic system?

The economic system of the northern states was completely independent from the southern plantations.
The tariffs on southern plantations made northern businesses more profitable.
Northern plantations could not compete with cheaper prices from southern plantations because of their use of slave labor.
Southern plantations produced cotton used in northern mills and factories.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Name given to the 1828 taxation on raw materials that angered many states.

Spoils System
Jacksonian Democracy
Tariff of Abominations
Second Great Awakening

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