8th grade Social Studies Pre/Post Test

Which Colonial region was known for its cash crops such as tobacco, rice, and indigo?

• New England

• Western

• Middle

• Southern

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8.1 B

The turning point of the Revolutionary War was at the Battle of ________________.

• Gettysburg
• Yorktown
• Saratoga
• Lexington and Concord

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8.4 C

Which amendment to the Constitution prevents the government from establishing a national religion?

• Fourth Amendment

• First Amendment
  

• Tenth Amendment

• Thirteenth Amendment

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8.15 D

What was the cause of the War of 1812?

• Taxation without Representation

• States Rights

• Impressment of US sailors

• Slavery

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8.5 E

What is an EFFECT of the Industrial Revolution? Choose TWO correct answers

• Women's Right to Vote

• Independence

• More Efficient Production of Goods

• Urbanization

• End of Slavery

Name given to the forced relocation of Native Americans to reservations west of the Mississippi River

• Manifest Destiny

• Popular Sovereignty

• Trail of Tears

• Wilderness Road

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8.5 H

Identify the territory acquired by the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Which one of the following was an advocate for the abolition of slavery?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Frederick Douglass

• Dorothea Dix

• Horace Mann

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8.20 B

What battle initiated the Civil War

• Vicksburg
  
• Gettysburg
  
• Antietam
• Fort Sumter

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8.8 C

This list is associated with which era in U.S. History?

• Colonization
• Sectionalism

• Westward Expansion
• Reconstruction

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8.9 A