8th grade Social Studies Pre/Post Test

Jamestown was founded in 1607 and is known as the first permanent _______________ settlement?

• Spanish
• Dutch
• African
• English

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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

Power of the government is divided between state and national governments is ___________.

• Popular Sovereignty
• Federalism
  
• Checks and Balances
• Republicanism

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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

Which factor DID NOT lead to industrialization in the US?

• War of 1812
  
• Inventions
• better transportation
• Native Americans
  

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8.13 B

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

What was NOT added during Manifest Destiny?

• Canada
• Mexican cession
• Texas
• Oregon Territory
  

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8.6 B

Who practiced civil disobedience by not paying his taxes to protest the Mexican War?

• Abraham Lincoln
  
• Henry David Thoreau
  
  
• John Hancock
• 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

The era after the Civil War is called ________________________.

• Colonization
• Independence
• Westward Expansion
• Reconstruction
  
  

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8.9 A