8th Grade STAAR review

Which principle of U.S. government is illustrated in the sequence shown above?

• Judicial Review

• Checks and Balances

• Popular Sovereignty

• Federalism

The Monroe Doctrine declared that the United States would

• prevent the establishment of new European colonies anywhere in the world
• help colonies in North and South America adopt a democratic form of government
• view European interference in the Americas as a threat to the national interest of the United States
• prevent other nations from trading with South American nations 

These data could be used to support which conclusion?

• Gulf Coast states had to rely on steamboats to transport goods.

• States in the lower South had more land devoted to plantations.

• Border states had to import needed raw materials.

• States in the upper South were heavily industrialized.

According to the excerpt above, the Gadsden Purchase was intended to —

• support settlement of U.S. territory gained through the U.S.-Mexican War

• encourage commerce among U.S. states formed from the Louisiana Purchase

• allow the United States and Mexico to share railroad construction costs

• encourage the sale of U.S. government land in Florida

The innovation shown in this photograph most affected the U.S. economy by —

• decreasing the need for canals

• allowing more efficient movement of goods

• reducing the costs of settling in western territories

• transporting workers from southern states to northern states

The excerpt above reflects the dissatisfaction of American colonists with the —

• political debates that took place at the Albany Convention

• interference of Great Britain in the slave trade

• economic consequences of the Great Awakening

• economic policies imposed by Great Britain following the French and Indian War

The proclamation excerpted above was issued during which of these historical events?

• Shays’s Rebellion

• The War of 1812

• The Nullification Crisis

• The Civil War

George Mason refused to sign the Constitution and opposed its ratification because he believed that  it—

• did not adequately protect individuals from potential government abuse
• did not give the executive branch enough power to oversee the military
• prevented the legislative branch from effectively governing the states
• prevented the judicial branch from using judicial review to overturn acts of the legislature

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

• Gettysburg
• Yorktown
• Saratoga
• Lexington and Concord