Grade 8 Social Studies Midterm Exam 2023-2024

Spanish explorers that claimed lands in America for Spain.

• presidio

• pueblos

• conquistadors

• charters

Native Americans

• Incas, Mayans, Aztecs

• Pueblos, Presidios, and Conquistadors

• Spanish, British and Scottish

• Swedish, Italian and German

A political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them.

• alliance

• charter

• representative government

• pioneer

The mistreatment or punishment of a group f people because of their beliefs.

• tolerance

• acceptance

• resolution

• persecution

The willingness to let others practice their own beliefs.

• tolerance

• persecution

• resolution

• virtues

A crop sold for money at market.

• bounty

• cash crop

• mercantilism

• commoner

Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights.

• pueblos

• virtues

• liberties

• slave codes

A religious movement in the English colonies in the mid-1700s.

• Libel Movement

• Persecution Movement

• Black Plague

• the Great Awakening

The movmenet in Europe in the 1600's and 1700s that emphasized the use of reason.

• the Great Awakening

• the Age of Exploration

• the Enlightenment

• the Renaissance

A colonial trade route between New England, Africa and the West Indies.

• Triangular trade

• Northwest Passage

• the Silk Road

• the Great Wagon Road