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STAAR 10 Day Blitz Day 6

Authored by Hector Espinoza

Social Studies

8th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

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 following occurrences:

I. An increase in the African slave trade

II. Smaller cotton plantations took the place of larger farms

III. Dependence on cotton in the southern economy

I and II only

I and III only

II and III only

I, II, and III

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

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

Individual power of states over federal authority

Abolishment of slavery

Women’s right to vote and run for office

Relocation of Indians to western territories

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 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

2 mins • 1 pt

In context of Question #3 (above), 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 unconstitutional.

South Carolina was no longer a slave state under federal law.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

In Worcester v. Georgia, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall declared:

“The act of Georgia under which the plaintiff [Worchester] was prosecuted is void. The acts of Georgia are [against] the Constitution, laws, and treaties of the United States.”

This ruling supports the idea of:

republicanism

popular sovereignty

individual rights

anti-federalism

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

During the presidency of Andrew Jackson, Protestant Evangelicals supported what major reform movement?

Abolishment of slavery

Individual rights for Indians

Women’s right to vote

Rights of factory workers

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

In the Nullification Crisis, what political leader argued that states reserved the right to nullify federal laws?

Andrew Jackson

John Calhoun

John Quincy Adams

Henry Clay

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