2024-2025 Midterm Exam Grade 8 Social Studies

Spanish explorers who claimed lands in America for Spain

• Pueblos

• Conquistadors

Native Americans

• Incans, Mayans, Aztecs

• Pueblos, Presidios and Conquistadors

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

• alliance

• representative government

The mistreatment of people because of their beliefs.

• persecution

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The willingness to let others practice their own beliefs.

• tolerance

• persecution

A crop sold for money

• cash crop

• bounty

Laws that limited the basic rights of African Americans.

• slave codes

• liberties

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

• black plague

• the Great Awakening

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

• the Enlightenment

• the Great Awakening

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

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

• triangular trade

• Northwest Passage