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STAAR History

Authored by John Robinson

Social Studies

8th Grade

STAAR History
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A social or economic system built on manufacturing industries

Abolitionism

Confederation

Mercantilism

Industrialism

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What was the result of Worcester v Georgia?

the Cherokee Nation was a country and could not be governed by another country (United States)

all Cherokee lands must be given to the U.S.

Worcester must sign an oath to Georgia or be arrested

Worcester must sign an oath to the Cherokee or be arrested

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A notion held by nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific

Confederation

Civil Disobedience

Great Compromise

Manifest Destiny

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of these correctly describes an effect of the Compromise of 1850 on escaped slaves and freedmen?

Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave law

Unlike freedmen, escaped slaves were welcome in the gold mines of California

Members of both groups could be sold in Washington D.C. slave market

Unlike escaped slaves, freedmen could vote in the territories of the Mexican cession

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Which of the following best completes this excerpt?

equal pay

own property

a public education

vote

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

According to Oglethorpe, the Savannah and the Altamaha rivers were a perfect barrier between

Canada and the US

US and Mexico

British Colonies and Spanish land claims

Florida and the US

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

_______________ was the turning point in the American Revolution because this victory is what convinced the French to ally with American troops to help win the war.

Yorktown

Treaty of Paris

Saratoga

Oglethorpe

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