U.S. HISTORY STAAR PRACTICE 2
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8th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which statement describes one result of the War of 1812?
Great Britain lost control of Canada.
The United States gained control of the Oregon Territory.
The United States stopped trading with Britain and France.
Great Britain stopped the practice of impressment.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Why did President Andrew Jackson oppose the Second Bank of the United States?
He believed it was inefficient and poorly managed.
He thought it was unconstitutional and favored the wealthy.
He considered it an obstacle to industrial progress and expansion.
He believed it favored the rights of states over the federal government.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which statement describes how the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 increased sectionalism?
It allowed slavery to expand into the territories.
It gave tax cuts to manufacturers who relocated to the territories.
It allowed slaves who escaped to the territories to purchase their freedom.
It granted homesteads to immigrants who settled in the territories.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which event was one cause of the U.S.-Mexican War?
The United States banned slavery in territories acquired from Mexico.
The U.S. Congress debated statehood for New Mexico.
U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought over disputed territory north of the Rio Grande.
The United States acquired the Mexican Cession.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In which court case was the U.S. principle of judicial review established?
McCulloch v. Maryland
Gibbons v. Ogden
Marbury v. Madison
Dred Scott v. Sandford
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which statement explains one of the motivations behind Manifest Destiny?
“These are the times that try men’s souls: the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country. . . .”
“I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free. . . .”
“And that claim is by the right . . . to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us. . . .”
“That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.”
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This map shows a trade system that emerged in the 1500s and reached its height in the 1700s.
Which factor was a reason for the trade system illustrated on this map?
Labor demands of the factory system
Invention of the steamboat
Labor demands of the plantation system
Invention of the mechanical loom
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