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Worksheets8th Grade STAAR Practice Session 3
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Which of these best completes the diagram?
California
Nevada
Texas
Florida
One result of the trend shown in this table was the--
expansion of available labor
creation of specialized trade guilds
decrease in educational opportunities for women
increase in production costs for manufacturers
Which factor accounts for this trend?
The Second Great Awakening motivated people to join reform movements.
Manifest Destiny inspired many people to become homesteaders.
Jacksonian Democracy allowed more people to vote in elections.
The Industrial Revolution encouraged people to pursue jobs in cities.
Which factor best completes this diagram?
New transportation systems
Increased government regulation
A decline in agriculture production
The growth of labor unions
How did the development of the factory system encourage urbanization?
Manufacturers produced goods to export overseas.
Labor unions were formed to protect mill workers.
Workers moved closer to manufacturing centers.
Industrialists invested in cotton plantations.
Which of these directly resulted from the event announced in this headline?
The abolitionist movement gained momentum in the North.
Members of the U.S. Senate sought to end Black Codes in the southern states.
The federal government allowed the expansion of slavery into all western territories.
Abolitionists moved to the South to avoid living under the new law.
Which statement best explains the changes shown in this table?
Slaves from the Upper South were moved to the Lower South to work on cotton plantations.
The Upper South experienced an agricultural labor shortage in the antebellum period.
Slaves were transferred from the Lower South to the Upper South to work in newly built factories.
The Lower South lost population as settlers migrated west to establish new plantations.
Which of the following was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas.
Kansas entered the Union as a slave state through popular sovereignty in 1856.
Nebraskan settlers who supported abolition moved to Kansas.
The boundary established by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was extended farther.
Many historians argue that the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln changed the Reconstruction. Which of the following is usually cited as an aspect of that change?
Radical Republicans took control of Congress
Congress imposed taxes on cotton imports to pay war debts
The Thirteenth Amendment was approved by Congress.
Congress repealed legislation regulating railroad construction
How was the event depicted in this image significant to the Civil War?
The Confederate defense of the besieged fort lengthened the war.
The Union victory divided the Confederacy along the Mississippi River.
The invasion of the Confederate capital resulted in the surrender of the Confederacy.
The Confederate attack upon the Union fort initiated the war,
John Hancock was one of the Founding Fathers committed to liberty. How did he demonstrate this commitment?
By writing the Articles of Confederation
By serving as commander in chief of the Continental Army
By organizing Committees of Correspondence
By signing the Declaration of Independence
Which of these completes this graphic organizer?
Parliament repeals the Stamp and Sugar Acts
King George lll allows colonists to petition Parliament for tax relief
Parliament passes the Intolerable Acts
King George lll appoints colonial representatives to Parliament
In 1787 the United States was at a crossroads. Farmers in western Massachusetts has rebelled the year before over property laws. The state struggled to end the rebellion. Events such as this one contributed to the decision to—
sign the Treaty of Paris
repeal the intolerable Acts
declare an embargo on imported goods
restructure the federal government
Why did the Anti-Federalists demand that a bill of rights be added to the U.S. Constitution?
To strengthen the authority of the federal government
To improve the organization of the judiciary
To give each state an equal amount of power
To protect individual freedoms from the federal government
Why was it difficult for Congress to fulfill its duties under the Articles of Confederation?
Any congressional action required executive approval
Congress lacked the power to declare war
Most congressional decisions required the approval of at least nine states
Congress lacked the power to regulate foreign trade
