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STAAR Review - 8th Grade SS

Total questions: 42

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An Act in government means ________. Example: Stamp Act, Patriot Act

a)

freedom

b)

a law passed

c)

a theater

d)

a country

2.

_________ were against the US Constitution because it didn't have a ______.

a)

Federalists/president

b)

Abolitionists/the 14th Amendment

c)

Anti-Federalists/Bill of Rights

d)

Reformers/Bill of Rights

3.

___________ encouraged people to be more religious, led to Reform movements

a)

Abolitionists

b)

Transcendentalism

c)

Temperance Movement

d)

Second (2nd) Great Awakening

4.

___________ worked to end slavery; lived mainly in the North of the USA

a)

Abolitionists

b)

Transcendentalism

c)

Temperance Movement

d)

Second (2nd) Great Awakening

5.

__________ wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was a cause of the Civil War

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Dorothea Dix

d)

Abigail Adams

6.

__________ was an abolitionists, led the Underground Railroad

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Dorothea Dix

d)

Abigail Adams

7.

_________ former slave, abolitionists, wrote newspaper; The North Star

a)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

William Lloyd Garrison

8.

____________ abolitionists, wrote the newspaper called The Liberator

a)

William Lloyd Garrison

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Harriet Tubman

9.

__________ founded by Emerson and Thoreau; focused on ideal societies and individualism; used civil disobedience as a form of protest

a)

Abolitionist

b)

Temperance

c)

Reform

d)

Transcendentalism

10.

________ was large meeting that called for women’s suffrage (right to vote)

a)

Seneca Falls Convention

b)

1st Great Awakening

c)

2nd Great Awakening

d)

Urbanization

11.

_________ means right to vote.

a)

Sectionalism

b)

Abolitionists

c)

Suffrage

d)

economy

12.

Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton were part of the __________ movement

a)

immigrant

b)

northern

c)

southern

d)

women's'

13.

_________ - a region’s geography impacted its economy; North built factories, South farmed, West mined; a cause of the Civil War

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Westward Expansion

c)

Sectionalism

d)

Branches of Govt

14.

Match the Branches of Govt

a)

Makes laws (Senate and House of Representatives)

1.

Legislative Branch (Congress)

b)

Explains/Interprets laws

2.

Judicial Branch (Supreme Court)

c)

Enforces laws (Pres/VPres)

3.

Executive Branch

15.

________ started working outside the home, mainly in textile mills

a)

convicts

b)

women

c)

children

d)

slaves

16.

________ - man-made rivers

a)

Canals

b)

Lakes

c)

Ponds

d)

Wells

17.

_________ was part of the Compromise of 1850; runaway slaves and free Blacks were at risk of being captured by slave hunters

a)

Education Act

b)

Kansas Nebraska Act

c)

Fugitive Slave Act

d)

Intolerable Acts

18.

____________- major debate leading up to Civil War; Republican Party (Lincoln) against its spread into new territories

a)

Slavery

b)

Women's movement

c)

Temperance

d)

Reform

19.

________ - North and South Fight Over Slavery

a)

War of 1812

b)

American Revolution

c)

French and Indian War

d)

Civil War

20.

​ The USA government is know as the ​ (a)   , ​ (b)   ,​ (c)   and ​ ​ (d)   .

Choose from the below words
federal
central
union,
republic
state
local
municipal
21.

During the Civil War the Union advantages were more ________, railroads, and _____, and leadership of General Grant

a)

money

b)

factories

c)

rivers

d)

mountains

22.

Known as the Anaconda Plan, the ____________is where the Union captured Mississippi River, dividing the Confederacy in half

a)

Surrender at Appomattox

b)

Battle of Gettysburg

c)

Battle of Vicksburg

d)

Battle of Antietam

23.

Confederacy surrendered to Union in Virginia; ended the Civil War

a)

Surrender at Appomattox Court House

b)

Battle of Gettysburg

c)

Battle of Vicksburg

d)

Battle of Antietam

24.

_______ after the Civil War, South in financial ruin and divided into 5 military districts

a)

Reform

b)

Reconstruction

c)

Debates

d)

Southern

25.

_______________took control after Lincoln’s death; punished Confederate leaders and Southerners for Civil War

a)

Carpet Baggers

b)

Scalawags

c)

Civil War Veterans

d)

Radical Republicans

26.

_______ laws that limited the new freedom of former slaves

a)

Reconstruction Act

b)

Black Codes

c)

Radical Republicans

d)

Southern Act

27.

________ means former slaves (blacks in the South)

a)

Freedmen

b)

Northerners

c)

Radical Republicans

d)

Scalawags

28.

_________ worked to help newly freed slaves by providing: 1) education, 2) clothing/food, 3) jobs

a)

Federal Bureau

b)

Freedmen’s Bureau

c)

Better Business Bureau

d)

Credit Bureau

29.

Reconstruction Amendments

a)

13th Amendment

1.

Slavery is illegal

b)

14th Amendment

2.

citizenship to all African-Am males

c)

15th Amendment

3.

voting (suffrage) for all African-Am men

30.

________ means to change

a)

Ratify

b)

Suffrage

c)

Amend

d)

Veto

31.

________ means to approve (say yes)

a)

Ratify

b)

Suffrage

c)

Amend

d)

Veto

32.

______ means to reject (say NO)

a)

Freedmen

b)

Suffrage

c)

Ratify

d)

Veto

33.

_________ farming system in which former slaves and poor whites were trapped in a cycle of debt (Reconstruction)

a)

Sharecropping

b)

Subsidized farming

c)

Commercial Farming

d)

Modern Farming

34.

_____________ did South Carolina have the right to nullify (overturn) a federal law; argument over states’ rights vs federal rights

a)

Bleeding Kansas

b)

Amendment Process

c)

Nullification Crisis

d)

Shay's Rebellion

35.

__________each branch of government has some power over the other two branches; helps to prevent anyone branch from becoming too powerful

a)

Republicanism

b)

Separation of Powers

c)

Federalism

d)

Checks and Balances

36.

Match the term to the definition

a)

region’s geography impacted its economy; North built factories, South farmed, West mined; a cause of the Civil War

1.

Sectionalism

b)

textile mills, trade, factories, immigrant labor, some trade-related slave labor

2.

Northern economy

c)

- plantation system, slave labor; cotton produced and sent to Northern factories

3.

Southern Economy

d)

mining (precious metals) and agriculture (farming and livestock)

4.

Western Economy

37.

________ - North and South agreed; California became a free state; strict fugitive slave law was passed

a)

Great Compromise

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

Compromise of 1850

d)

Missouri Compromise

38.

Match the year to the event

a)

Jamestown, 1st permanent settlement

1.

1607

b)

Plymouth settlement, Mayflower Compact

2.

1620

c)

Declaration of Independence, No more KING!!!

3.

1776

d)

US Constitution ratified

4.

1787

e)

Louisiana Purchase, double the size of the USA

5.

1803

39.

The image depicted is the ___________.

a)

Northwest Passage

b)

Triangle Trade

c)

Columbian Exchange

d)

Middle Passage

40.

_____________ happened when England didn't enforce the rules and laws on the colonies. This allowed the colonies to develop their own governments, economies, and way of life, kind of like having a playground with a lot of freedom

a)

Parliament

b)

Royal Courts

c)

Salutary Neglect

d)

Representative Govt.

41.

In the image depicted, the New World and Old World exchanged _________________ know as the Columbian Exchange.

a)

food

b)

tools

c)

diseases

d)

people

42.

The 3rd leg (route) of the Triangular Trade was know as the _____________ and transported slaves. (Africa to America)

a)

Colonial Trade

b)

Silk Road

c)

Middle Passage