8th Grade Social Studies STAAR Questions Review

Question 1

These choices are protected by the

Accepted Answer

F

Question 2

Which motive best completes the diagram?

Accepted Answer

C

Question 3

Which speaker is in favor of ratifying the Constitution?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 4

What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?

Accepted Answer

G

Question 5

Which of the following was the most direct result of the modifications listed above?

Accepted Answer

C

Question 6

During the Constitutional Convention of 1787, George Mason argued

Accepted Answer

F

Question 7

The abolitionist movement achieved its goal with the passage of which amendment?

Accepted Answer

G

Question 8

How did this invention contribute to the expansion of the plantation system?

Accepted Answer

H

Question 9

Which of these occurred as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?

Accepted Answer

H

Question 10

Which colony correctly completes this diagram?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 11

Which group was among the first to call for an end to slavery?

Accepted Answer

G

Question 12

Which phrase completes this excerpt?

Accepted Answer

H

Question 13

Which constitutional issue was President Lincoln addressing in this excerpt?

Accepted Answer

J

Question 14

What practice reinforced that perception?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 15

The numbered river on this map played a major role in —

Accepted Answer

G

Question 16

The first political parties in the United States formed mainly in response to disagreements ove

Accepted Answer

D

Question 17

Who made this statement?

Accepted Answer

C

Question 18

Which of the following correctly describes the Three-Fifths Compromise?

Accepted Answer

F

Question 19

Conflicting interpretations of this amendment played a major role in the —

Accepted Answer

B

Question 20

In Marbury v Madison, the Supreme Court established a what?

Accepted Answer

F

Question 21

Which of the following is usually cited as an aspect of that change?

Accepted Answer

F

Question 22

Which factor best completes this diagram?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 23

After the Civil War, the southern states adopted Black Codes to

Accepted Answer

J

Question 24

Which of the following was a major reason for the flow of the transatlantic slave trade?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 25

In this excerpt, the authors of the Virginia Deceleration of Rights are describing rights they

Accepted Answer

G

Question 26

Which document was most influenced by this statute?

Accepted Answer

H

Question 27

How did the loss of it control of the Mississippi River contribute to the defeat of the Confed?

Accepted Answer

D

Question 28

These acts contributed to the start of the Revolutionary War by —

Accepted Answer

H

Question 29

This list provides examples of

Accepted Answer

B

Question 30

Which statement accurately describes the reasons for establishing Plymouth and Jamestown?

Accepted Answer

D

Question 31

Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment?

Accepted Answer

H

Question 32

Disagreements between these two cabinet members led to

Accepted Answer

C

Question 33

Which characteristic is correctly matched with a number in the table?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 34

What was one reason James K. Polk won the presidential election of 1844?

Accepted Answer

H

Question 35

Which of the following was an argument made against slavery in the Thirteen Colonies?

Accepted Answer

H

Question 36

Which document was the focus of this presentation?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 37

Which of the following best completes this diagram?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 38

Which statement explains the significance of this colonial institution?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 39

One effect of the Dawes Act was that it —

Accepted Answer

J

Question 40

Which map shows the boundaries of the United States just after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Accepted Answer

C

Question 41

Which era in U.S. history is the focus of this article?

Accepted Answer

J

Question 42

Which of these was a goal shared by many advocates of Manifest Destiny?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 43

Which box lists some results of steamboat tech in the US in the mid 1830s?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 44

Which of these is a guarantee in the First Amendment?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 45

The decision in Marbury v. Madison was significant in U.S. history because it —

Accepted Answer

H

Question 46

How did the growth of these organizations most affect the role of women in US society?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 47

These headlines refer to the decision in which Supreme Court case?

Accepted Answer

C

Question 48

These environmental modifications were made in order to construct —

Accepted Answer

H

Question 49

Which of these characteristics also describes these two states

Accepted Answer

D

Question 50

Which statement best describes the influence of this document?

Accepted Answer

F

Question 51

Which action completes this diagram?

Accepted Answer

C

Question 52

The purpose of this amendment was to

Accepted Answer

J

Question 53

At that time, what idea did the western frontier represent to many Americans?

Accepted Answer

J

Question 54

the factors in this diagram contributed to widespread support for which of the following?

Accepted Answer

G

Question 55

These innovations in agriculture and industry resulted in —

Accepted Answer

J

Question 56

In the ratification of the Constitution, which point would have been made by a Federalist?

Accepted Answer

C

Question 57

Which shaded state was the main destination of American Indians during the Trail of Tears?

Accepted Answer

C

Question 58

What was a major result of the Missouri Compromise?

Accepted Answer

D

Question 59

Which factor accounts for this trend?

Accepted Answer

J

Question 60

Which amendment provides for the protections described in this list?

Accepted Answer

G

Question 61

Which accomplishment could be added to this diagram?

Accepted Answer

H

Question 62

What was one result of these regional differences?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 63

The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in order to —

Accepted Answer

D

Question 64

This list describes the nineteenth-century experiences of immigrants from —

Accepted Answer

G

8th Grade Social Studies STAAR Questions Review

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8th Grade Social Studies STAAR Questions Review

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