8th Grade Social Studies STAAR Review

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

H

Question 2

Which of the following best completes this diagram?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

J

Question 4

Which of the following completes this diagram?

Accepted Answer

C

Question 5

What was one result of these regional differences?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 6

Patrick Henry was criticizing which aspect of the Constitution in this excerpt?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

A

Question 8

Who made this statement?

Accepted Answer

C

Question 9

This excerpt provides one example of which constitutional principle?

Accepted Answer

G

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

B

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

B

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

H

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

H

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

G

Question 15

Which sentence best completes the diagram?

Accepted Answer

F

Question 16

Which of the following best completes this excerpt?

Accepted Answer

F

Question 17

What was one result of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?

Accepted Answer

F

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

C

Question 19

Which of these is a guarantee in the First Amendment?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 20

What was a major result of the Missouri Compromise?

Accepted Answer

D

Question 21

Boston and New Orleans were both founded as —

Accepted Answer

F

Question 22

This list provides examples of

Accepted Answer

B

Question 23

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

Accepted Answer

C

Question 24

The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in order to —

Accepted Answer

D

Question 25

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

Accepted Answer

F

Question 26

The factors listed above contributed most to the —

Accepted Answer

C

Question 27

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

Accepted Answer

G

Question 28

Which region;s primary economic activity in 1861 was the cultivation of cotton?

Accepted Answer

D

Question 29

Which document was the focus of this presentation?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 30

What was one effect of these events on the 1828 presidential election?

Accepted Answer

D

Question 31

What was a major reason for the federal government’s involvement in the relocation?

Accepted Answer

D

Question 32

Which excerpt from the U.S. Constitution best illustrates the principle of popular sovereignty?

Accepted Answer

G

Question 33

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

Accepted Answer

B

Question 34

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

Accepted Answer

C

Question 35

Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment?

Accepted Answer

H

Question 36

The Hudson River School artists were influenced by the

Accepted Answer

H

Question 37

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

Accepted Answer

G

Question 38

These innovations in agriculture and industry resulted in —

Accepted Answer

J

Question 39

Which economy and contributing factor best complete this table?

Accepted Answer

H

Question 40

Which accomplishment could be added to this diagram?

Accepted Answer

H

Question 41

This provision is a response to which grievance from the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 42

Which factor accounts for this trend?

Accepted Answer

J

Question 43

A biography on the military career of “Stonewall” Jackson would include...

Accepted Answer

A

Question 44

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

Accepted Answer

D

Question 45

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

Accepted Answer

G

Question 46

Which motive best completes the diagram?

Accepted Answer

C

Question 47

Which sentence best completes this diagram?

Accepted Answer

J

Question 48

Which constitutional issue was President Lincoln addressing in this excerpt?

Accepted Answer

J

Question 49

What was one major effect of the Second Great Awakening?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 50

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

Accepted Answer

F

Question 51

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

Accepted Answer

H

Question 52

The U.S. foreign policy illustrated in this cartoon was intended to —

Accepted Answer

F

Question 53

Which of these correct describes an effect of the Compromise of 1850 on escaped slaves?

Accepted Answer

F

Question 54

Which statement best describes the influence of this document?

Accepted Answer

F

Question 55

Which constitutional guarantee did this act violate?

Accepted Answer

H

Question 56

How did the War of 1812 affect the US economy?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 57

What was the primary reason for this migration?

Accepted Answer

H

Question 58

These environmental modifications were made in order to construct —

Accepted Answer

H

Question 59

Which excerpt from the Declaration of Independence best explains why colonists were unhappy?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 60

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

Accepted Answer

F

Question 61

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

Accepted Answer

G

Question 62

Which U.S. document guarantees protection against these injustices?

Accepted Answer

F

Question 63

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

Accepted Answer

B

Question 64

Which phrase completes this excerpt?

Accepted Answer

H

8th Grade Social Studies STAAR Review

Questions 104

8th Grade Social Studies STAAR Review

Questions 104