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This page shows a list of test questions in the 8th Grade Social Studies public release collection at MSDE. 8th Grade Social Studies
Standard "3.0 Geography," Indicator "EPD.2 …"

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United States, mid-1800s

The map is titled United States, mid eighteen hundreds. The southeastern region is darkly shaded from approximately the Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas up to the Chesapeake Bay area of the Mid-Atlantic. A question mark is in the center of the shaded region indicating a missing label.

Which region is identified by the question mark on this map?

  1. A.
    British colonies
  2. B.
    land ceded from Mexico
  3. C.
    Lewis and Clark expedition
  4. D.
    the Cotton Belt

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How did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 affect the issue of slavery in the United States?

  1. A.
    It freed enslaved African Americans in southern states.
  2. B.
    It prompted southern states to secede from the Union.
  3. C.
    It granted popular sovereignty to new states.
  4. D.
    It balanced the number of free states and slave states.