This page shows a list of standards in the 8th Grade Social Studies public release collection at MSDE. 8th Grade Social Studies
Released Questions in Standard "2.0 Peoples of the Nations and World"
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Read the list.
mathematics expression or equation
- viewed as property
- families often separated
- received harsh punishments for disobedience
Which title completes this list?
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Study the map.
Which event caused the movement of people shown on this map?
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In 1860, Elizabeth Burkett . . . with her husband, Henry Burkett . . . and . . . fellow slaves Thomas Sipple, his wife Mary Ann Sipple, John Purnell, and Hale Burton, holding a total of thirty dollars and looking to cross the Delaware Bay into freedom . . . purchased a small vessel for six dollars and began their journey up the coast on their way to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. En route, they encountered a group of white men who attempted to overtake the slaves' boat. The fugitives, however, defended their vessel and continued on, despite injury to the passengers.
—Archives of Maryland
What form of resistance to slavery is described in this excerpt?
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Read the lyrics.
Oh! times are tough, amazing rough,
Expenses are alarming,
I will go West, it’s far the best,
Try my luck at farming.
For the idea, of staying here
To just earn your gruel,
Makes me feel sad and sometimes mad
’Tis so awful cruel.
Goods are so high, I heave a sigh,
At the cost of living,
My loving wife, she sees the strife
And has a spell of crying.
—“I Will Go West!” by J.P. Barrett, 1875
Which group’s views are best represented by these song lyrics?
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Dorothea Dix led a successful campaign to help people with mental illnesses and promote
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Which statement about Jacksonian Democracy in the 1830s is correct?
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Select two phrases that describe negative impacts of Manifest Destiny.
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Study the diagram.
Select the two statements that complete the diagram about American Indian involvement in the American Revolution and drag them to the correct boxes.
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The Conscription [draft] is a necessity; the Conscription is a law; the Conscription is just. It is demanded for the suppression [crushing] of the Southern rebellion; it is needed to fill up our heroic but shattered regiments; the country called for it. . . . It is the justest mode of raising an army—just to the people of every class and condition, poor and rich, black and white.
—“The Conscription Must be Enforced,” New York Times, July 1863
What was one reaction to the situation described in the excerpt?
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Which policy did Great Britain pass in response to Pontiac’s Rebellion?
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Use your knowledge of U.S. history to answer the constructed response question.
- Define the phrase social reform movement.
- Explain the goals of the temperance movement.
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