This page shows a list of units in the 8th Grade Social Studies public release collection at MSDE. 8th Grade Social Studies
Released Questions in Unit "4 - Geographic Expansion and Political Division (1820-1860)"
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What effect did the invention of the cotton gin have on agriculture in the United States?
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Which of the following was an accomplishment of the construction of the Erie Canal?
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Which role did Harriet Tubman play in the abolitionist movement?
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What factor led the United States into Civil War?
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What was the goal of the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments?
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Select three impacts of technological changes on the United States during the 1800s and drag them to the boxes in any order.
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- Identify two countries of origin for European immigrants to the United States in the 1800s.
- Explain how nativism impacted the lives of these immigrants in the United States.
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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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Which of the following had the greatest influence on the factory system in the United States during the 1800s?
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One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
—President Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, 1861
President Lincoln’s idea expressed in this excerpt eventually led to the
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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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What was one effect that the rapid population growth in California in the late 1840s had on the sectionalism debate?
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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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Which statement correctly describes the decision in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)?
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Which diagram accurately shows how new technologies unified the United States geographically during the early industrial period?
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- Define the phrase social reform movement.
- Explain the goals of the temperance movement.
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