8th Grade Semester 1 Exam
Quiz by Melissa Jolly
Grade 8
Social Studies (2018)
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)
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- Q1Victory: ______________:: Turning Point:_________________Yorktown...SaratogaLexington...SaratogaSaratoga...YorktownTrenton...Yorktown300s113.20.4.C
- Q2The Treaty of Paris gave the newly formed U.S. which of the following?closure of all British forts in the Westrecognition of independence from Britainfishing rights in the Gulf of Mexicoterritory past the Mississippi River300s113.20.4.C
- Q3The FIRST shots of the American Revolution were fired at -TrentonSaratogaLexingtonYorktown300s113.20.4.C
- Q4John Hancock was one of the Founding Fathers committed to liberty. How did he demonstrate this commitment?By signing the Declaration of IndependenceBy writing the Articles of ConfederationBy serving as commander in chief of the Continental armyBy organizing Committees of Correspondence300s113.20.20.A
- Q5The Founding Fathers are considered models of civic virtue because they -gained significant fame and fortune by participating in the revolutiondebated about how the constitution should be interpretedestablished successful businesses while serving as statesmensacrificed family time and their business interests to fight in the revolution300s113.20.20.A
- Q6All of the events listed occurred during-the era of westward expansionthe Revolutionary erathe Era of Good Feelingsthe Jacksonian era300s113.20.1.A
- Q7This sequence of events resulted in the adoption of the -Bill of RightsDeclaration of IndependenceArticles of ConfederationTreaty of Paris300s113.20.1.A
- Q8In the Declaration of Independence, unalienable rights are listed as -the freedoms of speech, religion, assembly, and petitionlife, liberty, and pursuit of happinessthe freedom of fear, want, and tyrannylife, liberty, and property300s113.20.19.A
- Q9When Jefferson referred to unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence, he was describing -limitations on the rights of foreign-born citizensliberties belonging to all U.S. citizensfreedoms given by the local governmentnatural rights belonging to all humans300s113.20.19.A
- Q10How did the British government contribute to the expansion of representative democracy in the American colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries?It established colonial parliaments with each charterIt allowed the free exercise of religion among freemenIt permitted men and women voting rights in electionsIt neglected many of the political affairs of the colonies300s113.20.3.A
- Q11How did Great Britain help representative governments in the thirteen colonies grow?By supporting royal governorsBy intervening in local disputesBy neglecting colonial affairs300s113.20.3.A
- Q12Why did the Puritans leave England?economic wealthfaminereligious oppression300s113.20.2.B
- Q13Maryland and Pennsylvania were mainly founded for ______________ purposes.religiouseconomicpolitical300s113.20.2.B
- Q14Catholics were to Maryland as _____________ were to Pennsylvania.PuritansQuakersAnglicans300s113.20.2.B
- Q15Which colonial region had soil and a climate suited for large-scale agriculture?Middle coloniesJamestownNew England coloniesSouthern colonies300s113.20.12.C
