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STAAR Social Studies Grade 8 2016 - Past Paper

Quiz by TEKS Social Studies Grade 8

Grade 8
Social Studies
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

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Measures 52 skills from
Grade 8
Social Studies
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

8.12.A: Social Studies - Economics
8.16.B: Social Studies - Government
8.23.E: Social Studies - Culture
8.17.A: Social Studies - Government
8.10.B: Social Studies - Geography
8.4.C: Social Studies - History
8.10.A: Social Studies - Geography
8.24.A: Social Studies - Culture
8.13.A: Social Studies - Economics
8.27.A: Social Studies - Science, Technology and Society
8.28.B: Social Studies - Science, Technology and Society
8.6.B: Social Studies - History
8.24.B: Social Studies - Culture
8.7.B: Social Studies - History
8.3.A: Social Studies - History
8.6.A: Social Studies - History
8.2.B: Social Studies - History
8.6.D: Social Studies - History
8.15.B: Social Studies - Government
8.9.C: Social Studies - History
8.10.C: Social Studies - Geography
8.19.B: Social Studies - Citizenship
8.12.B: Social Studies - Economics
8.15.D: Social Studies - Government
8.15.A: Social Studies - Government
8.23.A: Social Studies - Culture
8.4.A: Social Studies - History
8.8.B: Social Studies - History
8.5.F: Social Studies - History
8.19.A: Social Studies - Citizenship
8.2.A: Social Studies - History
8.16.A: Social Studies - Government
8.11.A: Social Studies - Geography
8.9.D: Social Studies - History
8.17.B: Social Studies - Government
8.11.C: Social Studies - Geography
8.5.C: Social Studies - History
8.1.A: Social Studies - History
8.12.D: Social Studies - Economics
8.26.A: Social Studies - Culture
8.4.E: Social Studies - History
8.11.B: Social Studies - Geography
8.21.C: Social Studies - Citizenship
8.5.E: Social Studies - History
8.25.C: Social Studies - Culture
8.13.B: Social Studies - Economics
8.15.C: Social Studies - Government
8.18.A: Social Studies - Government
8.5.A: Social Studies - History
8.3.B: Social Studies - History
8.6.C: Social Studies - History
8.28.A: Social Studies - Science, Technology and Society

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  • Q1
    Which region’s primary economic activity in 1861 was the cultivation of cotton?
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    1
    4
    2
    3
    60s
    8.12.A: Social Studies - Economics
  • Q2
    Which of these occurred as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?
    African American families divided by slavery were reunited.
    African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election.
    Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship.
    Newly free men and women moved west to claim land.
    60s
    8.16.B: Social Studies - Government
  • Q3
    Who made this statement?
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    Harriet Tubman
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    Phillis Wheatley
    60s
    8.23.E: Social Studies - Culture
  • Q4
    During the Constitutional Convention of 1787, George Mason argued —
    for the dissolution of state governments
    for the creation of a strong executive branch
    against increased power for the national government
    against the passage of a bill of rights
    60s
    8.17.A: Social Studies - Government
  • Q5
    Which of these characteristics also describes these two states?
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    Former slave states
    Founded as work colonies for debtors
    Were havens for religious dissenters
    Former Spanish colonies
    60s
    8.10.B: Social Studies - Geography

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