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 fromGrade 8Social StudiesTexas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)
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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- Q1Which region’s primary economic activity in 1861 was the cultivation of cotton?142360s8.12.A: Social Studies - Economics
- Q2Which 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.60s8.16.B: Social Studies - Government
- Q3Who made this statement?Harriet TubmanHarriet Beecher StoweElizabeth Cady StantonPhillis Wheatley60s8.23.E: Social Studies - Culture
- Q4During the Constitutional Convention of 1787, George Mason argued —for the dissolution of state governmentsfor the creation of a strong executive branchagainst increased power for the national governmentagainst the passage of a bill of rights60s8.17.A: Social Studies - Government
- Q5Which of these characteristics also describes these two states?Former slave statesFounded as work colonies for debtorsWere havens for religious dissentersFormer Spanish colonies60s8.10.B: Social Studies - Geography