8th grade Social Studies practice sheet
Maine Learning Results · from Gradelings · Name: ______________________
Question 1
The Constitution created the Electoral College to…
- choose the President
- run the courts
- write laws
choose the President
Hint: Electors vote for President.
Question 2
Due process means…
- Trials happen in secret
- The government must follow fair procedures before taking away life, liberty or property
- Police can do anything
- Laws can't change
The government must follow fair procedures before taking away life, liberty or property
Hint: Fair steps.
Question 3
Abolitionists worked to…
- Ban factories
- End slavery
- End voting
- Expand slavery
End slavery
Hint: To abolish means to end.
Question 4
Reconstruction (1865–1877) was the period of…
- Westward removal
- The Revolution
- Building the Erie Canal
- Rebuilding the South and bringing Southern states back into the Union
Rebuilding the South and bringing Southern states back into the Union
Hint: After the Civil War.
Question 5
On a map, 1 cm represents 10 km. A lake is 30 km long. How long is it on the map, in cm?
answer boxcm
3 cm
Hint: Divide the real distance by the scale.
Question 6
An artifact is…
- a story told today
- a rumor
- a map drawn today
- an object made by people in the past
an object made by people in the past
Hint: Tools, pottery and coins are artifacts.
Question 7
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in Brunswick. Its main effect was to…
- end the Missouri Compromise
- turn many Northerners against slavery
- start the Gold Rush
turn many Northerners against slavery
Hint: It sold hundreds of thousands of copies in its first year.
Question 8
Put these events in order, earliest first.
- The Indian Removal Act is passed
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, written in Brunswick, is published as a book
- The Bill of Rights is ratified
- The Mexican-American War begins
The Bill of Rights is ratified → The Indian Removal Act is passed → The Mexican-American War begins → Uncle Tom's Cabin, written in Brunswick, is published as a book
Hint: In order: The Bill of Rights is ratified (1791), The Indian Removal Act is passed (1830), The Mexican-American War begins (1846), Uncle Tom's Cabin, written in Brunswick, is published as a book (1852).
Question 9
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 banned slavery in…
- the Northwest Territory
- every state
- Virginia
the Northwest Territory
Hint: Today's Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Question 10
Which amendment says soldiers can't be housed in people's homes in peacetime without consent?
- The Eighth Amendment
- The First Amendment
- The Tenth Amendment
- The Third Amendment
The Third Amendment
Hint: Remember the Quartering Act.
Answer key
- 1. choose the President (Founding Ideas)
- 2. The government must follow fair procedures before taking away life, liberty or property (Rights & Amendments)
- 3. End slavery (Factories & Reformers)
- 4. Rebuilding the South and bringing Southern states back into the Union (Reconstruction)
- 5. 3 cm (Maps, Graphs & Data)
- 6. an object made by people in the past (Sources & Evidence)
- 7. turn many Northerners against slavery (Maine and the Nation)
- 8. The Bill of Rights is ratified → The Indian Removal Act is passed → The Mexican-American War begins → Uncle Tom's Cabin, written in Brunswick, is published as a book (From Independence to Reconstruction)
- 9. the Northwest Territory (Founding Ideas)
- 10. The Third Amendment (Rights & Amendments)
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