Grade 8 Social Studies STAAR Review Quizs

NEW REPUBLIC

• Judicial Review

• Executive Order

• Legislative Veto

• Constitutional Amendment

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

• Avoid conflicts between American colonists and Native American Indians

• Promote trade between the colonies and Britain

• Establish a monarchy in the colonies

• Encourage immigration from Europe

NEW REPUBLIC

• Sought to avoid involvement in European political struggles

• Engaged actively in European alliances

• Promoted military intervention in Europe

• Established a strong presence in European politics

COLONIZATION

• To claim new territories

• To establish trade routes

• To spread democracy

• To promote cultural exchange

MANIFEST DESTINY

• Gave the United States control of the Mississippi River

• Led to the acquisition of Alaska

• Resulted in the Louisiana Purchase

• Established the Monroe Doctrine

CONSTITUTION

• Separation of powers

• Checks and balances

• Judicial review

• Federalism

CIVIL WAR

• It opened territories to slavery which the Missouri Compromise said would be free

• It ended slavery in all states immediately

• It was fought primarily over taxation issues

• It was a conflict between the North and South over economic differences

MANIFEST DESTINY

• Forty-Niners

• Pilgrims

• Loyalists

• Revolutionaries

COLONIZATION

• By preventing colonists from trading with most other foreign countries

• By encouraging trade with all foreign countries

• By allowing colonists to govern themselves

• By promoting independence from foreign powers

RECONSTRUCTION

• African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election.

• The Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863.

• The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964.

• The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in 1865.