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8th Grade Social Science Review part 3
The 8th Grade portion is 48% of the 8th Grade Test
The 8th grade portion is divided into 2 sections: U.S. Constitution and the Early Republic -
30%Part 1 = 8.1-8.3 – 11 questions
Part 2 = 8.4-8.8 – 18 questions
Civil War and its Aftermath - 18%Part 3 = 8.9-8.12 -
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U.S. History Standardsparts 1 & 2
8.1 - Revolution
8.2 – Forming a New Nation
8.3 – American Political System
8.4 – A new Republic
8.5 – Expanding the Nation
8.6 – Americans in Mid-1800’s
8.7 – The South 1800-1850
8.8 – The West 1800 - 1850
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U.S. History Standardspart 3
8.9 – The Union Challenged
8.10 – The Civil War
8.11 – The Reconstruction
8. 12 – The Industrial Revolution
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8.7 – The South 1800-1850 Chapter 19 The Worlds of North and South
1. deforestation (254)
2. swamps + marshes (p. 255)
3. agrarians (p. 256)
4. Eli Whitney (p. 256)
5. cotton gin (p. 256)
6. plantation (p. 256)
7. industrialist (p. 257)
8. industrial Revolution (p.-219)
9. Lowell girls (p. 258)
10. reaper (p. 259)
11. steamboat (p. 260)
12. immigration (266)
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8.7 – The South 1800-1850 Chapter 20 African Americans at Mid-Century
1. racism (p. 269)
2. Frederick Douglass (p. 270)
3. discrimination p.271
4. segregation (p271)
5. Underground Railroad (p. 278)
6. Denmark Vesey (p. 278)
7. Nat Turner (p. 278) 8. oppression (p. 282)
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8.5 – Expanding the NationChapter 21 A Growing Sense of Nationhood
1. The Union (p. 286)
2. Secession (p. 288)
3. to table (p. 289)
4. Wilmot Proviso
5. Tallmadge Amendment (p. 286)
6. Gag rule (p. 289)
7. Henry Clay (p. 291)
8. Fugitive Slave La
9. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
10. John Brown’s raid (pp 298–299)
11. Election of 1860
12. Dissolved (p. 300)
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8.10 – The Civil WarChapter 22 The Civil War
1. Jefferson Davis (305–306)
2. Anaconda Plan (308)
3. Bull Run (p. 308)
4. blockade (p. 310)
5. Robert E. Lee (310)
6. draft (p. 312)
7. emancipation (p. 312)
8. Emancipation Proclamation (p. 312)
9. habeas corpus (313)
10. Merrimac and Monitor (p. 315)
11. Vicksburg (p. 316)
12. Ulysses Grant ( 318)
13. total war (p. 318)
14. William Sherman (318–319)
15. Appomattox (p. 319)
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8.10 – The Civil WarChapter 23 The Reconstruction Era
Manifest Destiny 197
Louisiana Purchase 198
Noble Bargain (199)
diplomacy (p. 200)
Tejano (p. 201)
diplomacy (p. 200)
Texas War for Independence (p.202)
the Alamo (p. 202)
annex (p. 203)
converts (p. 205)
Oregon Fever (205)
Mexican-American War (206–208)
Bear Flag Republic
Cession (p. 208)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (208)
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8.10 – The Civil WarChapter 24 Tensions in the West
reservation (p. 337)
Nez Percé (p. 338)
Chief Joseph (p. 339)
homesteader (p. 340)
Homestead Act ( 340)
transcontinental railroad (p.340)
subsidy (p. 340)
mining (pp. 343–344)
the “long drive” (345)
Battle of the Little Big Horn (p350)
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8.12 – The Industrial RevolutionChapter 25 The Rise of Industry
industrialization ( 354)
entrepreneur (p. 354)
laissez-faire (p. 354)
the Gilded Age (355)
Bessemer process
trust (p. 359)
J. P. Morgan (p. 359)
monopoly (p. 359)
corporation (p. 359)
urbanization (p. 361)
tenements (p. 361)
trade unions (p. 366)
collective bargaining (p. 366)
strikes (p. 367)
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8.12 – The Industrial RevolutionChapter 26 The Great Wave of Immigration
immigration (pp. 371–372)
Ellis Island (p. 371)
refugees (p. 372)
assimilation (p. 372)
tenement buildings
pogroms (p. 376)
Chinese Exclusion Act
passport (p. 380)
barrios (p. 381)
nativism (p. 382)
quota (p. 382)
visas (p. 384)
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