8th Grade Social Studies End of Year Checkpoint Assessment Study Guide

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8th Grade Social StudiesEnd of Year Checkpoint
AssessmentStudy Guide
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Action/Reaction
People
- Territory
R R
Acts Laws
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200
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300
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400
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500
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Action/Reaction for 100

• Americans wanted to gain control of this so they
  moved the Native Americans west
• P. 192

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Action/Reaction for 200

• Jefferson doubled the size of the United States
  by doing this.
• P. 199

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Action/Reaction for 300

• Many Americans were inspired to work towards
  ending slavery because of this movement.
• P. 242

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Action/Reaction for 400

• Because of a belief in this idea, many Americans
  believed the US had the right and the duty to
  expand across the entire North American
  continent.
• P. 197

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Action/Reaction 500

• Immigrants tended to move to the North because it
  offered more of these.
• P265

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People for 100

• The author of Uncle Toms Cabin.
• P. 292

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People for 200

• This group of people moved to Utah looking for a
  place to follow their religion in peace.
• P. 222

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People for 300

• This group of early pioneers left behind a legacy
  that included the opening of schools, churches,
  libraries and charities wherever they settled.
• P. 221

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People for 400

• Americans who wanted to end slavery.
• P. 246

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People for 500

• This group of immigrants was essential to the
  building of the first transcontinental railroad.
• P. 342

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Reform Revolution for 100

• Horace Mann led the movement to reform this area
  of life for American children.
• P. 245

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Reform Revolution 200

• The Underground Railroad, breaking tools, running
  away, damaging crops, and sneaking food are
  example of ways slaves attempted to do this.
• P. 277

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Reform Revolution for 300

• This man led a raid on a federal arsenal at
  Harpers Ferry that caused him to become a hero to
  many northern abolitionists.
• P. 299

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Reform Revolution for 400

• The shelling of this fort in South Carolina is
  considered to be the event that turned the
  secession crisis into civil war.
• P. 126

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Reform Revolution for 500

• By portraying slavery accurately, this book
  succeeded in turning many northerners against the
  system of forced labor used in the south.
• P. 293

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Acts Laws for 100

• The debate over slavery was temporarily resolved
  after the passage of this in 1820.
• P. 288

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Acts Laws for 200

• Under the Homestead Act, settlers could receive
  160 acres of free land in the west in exchange
  for agreeing to do these two things.
• P. 340

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Acts Laws for 300

• The Bill that officially marked the end of
  Reconstruction, put Rutherford B Hayes into
  office as President after a disputed election and
  removed federal troops from the south.
• P. 331

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Acts Laws for 400

• These laws were passed in the south during
  Reconstruction as a way of enforcing segregation
  between whites and blacks.
• P. 333

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Acts Laws for 500

• Violence resulted from the passage of this bill
  which scrapped the Missouri Compromise and left
  the slavery issue up to settlers in these
  territories.
• P. 294

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- Territory 100

• The US gained this state when it was ceded by
  Spain in 1819.
• P. 200

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- Territory for 200

• California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and parts
  of Arizona and Colorado were all gained from this
  country as a result of war.
• P. 208

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- Territory for 300

• The name of the piece of southern Arizona that
  was bought from Mexico as a railroad route.
• P. 114

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- Territory for 400

• The era when Native Americans held the most
  territory.
• P. 348

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- Territory for 500

• The reason Native Americans lost so much of their
  land after the Civil War.
• P. 348

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Double Jeopardy
North vs South
Vocab
Reconstruction
Writings
Changing Times
200
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400
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600
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North vs South for 200

• The export of this crop was the main economic
  strength in the south.
• P. 256

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North vs South for 400

• One of the biggest differences between the north
  and south during the early 1800s was in terms of
  this.
• P. 260-261

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North vs South for 600

• The north was at a disadvantage at the start of
  the Civil War because it lacked this.
• P. 304

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North vs South for 800

• This resource became important for waging war for
  the first time during the Civil War.
• P.

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North vs South for 1000

• This area of the country had an advantage at the
  beginning of the war because of the number of
  mills and factories within its territory.
• P. 304-305

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Vocab for 200

• The act of freeing people from slavery.
• P.312

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Vocab for 400

• The act of withdrawing from an organization or
  alliance, such as the withdrawal of the southern
  states from the Union.
• P. 288

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Vocab for 600

• A dramatic change in the economy brought about by
  the rapid switch to the use of machines to do
  work formerly done by hand.
• P.257

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Vocab for 800

• Northerners who moved to the South after the
  Civil War looking to gain money and power.
• P.328

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Vocab for 1000

• A hand operated machine that cleaned seeds and
  other unwanted material from cotton and caused
  this crop to become the most important export in
  the south.
• P.312

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Reconstruction for 200

• Many of the laws passed during Reconstruction
  resulted in this--a social separation of people
  usually based on race.
• Ch. 23

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Reconstruction for 400

• The most famous of the terrorist groups that
  formed in the south during Reconstruction to
  prevent blacks from gaining political power.
• P. 330

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Reconstruction for 600

• Former slaves and whites who had been loyal to
  the US gained political power when this group was
  in charge of Reconstruction.
• P. 326

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Reconstruction for 800

• This amendment to the Constitution was passed to
  give former slaves full US citizenship and civil
  rights.
• P. 326

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Reconstruction for 1000

• A division of the government established after
  the war to help former slaves with food, jobs and
  medical care.
• P. 324

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Writing for 200

• The name of the main character in Harriet Beecher
  Stowes novel that focused attention on the issue
  of slavery.
• P. 292

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Writing for 400

• On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln issued this
  formal order that declared slaves in all
  Confederate states to be free.
• P. 312

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Writing for 600

• With malice toward none, with charity for all,
  with firmness in the right as God gives us to see
  the right, let us strive on to finish the work we
  are in. Lincoln used these words to describe
  his approach to Reconstruction when he gave this
  speech.
• P. 323

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Writing for 800

• In their ruling for this case, the US Supreme
  Court said that the Missouri Compromise was
  illegal and that slavery could extend into the
  territories.
• P. 296

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Writing for 1000

• The name given to a series of laws passed in the
  south during Reconstruction and aimed at limiting
  the rights of former slaves, supply workers for
  plantation owners and to maintain the social
  order of the pre-war south.
• P. 325

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Changing Times for 200

• The construction of these caused many settlers to
  move west following the Civil War.
• Ch. 24

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Changing Times for 400

• By 1850, railroads had become the cheapest and
  fastest way to move goods in this area of the
  nation.
• P. 260

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Changing Times for 600

• White southerners who did not own slaves still
  supported the slave system because it was so
  important to maintaining this aspect of their
  lives.
• P. 272

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Changing Times for 800

• Most of the disagreements over the Compromise of
  1850 came from this part of the bill.
• P. 292

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Changing Times for 1000

• The election during this year (when Lincoln was
  first elected) showed how deeply divided the
  nation was over the issue of slavery.
• P. 299

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Daily Double!!
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Daily Double!!
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Daily Double!!
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Daily Double!!
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Final Jeopardy!
Surrender!
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Final Jeopardy Question

• The terms of surrender that were offered to the
  south at the end of the Civil War were designed
  to avoid this.
• P. 319