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Eighth Grade Social Studies
Final Exam Study guide
100 points: 50 multiple choice questions, 2 pts. each
o Christopher Columbus
o New France
o Pocahontas’ role at Jamestown
o features of the Southern colonies
o features of the New England colonies
o type of people who settled in the Middle colonies
o social structure of the colonies
o effects of the French and Indian war
o Proclamation of 1763
o Townshend and Tea Acts
o Intolerable Acts
o impact of Common Sense in the colonies
o purpose of the Olive Branch petition
o purpose of the Declaration of Independence
o natural rights listed in the Declaration of Independence
o Articles of Confederation
o significance of Shays’s Rebellion
o Virginia and New Jersey plans
o the Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
o reason Madison is known as the “Father of the Constitution”
o job of the legislative branch
o job of the executive branch
o job of the judicial branch
o reason the Constitution has lasted for more than 200 years
o Bill of Rights
o First Amendment: freedoms
o Fourth Amendment
o differing views of Federalists and Republicans (2 questions)
o states’ rights theory of government
o Washington’s Farewell Address: foreign policy
o reason the British said they impressed American sailors
o Monroe Doctrine
o Era of Good Feelings
o reason more people voted in 1828 than 1824
o Nullification Crisis
o “Five Civilized Tribes”
o Manifest Destiny
o Louisiana Purchase
o abolition movement
o Second Great Awakening
o climate differences between the North and South
o Industrial Revolution
o Missouri Compromise
o controversial parts of the Compromise of 1850
o Dred Scott decision
o election of 1860
o 14th Amendment
o Southern Reconstruction
o purpose of Jim Crow laws
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