Test - TCAP Success Grade 8 Social Studies Pre Test

1 pt

James Smith lived with his wife and four children on a farm. He also owns ten slaves. In the 1820 census, how many people were counted as living on his farm?

six

eight

twelve

sixteen

1 pt

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there remained not past sixty men, women and children, most miserable and poor creatures; and those were preserved for the most part, by roots, herbs, acorns, walnuts, berries, now and then a little fish…yea, even the very skins of our horses. Nay, so great was our famine, that a Savage we slew, and buried, the poorer sort took him up again and ate him…

– John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & The Summer Isles

Based on the passage, what period of time is John Smith describing in the passage?

interactions with Pocahontas

settling Jamestown

the starving time in Jamestown

wars with the Natives

1 pt

Identify the African American regiment formed in Tennessee to protect the Union rail lines.

54th Massachusetts Regiment

31st Infantry Regiment

13th U.S. Colored Infantry

the Buffalo soldiers

1 pt

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A government of our own is our natural right.

– Thomas Paine

This claim was made during the

American Revolution.

Louisiana Purchase.

Mexican-American War.

Civil War.

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They serve to organize faction, to give it an… extraordinary force … they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will… subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government.

– George Washington

What was Washington warning against?

involvement in European conflicts

taking American Indian land

political parties

tariffs and taxes

TCAP Success Grade 8 Social Studies Pre Test

TCAP Success Grade 8 Social Studies Pre Test Sample