Test - TCAP Success Grade 8 Social Studies Post Test

TCAP Success Grade 8 Social Studies Post Test Sample

1 pt

Look at the chart and answer the question.

• Believed all men should be able to vote

• Founded Connecticut

• Principles used to create the state constitution, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Whose name should be the title of the chart?

Roger Williams

Thomas Jefferson

Anne Hutchinson

Thomas Hooker

1 pt

Look at the list and answer the question.

• To start their own farms

• to make a fresh start at farming or business

• adventure

• religious freedom

• to find a fortune in gold in California

The best title for this list would be

Why Indentured Servants Risked Life in America

Chances Missed by Immigrants

False Promises Made to Western Settlers

Reasons Settlers Moved West

1 pt

What effect did the Thirteenth Amendment have on the United States?

It changed elections by granting African Americans the right to vote.

It ended the slavery debate forever by outlawing slavery throughout the country.

It helped the North win the Civil War by freeing the slaves in Confederate states while maintaining slavery in the Union.

It granted land and the right to an education to freed slaves.

1 pt

Read the source and answer the question.

… we have only to shut off your supply of cotton for a few weeks and we can create a revolution in Great Britain. There are four millions of your people depending on us for their bread, not to speak of the many millions of dollars.

– Confederate Politician

This quote shows the South’s reliance on

King Cotton

slavery

imports

the triangle trade

1 pt

Read the source and answer the question.

…bills of rights, in the sense and in the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers which are not granted; and on this very account, would afford a… pretext to claim more than were granted.

– Alexander Hamilton

This source expresses the views of

a Federalist.

an anti-Federalist.

a Democrat.

a Republican.

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