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NAEP US History Grade 8 - Question List

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46. Many people opposed ratification of the Constitution without a bill of rights because they
  1. were afraid the states would be too powerful without a bill of rights
  2. thought that a bill of rights would strengthen the President's power
  3. did not want the national government to have an army
  4. feared that the new national government would deny people their rights
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47. During the Revolutionary War, one outcome of the colonial victory at the Battle of Saratoga that helped ensure the final defeat of the British was the
  1. entrance of France on the American side
  2. recapture of New York City from the British
  3. mutiny of the British forces under General Howe
  4. defeat of British forces at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
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48. "The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man. It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons, and that in turning them against the insects it has also turned them against the earth."-Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962The book quoted above was important in helping to begin the
  1. environmental movement
  2. anti-nuclear arms movement
  3. anti-Vietnam War movement
  4. America First movement
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49. Imagine that you are studying the restriction of immigration to the United States in the 1920's. You have the following sources of information available to you. A 1924 newspaper editorial supporting the quota system that limited immigration The text of the 1924 Immigration Act (or the National Origins Act) The text of a speech made at a Ku Klux Klan rally in 1923 A Russian woman's account of her experiences during the Russian Civil War and her escape to the United States in 1922 A 1924 magazine editorial opposing the quota system that limited immigration The story of a Greek family's journey to the United States in 1906 written by a journalist in 1955 The 1910, 1920, and 1930 United States census data telling how many immigrants came from which countriesWhich source would tell you most about the effects of the 1924 Immigration Act on changes in the pattern of immigration to the United States?
  1. 3
  2. 4
  3. 6
  4. 7
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50. The land-bridge theory suggests that the first people came to North America from
  1. Europe
  2. Asia
  3. Africa
  4. Atlantis
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