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NAEP US History Grade 8 - Question List

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61. Who was the first President of the United States?
  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. John Quincy Adams
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. George Washington
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62. I . . . got off [the bus] a block from the school. I saw a large crowd of people standing across the street from the soldiers guarding Central [High School]. . . . I stood looking at the school-it looked so big! Just then the guards let some White students go through. . . . When I was able to steady my knees, I walked up to the guard who had let the White students in. He too didn't move. When I tried to squeeze past him, he raised his bayonet and then the other guards closed in and they raised their bayonets.Who probably ordered the guards to keep the speaker out of the school?
  1. The United States Congress
  2. State government officials
  3. The United States Supreme Court
  4. The President of the United States
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63. We hold, that on their separation from the Crown of Great Britain, the several colonies became free and independent States, each enjoying the separate and independent right of self-government; and that no authority can be exercised over them or within their limits, but by their consent. It is equally true, that the Constitution of the United States is a compact formed between the several States.-From "Address to the People of the United States," issued by the South Carolina Convention of 1832This passage highlights a tension between
  1. urban and rural interests
  2. East and West
  3. states’ rights and federal authority
  4. government economic subsidies and free enterprise
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64. Indentured servants were different from slaves because indentured servants
  1. came from the West Indies
  2. were freed at the end of their term
  3. were paid less money
  4. were paid less money
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65. Sojourner Truth said these words in 1852. I hears talk about the constitution and rights of man. I come up and I takes hold of this constitution. It looks mighty big. And I feels for my rights, but they not there.What did Sojourner Truth want to communicate with her words?
  1. Poor people did not know what was written in the Constitution.
  2. African Americans were not allowed to read the Constitution.
  3. The Constitution did not talk about the rights of African Americans.
  4. The Constitution needed to talk about the rights of Native Americans.
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