NAEP US History Grade 8 - Question List

76. At the time Columbus arrived in the Americas, most of the area that is now called Mexico was controlled by people called the

77. The Mormons moved to Utah mainly to

78. * Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka* Montgomery Bus Boycott* March on Washington* "I Have a Dream" Speech* Voting Rights ActThe events listed would be most important in a discussion of which movement?

79. We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government. --1776The quotation is from the

80. We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government. - 1776The primary author of the document was