Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress Social Studies Grade 8

1.A timeline card in a Lansing classroom places Michigan statehood at the end of the Civil War. Which correction should the group write?

2.Students sort two national plans of government into earlier and later. Which statement orders them correctly?

3.A poster of the United States government needs a label for how many branches it has and which branch makes laws. Which label is accurate?

4.After a unit on the Civil War, the next unit title on the board is blank. Which era comes next?

5.A Detroit neighborhood project asks why many Black families arrived from the South in the early twentieth century. Which explanation fits?

6.A travel brochure for class must describe the road link between Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas. Which fact belongs in the brochure?

7.On a classroom map of Michigan, 1 inch stands for 20 miles. A student measures 3 inches between two towns. How far apart are the towns?

8.A student mixes up three national activities while labeling a civics chart. Which activity is a census?

9.Groups paint a hallway mural of the Great Lakes and must name all five. Which list should they use?

10.Students sketch Michigan's outline before a map quiz. Which description matches the state?

11.During a statehood skit, students act out Michigan's dispute with Ohio. Which outcome matches the history?

12.A museum label for a Detroit field trip needs a founding date and a founder. Which label is right?

13.A class chart names the Council of the Three Fires in the Great Lakes region. Which nations belong on the chart?

14.Students stage a scene of early exchange along the Great Lakes. What were French traders and Native partners mainly exchanging?

15.A fort diorama shows British soldiers inside Detroit in 1763. Which caption fits Pontiac's War?

16.A worksheet asks what the Northwest Ordinance meant for the land that later included Michigan. Which answer should students mark?

17.Students order English colonial cards. Which card describes Jamestown correctly?

18.A skit about Plymouth asks what the Mayflower Compact showed. Which line should the narrator say?

19.A comparison chart asks for an early elected assembly in the English colonies. Which example belongs in that box?

20.A war map ends in 1763. Students must say what Britain gained from France in North America. Which summary is right?

21.Students draw the Appalachian Mountains on a colonial map and ask why a 1763 order mattered. Which statement is accurate?

22.A headline-writing lab asks why colonists protested the Stamp Act. Which headline is historically sound?

23.A harbor scene for class shows chests of tea going into the water at Boston. What were the protesters doing?

24.A timeline of the Revolution has a blank at the first fighting. Which event fills that blank?

25.Students date a classroom copy of the colonies' independence announcement. Which date and meaning are correct?

26.A diplomacy lesson asks why the Battle of Saratoga mattered beyond the battlefield. Which answer should the class choose?

27.Students label the last major siege of the Revolutionary War. Which label is correct?

28.A peace-treaty card for 1783 is missing its main results. Which results belong on the card?

29.A news skit covers farmers closing courts in Massachusetts in 1786. Why did that uprising worry national leaders?

30.Students list weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. Which weakness belongs on the list?

31.A class calendar marks a 1787 meeting in Philadelphia. What did the delegates end up doing?

32.In a mock convention, large states and small states clash over representation. Which compromise matches 1787?

33.Students model how the 1787 convention counted population for House seats. Which rule did the delegates adopt?

34.A Venn diagram splits powers between the national government and the states. Which pairing is correct?

35.In a mock Congress, a bill passes both houses and goes to the president. What check can the president use?

36.After a veto, students count a second vote. What does it take for Congress to override the president?

37.A rights poster says the Bill of Rights was added after the Constitution was written. What is the Bill of Rights?

38.A student plans a peaceful rally and a student newspaper. Which protections cover those activities?

39.A class asks why Michigan, not Congress, sets the rules for a driver's license. Which answer fits the Constitution's design?

40.A court case study stops at 1803. What power did Marbury v. Madison establish?

41.A land-area map doubles in one year during a classroom animation. Which purchase is the animation showing?

42.Students trace an expedition west from St. Louis after the Louisiana Purchase. Who led that journey, and what did it do?

43.A Detroit history booth covers the first summer of the War of 1812. What happened to the town?

44.A naval map of September 1813 shows ships on Lake Erie. Why did that battle matter for Michigan?

45.A local-history project in Monroe, Michigan, asks about a War of 1812 battle nearby. Which statement is accurate?

46.A biography card describes a Shawnee leader in the War of 1812. Which facts belong on the card?

47.A transportation timeline asks how the Erie Canal changed travel toward Michigan. Which answer is right?

48.A foreign-policy outline is dated 1823. Which statement matches the Monroe Doctrine?

49.A state-capital quiz asks when and where Michigan's capital moved after statehood. Which answer is correct?

50.A hall display names a young leader tied to Michigan statehood. Who was he?

51.Students number the states in the order they joined the Union. Where does Michigan fit?

52.A debate prep sheet asks whether Michigan entered the Union as a free state or a slave state. Which answer is correct?

53.An engineering poster shows ships passing the rapids at Sault Ste. Marie. What did the locks do?

54.A map lesson shows Native nations forced west from the Southeast. Which law started that national policy?

55.An invention lab asks how the cotton gin changed work in the South. Which result is accurate?

56.A rights timeline has an 1848 meeting in New York. What was Seneca Falls?

57.A Battle Creek biography project connects a speaker to Michigan. Which description is accurate?

58.Students draw an 1820 line across the Louisiana Purchase on a slavery map. What did the Missouri Compromise do?

59.A belief statement on the board says the United States was meant to reach the Pacific. What is that belief called?

60.A map of land added in the 1840s asks about the war with Mexico. What was one major result?

61.A shoreline survey asks which Great Lakes touch Michigan. Which list should the survey use?

62.A freedom-trail project asks how Michigan fit into escapes from slavery. Which description is accurate?

63.A law-comparison chart includes the Compromise of 1850. Which pair of results is accurate?

64.Students mark 1854 on a slavery timeline. What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act change?

65.A Supreme Court card is dated 1857. Which ruling matches the Dred Scott decision?

66.A cause-of-war chart includes a raid in 1859. What happened at Harpers Ferry?

67.After a classroom election modeled on 1860, southern states on the map start to leave. Why did secession begin then?

68.A war timeline needs the event that began the fighting of the Civil War. Which event is it?

69.Two students argue about why the Union fought the Civil War. Which statement is the best summary?

70.A proclamation dated January 1, 1863, is the focus of a document lab. What did it do?

71.A battle card says a Confederate invasion of the North was turned back in 1863. Which battle is it?

72.A regiment roll for a Michigan museum asks which side the state's soldiers served on in the Civil War. Which answer is correct?

73.After Appomattox, students ask which amendment ended legal slavery. Which answer is right?

74.A surrender scene is set in Virginia in April 1865. Who met, and what did the meeting mean?

75.A citizenship lesson asks what the 14th Amendment added after the Civil War. Which statement is accurate?

76.Students compare voting amendments. What does the 15th Amendment say?

77.A Reconstruction agency card mentions schools for people who had been enslaved. Which agency fits?

78.A law lab looks at southern statutes passed just after the Civil War. What were the Black Codes?

79.A farm story from the late 1860s describes a family farming land they do not own and owing the owner part of the crop. What is that system?

80.A timeline of Reconstruction needs an ending marker. Which event do historians use?

81.A gallery walk shows separate rail cars and separate schools required by state law. What name is given to that system?

82.A land-policy card offers settlers a western farm if they live on it and improve it. Which law is this?

83.Two railroad lines meet on a classroom map of Utah. What was completed there in 1869?

84.A mill-town project studies Saginaw and Muskegon in the later 1800s. Which industry made those towns boom?

85.A resource map of the Upper Peninsula uses two symbols. What resources do those symbols usually show?

86.Students bring four items to a source lab on the Civil War. Which item is a primary source?

87.A border map of Michigan is missing the neighbor labels. Which set is correct?

88.A weather report for a western Michigan town shows heavy snow while a town inland has much less. What explains the difference?

89.A student draws two boxes: the Erie Canal opens, and more settlers reach Michigan. Which box is the cause?

90.Three columns on the board are labeled North, South, and West before the Civil War. What problem do the columns illustrate?

91.A factory tour sheet asks how Highland Park changed car building. Which answer is accurate?

92.In a class simulation, each student adds one part to a paper car instead of building a whole car. Which idea are they practicing?

93.A push-and-pull chart explains Black migration to Detroit in the early 1900s. Which pair is correct?

94.A labor story is set inside auto plants in Flint in the winter of 1936 to 1937. What did the workers do, and what changed?

95.A graph of jobs falls sharply after 1929 and stays low for years. Which description fits the Great Depression?

96.A 1930s policy board lists work programs and Social Security. What was the New Deal?

97.A world-war timeline asks what brought the United States into the fighting. Which event did that?

98.A home-front poster shows Michigan factories during World War II. What did those factories produce?

99.A voting timeline ends with a national change in 1920. What changed?

100.A land-ceded map of Michigan shows large areas changing hands in the early 1800s. How did that transfer happen?

101.A 1954 Supreme Court case comes up in a lesson on segregated schools. What did the Court decide?

102.A 1964 law is on a civil rights timeline. What did that law forbid?

103.Students compare a literacy test used to block voters with a 1965 law. What did that law do?

104.A biography card links a civil rights figure to both Montgomery and Detroit. Which card is accurate?

105.After school, a student can visit the capitol exhibit or play in the basketball game, but not both. The student picks the exhibit, and the game was the next best choice. What is the opportunity cost?

106.A map lab has 20 students and only 12 hand lenses. Which economic idea does the shortage of lenses show?

107.A shop in Marquette raises the price of mittens, and nothing else changes. What usually happens to the number of mittens customers buy?

108.A city budget lesson shows money spent on snow plows, libraries, and public schools. Where does much of that money come from?