8th Grade TAKS Review

Objective Three

Objective Three

8.5B Summarize arguments regarding protective tariffs, taxation, [and the banking system.]

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8.13A Identify economic differences among different regions of the United States.

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8.13B Explain reasons for the development of the plantation system, the growth of the slave trade, and the spread of slavery.

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8.14B Identify the economic factors that brought about rapid industrialization and urbanization.

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8.15A Explain why a free enterprise system of economics developed in the new nation.

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8.24D Analyze the contributions of people of various racial, ethnic, and religious groups [to our national identity].

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8.24E Identify the political, social, and economic contributions of women to American society.

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8.25A Describe the historical development of the abolitionist movement.

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8.25B Evaluate the impact of reform movements including public education, temperance, women’s rights, [prison reform, and care of the disabled.]

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8.28A Explain the effects of technological and scientific innovations such as the steamboat, the cotton gin, [and the Bessemer steel process.]

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8.28B Analyze the impact of transportation systems on the growth, development, and urbanization of the United States.

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8.28C Analyze how technological innovations changed the way goods were manufactured and marketed, nationally [and internationally].

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8.28D Explain how technological innovations led to rapid industrialization.

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8.29C Identify examples of how industrialization changed life in the United States.