NAME_____________________________________ CLASS_______
8th
Grade Social Studies Homework Assignments
Answer the questions below in complete sentences on a
separate sheet of paper.
1.
What three inventions helped change farming and manufacturing in the
North?
2. Graph Skills – By about how many miles of track did the railroads grow between 1840 and 1860?
Answer the following questions in complete sentences on
a separate sheet of paper.
1.
Why did northern workers begin to form unions?
2. Chart Skills – What was one cause and one effect of immigration?
Answer the following questions in complete sentences on
a separate sheet of paper.
1.
How did the cotton gin affect the production of cotton in the South?
2. Graph Skills – How many slaves were there in 1820? In 1860?
Answer the following questions in complete sentences on
a separate sheet of paper.
1.
What were some ways African Americans struggled against slavery?
2. Diagram Skills – What percentage of people in the South were enslaved? What percentage were whites who owned no slaves at all?