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8th Grade Social Studies Homework Assignments

Due Friday, September 15, 2006

 

I.  Industry in the North

 

 

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?

 

II.  Life in the North

 

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?

 

 

III.  Cotton Kingdom in the South

 

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?


IV.  Life in the South

 

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?