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8^th Grade Social Studies Homework Assignments

Due Friday, September 22, 2006

Reminder! **STUDY**

Unit Test on Westward Expansion

Friday, September 22

Bring your notebooks to class.

I. The Underground Railroad

Answer the questions below in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper.

1. Why did most Underground Railroad routes lead to Canada?

2. Why didn’t slaves escape from northern states?

II. Sectionalism

Answer the following questions in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper.

1. Why did the Northeast become more economically advanced than the South?

2. Why was “the breadbasket of the Northwest” so important to both the Northeast and the South?

III. Letter from a Union Soldier

Answer the following questions in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper.

1. What are two difficulties that this Union soldier describes in his letter home?

2. Which one of these hardships would you find it most difficult over months or years of war?

IV. Letter from a Confederate Soldier

Answer the following questions in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper.

1. What are two difficulties that this Confederate soldier describes in his letter home?

2. Which one of these hardships would you find it most difficult over months or years of war?