US History STAAR Test Prep | Digital & Printable | Social Studies STAAR Review

State testing is a drag, but you don’t need your test review to be overwhelming! With my Social Studies STAAR Review, you have more than 150 printable and digital pages covering all major eras right at your fingertips. Social studies test review during the year and before STAAR testing has never been easier - with this thorough resource, students will review era-specific vocabulary, make connections between eras, and practice key skills like cause and effect, interpreting maps and timelines, and compare and contrast as they review social studies material. Your students (and you!) will be ready for test day in no time! 

✅Why You’ll Love This STAAR Review:

• The reviews are Google-compatible - click to assign for an instant review! 
• Era-specific vocabulary is reviewed at the beginning of each topic  
• Critical skills like cause & effect, interpreting timelines and maps, and compare & contrast in spiraled into each topic 

✨ The best part? This STAAR Review is updated annually! 

✅How to Use This Review:

• Use throughout the year as a unit test review for each major era 
• Use in the weeks leading up to the STAAR test for a massive review 
• Use through the year as homework, morning work, and independent practice to give students more at-bats with STAAR material 

✅What’s Included in Your Social Studies STAAR Review:

• Printable and Digital versions
• Teacher answer key
• 8 sectioned reviews – over 150+ pages!
• Spiral reviews to connect related content
• Era-specific vocabulary
• Student reflections

✅Topics Included in Your STAAR Review:

Colonization

• Reasons for exploration/colonization
• European colonization of North America
• Columbian Exchange
• Jamestown & Plymouth
• 13 colonies and regions
• Transatlantic Slave Trade
• First Great Awakening
• Influential people
• Representative government

American Revolution

• Causes of the American Revolution
• Important people
• Strengths and weaknesses of the armies
• Important events of the American Revolution
• Declaration of Independence
• Map of important events
• Articles of Confederations
• Northwest Ordinance
• Shay's Rebellion

Constitution

• Constitutional Convention
• Preamble
• Influential documents
• Great Compromise
• 3/5 Compromise
• Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
• Bill of Rights
• Principles of the Constitution
• Amending the Constitution
• Branches of government
• Grievances from the Declaration of Independence and how they were resolved

Early Republic

• New central government
• Hamilton's Plan
• Presidential foreign policy
• Political parties
• Whiskey vs. Shay's Rebellion
• Proclamation of Neutrality
• Jay's Treat
• Washington's Farewell Address
• Louisiana Purchase
• Embargo Act
• Free enterprise
• War of 1812 (causes, events, and effects)
• Supreme Court cases
• Monroe Doctrine
• XYZ Affair
• Supreme Court Cases

Age of Jackson

• Election of 1828
• Expansion of democracy
• Indian Removal Act
• Worcester vs. Georgia
• Trail of Tears
• Nullification Crisis
• War on Banks

Industrial Revolution and Reform Movements

• Inventions
• Industrialization and urbanization
• Immigrants
• Second Great Awakening
• Reform Movements

Westward Expansion

• Manifest Destiny
• Transcendentalism
• Hudson River School
• Territory acquisition
• Mexican-American war (causes, events, and effects)
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Groups moving west
• Sectionalism
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Bleeding Kansas
• Dred Scott vs. Sandford

Civil War/Reconstruction

• Causes
• Election of 1860
• Secession
• Inaugural addresses
• North vs. South
• Civil War events 
• Ft. Sumter
• Anaconda Plan
• Antietam
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Vicksburg
• Gettysburg
• Gettysburg Address
• Sherman's March to the Sea
• Appomattox Courthouse)
• Important people
• Reconstruction Plans
• Assassination of Lincoln
• Congressional Acts
• 13th, 14th, 15th amendments
• Black Codes
• Problems of Reconstruction
• Legislative acts

✅What Other Teachers Are Saying About This STAAR Review: 

❤️ "This is exactly what I have been looking for to help my kids prepare for STAAR. It is so easy to spiral things back in by grabbing these pages and reviewing. We will be doing these throughout the year next year, but this year I think I'll squeeze them in before our STAAR and see how it helps them improve! Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

❤️ "Great review for STAAR but I also use for reteach! So thorough!"

❤️ "I used some of this at the end of last year even during distance learning, and this year we've used parts to enrich and review each unit. I'm excited to use all of this for review in the spring!"

❤️ "This resource was all set up and ready to be used! The perfect end of the year review activity."

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