FTCE Social Science 6 - 12

Mr. King has asked his students to visualize the Americas prior to the Age of Exploration and to describe what they see. Which student has an accurate "picture" based on history?

Viola said, "I imagine a prosperous and healthy Aztec civilization."

The Soviet Leader whose policies of Glasnost and perestroika encouraged the fall of communism in the bloc was?

Gorbachev

Which is of the following statements best describes conditions in Africa before the European Age of Exploration?

Ghana was central to the trans-Saharan trade in gold and salt

What form of government ruled Russia prior to the Revolution of 1917?

Autocracy

Renaissance Humanism was a threat to the Church because?

Humanists emphasized life in the present rather than in the afterlife.

Which of these empires or kingdoms was part of the Islamic World?

Ghana

In the late Middle Ages, which system provided opportunities for craftspeople to pass on their skills to others who were apprentices until they gained expertise?

Guild

What prompted the formation of the League of Nations?

An organization was need that could promote international peace and security following WWI.

What is the Out of Africa model?

A theory for the origin of humans

Which of the following was developed by the Ancient Greeks?

Democracy

Germany's invasion of which country prompted the British to declare war on Germany in 1914?

Belgium

Which of the following terms is closely related to autocracy?

Despotism

Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution creates?

A bicameral legislature

Which statement best describes the foreign policy of the United States during the Cold War?

The United States intervened in another country's affairs if it prevented a country from falling under Communist control.

Which historical movement can be identified with Martin Luther?

The Protestant Reformation

Which of the following statements about the Han Dynasty is true?

The Han Dynasty created a system of trade routes that became known as the Silk Road.

What was an outcome of the Industrial Revolution?

The birth of the advertising industry

Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933. What was one of his first official acts?

He began building up Germany's army and weapons

Which of the following characterizes Paleolithic peoples?

They were highly nomadic

What would have been a logical outcome of the Americanization Movement in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

Immigrants learned what it meant to be an American

In its decision in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court held that?

Separate but equal facilities for different races were constitutional.

A person who believed in Manifest Destiny in the 1800s would most likely want to?

Acquire more land and power

What was an effect of the slave trade on Africa?

Women took over roles previously occupied by men, and, because there were so few men, polygamy increased

During the Enlightenment, Rococo and Neoclassicism can be classified as?

Styles of art

Which of the following occurred in the same time period?

Renaissance, Reformation, and Age of Exploration

Which of the following would be considered a primary source in researching the factors that influenced U.S. involvement in the Korean War?

d) the person correspondence of a military man stationed with the 5th Regimental Combat team (RCT) in Korea.

Which of the following is considered the cradle of the Western civilization?

Greece

The first religious development to have an impact throughout colonial America was the?

Great Awakening

What was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation government?

The central government was weak.

The Marshall Plan?

Gave Western Europe billions to rebuild after WWII.

An economy in which productive resources are owned by private individuals is described as?

Capitalistic

What might be seen as the advantage of a command economy?

It emphasizes collective benefit over individual benefit

What is true of the Bretton Woods system?

It involved international exchange of currencies.

A society must decide which and how many goods and services it should produces; how it should produce these goods and services; and how the goods and services should then be distributed among the people. These address the concept of?

Scarcity

Which of the following involve the interaction between the buyers, the seller, and price?

Supply; demand

Sociology is defined as?

The study of how individuals become members of groups and move between groups, and how being in a different groups affect individuals and the groups in which they participate.

The research method that involves a social scientist living among and interacting with the people being studied is known as?

Participant observation

Miss Bailey teaches sixth-grade social studies with twenty-five students of various achievement levels. She is starting a unit on the history of their local community and wants to stimulate the student's thinking. She also wants to encourage students to develop a project as a result of their study. Which type of project would encourage the highest level of thinking by the students?

Asking students to research the influence of the past on the present community, then asking the students to project what the community be like in 100 years and create a model to show what they think.

Longitude and latitude are examples of which of geography?

Location

Economics is a science that deals with?

The examination of balancing scarce resources with unlimited wants.

One of the first political parties was the Federalist Party. Its founder stated the following: Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. Who was the founder, and why did he make this statement?

Alexander Hamilton

Which amendment reserves to the states any power that the Constitution does not give to the federal government and does not deny to the state?

10th

The term periodization is used?

To place a historical event into a chronological context.

The religion that most influenced the development of sub-Saharan Africa before the Age of Exploration was?

Islam

The Monroe Doctrine stated that the United States?

Would not tolerate any new European colonization in the New World

What caused Benjamin Franklin to draw the following cartoon? Hint: Join, or Die.

England disapproved of the Albany Plan of Union

The purpose of the grandfather clause and literacy tests, used in the Southern states in the late 1800s and early 1900s, was to prevent?

Black people from voting

What change to European governments came to characterize the time period 1750-1800 as the Age of Revolution?

Monarchies were replaced by republics and democracies

What was a net result of the Eighteenth Amendment?

Prohibition created major organized-crime activity in the United States

What led to a large wave of Cuban immigration into southern Florida in the 1950s?

The Cuban Revolution of 1959

The concept of culture includes all the following EXCEPT?

Individual intelligence

Ms. Cole teaches civics. She asked her students to write an essay based on the following prompt:

Which of the amendments in the Bill of Rights has had the most effect on your life? Why?

According the Bloom's Taxonomy, at what level is this activity?

Evaluation

Which of the following impacted Africa the most between 1500 and 1900?

Slave trade

The four main branches of geography are?

Human, systemic, physical, and regional

Geographers use which of the following to analyze how places relate, including movements such as travel, migration, and the transmission of information?

Spatial interaction

The Enlightenment is also known as?

The Age of Reason

An oligopoly is?

A market form in which a market or industry is dominated by a small number of sellers

Mr. Harrison asked his students to provide an example of an agent of erosion. Which student has the best response?

Leslie: a river

Human geography is best defined as the study of?

Where and why human activities are located

In the 1790s political conflict between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, Jefferson would have been more likely to?

Take a narrow view of the Constitution

What is true of mixed economies?

The economies of most countries are mixed, with varied proportions of command, capitalist, and traditional economies.

GDP, inflation rates, and unemployment rates are most related to?

Macroeconomics

Which country and contribution are correctly matched?

Greece - Socratic Method

The Federalist Papers were signed by "Publius." the consensus among scholars says the papers were written by?

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay

Which of the following best defines the term prehistoric?

Prior to the appearance of the written word

Which of the following stated that is addition to intervention in the Americas, the United States would intervene to keep weak or negligent countries in the Caribbean or Central America from being taken over by outside forces? The Roosevelt Corollary to the?

Monroe Doctrine

In 1950, a small neighborhood developed in a rural are of Orange County, Florida. By 1980, it had grown to be 4,000 homes; by the year 2000, there were 25,000 homes. There are currently 56,000 homes, and the area has decided to incorporate into a city with a governing body. Which of the following determines how a city charter would be sought?

Local governments are chartered according to their state's constitution

Which of the following is a multi-disciplinary study of how social and environmental change occurs in the context of power relations, social structures, economic issues, and human-environment interactions?

Political ecology

Ms. Vinton's class is studying the flora of Florida. What are they studying?

Plants

Mr. Hilton's class is studying religion and is reviewing through the use of a jeopardy game. The answer is: Yahweh. What is the correct question?

Whom do Jews worship?

Mr. Gomez often uses the inquiry method in teaching high school geography. What would you expect to see in his classroom?

Students using the scientific method to identify how erosion affects specific beaches in Florida.

Which of the following associated with President Johnson's Administration?

War on Poverty

The first permanent European settlement in North America was?

Jamestown, in what is now Virginia

Both the Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 involved?

The balance of new territories or states that permitted slavery

Which individual would have been most likely to benefit most from Granger Laws and the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887?

A farmer in the Midwest

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplish?

It prohibited discrimination for reason of color, race, religion, sex, or national origin in places of public accommodation covered by interstate commerce.

What is the purpose of the "elastic plastic" in the Constitution?

It grants Congress implied powers to implement the delegated powers

Adam Smith in his book The Wealth of Nations introduced the idea that if all individuals follow their own self-interests, it will be for the economic good of everyone, since everyone will do what they do best. What did Smith call this concept?

The invisible hand

The Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods are part of which geological age?

Stone Age

A philosophe in the Age of Enlightenment would have most likely supported?

Critical thinking by the masses.

W.E.B DuBois is best known for starting which of the following?

The Niagara Movement and the NAACP

England and other European nations formally recognized the independence of the United States in the 1783?

Treaty of Paris

Who is most likely to have been a "bonus marcher" during Hoover's administration?

Impoverished World War I veterans

What issue was the focus of the Thirty Years' War?

Religion

Ms. Green has asked the children in her class to identify fauna in their environment. Which child has correctly identified fauna?

Jon said he saw a squirrel in a tree

A country's national output is termed?

Gross Domestic Product

What are the four phases in a market economy cycle?

Boom, Recession, trough, recovery

Which is the best way to describe the GNP?

Total good and services

A headline reads: "Auto sales decline and the steel industry suffers a slump; steel workers laid off." This type of unemployment can best be characterized in economic terms as?

Cyclical

Who serves as the president of the Senate?

The VP

Which of the following is the best choice as the major cause of the Great Depression?

Extensive stock market speculation

Including the Chief Justice, how many justices serve on the Supreme Court?

9

Which event would have been the most interest to Margaret Sanger?

The FDA approved birth control pills in 1960.

The Truman Doctrine was issued in response to the threat of?

Communist expansion in Greece and Turkey

Lisa's Grandfather worked for an automobile manufacturer in the late 1930s. He was most likely a member of which of the following?

CIO

Which court case reversed the concept of "separate but equal?"

Brown v. Board

A U.S. senator does no want there to be a vote on a specific issue, so she filibusters. What parliamentary procedure will end the filibuster?

Cloture

What would have been a polis in ancient Greece?

Athens

What is the historical significance of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

First atomic Bombs

What was accomplished by the Selective Service Act?

Men between the ages of 21 and 30 had to register for the draft.