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In addition to language, a primary cultural link between the countries of Latin America and Spain has been
Clothing Style
Culinary Practices
Democratic institution
religious backgrounds
The countries of Central America are emerging into the 21st century in poor economic condition because of
Tropical climate
Insufficient agricultural resource
Government instability
Lack of mineral resources
The Great Migration of African Americans from the Southern United States during the 20th century represents which of the following essentials elements of geography?
The world in spatial terms
Environment and society
Physical systems
Human systems
In which of the following mountain ranges is the source of the Amazon River located?
Alps
Himalayas
Andes
Appalachians
As a slow-moving river reaches an ocean it creates a landform called a
Harbor
Bay
Delta
Basin
The Great Lakes were formed by which of the following natural processes?
Tectonics
Volcanism
Erosion
Glaciation
During recent years, Russia's farms have failed to produce enough wheat to supply Russia population. Russia has been forced to purchase from the international market to provide enough wheat. This is an example OF
Marginal returns
Externalities
Elasticity
Scarcity
An official in which of the following types of economic systems would most likely advocate strong government controls over the economy?
Capitalist
Socialist
Traditional
Market
Using domestic instead of imported raw materials to produce a product which of the following basic economic questions?
How will the goods and services be produced?
What goods and service will be produced?
From whom will the goods and services be produced?
Why will the goods and services be produced?
Which of the following approaches states that goods will be produced in the way things always have been done?
Traditional
Market
Command
Socialist
The graph shows a
Decrease in price due to an increase in supply
Decrease in price due to a decrease in supply
Increase in price due to an increase in supply
Decrease in demand due to a decrease in price
Why does the government sometimes set a price ceiling for butter?
To reduce profit for butter producers
To maintain butter prices below market equilibrium
to encourage producers to increase the output of butter
To force consumer to substitute margarine for butter
Which of the following would most likely decrease U.S. exports to another country?
Lowering tariffs
A decrease in the value of the dollar
Holding the value of the dollar steady
An increase in the value of the dollar
A financial crisis in Asia that includes ever-deepening recession, high unemployment levels, and a plummeting stock market and currency exchange rate would most likely have what effect on the U.S economy?
The U.S economy would be strengthened due to an increase in the cost of Asian goods and services.
There would be little or no effect because few goods and services from the United States are sold in Asian Markets.
The U.S. economy would face a downturn due to the decrease demand in Asia for U.S goods and services
The United States would use European goods and services instead of Asian goods and services
Read the following statement The statement is based on the
Law of absolute advantage
Infant industry argument
Paradox of thrift
Law of comparative advantage
The Bill of rights embodies which of the following basic principles of U.S Government?
Constitutional supremacy
Limited government
Separation of power
Popular sovereignty
According to Article 11 of the U.S constitution, the president has the power to do all of the following EXCEPT
Call special sessions of Congress
Command the military
Issue pardons and reprieves
Declare war
When the Rules Committee of the House is considering a bill and votes a "closed rule," this means that
A. A three-fifth vote in the House is required to end debate
B. The House members must vote orally when names are called alphabetically
C. The House members must accept or reject a bill in its entirety
D. The floor manager of the House may agree to amend a bill if passage is unlikely
The principle of judicial review was established by
the Article of Confederation 1781
the U.S Constitution 1789
Marbury V. Madison in 1803
McCulloch V. Maryland in 1819
The goal of an interest group is to
Influence government policy
Fund candidates in elections
Ensure that the public understands its issue positions
Provide benefits to its members
What distinguishes the presidential system from the parliamentary system?
The separation of the executive and legislative branches
the presence of a written constitution
The strength of the judicial branch
The length of the term of office
In a democracy, the primary source of political power is the
Power, prestige, or international position of the nation
Possession of natural and tangible resources
Status of the leaders
Consent of the governed
A system of Government in which the national government shares power and authority with one or more other levels of government is called a
Confederal government
Federal Government
Unitary Government
Sovereign government
Which of the following was a result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Black voter registration increased in the South, but white voter registration decreased
Black voter registration and white voter registration increased significantly in the south
White voter registration increased in the South, but black voter registration decreased
Black voter registration and white voter registration both decreased in the South.
In 1965 Voting Rights Act expanded the rights of citizens by
Outlawing literacy test
Giving women the right to vote in federal elections
Eliminating registration requirements throughout the country
Granting 18 year olds the right to vote in state elections
Which of the following civilizations has influenced today's world through its developments in the areas of mathematics and astronomy?
Aztecan
Mayan
Climecan
Incan
Which economic development brought on a decline of the feudal system in western Europe?
The rise of towns and developing of the guild system
The rise of manorial system
the spread of the Roman Catholic Church
The spread of Monasteries
Which of the following is a defining characteristic of Renaissance culture?
Emphasizing the importance of the individual
Rejecting religious rites and traditions
denying the value of classical knowledge
Ending the use of vernacular languages in literature
Which of the following factors most influenced the early development of Renaissance culture?
the exchange of ideas in Paris
The outbreak of civil wars in the German states
the opposition by the papacy in Rome
The patronage by aristocrats in Italian city-states
Which of the following accompanied the European Renaissance?
Feudalism, Manoralism, and nobility
Totalitariamaist, Financial Capitalism, and Proletariat
Theocracy, Mercanolism, and Peasantry
Nation State, Commercial Capitalism, and Middle Class
Select the correct answer.
Indonesia
Japan
Philippines
China
A major cause of western European Exploration on during the 15th and 16th century was the
desire to reconquer lands taken by the Muslims from the 11th to the 14th centuries
desire to break the Monopoly of the Asian traders and Merchants from the Italian city states
need to import slaves to Europe to compensate for the devastation of the Black Death of the 14th century
need to import surplus European population to help eliminate unemployment and ease inflation
Which of the following conditions developed in Europe as a result of the Age of Exploration?
decreased social Mobility
increased reliance on the manorial system
increased imports and world trade
decreased population growth
Industrialization throughout the Western world led the
Triumph of socialistic economies over capitalist economies
Migration of large numbers of people from rural to urban settings
Decentralization of national governments
Reduction of hostilities among the major world powers
To address their need for oil, tin, rubber and other resources during the industrial Revolution, European nations
Formed cooperative alliances to facilitate the importation of materials
Sent Christians missionaries to Asia to help negotiate export treaties
Exerted more direct control over religions that possessed raw materials
Searched for alternative sources of raw materials in the Western world
Which of the following statements best describes the impact of colonialism and imperialism on African, Asian, and Native American people?
In the United Nations, which of the following issues would probably be dealt with successfully and with the least controversy?
a resolution to condemn an aggressor nation
a peacekeeping force sent to a country
international cooperation in education, science, and communications
international control of nuclear weapons
In 2002, which of the following actions did the European Union take to eliminate economic barriers between its member nations?
Developing a common European currency
Creating a European tax-exempt region
Creating the European Free Trade Association
Developing the European Economic Community
76. Christianity, Gautama, Mohammad, Polytheism, New Testament, Middle East
A. Judaism, Abraham, Moses, monotheism, Ten Commandments, Middle East
B. Buddhism, Paul Brahma, polytheism, Upanishads, India
C. Hinduism, Allah, Vishnu, monotheism, Qur'an, India
Which of the following historical figures known as "the Liberator" led revolutionary forces in Columbia, Venezuela and Peru?
Simon Bolivar
Jose de San Martin
Toussaint L. Ouverture
Miguel Hidalgo
Which of the following pairs of nations was most impacted by the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas that decided the Western Hemisphere into two regions?
France and England
England and Spain
Spain and Portugal
Portugal and Italy
79. An economic reason for the colonization of North America was:
to seek new trade opportunities and resources
to escape religious persecution
to establish military alliances
to spread European culture
The major idea contained in this excerpt is:
The inherent right of the people to organize their form of government
The people are to serve their government
Government must provide for their economic well beings of the people
All citizens are entitled to the right to vote
Among the acts passed by the British Parliament to raise revenue from American colonist were the
Declaratory Act, the Townshend Act, and the Sugar Act
Proclamation of 1763, the Quartering Act and the Stamp Act
Stamp Act, The Sugar Act and the Townshend Acts
Currency Act, the Stamp Act, and The Quartering Act
The Whiskey Rebellion during Washington’s administration was most significant because it
Represented the first conflict between the new political parties
presented an opportunity for the new federal government to establish its power
Demonstrated how little the colonies had changed since the Revolution
was a protest against old taxes
Which of the following best describes class relationships in the South in the three describes before the civil war?
an increase in the competition between industrial capitalism and small entrepreneurs
a rigid class system dominated by a paternalistic planter class
a class system made more fluid by immigration from rural to urban areas
a growth of class divisions based on antagonism between large and small farmers
Which of the following quotation from the writings of Thomas Jefferson best illustrates which of the following principles of the US Constitution: The true theory of our constitution is surely the wisest and best that states are independent as to everything within themselves, and united under the central government as to everything regarding foreign matters.
In the early 1830s early southern states strengthened their slave codes as a result of the
passage of the Tariff of Abominations
Amistad mutiny
rebellion of Nat Turner
raid on Harper's ferry by John Brown
Which of the following statements best describes the evolution of the right to vote in the United States?
the franchise gradually expanded from landowning white males to include nonlandowners, racial minorities, women, and younger citizens (ages 18-20 years)
the Franchise, which originally included only landowning white males, became universal in 1870 with the passage of the fifteenth amendment
the franchise was originally given to all adult citizens of the united states by the constitution, but states blocked minorities from voting with state laws until the 1920s
the franchise originally included all adult male citizens of the United States, women were not included until the suffrage movement culminated with the passage of the nineteenth amendment
The grange was formed in the 1870s by
debt burdened farmers
railroad employees
railroad patrons
miners
A major effect of immigration in the United States after the American Civil War was an increase in
skilled labor in technical fields
new managerial styles
the supply of unskilled labor
the supply of capital for investment
At the end of World War I, the Treaty of Versailles was not ratified by the United States Because
The intent of programs such as the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan was to provide
political intervention to stop the spread of communism
advisors to direct economic growth in developing nations
economic and military aid to stop the spread of communism
scientific and industrial knowledge to give technical assistance to developing nations
The 1972 U.S. Soviet agreement placing limits upon antiballistic missile systems is the
intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
The Great Society, Malcolm X and the Six-Day War are all associated with the
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
Which of the following factors most distinguished the 2000 presidential election from previous U.S. Presidential elections?
the involvement of the House of Representatives
the nomination of a female candidate
the participation of 18-year-old citizens
the intervention of the Supreme Court
In Florida, the 1928 hurricane and the Great Depression brought an end to the
land boom
citrus industry
cattle industry
mining of phosphate
The United States acquired Florida from Spain through the
(a)
Understanding the position of the robber barons in U.S. history would be most helped by also understanding
political science and economics
geography and psychology
world history and international relations
anthropology and sociology
Psychologists could most help economists by examining how
past stock market trends affect fluctuations
laws passed by congress affect the value of stocks
new management influences the stock prices of firms
individual investors decide to buy or sell stock
According to the graph, which of the following countries had the largest percentage of population increase between 1984 and 2000?
United States
India
China
United Kingdom
According to the interpretations of both historians
feudalism was designed to perpetuate the economic power of the church
improvements in military technology made feudalism possible
feudalism evolved as an expression of the chivalric code of honor
the key figures in the European feudal system were the warrior knights
A student seeking information on the climates of the United States and China would be best advised to consult a
thesaurus of geographic terms
geographical dictionary
Mercator projection
World Almanac
Which U.S president was in office at the time of the Louisiana Purchase?
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Which of the following geographic themes does the given statement exemplify? The City of Orlando is situated in the center of Florida between St. Petersburg on the west coast and Melbourne and the east coast.
Place
Absolute location
Region
Relative location
Which of the following statements represents the geographic concept of human-environment interaction?
Refugees from the war were brought to the United States.
Developers built a new condominium on the beach
The climate in mountains regions is cooler due to elevation
Citizens live four blocks south of the capitol
The countries of Central America are emerging into the 21st century in poor economic condition because of
tropical climate
Insufficient agricultural resource
Government instability
Lack of mineral resources
Geographers interested in depicting the world in spatial terms would most likely use which of the following techniques?
Economic model
Historical timeline
Geographic information system (GIS)
Sociological survey
According to the map, which of the following sections of Africa would have the LEAST amount of agricultural production?
Southern Africa
Northern Africa
Central Africa
Southwestern Africa
According to the map, which of the following areas has the highest population diversity?
Scandinavia
the Nile River, Valley
Sothern Africa
The Arabian Peninsula
Decisions made because of the availability of resources are based on economic concept of
Scarcity
Externalities
Elasticity
Marginal returns
If the demand for a product is inelastic, then consumers are relatively
responsive to a change in income
unresponsive to a change in price
unresponsive to a change in income
Unresponsive to a change in price
Which of the following is an example of a capital good?
Factory
Labor
Land
The government passes antitrust legislation to correct a market failure to self-correct problems of
Externality
Fraud
Free Riders
Monopoly
Which of the following is most closely associated with macroeconomics
Opportunity cost
Scarcity
Price
National income
Which of the following is used to measure an increase or decrease in price?
Gross domestic product
Price control
Fiscal Policy
Consumer price index
In Microeconomic theory, the term demand refers to
The insistence on some public or private good
A natural response to supply
The amount of a good that consumers will buy at various prices
An agreed-upon point on the supply curve for a good
Which is the federal government's intervening in the agricultural market by setting price floors?
Maintaining agriculture prices below equilibrium
Controlling the market and monopolizing agricultural sales
Allowing for federal purchase and resale of agricultural products
Taking measures to stabilize agricultural prices
If a consumer purchases a product for $100 and finances it for 12 months at simple interest, what is the actual cost of the product to the consumer?
$90
$100
$110
$120
An individual puts money into a savings account and makes no other deposits into the account. Which of the following savings account features will earn the most interest on the initial investment?
Simple interest, paid annually
Compound interest, paid annually
Simple interest, paid semiannually
Compound interest, paid semiannually
Which of the following examples best illustrates an application of the system of checks and balances by the U.S. Supreme Court?
The court agrees to hear a case involving a boundary dispute between two sides.
The court overturns a national law requiring the use of public funds for private education
A citizen appeals a conviction on grounds the citizen’s constitutional rights were violated in a lower court.
The court issues a writ of certiorari to hear a case involving alleged police brutality from a state.
The Bill of Rights embodies which of the following basic principles of U.S. Government?
Constitutional supremacy
Limited government
Separation of power
Popular sovereignty
The fact that a presidential candidate could win a majority of the popular votes and yet fail to gain the presidency is made possible by the
System of proportional representation
Electoral College
Different voting registrations in each state
Primary election system
The establishment of driver licensing requirements is a function of which of the following governments or branches of government?
the U.S federal court system
Local municipal governments
State Government
the U.S Department of Transportation
Which of the following areas of legislation would be primarily within the jurisdiction of state and local government rather than the federal government?
Funding of public school construction
Funding of construction of an interstate highway
Establishing the minimum voting age in national elections
Arbitrating disputes over the boundary between two states
Within the federal system of government in the United States, state constitutions
May not conflict with the constitution
Must provide for the popular election of public officials
Must have national approval to be amended
May not restrict the authority of local governments
In 1965 Voting Rights Act expanded the rights of citizens by
Outlawing literacy test
Giving women the right to vote in federal elections
Eliminating registration requirements throughout the country
Granting 18 year olds the right to vote in state elections
Which of the following was one of the first civilizations to develop in the Mesopotamia area?
Aryan
Sumerian
Shang
Phoenician
The Mycenaeans borrowed many aspects of their culture from which of the following nearby civilizations living on the island of Crete?
Sumerian
Egyptian
Minoan
Assyrian
Which of the following inventions is Sumerian?
Paper
Astrolabe
Compass
Cuneiform
The culture that developed from Alexander's conquests in Greece and the Middle Earth is called
Aegean
Hellenistic
Which of the following accompanied the European Renaissance?
Feudalism, Manoralism, and nobility
Totalitarianism, Financial Capitalism, and Proletariat
Theocracy, Mercanolism, and Peasantry
Nation-State, Commercial Capitalism, and Middle Class
A Social Cultural result of the Reformation was the
Restriction of the spread of Protestantism outside the Holy Roman Empire
Religious unification of western Europe
Encouragement of the growth and spread of education
Weakening of civil authority within Protestant states
European Knight could best be compared to what figure in Japanese history?
daimyo
shogun
bushido
samurai
Which of the following European nations dominated the economic and political systems of India during the 1800s?
France
Britain
Portugal
Germany
A major contribution to economic theory was made in The Wealth of Nations by
Adam Smith
Karl Marx
John Maynard Keynes
Charles Beard
The greatest opposition to Nicolaus Copernicus's heliocentric theory came from?
Simon Bolivar
Pancho Villa
Jose Napoleon Duarte
The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggle is a basic tenant of which of the following revolutionary philosophies?
Nazism
fascism
Marxism
anarchism
Which of the following statements best describes the impact of colonialism and imperialism on African, Asian, and Native American people?
European expansion bought improved technology to these peoples, thus improving the lines of those affected. Former colonies such as Brazil and India now compete economically with the Europeans.
.European expansion exploited these peoples and left them politically disorganized Countries in Latin America and Africa were left with unstable politics and underdeveloped economies.
The impact of European expansion has been uneven, and political stability has been achieved in former colonies
European expansion had little impact on its former colonies
The individuals most associated with 19th century European nationalist movements were
Franz Joseph and Alexander
Napoleon and Bismarck
Garibaldi and Victoria Regina
Louis XIV and Catherine
The event that triggered World War I was the
sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania
assassination of the heir to the Austro- Hungarian throne
German response to an alliance between Russia and France
acceptance of dollar diplomacy by President Woodrow Wilson
In the 16th and 17th centuries, European explorers and settlers held the belief that Native Americans
Needed to be converted to Christianity
were to be respected for their cultural contributions
offered nothing of value to Europeans
could become mutually beneficial economic partners
which of the following conditions was primarily responsible for African slavery in the Americas?
labor-intensive plantations
European myth of African inferiotary
termination of the practice of inderitured servitude
need for domestic servants
Scots Irish immigration to the American colonies of the early 1700s led to
increased settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains
the introduction of the plantation economy in the southern colonies
increased acceptance of the institution of slavery
the expansion of cooperation with Native Americans
A political reason for the colonization of North America was the
discovery of gold in the New World
English Kings desire to experiment with representative government
establishment of the Virginia House of Burgesses
rivalry among leading European countries
a main reason settlers moved to the West in the first half of the 19th century was to
flee from the British during the American Revolution
avoid criminal prosecution for crimes committed in the East
comply with the U.S. laws requiring to move from native lands
search for trade and agricultural opportunities
The Erie Canal was economically significant because it
challenged railroads as the primary transportation system of the early 19th century
tied eastern manufactures centers to western commercial farming centers
represented the first federally funded internal improvement
stimulated substance farming and manufacturing on the western frontier
which of the following statements about the beginnings of U.S. political parties is most accurate?
the constitution assigned responsibility for the nominating process to political parties
political parties developed in response to the leadership and policies of George Washington
political parties developed as people began to side with Thomas Jefferson or Alexander Hamilton
the right to organize politically and nominate candidates is provided in the Bill of Rights
which of the following social characteristics was most typical of the North in the three decades before the American Civil War?
increased immigration-from southern and eastern Europe
increased European immigration to growing urban centers
decreased class divisions as a result of European immigration
rapid assimilation of immigrants into society with little social agitation
At the end of World War I, the Treaty of Versailles was not ratified by the United States Because
French retained control of Alsace- Lorraine
united states declined participation in the League of Nations
German reparations were extremely punitive
Russians participated in the Treaty
The emphasis of government during Franklin Roosevelt's administration shifted from
supportive of low tariffs to supportive of high tariffs
larissez-faire to government regulation of business
some government help to little government help for needy individuals
a liberal to a conservative viewpoint
the growth of the auto industry, radio broadcasting, and the Washington Naval Treaty Occurred during which of the following decades?
The 1910s
The 1920s
The 1930s
The 1960s
which of the following statements best explains a major cause of the Great Depression in the United States?
a decline in U.S. armaments production burst the military spending bubble
federal budget cuts left millions of U.S. workers without public assistance
The collapse of many U.S banks led to a crisis in the nations money supply.
record numbers of farm foreclosures prompted a mass migration of U.S. citizens
Identify the top-secret program responsible for developing the atomic bomb
the Marshall plan
operation overlord
the Manhattan project
operation Northwoods
The United States acquired Florida from Spain through the
Monroe Doctrine
Adams- Chris Treaty
Treaty of Greenville
Louisiana Purchase
which of the following disciples would most likely use laboratory experimentation as a research technician?
historiography
anthropology
psychology
archaeology
which of the following social scientists would most likely make use of random sampling techniques?
archaeologists
cultural anthropologists
sociologists
physical anthropologists
the spread of common elements of culture throughout the world exemplifies
ethnocentrism
cultural dependency
racism
cultural diffusion
logical differences inherited physical characteristics, while social differences variations in
inherited behaviors
improvements in military technology made feudalism possible
feudalism evolved as an expression of the chivalric code of honor
the key figures in the European feudal system were the warrior knights
A student seeking information on the climates of the United States and China would be best advised to consult a
thesaurus of geographic terms
geographical dictionary
Mercator projection
World Almanac
which of the following sources would be most useful in studying the philosophical foundations of the American Revolution?
letters from a Famer in Pennsylvania by John Dickinson
Poor Richards Almanac by Benjamin Franklin
The treaties of Government by John Locke
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards
The following excerpt from an account of the California Gold Rush written in 1849 by New York Tribune reporter Bayard Taylor. The information presented in the excerpt could best be used to illustrate the meaning of which of the following concepts?
due process of law
equal protection of the laws
the limits of law
the rule of law
