Practice Questions

Question 1

Which of the following was most responsible for the declining power of the catholic church in Western Europe during the late middle ages?

Answer 1

The growing spirit of inquiry in European urban centers

Question 2

Which of the following groups comprised the majority of the slave population in ancient Greece?

Answer 2

Foreigners who had been captured by Greek city-states in war

Question 3

Which of the following was most responsible for the unprecedented unity of China during most of the four centuries that the Han Dynasty ruled the empire? (206 BC - AD 220)

Answer 3

The governmental activities of the scholar-officials educated in Confucian principles.

Question 4

The primary gods of ancient Maya religious cultures represented:

Answer 4

The natural forces that most directly influenced the material welfare of the people.

Question 5

Which of the following was the most enduring effect of the conquests of Alexander the Great?

Answer 5

The spread of Greek Culture (Hellenistic) eastward from the Mediterranean world

Question 6

Judaism differed most from other pre-Christian religions of the ancient Mediterranean world in its:

Answer 6

Belief that a single god created and controlled the universe (monotheistic)

Question 7

As the imperial government weakened the power Roman landowners organized their own private armies to police their estates and fend off governmental agents, particularly tax collectors. The emperors also favored certain estates with grants of immunity from authority, a practice that Germanic kings often followed and that became the rule with Charlemagne’s successors in their competitive efforts to fill their armies…. And where immunity from the kings authority was not freely granted, it was often usurped.
The developments described in the passage above are most closely related to the:

Answer 7

Emergence of feudalism as a system of political organization.

Question 8

Of representative government in the United States. Which one of the following would be an appropriate learning goal for the teacher to use in assessing student understanding of the topic?

Answer 8

Explain the importance of the Mayflower Compact, the Fundamental orders of Connecticut, and the Virginia House of Burgesses

Question 9

A teacher who is planning a unit on the civil rights movement wishes to develop a lesson that will promote students’ use of critical thinking skills. Which of the following materials would probably be most useful for this lesson?

Answer 9

Original documents that provide insight into the strategies adopted by movement leaders.

Question 10

In response to pressure from the Christian Church, Carolingian rulers of the ninth century made monogamous marriage their official policy. An important consequence of this development was that

Answer 10

Wives acquired greater dignity and legal security

Question 11

Read the excerpt below from a speech by the ancient Greek political leader Pericles; then answer the question that follows.
Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but the whole people…. Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well: even those who are mostly occupied with their own business are extremely well-informed on general politics—-this is a peculiarity of ours: we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.
The statement above bests illustrates the ancient Athenian commitment to which of the following political principles?

Answer 11

Popular Sovereignty

is the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political power.

Democracy was started in Athens Greece around 5th Century BCE.

Question 12

Which of the following best describes an important long-term consequence of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066?

Answer 12

It strengthened the English Monarchy at the expense of Feudal barons.

Question 13

Read the passage below about late-nineteenth century Japan; then answer the question that follows:
Thousands of young Japanese were sent abroad to receive Western Educations, especially in the social and natural sciences. A German-style army and a British-style navy were established. The Japanese copied the industrial and financial methods of the United States and developed a modern commercial and industrial system. A highly centralized administrative system copied from the French replaced the old feudal system.
The developments described in the passage above were primarily a response to which of the following?

Answer 13

Western imperialist activities in East Asia

Question 14

Which of the following most influenced the emergence of Renaissance culture in northern and central Italy during the fourteenth century?

Answer 14

The rise of the wealthy and ambitious class of merchants.

Question 15

Which of the following most influenced Portuguese and Spanish plans for maritime expansion during the fifteenth century?

Answer 15

Muslim control of eastern land routes to Asian markets

Question 16

The Aztec and Inca empires of the fifteenth century shared which of the following characteristics?

Answer 16

A theocratic system of government in which an absolute ruler directed the activities of a ruling class of priests and nobles.

Theocracy government is by divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided

Question 17

The reforms enacted by leaders of the French Revolution of 1789 devoted least attention to which of the following issues?

Answer 17

The political status of women

Question 18

The reputation of Catherine the Great of Russia (1762-1796) as an enlightened despot whose reign reflected the spirit of the Enlightenment rests mainly on her efforts to:

Answer 18

Improve the efficiency of government administration in Russia.

Question 19

Which of the following best describes an important economic outcome of the Black Death of the 14th century?

Answer 19

It led to increases in both prices for agricultural goods and wages for workers

Question 20

Which of the following best describes Mohandas Gandhi’s greatest contribution to the Indian independence movement?

Answer 20

He developed the tactic of nonviolent civil disobedience to undermine British rule in India.

Question 21

Which of the following best describes a major international outcome of World War I?

Answer 21

The United States enhanced its position as a major economic power while Europe’s leading nations declined economically

Question 22

All of the following were critical reasons for Germany’s defeat in World War II except:

Answer 22

The inability of Germany to control the Maginot Line.

Maginot Line was built by French to prevent a surprise attack but failed to keep Germany out

Question 23

Which of the following developments in post – World War II Japan was most influenced by the United States?

Answer 23

The creation of a democratic form of Government

Question 24

Which of the following was most responsible for the establishment of communist states during the twentieth century?

Answer 24

Economic dislocations caused by the Great Depression of the 1930’s.

Question 25

Which of the following least influenced the development of independence movements in western Africa during the first half of the twentieth century?

Answer 25

The growing popularity of Islam among peoples of the region.

Question 26

Roger Williams main reason for establishing the colony of Rhode Island was to create a:

Answer 26

Multicultural society in which Europeans and Native Americans shared power.

Question 27

Read the passage below about England’s North American colonies in the seventeenth century; then answer the question that follows: Almost without exception newcomers underwent “seasoning,” a period of illness which in its mildest form consisted of “two or three fits of fever and ague.” Once safely over this threshold, settlers ran the seasonal risk of contracting malaria, a disease spread by mosquitoes. Though seldom fatal in itself, malaria could so debilitate its victims that they often died of dysentery and other ailments. The passage best describes which of the following parts of England’s North American colonies?

Answer 27

The Virginia tidewater region in the 1610’s

Question 28

Use the graph below to answer the question that follows. (1500 - 25 Million, 1620 - 1 Million) Sharp decline in the population of Central Mexico. Which of the following was the primary cause of the demographic change indicated in the graph below?

Answer 28

Native American exposure to European Disease.

Question 29

During the first half of the eighteenth century, the Iroquois Confederacy attempted to strengthen its negotiating position in relations with European colonial powers by:

Answer 29

Undertaking economic initiatives that would reduce its dependence on European trade goods. Iroquois Confederacy was a make up of 6 indian tribes across upper New York in the 17th - 18th century that played a strategic role in the struggle between the French and British for Supremacy of North America.

Question 30

Which of the following best describes a major political cause of the American Revolution?

Answer 30

Differences between colonial and British definitions of representation and consent.

Question 31

Which of the following created the greatest amount of disagreement among the states at the Constitutional Convention in 1787?

Answer 31

Should representation in both houses of Congress be proportional to population?

Question 32

Which of the following considerations most influenced Thomas Jefferson’s decision to purchase the Louisiana Territory from France?

Answer 32

The importance western farmers attached to preserving secure access to the mouth of the Mississippi River

Question 33

Which of the following best describes how Alexander Hamilton shaped the development of U.S. society during the early years of the Republic?

Answer 33

His financial policies helped provide the capital needed to develop the young nation’s material and human resources.

Question 34

The debate surrounding Missouri’s admission to the Union during the early 1820’s focused on which of the following issues?

Answer 34

The political balance of power between free states and slave states.

Question 35

Which of the following best describes how the French and Indian War (1754-1763) contributed to the tensions that resulted in the American Revolution?

Answer 35

It created a financial crisis that prompted Great Britain to make the colonists pay a greater share of the costs of the empire.

Question 36

Which of the following best characterizes Theodore Roosevelt’s concept of the U.S. role in world affairs?

Answer 36

He believed the United States should develop the military strength required to play an active role in international power politics.

Question 37

Which of the following best describes a major economic development in the South during Reconstruction?

Answer 37

Sharecropping replaced the plantation system as the main form of agricultural organization.

Question 38

Which of the following was true at the beginning of the Civil War?

Answer 38

Line A Northern Advantage- Greater industrial resources Southern Advantage- Superior Military Leadership

Question 39

In which of the following ways were the Korean war and Vietnam War most similar?

Answer 39

U.S. intervention in both wars was based on the doctrine of containment.

Question 40

Read the following excerpt below from an 1867 speech by Sojourner Truth; then answer the question that follows. I want women to have their rights. In the courts women have no right, no voice; nobody speaks for them. I wish woman to have her voice there among the pettifoggers. If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there. I am above 80 years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free, and would be here forty more to have equal rights for all. I suppose I am kept here because something remains for me to do; I suppose I am yet to help to break the chain. I have done a great deal of work as much as a man; bud did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler, but men doing no more, got twice as much pay…. You men know that you has as much again as women, when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights, we shall not have to come to you for money. But help us now until we get it…. It is a good consolation to know that when we have got this battle once fought we shall not be coming back to you anymore. Which of the following developments most likely prompted Sojourner Truth to express the sentiments contained in the excerpt above?

Answer 40

The lack of support for women’s suffrage after the Civil War

Question 41

What was President Truman’s primary motivation for using the atomic bomb against Japan during WWII?

Answer 41

To avoid the heavy casualties likely to result from a land invasion of Japan

Question 42

Which of the following best describes a major assumption on which the détente policy of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were based?

Answer 42

It is possible for ideologically antagonistic nations to work together to achieve certain shared objectives.

Question 43

Which of the following was a major consequence of the Camp David Accords of 1978?

Answer 43

Reduction of tensions between Egypt and Israel.

Question 44

Congress met in Paris. Discussion at the Congress focused on which of the following stated aims of the U.S. delegation to the peace talks that concluded WWI? Answer: “A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial judgment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.” What was different about the “new immigration” of the late nineteenth century from pre-Civil War immigration to the United States?

Answer 44

A large proportion of the new immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe and Asia.

Question 45

The American Federation of Labor responded to late nineteenth century developments in U.S. industry by attempting to: Answer: Increase worker autonomy through the creation of producers’ cooperatives. (Unions) (1901-1909) Marked a major turning point in U.S. history because Roosevelt:

Answer 45

Established important precedents for the federal regulation of national economic affairs.

Question 46

Regulatory legislation enacted during the Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson administration’s marked a new direction in U.S. politics because it:

Answer 46

Represented a rejection of the laissez faire attitudes that had dominated the U.S. economy during the Gilded Age.

Question 47

In her influential 1963 book The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan contributed to the rise of the feminist movement by arguing that:

Answer 47

women needed to reexamine the belief that they could find fulfillment only in their roles as wives and mothers.

Question 48

(Graph) Gross National Product 1946-1970 Which of the following was a major cause and effect of the economic pattern shown in the graph above?

Answer 48

Substantial increases in productivity and purchasing power

Question 49

Ocean tides are produced mainly by:

Answer 49

The gravitational pull exerted on Earth by the moon and the sun.

Question 50

Use the graph of geographic features below to answer the question that follows: *scrub and thorn bushes * grasslands*large herbivores, carnivores, and scavengers*drought resistant trees*fluctuating water table In which of the following climate regions would one most likely find all of the geographic features listed above?

Answer 50

tropical savanna

Question 51

Which of the following best describes how tectonic processes could gradually lead to major climatic changes?

Answer 51

Thermal vents in the ocean increase water temperature.

Question 52

The diagram above best illustrates which of the following aspects of soil formation?

Answer 52

nutrient cycle

Question 53

Use the map of S.A. below to answer the question that follows. Which of the following climates would a traveler encounter when moving from point A to point B on the map above?

Answer 53

Tropical rainy to tropical savanna to humid subtropical

Question 54

Winds play a particularly important role in the process by which the atmosphere:

Answer 54

balances temperature variations between warm and cold air masses

Question 55

Read the passage below about the geography of song in North America; then answer the question that follows. The map sings. The chanteys surge along the rocky Atlantic seaboard, across the Great Lakes and round the moon-curve of the Gulf of Mexico. The paddling songs of the French Canadians ring out along the Saint Lawrence and west from the Rockies. Beside them from Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and New England, the ballads, straight and tall as spruce, march towards the West.

Answer 55

Cultural Diffusion

Question 56

During the eighteenth century (which is considered, demographically, to have begun around 1730), Europe’s estimated population jumped from about 120 million to about 180 or 190 million. Which of the following best identifies the main cause of the demographic change described in the passage above?

Answer 56

Rising birth rates resulting from advances in sewage treatment and water purification

Question 57

Jerusalem, Ganges River, Mecca, Lourdes

Answer 57

Each is a traditional site of religious pilgrimage

Question 58

Which of the following best describes a shared cultural characteristic of the four lettered areas on the map above? A-NW Africa B- NE Africa C- Saudi Arabia D- Iran

Answer 58

Islam is the main religion

Question 59

Hinduism has most influenced the general cultural development of which of the following regions of Asia?

Answer 59

South Asia

Question 60

Which of the following best describes a major cause of the trend shown in the graph above? (Annual Mean Global Surface Air Temperature- Temp. steadily gone up from 1880 to 2000)

Answer 60

Increased burning of fossil fuels

Question 61

Which of the following regions is in stage IV of the demographic transition as indicated in the model above? (Birth and death rate are currently almost the same causing low population growth)

Answer 61

Western Europe

Question 62

Efforts to increase the amount of agricultural land in Japan have been most reliant on which of the following practices?

Answer 62

terracing

Question 63

Sociologists who base their work on functionalist theory would most likely ask which of the following questions?

Answer 63

How do various elements in a social system work together to maintain stability?

Question 64

Which of the following is a central assumption of type and trait theories of personality?

Answer 64

Environment is the main determinant of behavior.

Question 65

Which of the following factors most influenced the changes In the U.S. birth rate that took place in the 1960’s as reflected in the graph above? (Graph trended upward from 1940 peaking out just before 1960 then declining sharply)

Answer 65

An increase in the percentage of dual income households

Question 66

If the legislative and executive powers are combined in the same person or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty, because of apprehensions that the monarch or senate might enact tyrannical laws and execute them in a despotic manner. Again, there is no liberty if the judicial power is not separate from the legislative and executive. Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control, for the judge would then be the legislator. Were it joined to the executive power, the judge might act with violence and oppression. Which of the following best embodies the principles described in the excerpt above?

Answer 66

Articles I, II, and III of the U.S. Constitution

Question 67

Which of the following best describes a constitutionally sanctioned procedure for amending the U.S. Constitution?

Answer 67

A proposed amendment is approved by a two thirds vote of both houses of Congress and sent to the states for ratification.

Question 68

Which of the following best explains why the Texas State Constitution of 1876 mandated a state balanced budget, ordered the election of judges, and required that the legislature meet for 140 days every other year

Answer 68

To limit the power of state governments

Question 69

The U.S. Constitution requires the federal government to ensure that all states have a republican form of government. This means that each state must:

Answer 69

Create a separation of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.

Question 70

Which of the following overturned this portion of the Supreme Courts ruling in the Dred Scott case? A free Negro of the African race, whose ancestors were brought to this country and sold as slaves, is not a citizen within the meaning of the Constitution of the United States. When the Constitution was adopted, they were not regarded in any of the States as members of the community and were not numbered among its people or citizens. Consequently, the special rights and immunities guaranteed to citizens do not apply to them.

Answer 70

Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1868

Question 71

Required that states provide citizens with the opportunity to register to vote when applying for or renewing a driver’s license. The main goal of this legislation was to:

Answer 71

Remove impediments to voting.

Question 72

Which of the following most influenced the development of the abolitionist movement during the 1830’s in the United States?

Answer 72

The spread of evangelical Christianity associated with the religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening.

Question 73

The lawmaking process in the U.S. Congress can best be characterized as system in which:

Answer 73

members with similar interests and aims cooperate with each other to achieve their goals.

Question 74

Which of the following was the most important reason why the feminist political movement of recent decades emerged more slowly in Western Europe than in the United States?

Answer 74

The example of the U.S. civil rights movement was not part of the European political experience.

Question 75

Which of the following best describes a fundamental feature of the concept of disobedience?

Answer 75

It is a reasoned act expressing a moral judgment reached through serious reflection.

Question 76

The political ideas of Enlightenment thinkers most influenced the development of which of the following features of modern democratic republican governments?

Answer 76

Constitutional protections of freedom of expression

Question 77

Read the passage below about Thomas Hobbes; then answer the question that follows. Hobbes’s premises, drawn from his observation of the strife ridden Europe of his day, were stark and uncompromising. People, he asserted, are selfish, and ambitious; consequently, unless they are restrained, they fight a perpetual war with their fellows. The weak are more cunning and the strong more stupid. Given these unsavory characteristics, the state of nature- which precedes the existence of society- is a state of war, in which life is nasty, brutish, and short. Hobbes’s conclusion was that the only way to restrain this instinctive aggressiveness is to erect an absolute and sovereign power that will maintain peace… In a startling innovation, Hobbes suggested the transition from nature to society is accomplished by a contract this implicitly accepted by all who wish to end the chaos. What is new is that this contract is not between rulers and ruled; it is binding only on the ruled. Which of the elements of Hobbes’s thought described in the passage above did John Locke most firmly reject?

Answer 77

His argument that the social contract is binding only on the ruled

Question 78

A major difference between traditional authoritarian forms of government and modern totalitarian states is that totalitarian governments:

Answer 78

Attempt to exercise control over all spheres of human activity.

Question 79

The significations of royal pleasure are and ought to be, to all loyal subjects, in the nature and force of a command… for that none may, nor can search into the high discourse and deep counsels of kings, seeing their hearts are so deep by reason of their distance from common men even as the heavens are in respect of the earth. Therefore, said He, who was wise in heart and deep in counsel “the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of a king is unsearchable,” Prov. 25.3. The statement above best represents which of the following?

Answer 79

A defense of divine right monarchy

Question 80

A teacher who is planning a unit on the civil rights movement wishes to develop a lesson that will promote students' use of critical thinking skills. Which of the following materials would probably be most useful for this lesson?

Answer 80

Original documents that provide insight into the strategies adopted by movement leaders.

Question 81

Top of the question cut off) Representative government in the United Sates. Which of the following would be an appropriate learning goal for the teacher to use in assessing student understanding of this topic?

Answer 81

Explain the importance of the Mayflower Compact, the Fundamental Order of Connecticut, and the Virginia House of Burgesses.

Question 82

Students were to use a news resource to gather information about the two main candidates in a political campaign for governor of a large state. The student finds a newspaper story that provides a comprehensive comparison on the two candidates. After printing a copy of the story, the student shows it to the teacher. The teacher can best help the student evaluate the story for bias by asking the student which of the following questions?

Answer 82

Does the journalist quote specific sources for any of the views or ideas presented in the story?

Question 83

Which of the following sources would a historian studying the colonial period most likely use to examine the distribution of wealth in an eighteenth century New England seaport?

Answer 83

merchant account book

Question 84

Which of the following steps would be most appropriate and helpful for the researcher to take before moving ahead to formulate a specific research question?

Answer 84

Review existing studies of the problem

Question 85

As part of a broader study of campaign finance reform, a political scientist is preparing a survey to assess public opinion on the topic. The questions on the survey should be clear and objective and should elicit responses that can be easily tabulated. Which of the following questions best meets those criteria?

Answer 85

Do you think Congress should enact new legislation to regulate campaign finance spending?

Question 86

What type of tabular or graphic representation is best suited to demonstrate to the audience that the most important lumbering region in the United States is the Pacific Northwest?

Answer 86

A pie chart showing the percentage of the country’s total lumber produced in each region of the country.

Question 87

For a high school social studies class which of the following best integrates content and perspectives from various social studies disciplines?

Answer 87

a unit entitled: The Organization of Society,” in which lessons on the nature of groups are followed by an examination of various types of stratification systems in contemporary societies.

Question 88

During a course focusing on the Civil War, a teacher divides the class into four major groups, each of which will represent a major social group of the period: southern planters, African American slaves, northern abolitionists, and Irish immigrant workers in northern urban centers. After individual and group research the students will answer questions about the wars causes and effects on the groups the students represent. This assignment would be most appropriate for helping students:

Answer 88

Analyze conflicting interpretations of the Civil War.

Question 89

From the moment that courageous American nation took up arms to throw off the heavy yoke that oppressed it for three centuries, one of its principal aims has been to extinguish the multitude of taxes that kept it in poverty. Since the critical state of our affairs does not permit the framing to adequate provision in this respect, because of the need of the kingdom for money to defray the costs of war, for the present to propose to remedy the most urgent abuses by means of the following declarations. First: All Slave owners shall their slaves free within ten days, on pain of death for violation of this article. Second: The payment of tribute by all the castes that used to pay it shall henceforth cease, and no other taxes shall be collected from the Indians. Third: In all judicial business, documents, deeds, and actions, only ordinary paper shall be used, and the use of sealed paper is abolished. A direct result of Father Hidalgo’s decree would most likely have been to:

Answer 89

Broaden the social base of the independence movement

Question 90

The decree best represents an effort to combine which of the following?

Answer 90

Socialism and Democracy

Question 91

Compared with command economies, market economies are likely to place greater reliance on:

Answer 91

the price system to make basic decisions about production and distribution.

Question 92

Which of the following best describes a central concept of Keynesian economic theory?

Answer 92

Economic stability can best be maintained through government management of aggregate demand

Question 93

In a market economy, which of the following best describes the likely effect of an increase in the supply of grain the price of bread?

Answer 93

If grain becomes more plentiful, the cost to bread manufacturers of purchasing grain will be lower, leading manufacturers to reduce the price of bread.

Question 94

Which of the following best describes the major disadvantage of sole proprietorships?

Answer 94

Owners of sole proprietorships are personally liable for all debts incurred by the enterprise.

Question 95

What is the role of competitive markets in the U.S. free enterprise system?

Answer 95

An electronics company lowers the price of one of its leading products in order to increase sales

Question 96

Which causes increased competition in the industry with an oligopolistic market structure?

Answer 96

A reduction of barriers preventing new firms from entering the industry.

Question 97

Which of the following is the most likely consequence of a decline in the international exchange rate of the U.S. dollar?

Answer 97

The U.S. balance of payments deficit will increase.

Question 98

In which of the following situations would the U.S. government most likely adopt an expansionary fiscal policy?

Answer 98

When inflation is undermining the purchasing power or consumers.

Question 99

A knowledge of which of the following economic concepts would best enable consumers to analyze potential purchases in relation to their family budgets?

Answer 99

Opportunity cost

Question 100

Read the excerpt below from the National Labor Relations Act then answer the question that follows: The inequality of bargaining power between employees who do not possess full freedom of association or actual liberty of contract, and employers who organized in the corporate or other form of ownership association substantially burdens and affects the of commerce and tends to aggravate recurrent business depressions, by depressing wage rate at the purchasing power of wage earners in industry by preventing the stabilization of competitive wage rates and working conditions within and between industries. The position stated in the excerpt above is based on the assumption economic stability can best be preserved by:

Answer 100

Right to work policies

Question 101

The trend toward greater computerization of industrial activity the United States has led to:

Answer 101

An increase in the average educational level of industrial workers

Question 102

The cartoon above best illustrates the meaning of which of the following basic principles of the U.S. Constitution? (Big boat government written down the side, your vote written on the front at the bottom)

Answer 102

Popular Sovereignty

Question 103

A planning board is seeking to devise an alternative means of community waste disposal following closure of a local landfill. After gathering information on how other communities in the state have dealt with similar problems, board members have identified five possible options for managing local waste. Which of the following would be the most appropriate step for the board to take next?

Answer 103

Develop objective measures for evaluating the five plans.

Question 104

A community has three elementary schools, all of which are operating about 60% of capacity. The local school board is considering a proposal to close one of the schools. Which of the following would best provide the type of information that the board needs to make an informed decision?

Answer 104

A demographic projection of the community.

Question 105

Which of the following court cases illustrates how knowledge generated by the social science disciplines strongly influenced an important decision of the U.S. Supreme Court?

Answer 105

Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

Question 106

The chart above best illustrates which of the following characteristics of geography as a field of study? (Geography in the middle- three sections- geographic techniques, physical geography, human geography all with smaller sub categories)

Answer 106

It is a synthesizing and integrating discipline.

Question 107

Which of the following technological innovations had a major influence on both factory location and advances in transportation during the nineteenth century?

Answer 107

The creation of an efficient steam engine

Question 108

The expansion of the rail network most influenced economic development in the United States during the last half of the nineteenth century by:

Answer 108

Creating the basis for a national market system