JV - Social Sciences Flashcards
Social Sciences (American History): What common slang term, whose origin supposedly dates to Kansas in the 1880s, refers to illegal liquor manufacturers and distributors?
Bootleggers
Social Sciences (World History): Who was the Greek ruler who blended cultures of Greece, India, Persia, and Egypt to create a new Hellenistic Culture?
Alexander The Great
Social Sciences (Geography): What is the name of the gigantic fault which runs from the Jordan River Valley to Mozambique and has yielded the oldest human fossils?
Great Rift Valley
Social Sciences (American History): The Platt Amendment between the U.S. and what country was annulled in 1934, except for the part dealing with a naval base at Guantanamo?
Cuba
Social Sciences (World History): What is the name for the final assault on the Allied Forces by Nazi Germany, during World War II?
Battle of the Bulge
Social Sciences (Geography): What is the geographic term for a frequently windless area near the equator?
Doldrums
Social Sciences (American History): What theory did the U.S. subscribe to in the 50’s and 60’s which stated that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would soon follow?
Domino Theory
Social Sciences (World History): What was the name given to the new type of warfare strategy developed and adopted by the Germans in World War Two
Blitzkrieg (also accept Lightning War)
Social Sciences (Geography): Which parallel was accepted by the United States and Great Britain as the boundary line between the U.S. and Canada in 1846?
49th
Social Sciences (American History): Who was often referred to as “the Father of the Constitution?
James Madison
Social Sciences (World History): What group of Russians led the revolution in 1917 giving authority to a small elite group of reformers that would guide the rest of the country?
Bolsheviks
Social Sciences (Geography): What nation was divided into two countries at the 17th parallel in 1954?
Vietnam
Social Sciences (American History): What is the name of the laws enacted by Southern states to separate white and black people in public and private facilities?
Jim Crow Laws
Social Sciences (World History): What was the ancient social system of India that divided society into strict major classes?
Caste System
Social Sciences (Geography): What geographic term describes a river that flows into another river?
Tributary
Social Sciences (American History): What was the name commonly used to describe the American Party of the 1850’s who opposed the election of immigrants and Roman Catholics to political office?
Know-nothings
Social Sciences (World History): What is the term for the belief that not only is one’s own culture superior to all others, but that others should be judged by its standards?
Social Sciences (World History): What is the term for the belief that not only is one’s own culture superior to all others, but that others should be judged by its standards?
Social Sciences (Geography): Name the sea bordered by Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, and Turkey and into which the Crimean Peninsula projects.
Black Sea
Social Sciences (American History): What private social club was formed in 1865 by veterans of the Confederate Army in Pulaski, Tennessee?
Ku Klux Klan
Social Sciences (World History): In Mexico, the Cinco de Mayo holiday celebrates an 1862 battle, in which Mexican troops defeated soldiers from what country?
France
Social Sciences (Geography): Identify the river in northern Israel, flowing south through the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea.
Jordan River
Social Sciences (American History): William Quantrill is famous for a raid on what Kansas town on August 21, 1863?
Lawrence
Social Sciences (World History): What peacekeeping organization was created at the end of World War I?
League of Nations
Social Sciences (Geography): What country makes up about two-thirds of the Jutland [ Yute-lun or Juht-land ] Peninsula?
Denmark
Social Sciences (American History): What two-word phrase describes Americans’ belief that our fate was to “overspread the entire continent” of the U.S.?
Manifest Destiny
Social Sciences (World History): What city was ravaged by “The Great Fire” for four days in 1666?
London
Social Sciences (Geography): In what present day country was the city-state of Babylon located?
Iraq
Social Sciences (American History): Name the woman who opened the US’s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York, in 1916?
Margaret Sanger
Social Sciences (World History): Name the family of skilled politicians and patrons of the arts in Florence, Italy during the Renaissance.
Medici
Social Sciences (Geography): Six of the twenty highest waterfalls in the world are in what U.S. national park?
Yosemite
Social Sciences (American History): What term describes Hoover’s domestic policy of encouraging businesses and citizens to rough the Great Depression on their own, without government help?
Rugged Individualism
Social Sciences (World History): What famous Presidential message was given to Congress in 1823, warning all European powers not to interfere with affairs in the Western Hemisphere ?
Monroe Doctrine
Social Sciences (Geography): The Santa Fe Trail and the Oregon Trail began at sites along what river?
Missouri
Social Sciences (American History): What scientific theory did many Americans use to justify American Expansionism in the late 1800’s?
Social Darwinism
Social Sciences (World History): Name the city where most Nazi war criminals were tried
Nuremburg
Social Sciences (Geography): What Middle Eastern country is bordered to the north and east by Syria and to the south by Israel?
Lebanon
Social Sciences (American History): Of what was John Scopes accused in his famous “Monkey Trial”?
Teaching Evolution
Social Sciences (World History): What German statesman is most credited with the unification of Germany in the 1870’s?
(Otto Von) Bismarck
Social Sciences (Geography): What US state borders only one other state?
Maine
Language Arts (American Literature): Name the American short story writer, who’s pseudonym was O. Henry, and is most known for his play “The Gift of the Magi.”
William Sydney Porter
Social Sciences (American History): What name was given to the 60-mile forced march by American and Filippino troops after surrendering to the Japanese in the Philippines in 1942?
The Bataan Death Marth
Social Sciences (World History): What terms designate the two classes of ancient Rome?
Plebians and Patricians
Social Sciences (Geography): Which map type has meridians usually drawn parallel to each other and parallels of latitude as straight lines whose distance from each other increases with their distance from the equator?
Mercator (Projection)
Social Sciences (American History): Name the important battle for the Allies that stopped the Japanese advance on Australia during World War Two.
The Battle of the Coral Sea
Social Sciences (World History): Name the month-long period of fasting from sunrise to sunset that Muslims observe.
Ramadan
Social Sciences (Geography): Name the mountain chain, extending from British Columbia, Canada, south through Washington and Oregon to northern California.
Cascades
Social Sciences (American History): What was the name given to the four laws passed by Parliament in 1774 to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten government control of the colonies ?
(The) Intolerable Acts or the Coercive Acts
Social Sciences (World History): What is the name of the gigantic fault which runs from the Jordan River Valley to Mozambique and has yielded the oldest human fossils?
(The) Great Rift Valley
Social Sciences (Geography): What was the term for a young woman of the 1920’s who behaved or dressed in an unconventional way ?
Flapper
Social Sciences (American History): What is the name of the laws encacted by Southern states to separate white and black people in public and private facilities?
Jim Crow (Laws)
Social Sciences (World History): In 1940, to what French seaport did England send a fleet to rescue Allied troops from the advancing German army?
Dunkirk
Social Sciences (Geography): Name the body of water in Washington state that borders such major cities as Seattle, Olympia, and Tacoma and is the second largest estuary in the United States?
Puget Sound
Social Sciences (American History): What American political party was formed in the 1830’s specifically to oppose President Andrew Jackson?
(The) Whig(s) (Party)
Social Sciences (World History): What African country founded in 1822 as a homeland for former slaves was once led by Ruth Perry, Africa’s first female head of state?
Liberia
Social Sciences (Geography): What city in the Ukraine was the site of the worst nuclear reactor accident in history?
Chernobyl
Social Sciences (American History): What is the name of the first black American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
Social Sciences (World History): What term is used to describe young women who wore short skirts and danced the fox-trot, the Charleston, the camel-walk, and the tango during the 1920’s?
Flappers
Social Sciences (Geography): What Union state was eventually created from counties that separated from a seceding state in 1861?
West Virginia
Social Sciences (American History): Who was the first president to be president of all 50 states?
(Dwight D.) Eisenhower
Social Sciences (World History): What country controls the Galapagos Islands?
Ecuador
Social Sciences (Geography): Name the economic theory that states that an economy is self-regulating and requires little or no government interference.
Laissez-faire (lez-ay-fair)
Social Sciences (American History): Name the President who legally represented a group of African slaves in the famous “Amistad” Supreme Court case in 1841?
John Quincy Adams
Social Sciences (World History): Name the family of skilled politicians and patrons of the arts in Florence, Italy during the Renaissance.
Medici
Social Sciences (Geography): Name the psychologist who arranged the needs of the human person in a hierarchy with simple requirements like food, clothing, and shelter at the bottom and more complex and sohpisticated needs like self-actualization at the top.
(Abraham) Maslow
Social Sciences (American History): Give the full name of the first U. S. delegate to the United Nations.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Social Sciences (World History): In what war did the British win control over South Africa?
the Boer War
Social Sciences (Geography): What English speaking Central American country was formerly British Honduras?
Belize
Social Sciences (American History): Profitable disposition of securities, business assets, or real property is subject to what kind of tax ?
Capital Gains Tax
Social Sciences (World History): Name the 1916 World War One battle fought at a French fortress that produced almost a million casualties on both sides.
Verdun (also accept Battle of Verdun)
Social Sciences (Geography): What word derived from the Polynesian language of the South Sea island of Tonga designates something that a culture considers improper, or a sacreligious action ?
Taboo
Social Sciences (Psychology): In operant conditioning, what is the name for a consequence that increases the probability a behavior will occur?
reinforcement (may accept reward)
Social Sciences (World History): What civilization used a 600 symbol written language called cuneiform?
Sumeritan
Social Sciences (Term): What is the term for a business person who takes risks for the sake of large profits?
Entrepreneur
Social Sciences (Boopety Bop): Profitable disposition of securities, business assets, or real property is subject to what kind of tax?
Capital Gains Tax
Social Sciences (Boppety Boop): Name the religion associated with the term menorah.
Judaism, Jewish
Social Sciences (Beep): Name two of the three major types of economic systems in the world today.
traditional, market, and command
Social Sciences (American History): Name the mathematician and inventor appointed by George Washington to survey the District of Columbia.
(Benjamin) Banneker
Social Sciences (MORE AMERICA): What case was overturned by the Brown versus Board of Education case of 1954?
Plessy versus Ferguson
Social Sciences (Geography): Name the collective name for the three waterfalls that straddle the border between Canada and the United States between the province of Ontario and the state of New York.
Niagara Falls
Social Sciences (American History): Name the communication sent from Germany to Mexico during World War One, which asked Mexico to invade the United States.
Zimmerman (Telegram/Note)
Social Sciences (World History): In October of 1973 Egypt attacked Israel during what Jewish religious holiday?
Yom Kippur
Social Sciences (Geography): What country makes up about two-thirds of the Jutland Peninsula?
Denmark
Social Sciences (American History): Name the African American track athlete, who shattered Hitler’s claim that white German athletes were the best, by winning four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany.
(Jesse) Owens
Social Sciences (World History): What term is used to describe a system of political organization where all land was held in fee, and tenants, lords, and vassals paid homage to a king?
Feudalism
Social Sciences (Geography): What is the term for the selective drawing of Congressional district lines in order to favor a particular political party.
Gerrymandering
Social Sciences (American History): Which policy did the U.S. Federal Government adopt that requires employers to take positive steps to remedy the effects of past discrimination?
Affirmative Action
Social Sciences (World History): What disease from the 14th century, carried by rats, was called “The Black Death”?
Bubonic Plague
