Social Studies

Question 1

Article I of the Constitution

Answer 1

Defines the legislative branch and vests power to legislate in the Congress of the United States.

Question 2

Article 2 of the Constitution

Answer 2

Describes the executive powers of the president. Enforced the laws of the land.

Question 3

Article 3 of the Constitution

Answer 3

Defines the judicial branch as the Supreme Court and such inferior courts as congress sees necessary to establish.

Question 4

What is Federalism?

Answer 4

The sharing power among the national, state, and local governments.

Question 5

Primary function of the government

Answer 5

Maintain order, settle conflicts, and protect the community

Question 6

America’s first national government was based on the …

Answer 6

Articles of Confederation

Question 7

Where is the EU capital?

Answer 7

Brussels, Belgium

Question 8

Opportunity cost

Answer 8

Whenever limited resources are used to satisfy one want or need, there are other wants and needs that remain unsatisfied.

Opportunity cost is the next best alternative that must be given up when a choice is made.

Question 9

Interdependence

Answer 9

Decisions by a business that affect the decisions of other businesses, which affect the decisions of other businesses.

Question 10

Factors of Production

Answer 10

The four basic factors used to produce goods and services.

Labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship

Question 11

All economic systems answer these 3 basic questions…

Answer 11

What will we produce with our resources?

How will we produce these goods?

For whom will we produce these goods?

Question 12

Traditional Economy

Answer 12

In a traditional economy, answers to 3 basic economic questions are based on how they were addressed in the past.

There is little difference from generation to generation about who will do what and how it will be done. New ways are generally rejected.

Traditional economies are typically found in fuel regions with subsistence farming.

Question 13

Market Economy

Answer 13

The 3 basic economic questions are answered by individuals and privately owned corporations rather than by the government.

The exchange of goods, services, and info takes place in a free market governed by the law of supply and demand, which determines the price of goods and services.

Question 14

Command Economy

Answer 14

The government provides the answers to the three basic economic questions.

State planners decide which products are produced, how they are produced, and how they are distributed.

The state owns all property and controls all resources including land, labor, and capital.

Consumer needs receive little attention in this type of economy.

Question 15

Mixed Economy

Answer 15

The government and the marketplace answer the 3 basic economic questions.

I do yams and firms enjoy varying degrees of economic freedom, but they are also subject to a range of government regulation.

Common examples of mixed economies include the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, Germany, and the UK.

Question 16

Stone Age

Answer 16

Subdivided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.

Question 17

Paleolithic

Answer 17

A time span beginning more than a million years ago in which several homo species used crude rock tools.

Question 18

When was the Mesolithic age?

Answer 18

120,000 to 7,000 years ago

Question 19

When was the Neolithic age?

Answer 19

7,00 to 5,500 years ago

Question 20

When was the Bronze Age?

Answer 20

5,500 to 32,00 years ago

Question 21

When was the Iron Age?

Answer 21

3,200 years ago

Question 22

When was the collapse of Rome?

Answer 22

497 CE

Question 23

What/when were the dark ages?

Answer 23

From about 500 CE to 1,000 CE, Western Europe was politically divided, rural, and largely cut off from advanced civilizations in the middle war, china, and India

Question 24

China broke apart when what dynasty collapsed?

Answer 24

The Han dynasty

Question 25

China was not restored to its earlier glory until the emergence of the ___ dynasty in 618 CE?

Answer 25

Tang

Question 26

The earliest American civilization, that if the ____, emerged in the tropical Forrest’s along the gulf coast of Mexico from about 1,509 BCE to 400 BCE

Answer 26

Olmecs

Question 27

Mesoamerica

Answer 27

A geographic region made up of Mexico and Central America

Question 28

The ____ are beloved to have originated from West Africa, in present day Cameroon and Nigeria

Answer 28

Bantu

Question 29

Era I

Answer 29

The beginnings of human society

Question 30

Era 2

Answer 30

Early civilizations and the emergence of pastoral peoples

Question 31

Era 3

Answer 31

Classic traditions, major religions, and giant empires

Question 32

Era 4

Answer 32

Expanding zones of exchange and encounter

Question 33

Era 5

Answer 33

Intensified hemispheric interactions

Question 34

Era 6

Answer 34

The emergence of the first global age

Question 35

Era 7

Answer 35

Colonization and settlement

Question 36

Samuel de Champlain

Answer 36

French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement of modern Quebec

Question 37

Henry Hudson

Answer 37

English explorer who discovered the Hudson River

Question 38

Mayflower Compact

Answer 38

The first governing document of the Plymouth colony. It was written by the Separatists, known as the saints, who fled religious prosecution in Great Britain.

They traveled on the mayflower in 1620

Question 39

Triangular Trade

Answer 39

A historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually enforces when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major imports come.

Question 40

The Dred Scott Case

Answer 40

Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

The Supreme Court in which the court held that African Americans, weather slave or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court, and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories created after the creation of the US

Question 41

When was Abraham Lincoln president?

Answer 41

1860

Question 42

Compromise efforts failed and a crisis developed at —— in South Carolina, which resulted in the secretion by four more southern slave states.

Answer 42

Fort Sumter

Question 43

The Us entered WWII after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in…?

Answer 43

December 1941

Question 44

Progressivism

Answer 44

The turn of the century when the national reform movement came. It included advocates of women’s suffrage, municipal reform, temperance, immigration reform, and other social reforms.

Question 45

Korean War

Answer 45

North Korean forces moved to South Korea without warning. The US and UN came to the aid of South Koreans to repel the communist invasion.

It showed that the US would do anything possible to avoid communism.

Question 46

Vietnam War

Answer 46

US involvement in Vietnam conflict represented an effort to prevent the spread of communism.

The war ended in the defeat of South Vietnam and the reunification of the country.

The US suffered a significant blow to its reputation as a world superpower, and the cost of the war damaged its economy.