Social Studies Praxis Flashcards
The Continental Divide passes through which state?
Colorado
A wide area of rolling hills between the Apalachian Mountains and the Atlantic Costal plain.
Piedmont region
The Anasazi culture most strongly influenced which American Indian groups?
Hopi, Zuni, Acoma
Why did the population of the English colonies in North America grow more rapidly than the population of the French colonies in North America?
Unlike the French Crown, The English Crown allowed religous disenters to leave the homeland for North America.
What was the most significant contribution of the Articles of Confederation to the growth of the United States?
Passing the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, establishing the procedure whereby territories become states
The principal source of opposition to the ratification of the constitution during the years 1787-1788 came from a fear that ratification would
Weaken the power of the states
Assuming the debts of all the states and selling bonds to pay off previous debts.
Alexander Hamilton’s economic plan
A document intended to end European colonization in the Western Hemisphere : Promuglated by President Monroe in 1823
Monoroe Doctrine
Young women from neighboring farms were hired to work in the textile mills to earn money until they were married
Waltham or Lowell factory System
Acted as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
A consequence of including the principle of popular sovereignty in the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Reopened the issue of slavery in the area closed to slavery north of the 36 degree 30’ line of the Missouri Compromise
A major obstacle that had to be overcome before the Panama Canal could be successfully completed
Doctors had to develop a way to combat Malaria
Progressive Era
Vote Wilson–Stay out of WWII–8 hr work day
Contained a criticisim of Booker T. Washington’s approach to expanding the opprotunities of African Americans
W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Blacj Folk (1903)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal attempted to combat the economic problems of the Great Depression by
Providing funding for publiic-works projects
Proximate cause of the United STates decision to become involved in WWII
An air bombardnent of a US naval facility by Japan
A major challenge that President Lyndon Johnson faced in 1968 as he completed his full term as president
Struggled to make the federal budget support both the Vietnam War and the “War on Poverty”
The Vedas and the Upanishads are associated with which religous traditions?
Hinduism
Contributed to the spread of Christianity in the 4th century C.E.
The support of the emperors Constatine and Theodosius
The granting of land in exchange for military service
Central principle of Feudal socities in Europe.
Facilitated the spread of Islam to Southeast Asia
The Strait of Malacca
Reliance on a bureaucracy of merit
Major accomplishment of China’s Tang dynasty (618-907 C.E.)
Postulated the theory of the heliocentric universe
Copernicus
The decimation of native populations exposed to European Diseases.
Major effect of the Spanish Conquest of MesoAmerica