MTTC History 2024 New Update Test
Questions with Correct Answers
Most immigrants in the 1960s came to the US from... - Answer-East Asia
The American Indian Movements main goal was to... - Answer-Advance send
determination of American Indians
Main US goal in the Persian Gulf War - Answer-Protect US access to oil resources
Main use of Geographic Information Systems - Answer-Show spatial relationships
between different types of information related to a region
Isthmus - Answer-Narrow strip of land connecting two larger bodies of lane
Economic Globalization - Answer-The increasing integration and interdependence of
national economies around the world
Cultural convergence - Answer-When geographically distant cultures are able to
influence one another
Sustainable development - Answer-Economic development that is conducted without
depletion of natural resources
Expansion diffusion - Answer-when innovations spread to new places while staying
strong in their original locations
Main reason for drastic population increase between 1750 and 2000 - Answer-
Advances in medicine, public health, and food storage
Main reason for population increase between 1650 and 1850 - Answer-Introduction of
new world food items (corn, tomatoes, peanuts, etc.)
Description of sub Saharan Africa - Answer-Hundreds of ethnic groups, Islam and
Christianity, more than a thousand languages and dialects
Concurrent powers - Answer-Powers shared between the federal and state
governments (taxing, borrowing, eminent domain, maintaining law and order, spending
to promote general welfare)
Please v Ferguson - Answer-upheld separate but equal
, Legislative powers (congress) - Answer-Makes laws, declare war, controls taxing and
spending policies, regulates interstate and foreign commerce
Executive branch powers - Answer-Commander-in-Chief, make treaties, veto/sign bills,
enforce laws
Athenian democracy during age of Pericles main belief - Answer-All citizens had an
obligation to participate in governing process
Baron de Montesquieu - Answer-believed government should have separation of
powers
Popular Sovereignty - Answer-Government based on consent of the people; can not
disregard the will of the people
Role of the National Security Council - Answer-advise and assist the President on
national security and foreign policy
Judicial branch powers - Answer-Decides constitutionality of laws and resolves disputes
about laws
United Nations Security Council - Answer-Veto power, organizes interventions in
international conflicts, rules on applications from countries seeking to join UN
United Nations General Assembly - Answer-The main policymaking representative,
comprised of all 193 members of the UN
Contemporary city state - Answer-An independent country consisting of a single city,
gov exercises full sovereignty and control (ex: singapore, vatican, Monaco)
Primary sources - Answer-Provide firsthand historical information
Encyclopedias are used - Answer-To obtain contextual information concerning a
historical event
egalitarian society - Answer-All are considered equal; no class system; all have
relatively equal access to income and wealth
Protestant reformers v Catholics 16TH century - Answer-Protestants believed in only
faith in Jesus, Catholics believed in combination of faith and good doing; debated over
whether the Bible was the sole authority of religious doctrine
Main idea of enlightenment - Answer-Human reasoning could lead to discovering truths
about the world and improve human lives; create a society capable of explaining the
human condition
Questions with Correct Answers
Most immigrants in the 1960s came to the US from... - Answer-East Asia
The American Indian Movements main goal was to... - Answer-Advance send
determination of American Indians
Main US goal in the Persian Gulf War - Answer-Protect US access to oil resources
Main use of Geographic Information Systems - Answer-Show spatial relationships
between different types of information related to a region
Isthmus - Answer-Narrow strip of land connecting two larger bodies of lane
Economic Globalization - Answer-The increasing integration and interdependence of
national economies around the world
Cultural convergence - Answer-When geographically distant cultures are able to
influence one another
Sustainable development - Answer-Economic development that is conducted without
depletion of natural resources
Expansion diffusion - Answer-when innovations spread to new places while staying
strong in their original locations
Main reason for drastic population increase between 1750 and 2000 - Answer-
Advances in medicine, public health, and food storage
Main reason for population increase between 1650 and 1850 - Answer-Introduction of
new world food items (corn, tomatoes, peanuts, etc.)
Description of sub Saharan Africa - Answer-Hundreds of ethnic groups, Islam and
Christianity, more than a thousand languages and dialects
Concurrent powers - Answer-Powers shared between the federal and state
governments (taxing, borrowing, eminent domain, maintaining law and order, spending
to promote general welfare)
Please v Ferguson - Answer-upheld separate but equal
, Legislative powers (congress) - Answer-Makes laws, declare war, controls taxing and
spending policies, regulates interstate and foreign commerce
Executive branch powers - Answer-Commander-in-Chief, make treaties, veto/sign bills,
enforce laws
Athenian democracy during age of Pericles main belief - Answer-All citizens had an
obligation to participate in governing process
Baron de Montesquieu - Answer-believed government should have separation of
powers
Popular Sovereignty - Answer-Government based on consent of the people; can not
disregard the will of the people
Role of the National Security Council - Answer-advise and assist the President on
national security and foreign policy
Judicial branch powers - Answer-Decides constitutionality of laws and resolves disputes
about laws
United Nations Security Council - Answer-Veto power, organizes interventions in
international conflicts, rules on applications from countries seeking to join UN
United Nations General Assembly - Answer-The main policymaking representative,
comprised of all 193 members of the UN
Contemporary city state - Answer-An independent country consisting of a single city,
gov exercises full sovereignty and control (ex: singapore, vatican, Monaco)
Primary sources - Answer-Provide firsthand historical information
Encyclopedias are used - Answer-To obtain contextual information concerning a
historical event
egalitarian society - Answer-All are considered equal; no class system; all have
relatively equal access to income and wealth
Protestant reformers v Catholics 16TH century - Answer-Protestants believed in only
faith in Jesus, Catholics believed in combination of faith and good doing; debated over
whether the Bible was the sole authority of religious doctrine
Main idea of enlightenment - Answer-Human reasoning could lead to discovering truths
about the world and improve human lives; create a society capable of explaining the
human condition
