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This document contains 160 verified and corrected exam questions with answers from Test 1 of Sociology 205 at Texas A&M University (TAMU) for the 2025/2026 academic year. It provides a complete and structured review of key concepts in introductory sociology, formatted to support mastery of foundational knowledge and effective test preparation. Core topics include the sociological perspective, sociological imagination, and the differences between microsociology and macrosociology. The document...

Spearheads recently discovered by Texas A&M researchers indicate that the first people most likely populated Texas how many years ago? - Answer 15,000 What is the most likely reason cited in class for why humans originally migrated to Texas? - Answer They were hunters following migration of big game that led them to Texas Which native American group created large, complex, agricultural civilization in East Texas? - Answer Caddo Which of the following were important asp...

Great Depression - Answer Stock market crashed in 1929. Multiple causes: Bust in Florida land boom, buying stock on credit, the effects on WW1 on European economy. Agriculture and mining industries were depressed. US factories closed and millions were unemployed. Herbert Hoover's efforts were too small. Hot oil and cotton crises - Answer Herbert Hoover - Answer President at the start of the Great Depression. Main idea was to help banks and some industries with loan...

how is texas more nationally influential by the 1910s? - Answer more Texans are in Washington, D.C., representing the state the great depression - Answer - Oct 1929 - stock market fail - GNP & median family income decrease by half - 25% unemployment ecological disaster - Answer acres of top soil blown away, making farms unstable Keynesian explanation - Answer - industrial consumer economies are based on what people can buy - poor people are bad consumers - e...

Yucatan Peninsula - Answer First appearance of agriculture in the new world happened in 2500 BC in ____________________ grain - Answer asian/ African/ European diets were primarily ___________ hunter/gatherer - Answer which diet was healthier, hunter/gatherer or agricultural? Agriculture in Texas - Answer appeared around 1500 BC during the medieval warm period (warm and wet climate/less harsh winters and summers) Monks Mound - Answer largest prehistoric ...

Great Depression - Answer -Stock market crashed -millions unemployed (factories close) -economic conditions worsened in plains states -rise of Hoovervilles and hobos -trickledown theory -texans thought it wouldn't affect them, only the greedy northeast investors Agribusiness - Answer Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations. Causes of Great Depression - Answer ...

The Lost Cause ideology - Answer ideology that holds that the cause of the Confederacy during the American Civil War was a just and heroic one endorses the supposed virtues of the antebellum South, viewing the war as a struggle primarily to save what they view as the beneficent and ethical Southern way of life, or "states' rights" in the face of overwhelming "Northern aggression" minimizes or denies outright the central role of slavery in the buildup to and outbreak of...

Strom Thurmond 93 years old was speaking to a high school and spoke of many notable Americans. Who did he start talking about? - Answer William Barret Travis Who was William Barret Travis? - Answer The defender of the Alamo William Barret Travis, the defender of the Alamo. "He's the guy," Mr. Thurmond began, "that with 3000 _________ _______ ____ ___________........." - Answer Russians threatening to attack..... Total people killed in World War II - Answ...

Did Mexico have a difficult upbringing? - Answer Yes Mexicans weren't in agreement about what type of gov't they wanted so they created what two groups? - Answer Centralist and Federalist Describe the centralist gov't group - Answer 1. Want to turn clock back 2. Want one strong leader (which will later be Santa Ana) 3. Want to protect what they have 4. Made up of political elites, church elites, upper class Federalist - Answer New nation (U.S. of MX) ...

Herbert Bolton - Answer "Father of Borderlands History", had concept of 3 frontier corridors into New Spain got money and sent out graduate students to do research Three Corridors (the names and where they went) - Answer Central, Eastern, and Western, a theory from Herbert Bolton Central Corridor - Answer first through the center and go to New Mexico Eastern corridor - Answer eastern corridor goes out of mining to Saltillo and comes into Texas (Coahuila)...