Praxis 5081 - Social Studies Questions and Answers Graded A+

Praxis 5081 - Social Studies Questions and Answers Graded A+ What is crucial to children becoming socialized? Regular social interaction with adults Human capital The knowledge, skills, and experience necessary for a person to perform a specific task is known as Cultural diffusion Describes the movement of a concept, innovation, or discovery from its area of origin to new areas. Max Weber argued that individuals band together based on such factors as race, ethnicity, religion, occupation, and gender to form Status groups In the decade after the end of the Cold War, United States foreign policy was most strongly characterized by A focus on expanding economic prosperity through globalization and free trade Describes the Eastern Woodland peoples, such as the Iroquois and Algonquin, before European colonization Agriculturalists who supplemented their diet with hunting and gathering During Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, those who protested against the leadership of the colony were chiefly Small farmers who wanted to settle on Native American lands The primary source of agricultural labor in the British colonies in North America during the early years of colonization until the 1660s Indentured servants from Great Britain Reasons which caused Spanish, British, and French forces to fight wars in North America prior to the American Revolution * Disputes about controlling territory in the colonies * Religious and cultural differences among colonists of different nationalities * International tensions caused by competing alliances among the three nations What was an immediate cause of the sale of the Louisiana Territory to the United States in 1803? The French could no longer afford the territory after the loss of its sugar colonies in the Caribbean. Tenement housing in the United States was a response to what developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Industrialization and urbanization Between circa 1820 and 1840, the growing economy of the United States relied primarily on what for transportation of goods between regions? Privately built roads and railroads as well as water transport, including canals. What caused both the Whig and Democratic Parties to split internally in the 1850s along sectional lines? The extension of slavery to newly acquired territories What distinguishes the colonization of New France in the eighteenth century from that of New England? French colonists were more likely to pursue trade in furs with Native Americans and to intermarry with them. Which strategies did the Union attempt as it sought to defeat the South during the American Civil War? * Blockading all major Southern ports to disrupt commerce, especially in cotton, the proceeds of which could be used to fund the purchase of military supplies * Capturing and controlling the Mississippi River in an effort to cut the South in half and damage Southern efforts to keep troops resupplied * Campaigning to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond and destroy the secessionist government of the South Former slaves who could not afford to buy land during Reconstruction often turned to Sharecropping What was a Progressive Era response to the threat of environmental degradation? The creation of the National Park System What accusations did colonists make against King George III and the British Parliament in the Declaration of Independence? Frustrating the working of representative government and the law in the colonies In the late nineteenth century, economic development in the southern United States was largely characterized by A continued reliance on agriculture and related enterprises Supported the unequal treatment of African Americans in the United States throughout the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century Jim Crow laws Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were all advocates for the claim that Women should be granted the same voting rights as men Directly allowed early factories in the United States to appear outside the mill towns of New England Steam power The main goal of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to provide