PRAXIS 5001 (HISTORY) WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS 2023

13 original colonies - Delaware - Pennsylvania - New Jersey - Georgia - Connecticut - Massachusetts Bay - Maryland - South Carolina - New Hampshire - Virginia - New York - North Carolina - Rhode Island The Great Lakes - Huron - Ontario - Michigan - Erie - Superior Two largest rivers - Mississippi River - Missouri River Seven continents - North America - South America - Europe -Africa -Asia Australia -Antartica carrying capacity the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation. Napoleon and Hitler - Both tried to invade Russia -Both failed to invade Russia The Panama Canal In 1904 the United States commenced building a canal that would connect both the Atlantic and Pacific ocean making it easier to trade goods across the two oceans. the two basic cultural types that have developed throughout history relation to the physical environment -Agriculture - Settle and nomadic Causes of WW I The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo levels of sociological integration - band -tribe -state/peasant society -industrial society band foraging/ pastoralism -> nomadic tribe horticulture/ extensive cultivation -> sedentary village state/peasant society agriculture/ intensive cultivation industrial society industrialism first non-natives to explore North America Vikings puritans a group of English Reformed Protestants who sought to purify the Church of England from all Roman Catholic practices American Revolutionary War - When American gained its independence from Great Britain - - The continental army --> was the army that lead the firs 13 original colonies (lead by George Washington) The Monroe Doctrin U.S. foreign policy regarding domination of the America in 1823. - warned European powers not to interfere with the Western Hemisphere - James Monroe Manifest Destiny the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. - US was destined to stretch from coast to coast The Second Great Awakening a Protestant religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement. Civil War - - North vs. South Causes of The Great Depression - Stock market crash of 1929 - Bank Failures -reduction in purchasing - American economic policy with Europe - Drought conditions Henry Ford revolutionized assembly-line modes of production for the automobile The presiding officer of the house of representatives The Speaker of the House The Magna Carter - The great charter - written by King John of England - was a practical solution for the political crisis - limited the power of Kings examples of commodities - gold - silver - copper - salt - peppercorns - tea - large stones - shells - alcohol - cigarettes - candy - cocoa beans - cowries - barley primary source an artifact, a document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, a recording, or other source of information that was created at the time under study. secondary source are self-described as review articles or meta-analysis. man made resources items or substances that have value to human lives that do not occur in the natural world. Examples of man-made resources include plastic, paper, soda, sheet metal, rubber and brass. ethnography the scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures. lexington and concord - this battle kicked off the revolutionary war in 1775 Alexander Hamilton - nations first secretary of treasury - federalist - founding father of the U.S. standard term length for a United States senator 6 years "give me Liberty or give me death" Patrick Henry federalists - The supporters of the proposed Constitution - commited to a loose, decentralized system of government anti-federalists opposed the creating of a stronger U.S. government Kansas- Nebraska Act - It allowed people to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. - re-opened the issue of slavery Ronald Reagan " The government is not the solution to our problem the government is the problem" direct democracy a form of democracy in which people decide (e.g. vote on, form consensus on) policy initiatives directly District of Columbia continental divide the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas renewable energy resources sunlight, rain, wind, tides, geothermal heat social institutions - established or standardized patterns of rule-governed behavior - family, education, religion, economic institutions, political institutions Machu picchu - built by Inca - found by Hiram Bingham in the Peruvian Andes Mountains San Salvador - in the bahamas - found by Christopher Columbus free market economy/ capitalism an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state developing countries defined according to their Gross National Income (GNI) per capita per year Lewis & Clark - explored and mapped the new found land known as the water route to find the Pacific Ocean immigration act of 1924 a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country Woodrow WIlson led America into war in order to "make the world safe for democracy." - WW I Truman Doctrine contain the spread of communism beyond the soviet union bill of rights protection of the individual from unfair actions by the federal government political efficacy a citizens faith and trust in the government a primary cause of soil depletion the introduction of cash- crop agriculture