Social Studies Content Knowledge test
(5081) PRAXIS II
Bacon's Rebellion - ANSFriction between English settlers and Native Americans
Articles of Confederation - ANSGoal that was clearly expressed was a limit on the power of the
national government. This document, the nation's first constitution, was adopted by the second
continental congress in 1781during the revolution. The document was limited because states
held most of the power, and congress lacked the power to tax, regulate trade, or control coinage
British Colony of Virginia - ANSThis colony was distinctive because it had a popularly elected
legislature.
The Appalachian Plateau - ANSWas one of the regions of the South that had the strongest
pro-Union sentiments at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Stamp Act - ANSPrimarily intended on paying for the military defense of the colonies.
Parliament required that all revenue stamps be affixed to all colonial printed matter.
White men of middle income - ANSAn ethnic group that gained the most political power as a
result of the American Revolution.
Anti-Federalists - ANSWere opposed to the ratification of the Constitution because it lacked a
bill of rights. Opponents of the Constitution who saw it as a limitation on individual and states'
rights, their demands led to the addition of the a Bill of Rights to the document.
William Lloyd Garrison - ANSWas a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, volunteerist, and
social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The
Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he promoted
"immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States.
John Brown - ANSWas an American abolitionist, who advocated and practiced armed
insurrection as a means to end all slavery. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856 in
Bleeding Kansas and made his name in the unsuccessful raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Frederick Douglass - ANSAmerican abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author,
statesman, minister and reformer. Escaping from slavery, he made strong contributions to the
abolitionist movement, and achieved a public career that led to his being called "The Sage of
Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia". Is one of the most prominent figures in African
American and United States history.
,The Gilded Age - ANSRefers to the era of rapid economic and population growth in the United
States during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction era of the late 19th century
(1865-1901). Is most famous for the creation of a modern industrial economy. Characterized by
robber barons, panics, and political corruption.
Migration to the trans-Mississippi southwest - ANSIncreased scale of cotton production during
the 1830s and 1840s in the United States.
Abolitionism - ANSWas a movement in western Europe and the Americas to end the slave trade
and set slaves free. The slave system aroused little protest until the 18th century,
John Mercer Langston - ANSWas an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, and political
activist. Together with his older brothers Gideon and Charles, he became active in the
Abolitionist movement. He helped runaway slaves to escape to the North along the Ohio part of
the Underground Railroad. In 1858 he and Charles partnered in leading the Ohio Anti-Slavery
Society.
Nativism - ANSFavors the interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as
compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. Typically means opposition to immigration or
efforts to lower the political or legal status of specific ethnic or cultural groups because the
groups are considered hostile or alien to the natural culture, and it is assumed that they cannot
be assimilated.
Isolationism - ANSIs a foreign policy which combines a non-interventionist military policy and a
political policy of economic nationalism (protectionism). In other words, it asserts both of the
following: Non-interventionism & Protectionism
Non-interventionism - ANSPolitical rulers should avoid entangling alliances with other nations
and avoid all wars not related to direct territorial self-defense.
Protectionism - ANSThere should be legal barriers to control trade and cultural exchange with
people in other states.
Temperance movement - ANSIs a social movement against the use of alcoholic beverages. Its
movements may criticize excessive alcohol use, promote complete abstinence, or pressure the
government to enact anti-alcohol legislation.
Jefferson Davis - ANSWas an American military officer, statesman and leader of the
Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as the president of the Confederate States
of America for its entire history, 1861 to 1865.
A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson, - ANSThis book Chronicles the experiences of
Native Americans in the United States, focusing on examples of injustices.
,The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper, - ANSThe story takes place in 1757,
during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain
battled for control of the North American colonies. During this war, the French called on allied
Native American tribes to fight with the more numerous British colonists.
Logan's Lament - ANSHe was a leader of the Mingo Indians. He was a war leader but often
urged his fellow natives not to attack whites settling in the Ohio Country. His attitude changed on
May 3, 1774, when a group of Virginia settlers murdered approximately one dozen Mingos.
Among them were his mother and sister. He demanded that the Mingos and their allies,
principally the Shawnee Indians, take revenge for the deaths of his loved ones. He wrote a
famous speech and sent it to the English, refusing to come to negotiate peace.
Uncle Tom's Cabin - ANSIs an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe
which inspired people in the North to join antislavery campaigns.
Mexican American War - ANSWas sparked by the factor of a continuing dispute over the
southern boundary of Texas.
Ronald Regan - ANSThis president's platform encouraged decreasing taxes and government
regulation.
Sharecropping - ANSDominant agricultural model in the post-Civil War South. Is a system of
agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop
produced on the land (e.g., 50% of the crop).
Plantation - ANSIs a large farm or estate, usually in a tropical or subtropical country, where
crops are grown for sale in distant markets, rather than for local consumption. Dominated
southern agriculture from the mid-eighteenth century to the Civil War. These large farms,
employing twenty or more slaves, produced staple crops (cotton, rice, tobacco) for domestic and
foreign markets.
Sedition Act - ANSImposed harsh punishments for expressing ideas disloyal to the United
States.
European immigrants - ANSThis group came to the United States between 1815 and 1860
because it was attracted to the availability of inexpensive land and higher wages.
Interstate Commerce Commission - ANSFormer independent agency of the U.S. government,
established in 1887; it was charged with regulating the economics and services of specified
carriers engaged in transportation between states. Surface transportation under the its
jurisdiction included railroads, trucking companies, bus lines, freight forwarders, water carriers,
oil pipelines, transportation brokers, and express agencies. After his election in 1904, Theodore
Roosevelt demonstrated support of progressive reforms by strengthening this.
, Northern Securities Company - ANSWas an important United States railroad trust formed in
1902 by E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill, J.P. Morgan, J. D. Rockefeller, and their associates. The
company controlled the Northern Pacific Railway, Great Northern Railway, Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Railroad, and other associated lines. The company was sued in 1902 under the
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 by President Theodore Roosevelt; one of the first anti-trust cases
filed against corporate interests instead of labor.
Sherman Antitrust Act - ANSRequires the United States Federal government to investigate and
pursue trusts, companies and organizations suspected of violating the Act. It was the first
Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies, and today still forms the basis for most antitrust
litigation by the United States federal government. However, for the most part, politicians were
unwilling to use the law until Theodore Roosevelt's Presidency (1901-1908). The purpose of the
act was to oppose the combination of entities that could potentially harm competition, such as
monopolies or cartels.
Immigration and Naturalization Service - ANSProtected and enforced the laws of naturalization,
the process by which a foreign-born person becomes a citizen. It also tackled illegal entrance
into the United States, preventing receipt of benefits such as social security or unemployment
by those ineligible to receive them, and investigated, detained, and deported those illegally
living in the United States.
WEB Du Bois - ANSAn American civil rights activist. He became the head of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1910, becoming founder and
editor of the NAACP's journal The Crisis. He rose to national attention in his opposition of
Booker T. Washington's ideas of social integration between whites and blacks, campaigning
instead for increased political representation for blacks in order to guarantee civil rights, and the
formation of a Black elite that would work for the progress of the African American race. He was
willing to form alliances with progressive White Americans in pursuit of civil rights.
Marcus Garvey - ANSInspired by what he heard he returned to Jamaica and established the
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and published the pamphlet, The Negro Race
and Its Problems. He was influenced by the ideas of Booker T. Washington and made plans to
develop a trade school for the poor similar to the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Huey Newton - ANSWas co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, an
African-American organization established to promote Black Power, civil rights and self-defense.
Malcolm X - ANSWas an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights
activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a
man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans
(5081) PRAXIS II
Bacon's Rebellion - ANSFriction between English settlers and Native Americans
Articles of Confederation - ANSGoal that was clearly expressed was a limit on the power of the
national government. This document, the nation's first constitution, was adopted by the second
continental congress in 1781during the revolution. The document was limited because states
held most of the power, and congress lacked the power to tax, regulate trade, or control coinage
British Colony of Virginia - ANSThis colony was distinctive because it had a popularly elected
legislature.
The Appalachian Plateau - ANSWas one of the regions of the South that had the strongest
pro-Union sentiments at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Stamp Act - ANSPrimarily intended on paying for the military defense of the colonies.
Parliament required that all revenue stamps be affixed to all colonial printed matter.
White men of middle income - ANSAn ethnic group that gained the most political power as a
result of the American Revolution.
Anti-Federalists - ANSWere opposed to the ratification of the Constitution because it lacked a
bill of rights. Opponents of the Constitution who saw it as a limitation on individual and states'
rights, their demands led to the addition of the a Bill of Rights to the document.
William Lloyd Garrison - ANSWas a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, volunteerist, and
social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The
Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he promoted
"immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States.
John Brown - ANSWas an American abolitionist, who advocated and practiced armed
insurrection as a means to end all slavery. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856 in
Bleeding Kansas and made his name in the unsuccessful raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Frederick Douglass - ANSAmerican abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author,
statesman, minister and reformer. Escaping from slavery, he made strong contributions to the
abolitionist movement, and achieved a public career that led to his being called "The Sage of
Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia". Is one of the most prominent figures in African
American and United States history.
,The Gilded Age - ANSRefers to the era of rapid economic and population growth in the United
States during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction era of the late 19th century
(1865-1901). Is most famous for the creation of a modern industrial economy. Characterized by
robber barons, panics, and political corruption.
Migration to the trans-Mississippi southwest - ANSIncreased scale of cotton production during
the 1830s and 1840s in the United States.
Abolitionism - ANSWas a movement in western Europe and the Americas to end the slave trade
and set slaves free. The slave system aroused little protest until the 18th century,
John Mercer Langston - ANSWas an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, and political
activist. Together with his older brothers Gideon and Charles, he became active in the
Abolitionist movement. He helped runaway slaves to escape to the North along the Ohio part of
the Underground Railroad. In 1858 he and Charles partnered in leading the Ohio Anti-Slavery
Society.
Nativism - ANSFavors the interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as
compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. Typically means opposition to immigration or
efforts to lower the political or legal status of specific ethnic or cultural groups because the
groups are considered hostile or alien to the natural culture, and it is assumed that they cannot
be assimilated.
Isolationism - ANSIs a foreign policy which combines a non-interventionist military policy and a
political policy of economic nationalism (protectionism). In other words, it asserts both of the
following: Non-interventionism & Protectionism
Non-interventionism - ANSPolitical rulers should avoid entangling alliances with other nations
and avoid all wars not related to direct territorial self-defense.
Protectionism - ANSThere should be legal barriers to control trade and cultural exchange with
people in other states.
Temperance movement - ANSIs a social movement against the use of alcoholic beverages. Its
movements may criticize excessive alcohol use, promote complete abstinence, or pressure the
government to enact anti-alcohol legislation.
Jefferson Davis - ANSWas an American military officer, statesman and leader of the
Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as the president of the Confederate States
of America for its entire history, 1861 to 1865.
A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson, - ANSThis book Chronicles the experiences of
Native Americans in the United States, focusing on examples of injustices.
,The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper, - ANSThe story takes place in 1757,
during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain
battled for control of the North American colonies. During this war, the French called on allied
Native American tribes to fight with the more numerous British colonists.
Logan's Lament - ANSHe was a leader of the Mingo Indians. He was a war leader but often
urged his fellow natives not to attack whites settling in the Ohio Country. His attitude changed on
May 3, 1774, when a group of Virginia settlers murdered approximately one dozen Mingos.
Among them were his mother and sister. He demanded that the Mingos and their allies,
principally the Shawnee Indians, take revenge for the deaths of his loved ones. He wrote a
famous speech and sent it to the English, refusing to come to negotiate peace.
Uncle Tom's Cabin - ANSIs an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe
which inspired people in the North to join antislavery campaigns.
Mexican American War - ANSWas sparked by the factor of a continuing dispute over the
southern boundary of Texas.
Ronald Regan - ANSThis president's platform encouraged decreasing taxes and government
regulation.
Sharecropping - ANSDominant agricultural model in the post-Civil War South. Is a system of
agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop
produced on the land (e.g., 50% of the crop).
Plantation - ANSIs a large farm or estate, usually in a tropical or subtropical country, where
crops are grown for sale in distant markets, rather than for local consumption. Dominated
southern agriculture from the mid-eighteenth century to the Civil War. These large farms,
employing twenty or more slaves, produced staple crops (cotton, rice, tobacco) for domestic and
foreign markets.
Sedition Act - ANSImposed harsh punishments for expressing ideas disloyal to the United
States.
European immigrants - ANSThis group came to the United States between 1815 and 1860
because it was attracted to the availability of inexpensive land and higher wages.
Interstate Commerce Commission - ANSFormer independent agency of the U.S. government,
established in 1887; it was charged with regulating the economics and services of specified
carriers engaged in transportation between states. Surface transportation under the its
jurisdiction included railroads, trucking companies, bus lines, freight forwarders, water carriers,
oil pipelines, transportation brokers, and express agencies. After his election in 1904, Theodore
Roosevelt demonstrated support of progressive reforms by strengthening this.
, Northern Securities Company - ANSWas an important United States railroad trust formed in
1902 by E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill, J.P. Morgan, J. D. Rockefeller, and their associates. The
company controlled the Northern Pacific Railway, Great Northern Railway, Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Railroad, and other associated lines. The company was sued in 1902 under the
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 by President Theodore Roosevelt; one of the first anti-trust cases
filed against corporate interests instead of labor.
Sherman Antitrust Act - ANSRequires the United States Federal government to investigate and
pursue trusts, companies and organizations suspected of violating the Act. It was the first
Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies, and today still forms the basis for most antitrust
litigation by the United States federal government. However, for the most part, politicians were
unwilling to use the law until Theodore Roosevelt's Presidency (1901-1908). The purpose of the
act was to oppose the combination of entities that could potentially harm competition, such as
monopolies or cartels.
Immigration and Naturalization Service - ANSProtected and enforced the laws of naturalization,
the process by which a foreign-born person becomes a citizen. It also tackled illegal entrance
into the United States, preventing receipt of benefits such as social security or unemployment
by those ineligible to receive them, and investigated, detained, and deported those illegally
living in the United States.
WEB Du Bois - ANSAn American civil rights activist. He became the head of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1910, becoming founder and
editor of the NAACP's journal The Crisis. He rose to national attention in his opposition of
Booker T. Washington's ideas of social integration between whites and blacks, campaigning
instead for increased political representation for blacks in order to guarantee civil rights, and the
formation of a Black elite that would work for the progress of the African American race. He was
willing to form alliances with progressive White Americans in pursuit of civil rights.
Marcus Garvey - ANSInspired by what he heard he returned to Jamaica and established the
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and published the pamphlet, The Negro Race
and Its Problems. He was influenced by the ideas of Booker T. Washington and made plans to
develop a trade school for the poor similar to the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Huey Newton - ANSWas co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, an
African-American organization established to promote Black Power, civil rights and self-defense.
Malcolm X - ANSWas an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights
activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a
man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans
