CSET SOCIAL SCIENCE 2025 UPDATED
ACTUAL EXAM WITH CORRECT SOLUTIONS.
most frequent source of conflict between church and state in
Europe throughout the middle ages - correct answer- the
doctrine of papal supremacy
Latin American revolutionaries of the early nineteenth century
drew intellectual inspiration from - correct answer- political
ideals of the Enlightenment
important consequence of western European industrialization
during the first half of the nineteenth century - correct answer- a
division for families between home life and work life
greatest influence on the outcome of World War II in Europe -
correct answer- the productive capacity of U.S. factories
steppe - correct answer- semiarid conditions and short grass
vegetation, aka prairie climate, inland, summers are hot and
winters are cold, sparse rainfall
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major physical feature of urban centers in the United States
during the last quarter of the nineteenth century - correct
answer- the extension of mass transit systems (enabled many
urban dwellers to move to new suburbs)
biggest influence on public sentiment toward passage of the
woman suffrage amendment to the U.S. constitution in 1919 -
correct answer- the organizational work of women in the
Progressive movement
most responsible for the economic and environmental disaster
that struck the southern Great Plains during the 1930s - correct
answer- the removal of the natural grass cover through plowing
and cultivation
major difference between the foreign policies of Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman - correct answer- adopted a
more aggressive stance toward the Soviet Union
main purpose of the War Powers Act of 1973 - correct answer-
restrain the president's ability to deploy forces outside the U.S.
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focus of La Raza Unida since 1969 - correct answer- organizing
Mexican Americans to promote community development and
preserve cultural traditions
creation of judicial review - correct answer- inferred from logic,
structure, and theory of the U.S. Constitution
the U.S. government's current relationship w/ American Indian
tribal govts. is most similar to its relations with - correct answer-
U.S. states, since American Indian tribal govts. have the right to
assert jurisdiction over their members
what will most likely happen if fed govt. imposes a minimum
wage that is below the equilibrium - correct answer- wages in
low-skill jobs will remain unchanged
reasons for objection in 1930s to the United Automobile
Workers of America - correct answer- leaders of craft-based
unions who opposed industrial unionism
3 major periods of prehistory - correct answer- lower paleolithic,
upper paleolithic, neolithic
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lower paleolithic - correct answer- humans used crude tools
upper paleolithic - correct answer- wider variety of tools, more
specialized tools, clothing, groups, art, caves
neolithic - correct answer- more complex social structures
(family, religion, government), domesticate animals and crops,
build houses, fires, knit/spin/weave
2 types of anthropological research - correct answer- cross-
cultural research and comparative research
4 phases of human development - correct answer- lower
paleolithic/old tone age, upper paleolithic/new stone age,
bronze age, iron age
upper paleolithic/new stone age - correct answer- 6000-8000
BCE
bronze age - correct answer- 3000 BCE