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Elementary Education Subtest 1 - social studies
Questions with Detailed Verified Answers
social studies
Ans: the study of political, economic, cultural, and environmental aspects of societies
in the past, present, and future
why is social studies helpful?
Ans: helps students assess issues and make effective value judgments in entities of the
family, classroom, community, nation, and world
primary functions of government (3)
Ans: maintain order, settle conflicts, and protect the community by making/enforcing
society's rules, laws, and regulations
public policy
Ans: all things a government does
what does public policy include (10)
Ans: taxation, defense, education, crime, health care, transportation, economy,
environment, civil rights, working conditions
3 kinds of power in a government
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Ans: legislative, executive, judicial
legislative branch
Ans: the power to create laws
executive branch
Ans: the power to administer the law
judicial branch
Ans: the power to interpret laws and settle disputes
authoritarian government (2 types)
Ans: the ultimate responsibility for exercising governmental powers is held by a single
person or small group (autocracy, oligarchy)
autocracy
Ans: authoritarian government where one individual holds unlimited political power
oligarchy
Ans: authoritarian government where a small/elite group of people hold supreme
authority
democratic government (2 types)
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Ans: the responsibility for exercising governmental powers is assigned to the people
(direct, indirect/representative)
direct democracy
Ans: public policy is established by the people themselves (only effective in very small
communities)
indirect/representative democracy
Ans: the people choose a small group to act as their representatives to carry out the
policies of the government
america's first national government was based on the ___ ___ ___.
Ans: Articles of Confederation
system of checks and balances
Ans: used to keep the government from getting too powerful in one branch
Article 1
Ans: defines the legislative branch and vests power to legislate in the Congress
Congress (2 parts)
Ans: senate, house of representatives
Article 2
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Elementary Education Subtest 1 - social studies
Questions with Detailed Verified Answers
social studies
Ans: the study of political, economic, cultural, and environmental aspects of societies
in the past, present, and future
why is social studies helpful?
Ans: helps students assess issues and make effective value judgments in entities of the
family, classroom, community, nation, and world
primary functions of government (3)
Ans: maintain order, settle conflicts, and protect the community by making/enforcing
society's rules, laws, and regulations
public policy
Ans: all things a government does
what does public policy include (10)
Ans: taxation, defense, education, crime, health care, transportation, economy,
environment, civil rights, working conditions
3 kinds of power in a government
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Ans: legislative, executive, judicial
legislative branch
Ans: the power to create laws
executive branch
Ans: the power to administer the law
judicial branch
Ans: the power to interpret laws and settle disputes
authoritarian government (2 types)
Ans: the ultimate responsibility for exercising governmental powers is held by a single
person or small group (autocracy, oligarchy)
autocracy
Ans: authoritarian government where one individual holds unlimited political power
oligarchy
Ans: authoritarian government where a small/elite group of people hold supreme
authority
democratic government (2 types)
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Ans: the responsibility for exercising governmental powers is assigned to the people
(direct, indirect/representative)
direct democracy
Ans: public policy is established by the people themselves (only effective in very small
communities)
indirect/representative democracy
Ans: the people choose a small group to act as their representatives to carry out the
policies of the government
america's first national government was based on the ___ ___ ___.
Ans: Articles of Confederation
system of checks and balances
Ans: used to keep the government from getting too powerful in one branch
Article 1
Ans: defines the legislative branch and vests power to legislate in the Congress
Congress (2 parts)
Ans: senate, house of representatives
Article 2
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