TEXES 7-12 SOCIAL STUDIES COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty - ✔✔Established a practice of issuing paper money and
copper coins as the primary means of exchange in China prior to the mid-1400s.
(competency 007)
✔✔Enlightenment - ✔✔"Social and political problems can be solved through the
application of reason to practices and institutions," was a position held by most during
this particular time in history. (1685-1815 B.C.)
(competency 004)
✔✔Taiping Rebellion - ✔✔A movement led by the messianic figure of Hong Xiuquan.
This movement promised its followers a combination of heterodox quasi-Christian
theology and communal or communist-like reforms, including an official ban on the
private ownership of land and a promise of radical redistribution of agricultural land.
(1850-1864)
(competency 004)
✔✔Mexican Revolution - ✔✔This movement was ultimately launched by peasant land-
hunger and dissatisfaction with high rates of indebtedness and abuse at the hands of
large landowners. These major contributing factors led to the events that brought down
the Porfirio Diaz dictatorship in Mexico. (1910-1920)
(competency 004)
✔✔First Industrial Revolution - ✔✔During the 18th and early 19th centuries England
had ease of access to coal deposits in central and northern England, southern Scotland,
and southern Wales. This in combination with a well developed transport infrastructure
due to relatively flat terrain and high population density England was primed and ready
for this.
(competency 004)
✔✔The Green Revolution - ✔✔Beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s, agricultural
scientists began systematically developing new crop varieties that were better suited to
tropical and subtropical climates where growing conditions were suboptimal and yields
had been low.
(competency 005)
, ✔✔A Short History of the Destruction of the Indies - ✔✔Written by Bartolomé de Las
Casas', a Dominican missionary, this document is one of the first Spanish attempts to
depict the unfair treatment of the indigenous people of the Americas (he called the
Indes).
(competency 008)
✔✔British North American Colonies - ✔✔Historians estimate that between 1700 and
1770 the population of this region of colonists grew from about 250,000 to over 2
million.
While many factors influenced this growth, the need for farm labor in the colonies in the
eighteenth century was one of the most important factors. Most colonists lived on farms,
and having more children to help them work the land allowed them to increase
productivity, which in turn led to increased supplies of food to feed larger families.
(competency 008)
✔✔Bicameral Legislature - ✔✔The Great Compromise (or Connecticut Compromise) of
1787 settled a dispute between large states and small states about legislative
representation. Creating this type of legislature consisting of the House of
Representatives and the Senate.
(competency 009)
✔✔House of Representatives - ✔✔States are allotted representatives according to
population. EST. 1787
✔✔Senate - ✔✔Each state is allotted two seats regardless of population. EST. 1787
✔✔The Declaration of Independence - ✔✔"That to secure these rights [i.e., life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness], Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the governed." Is one of the core ideas of this historical
document.
(competency 014)
✔✔Dred Scott - ✔✔A landmark 1857 Supreme Court decision that stated that a person
of African ancestry was not a citizen of the United States and therefore had no rights
and would not become free by moving to a free state. This exacerbated tensions
between the North and the South.
(competency 010)
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty - ✔✔Established a practice of issuing paper money and
copper coins as the primary means of exchange in China prior to the mid-1400s.
(competency 007)
✔✔Enlightenment - ✔✔"Social and political problems can be solved through the
application of reason to practices and institutions," was a position held by most during
this particular time in history. (1685-1815 B.C.)
(competency 004)
✔✔Taiping Rebellion - ✔✔A movement led by the messianic figure of Hong Xiuquan.
This movement promised its followers a combination of heterodox quasi-Christian
theology and communal or communist-like reforms, including an official ban on the
private ownership of land and a promise of radical redistribution of agricultural land.
(1850-1864)
(competency 004)
✔✔Mexican Revolution - ✔✔This movement was ultimately launched by peasant land-
hunger and dissatisfaction with high rates of indebtedness and abuse at the hands of
large landowners. These major contributing factors led to the events that brought down
the Porfirio Diaz dictatorship in Mexico. (1910-1920)
(competency 004)
✔✔First Industrial Revolution - ✔✔During the 18th and early 19th centuries England
had ease of access to coal deposits in central and northern England, southern Scotland,
and southern Wales. This in combination with a well developed transport infrastructure
due to relatively flat terrain and high population density England was primed and ready
for this.
(competency 004)
✔✔The Green Revolution - ✔✔Beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s, agricultural
scientists began systematically developing new crop varieties that were better suited to
tropical and subtropical climates where growing conditions were suboptimal and yields
had been low.
(competency 005)
, ✔✔A Short History of the Destruction of the Indies - ✔✔Written by Bartolomé de Las
Casas', a Dominican missionary, this document is one of the first Spanish attempts to
depict the unfair treatment of the indigenous people of the Americas (he called the
Indes).
(competency 008)
✔✔British North American Colonies - ✔✔Historians estimate that between 1700 and
1770 the population of this region of colonists grew from about 250,000 to over 2
million.
While many factors influenced this growth, the need for farm labor in the colonies in the
eighteenth century was one of the most important factors. Most colonists lived on farms,
and having more children to help them work the land allowed them to increase
productivity, which in turn led to increased supplies of food to feed larger families.
(competency 008)
✔✔Bicameral Legislature - ✔✔The Great Compromise (or Connecticut Compromise) of
1787 settled a dispute between large states and small states about legislative
representation. Creating this type of legislature consisting of the House of
Representatives and the Senate.
(competency 009)
✔✔House of Representatives - ✔✔States are allotted representatives according to
population. EST. 1787
✔✔Senate - ✔✔Each state is allotted two seats regardless of population. EST. 1787
✔✔The Declaration of Independence - ✔✔"That to secure these rights [i.e., life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness], Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the governed." Is one of the core ideas of this historical
document.
(competency 014)
✔✔Dred Scott - ✔✔A landmark 1857 Supreme Court decision that stated that a person
of African ancestry was not a citizen of the United States and therefore had no rights
and would not become free by moving to a free state. This exacerbated tensions
between the North and the South.
(competency 010)
