Praxis Ii 5081

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Describe the Eastern Woodland peoples, such as the Iroquois and Algonquin, before European colonization.

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Agriculturalists who supplemented their diet with hunting and gathering

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The primary source of agricultural labor in the British colonies in North America during the early years of colonization until the 1660s was?

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Indentured servants from Great Britain

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What directly allowed early factories in the United States to appear outside the mill towns of New England?

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Steam power

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Immigrants who settled in large cities in the United States between 1890 and 1914 primarily came from what regions?

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Southern and Eastern Europe

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In the decade after the end of the Cold War, United States foreign policy was most strongly characterized by what?

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A focus on expanding economic prosperity through globalization and free trade

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What was a direct result of the Neolithic Revolution?

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The growth of agricultural communities

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What resulted from the Bantu migrations in sub-Saharan Africa from circa 500 B.C.E. to 1000 C.E.?

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The southward spread of agricultural cultivation and the domestication of animals

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Confucianism developed as a system of thought in China primarily in response to?

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the instability and political crises brought about by frequent regional conflict during the Warring States period

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What was an effect of the Mongol conquests under Genghis Khan and his successors during the thirteenth century?

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The revival of trade along the Silk Road

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What best describes the political organization of Maya civilization circa 300–700 C.E.?

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A collection of independent city-states

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What is a similarity between Christianity in western Europe and Islam in the Middle East before 1000 C.E.?

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Both were strongly influenced by Judaism

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What did Louis XIV of France and Peter the Great of Russia have in common as monarchs?

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Both rulers distrusted the people of the noble class and forced them to live in close proximity to their royal courts.

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What was a major effect of plantation agriculture in the Americas during the period 1500 to 1700?

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Africans involuntarily migrated to South America.

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What was an important effect of the Protestant Reformation in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

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Increased literacy in predominately Protestant states

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Describe the circumstances of Canada, Australia, and South Africa within the British Empire during the nineteenth century

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All three regions contained a large proportion of European settlers and had considerable autonomy.

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What countries have had a woman president or prime minister?

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India, Israel, and Great Britain

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What was an effect of the collapse of centralized communist governments on Eastern Europe in 1989?

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Ethnic conflict as a result of deep historical tensions

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What was an argument made by the Anti-Federalists against the ratification of the Constitution?

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The Constitution failed to protect individual rights.

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What is the function of standing committees?

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They allow members of Congress to gain expertise in specific policy areas

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What power does the Constitution grant to the president?

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Making appointments

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What term describes the process by which bureaucrats interpret the meaning of laws and decide how they should be implemented?

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Rulemaking

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The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty focusing on the issue of

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Climate Change

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If a state’s population increases, its representation in Congress is most likely to change how?

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The state will gain representation in the House only.

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What best summarizes Thomas Hobbes’ argument in favor of a strong central government?

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Anarchy can only be avoided by entering into a social contract enforced by a sovereign.

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What is one difference between the Senate and the House of Representatives?

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The Senate is governed by fewer formal rules than the House is.

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Voter turnout is typically highest in what election?

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Presidential general elections

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What is a system in which powers are distributed between the national and subnational governments?

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Federalism

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Selective incorporation is the process by which

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certain Bill of Rights protections have been applied at the state level

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Political polarization is best described as a process in which

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individuals’ political preferences increasingly resemble those of the political parties they are affiliated with

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What best characterizes the Supreme Court’s ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut?

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Married couples have certain privacy rights that legislatures may not violate.

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What is an example of pork-barrel politics?

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Directing federal funds to a representative’s district through legislation

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This drawing most closely illustrates what?

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Separation of Powers

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What is an example of the spatial economic practice of agglomeration?

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A rubber tire factory and windshield producer locate near an automobile assembly plant.

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Zero degrees of longitude is the line known as

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The Prime Meridian

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90 degrees of latitude is

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North or South Pole

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Name this projection, it is commonly found on classroom maps of the world and in the image above, accurately depicts the size of the continents but is not true to direction?

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Robinson

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What causes weather patterns to move from west to east across the United States?

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Jet stream

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The massive depletion of the Aral Sea, which has shrunk significantly from the fourth largest lake in the world, is most likely due to what?

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Use of the water from the feeder rivers for irrigation

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According to the map above, the distance between Nome and Barrow, Alaska, is approximately how many miles?

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500

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In contrast to developed countries, developing countries are generally characterized by

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a higher proportion of their population working in agriculture

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Unemployment that occurs as a result of a mismatch between currently available workers and required job skills is

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structural unemployment

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What is an indicator of long-run economic growth?

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An increase in long-run aggregate supply

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What increases labor productivity?

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An increase in the skills of workers

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The United States dollar appreciates when

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the demand for the United States dollar increases in the foreign exchange markets.

or

the price level in the United States decreases relative to price levels in the rest of the world.

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The United States dollar depreciates when

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real interest rates in the United States are lower than real interest rates in the rest of the world.

or

the supply of the United States dollar increases in the foreign exchange markets.

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If a country imposes a tariff on imports, what will happen?

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The loss in consumer surplus will exceed the gain in producer surplus.

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When the economy is in a recession, the Federal Reserve might implement an expansionary monetary policy in an effort to increase aggregate demand, which will cause

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real gross domestic product and the price level to increase

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Assume Country X can produce either 100 computers or 20 cars. The opportunity cost of producing a car in Country X is

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5 computers

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An increase in the expected rate of inflation will result in?

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higher nominal interest rate

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Two neighboring towns of Skyville and Grandview hire basic manufacturing workers in a perfectly competitive labor market. If the demand for basic manufacturing labor in the town of Grandview increased, the wages in Grandview would

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rise, and the supply of labor in Skyville would decrease

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What is the reward to entrepreneurs for assuming risk?

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Profits

Front 52

Assume that fish and chicken are substitutes. If chicken farms experience a significant increase in the price of chicken feeds, what will happen?

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The demand curve in the fish market will shift to the right.