Practice Test 3 - missed subjects

Preemtive War Doctine

The US will attack a threat before it is attacked if there is strong evidence that an attack against the US is imminent US policy post 9/11 (under bush)

Which Caliphate limited egalitarianism?

The Umayyads

correctly order the navigate, currency, molasses acts, and salutary neglect

1. navigation 2. molasses 3. currency 4. neglect

What profession did Rene Descartes and other deists liken God's actions to be like?

A watchmaker - creating the laws and systems of the universe and then letting it works itself out of its own accord without any personal, divine interference

Who did George H.W. Bush serve as VP to?

Ronald Reagan

5 US post-Cold War policies

1. maintenance of US global hegemony 2. pursuit of free trade and development of international economic institutions 3. spread democracy 4. support humanitarian missions 5. punishing and isolating rogue states that threaten international peace and stability

The scientific revolution helped, in part, to eliminate belief in what 3 things?

1. witchcraft 2. alchemy 3. supernatural healers

What did new trade routes help pay for, useful for intellectuals and elites in major cities?

New libraries

Which anti-slavery activist, newspaper editor, and former slave was one of the men who attended the Seneca Falls convention and signed the Declaration of Sentiments?

Frederick Douglass

What even brought an end to the bipolar world that existed during the cold war?

The collapse of the Soviet Union

Where was confucianism founded?

China

Who were the main organizers of the Seneca Falls convention of 1848?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

How did Harry Truman get to be president in 1945?

FDR died and truman replaced him

In what state was the 1848 convention for women's rights held?

New York

Innovations of Islamic Farmers

New mills, new techniques, new crops

What is an accurate assessment of the status of women during the Islamic period?

Not equal to men, but definitely better than 100 years before Islam

What was the name of the operation to shield Saudi Arabia from Irawi attack in 1990 and 91?

Operation Desert Storm

Who co-founded the women's rights paper "The Revolution" with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1870?

Susan B. Anthony

Truman's Fair Deal focused most concertedly on elevating which segment of soviet?

The working class

why is it often difficult to enter into a market that east resembles an oligopoly

due to the level of capital investment required

In the post-cold war years, foreign service agents were likely to have a more difficult job than earlier agents because:

during the Cold War, the US could identify its enemy more easily

Why did england need the colonies to succeed under mercantilism?

england needed more raw materials without having to buy them with hard currency

What are client states

weakens states that rely upon a major power for support and aid. used to engage in conflict through the cold war.

3 ways Jackson attempted to protect the rights of the common man

1. fought against economic monopolies 2. changed political nomination process 3. rejected pork-barrel politics

What was an unnecessary foreign policy objective of the US after the end of the Cold War?

containment

Why would a perfectly competitive market be beneficial for consumers?

bc all market participants would have to compete on price

Why was Truman's Fair Deal received differently than his predecessor's (FDR) policies?

bc the american economy had recovered

What is a Jihad

A holy war fought by Muslims in west africa

What is Neo-Confucianism?

blending Confucianism and Buddhism

What effect Salutary neglect have on the colonies?

colonial prosperity

main after-effect of the Molasses act?

smuggling

What were Berbers

Arab traders from North Africa

free market

market without significant government intervention

The spread of Islam in West africa was...

1. aided by the trans-saharan caravan trade 2. at first west african kings tried to contain it but eventually allowed it to mix with their own culture 3. came from north africa

1828 election

Andrew Jackson vs. John Quincy Adams > Jackson won in a "landslide" Jackson campaigned sternly, while Adams mostly governed from the White house, refusing to campaign campaign filled with insults, half-truth, and accusations from both sides Jackson won due to popularity among common Americans over 80% voter turnout

Many of the attendees and participants in the first women's rights conventions were involved in what other reform cause of the 1830s and 40s?

Anti-slavery movement

Who first introduced Islam to West Africa?

Berbers

George H.W. Bush's father was a senator from what state?

Connecticut

why does the market structure of the US most resemble monopolistic competition?

bc it consists of many small firms offering similar products

Why was it unusual for John C. Calhoun to serve as Vice president to both Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams

bc they were member of opposing political parties, but he shifted his political affiliation

What philosopher took skepticism to its theoretical limit by questioning his own existence?

Rene Descartes

Fundamental knowledge of the universe prior to the Scientific revolution was base don what?

Revealed truth

What one issue did Truman's Fair Deal focus on much more explicitly than FDR's New Deal?

Segregation

Truman's Fair Deal built upon which set of presidential policies?

The New Deal

monopolistic competition

a large # of businesses selling similar products we have in US

Perfectly competitive market

a large # of small firms selling identical products

What is the Declaration of Sentiments

a list of resolutions and grievances that included demands for a woman's right to education, property, a profession, and the the vote

What is a follower of Islam known as?

a muslim

What was the Yuan Dynasty?

a period when China was ruled by Mongol emperors

What best describes the colonial economy?

based on trade in agricultural products

Why does a monopoly-based system result in a negative business environment?

it involves only one strong company that determines the market price

What major effect did Confucianism have on the Sung dynasty government in China?

it lead to civil service exams so that only qualified people could serve in government

how did the election of 1828 differ to most elections before it?

it only had 2 candidates of the 2 major parties - republicans and democrats

New knowledge of the Scientific revolution was based on what?

observation and experimentation

4 types of market structures

perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, monopoly

What demographic could vote for the first time in 1828?

poor white men (non-landowning)

What US foreign policy was develop in response to 9/11?

the preemptive war doctrine1

How did the mongol emperors of China use confucianism?

they used it to make themselves seem more Chinese and gain support of the Chinese people

Why did non-muslims have to pay a poll tax?

to cover civic defense expenses

What did George H.W. bush's Points of Light campaign emphasize?

volunteering

Cold War

war that does not involve direct warfare between two countries but instead relies on threats, propaganda, and indirect conflict through support of client states