ILST PRACTICE CONTENT EXAM
which of the following developments accurately reflects a significant trend in immigration to the US during the period from about 1890 and 1910
Italian immigrants moved into factory and construction work in Northeastern cities
A researcher studying early modern Europe would be most likely to use parish baptismal and burial records in investigating which of the following research topics
Patterns of change in birth rates and mortality rates
A social science teacher frequently has students complete a short anticipation guide before reading a new informational or expository text. Students read several carefully constructed statements related to the text contents and decide whether each statement is true or false based off their prior knowledge. After the student had read the text, the answer the same set of questions about the topic and compare the responses they made before and after reading. The emancipation guide actively has described support students content area reading development primarily by:
Promoting students interests and engagement and reading a new social science text
A social science teacher frequently present students with a graph or data display related to the current unit of study and guides them in analyzing the data using relevant terminology. Afterward, the teacher asked students to write a short paragraph that explains our understanding of the concept or finding the data display represents. In their paragraph, they must use at least five discipline specific terms associated with the unit. In addition to promoting students ability to interpret data displays, the teachers practices are likely to support students content- area reading in concept development primarily by:
Reinforcing their understanding of new vocabulary in ability to use target vocabulary in social science classroom
A social science researcher is analyzing the results of the survey, in which over 500 respondents rated their level of agreement with 25 statements on a scale from 1 to 5. The researcher discovers that on a small number of questionnaires, respondents gave multiple ratings to statements or gave contradictory ratings that statements that were very similar, suggesting they may have missed read statements. Which of the following actions would be most appropriate for the researcher to take to address this issue?
Removing self -contradictory questionnaires from the analysis
A social science teacher is evaluating instructional reading materials for an upcoming unit. Since The class includes students with range of reading abilities, the teacher would like to slide text that qualify as "considerate" or user-friendly. Which of the following features of the teacher look in a text to ensure that the text is "considerate"!
The text includes descriptive headings and emphasizes main ideas through explicit topic sentences
A high school history teacher is preparing a lesson on patterns of continuity in the history labor relations in Illinois, The teacher provides students with following document, an excerpt from the essay "The Case Against the Reds" written in 1920 by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer: My information showed communism in this country was an organization of thousands of aliens, who were direct allies of Trotsky. Aliens of the same misshapen caste of minds and indecencies of character, and it showed that they were making the same glittering promises of lawlessness, of criminal autocracy to Americans that they had made to the Russian peasants. How the Department of Justice discovered upwards of 60,000 of these organized agitators of the Trotsky doctrine in the US is the confidential information upon which of the government is now sweeping the nation clean of such alien filth. Which of the following resources would mos
a newspaper editorial supporting the execution of the Haymarket defendants
data shows that the British colony of Jamaica imported 77,100 Africans as slaves between 1676 and 1700. In 1713, the population in Jamaica of people of African origin numbered 55,000 Which of the following resources could a world history teacher best use to supplement this information to help students understand the nature of slavery in the 18th century Atlantic World
a planation owner's account of the daily operations of a Jamaican sugar planation
Which of the following functions is a primary purpose of the united nations in s the 21st century
coordinating international responses to humanitarian crises
a social science teacher is planning a unit on continuity and change in African American history during the 20th century. The unit will include summative assessments requiring students to work in groups to conduct research and deliver a presentation. which of the following assignments would best accomplish this assessment goal?
creating annotated timelines of milestones related to the Great migration and civil rights movement
The Mississippi cultures of Native Americans shared which of the following cultural features with the Aztec civilization
cultivation of maize as a staple crop
humans are continually bringing new lands under cultivation. The occurs for two reasons. First farmers in many regions often clear new lands to replace existing farmland whos soil had been damaged by overcultivation or practices. Second, the increasing global consumption of food and luxury goods require additional farm land to support expanded agricultural production. The united nations Environmental Programme estimates that as a result of these processes, total world cropland in 2050 will include 470,000 square miles more than it did in 2005. This expansion of cropland will alter Earth's biosphere. The most significant environmental impact of the changes described in the passage is an increase in:
deforestation
the introduction of Islam into sub-Saharan West Africa by the 10th century CE occurred through which of the following circumstances?
diffusion along trans-Saharan gold and salt trading routes
which of the following issues was the most significant cause of the division within the woman's suffrage movement in the US during the second half of the 19th century?
disagreement over support for extending voting rights to AFrican American men
the formation of identity and the ability to solve abstract problems are changes associated with
early adolescence
artists and writers associated with the romantic movements reacted to spread of industrialism primarily by
emphasizing emotional responses to nature
the federal reserve typically reduces interest rates during a recession in order to establish which of the following?
encouraging borrowing to fuel increased household spending
the high school US history teacher is preparing a lesson on the ways in which Native Americans have been depicted in US popular culture. Which of the following resources would most be effective from implementing the lesson?
episodes from 1950s TV series set in the American West
the lincoln-douglas debated during the IL campaign for US senate in 1858 centered primarily on which of the following issue?
expansion of slavery in western territories
according to the standard model of supply and demand, an increase in production costs will result in:
fewer products being sold at a higher price
the historical era that witnessed the origins of Confucianism can most accurately be characterized as a period of:
frequent welfare and the breakdown of traditional hierarchies
the split among Muslims into Shi'a and Sunni branches in the 7th century stems from a dispute over which of the following issues
how rightful leaders of the Muslim community should be chosen
19th century reform movements in northern states such as the temperance movement and the establishing of public education can best be understood primarily as a responses to which of the following developments?
immigration and urbanization
the arrival on the stage of the latest industrial giants- the US and Germany- along with the advent of the small states that were either asleep or exhausted, or the reborn Italy, of Spain enriched by French investments, of Switzerland, enterprising and shrewd, with Russia soon to join, has propelled the entire European world down a competitive course from which we will never able to turn back. Beyond France's borders, protectionists regimes have multiplied factories, reduced our traditional trading partners, and thrown new, aggressive competitors onto European market. Which of the following developments provides the historical context for the ideas expressed in the excerpt
imperial expansion and the acquisition of African Asian colonies
in its provision of massive economic aid to postwar Europe, on of the primary purposes of the Marshall Plan was to
revitalize Western Europe in order to create a market for American manufactured goods
an important cause of the conquest and annexation of the Philippine Islands by the US was the desire to
secure access to the Chinese markets for US manufactured goods
which of the following policies would most likely be enacted by a country undergoing transition from a command to a market economy
selling state-owned enterprises to elements within the private sector
A SS teacher could best use the example of an individual from a working class socioeconomic level in the US during the 2nd half of the 20th century entering the workforce immediately after high school rather than pursuing post-secondary education to illustrate the influence of
social class on life decisions
a rule or guideline for appropriate behavior shared by most members of a society is generally identified as a:
social norm
a direct result of the production of an agricultural surplus in early civilizations was the
specialization of labor and increased economic complexity
during a unit on human development, a high school SS teacher plans to introduce Jean Piaget's model of child development and learning. The teacher could best use which of the following activities to support student understanding of this content?
students view videos of children performing tasks in preschool and elementary classrooms and identify the stages of development depicted.
an important difference between the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was that
the AFL organized skilled workers by trade, while the IWW promoted unity promoted unity among skilled and unskilled workers
which of the following developments most contributed to the emergence of the industrial revolution in great Britain during the late 18th century?
the consolidation of agricultural lands and migration of agricultural laborers to urban centers
which of the following federal policies contributed to the growth of suburbs in the US during 1950s
the construction of interstate highways
a high school SS teacher could best illustrate the effect of industrialization on a nonindustrial society in the 19th century by providing instruction on:
the decline of cotton textile exports from India
the critical attitude towards human perfectibility that emerged in 20th century philosophies such as existentialism may best be understood as a response to:
the destruction wrought by scientific technology in the world wars
the nullification crisis of 1832 primarily stemmed from which of the following developments in the US during the first half of the 19th century?
the divergence between a manufacturing economy in the North and an export-driven agrarian economy in the South
which of the following statements most accurately explains why Ming China ceased its voyages of exploration of the Indian Ocean basin during the 15th century
the empire's resources were reallocated to defend China's northern frontier
which of the following statements related to the inhabitants of Cahokia in the period of approximately 950 to 1250 CE is best supported by archaeological evidence
the engaged in elaborate networks of trade via river systems
which of the following accurately reflects a significant cause of the US military involvement in Korea in 1950s
the establishment of Communist rule in China
Which of the following concerns is reflected in the governmental structure established by the Articles of Confederation and in the inclusion of the Declaration of rights in several states constitution of the period
the fear of centralized federal authority that would replicate the rule of Great Britain
In vain can anyone's eyes be closed to the revolution that time and the force of things have brought to pass; it is none the less real. Once upon a time the Third Estate was in bondage and the noble order was everything that mattered. Today the Third Estate is everything and nobility but a word... inequalities of wealth or ability are like the inequalities of age, sex, size, etc. In no way do they detract from the equality of citizenship Which of the following developments in the 18th century Europe most accurately reflects historical context of Sieyes's ideas?
the increased economic importance of the urban middle class
which of the following factors best explains why the Western Roman Empire collapsed and broke into regional kingdoms in the 5th century CE, while the Eastern Roman Empire maintained its political and territorial integrity?
the more urbanized Eastern Roman Empire possessed greater financial resources
Replacement of the Articles of Confederation with the US constitution primarily reflects which of the following concerns
the need for a strong federal government to respond to a social unrest during a period of economic crisis
in the late 19th century, the development of the philosophy of Social Darwinism served to justify
the political and economic dominance of wealthy industrialists
which of the following issues contributed most to international conflict in North Africa and Southwest Asia during the 20th century
the presence of petroleum and resulting competition over access to this resource
historical analysis of the experiences of indigenous peoples and African Americans in the US emerged in the context of which of the following developments?
the process of decolonialization during 1960s
during a unit on geography, a high school SS teacher could best use a world population cartogram to promote students' understanding of:
the relative size of the population of different countries or world regions
which of the following historical example illustrates the concept of cultural diffusion
the spread of Buddhism to East Asia in the 3rd through 6th centuries CE
a high school SS teacher could best use which of the following examples to illustrate the physical geography on the historical development of a region
the spread of greek culture in the Mediterranean basin
an effective comparative analysis of the ancient empires of Rome and Han China would most likely seek to explain
the various factors that contributed to the longevity of both empires in their respective rights
which of the following developments best helps explain the popular success of the religious reformers such as Martin Luther King in the 16th century Europe
the widespread availability of inexpensive printed material
a person had money saved for a foreseeable expenses 18 months in the future and is choosing between saving options at a local bank. which of the following considerations would lead the saver to put the money into a savings account instead of a one year certificate of deposit?
to assure access to the account for unforeseen expenses
in an unit of Europe in the early modern period, a high school world history teacher shows students the excerpt below, from an interpretation of the Renaissance written by Jacob Burckhardt in 1860 in far earlier times we can here and there detect a development of free personality which in Northern Europe either did or did not occur at all, or could not display itself in the same manner... but at the close of the 13th century Italy began to swarm with individuality; the ban laid upon human personality was dissolved; and a thousand figures meet us each in its own special shape and dress...These people were forced to know all the inward resources of their own nature, passing or permanent, and their enjoyment of life was enhanced and concentrated by the desire to obtain the greatest satisfaction from a possibly very brief period of power and influence The excerpt can best serve as the basis for an initial discussion e
to what extent did the humanism of the Renaissance represent a divergence of medieval patterns of thought?
the duties of the relief program of the Canadian government allows companies to avoid paying duties on imported goods in some circumstances. Canadian businesses that import goods to be later exported or to be used to produce other goods for eventual export or to be used to produce other goods for eventual export may apply for the duties relief program The duties relief program described in the passage most clearly illustrated which of the following?
trade incentives
the teacher of a 12th grade world history class plans to assign a guided research project to help students better understand the causes of the French revolution. after narrowing the general research topic to conditions in the ancient regime that contributed to the revolution, the teacher could best share which of the following with the students?
translations of selected 18th century French political cartoons satirizing the three-estate social structure.
A social science teacher would like to improve students ability to comprehend and retain social information from social science tax. For example, the teacher would like the students to attend carefully to a text essential vocabulary and main ideas, including tracing the authors argument, claims, and evidence. The teacher would best achieve this goal by providing students with explicit modeling and guided practice in which of the following comprehension strategies?
Annotating a text systematically during reading
To support students content area reading and concept development, a social science teacher regularly has the students engage in an academic discussion focused on comparing different perspectives presented in various text. To foster these discussions, the teacher explicitly teaches the students how to: Present a position using evidence or justification listen actively to opposing argument formulate statements that agree or disagree respectfully and objectively by referring to the specific claim a speaker has made The teachers actions are likely to support students reading and concept development in the social science classroom primarily in which of the following ways?
By promoting their academic language development and critical thinking skills
Prior to signing students to read an informational text for homework, a social science teacher introduces them to key discipline -specific vocabulary from the text. Which of the following strategies would be most appropriate for the teacher to use to differentiate the reading assignment for English language learners in the class who have advanced level language and literacy proficiency in English?
Especially pre-teaching the English language learners any idiomatic expressions in general academic vocabulary essential comprehending the text
an important similarity between the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the Chinese Revolution of 1945-1949 was both revolutions
were influenced by the devastating impact of war on their respective countries
A high school social science teacher sets assessing the relative strength and limitations of sources as a learning goal for students, including sources reflecting different historical perspective. The teacher would find which of the following pairs of documents most useful for facilitating this goal
A 1990 interview with World War I veteran and war correspondent from the 1942
A social science teacher could best use which of the following samples to illustrate the influence of mass media on public policy
A newspaper series on nursing homes has followed by investigations and new regulations
racial violence is East St.Louis in 1917 and Chicago 1919 reflected which of the following developments
competition between recent African American migrants and white workers for factory jobs
Social science teacher could best use which of the following samples to illustrate the concept of sovereignty?
An autonomous region within a nation exercises authority within regional borders
High school social science teacher wants students to understand the tentative nature of historical interpretation. Which of the following pairs of sources would be most helpful to the teacher in accomplishing this goal?
Analysis of the causes of the Civil War written during reconstruction and a history of the Civil War written 50 years later
which of the following developments contributed significantly to the economic growth of Illinois from approximately 1850 to 1880
competition of the Illinois central railroad
Hi school social science teacher plans to take an interdisciplinary approach to instruction during the instruction on the US Civil War. The teacher could best use which of the following activities to introduce this approach
Comparing the development of the northern and southern states during the first half of the 19th century
Students in social science class plan to research the attitudes of their peers towards current events. The student researchers believe that their fellow students may be more willing to express their opinions anomalously than publicly. The student researchers could best protect the anonymity of their students by:
Conducting written surveys using questionnaires that assign numbers to subjects
The Marshall plan, military aid to the south Vietnam, and the Bay of Pigs invasion are examples of wish the phone US foreign policy during the 20th century?
Containment
a 12th grade economics teacher wants to help students develop and undertstanding of how the oublic and private sectors interact in a mixed economy like that of the US. Which of the following activities would best help students understand this?
Students compile a list of private-sector economic activities and brainstorm government activities that could affect each one
Prior to assigning a new informational text a social science teacher regularly leads in analyzing the graphics in the texts. Later, once students read the text, the teacher has them look for statements or claims by the author that are supported by the information in the graphics. The teachers actions are likely to support the students content- area reading development primarily by promoting their ability to
Synthesizers information presented in different formats in a text
A social science research or is planning a study that include human subjects. In order to maintain ethical practices, it is most important for the research to ensure that potential participants understand
That they may declined to participate and opt out at any time
a significant cause of the early 19th century revolutions against Spanish rule in Latin America was the desire of the Creole elites to
remove the administrative and economic restrictions imposed by mercantilism
In addition to the sectional conflict over slavery, a Marxist interpretation of the causes of you as Civil War would most likely emphasize which of the following factors?
The conflicting economic goals of industrial and agrarian capitalists
The methodology of ethnography would most likely be critical in exploring which of the following social science topics?
The fact of power dynamics in determining values within a group
The strongest reason for giving women all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body; for giving her the most in large freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influence of fear, is assaulted and personally responsibility of her own individual life. In the excerpt Stanton primary addresses which of the following questions
What do women need in order to be fully sovereign individuals?
But the great security against gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consist in giving to those who administer each department of the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist enrichment of others... in framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulties lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions In the excerpt Madisons argument most clearly address which of the following principles of constitutional government?
checks and balances
a high school history teacher is preparing a lesson on the relationship between cultural developments in the North American colonies and the origins of the American Revolution. Which of the following resources would be most appropriate for this purpose?
a table characterizing the most popular books purchased in Boston and Philadelphia C. 1770
which of the following developments had been most significant in the decline in manufacturing employment in the united states and IL since 1970?
advances in technology that minimize labor needs
which of the following developments most clearly reflects the domestic impact of US foreign policy in the middle east during the 1970s
an economic downturn as a result of a steep increase in oil prices
by 80 years ago our population was confined on the west by the ridge of the Alleghenies. Within that period- within the lifetime, i might say, of some of my hearers- our people, increasing to many millions, have filled the eastern valley of the Mississippi, adventurously ascended the Missouri to its headsprings, and are already engaged in establishing the blessing of self-government in valleys of which the rivers flow to the Pacific. The world beholds the peaceful triumphs of the industry of our emigrants. Which of the following developments was direct result of the ideas expressed in the excerpt?
annexation of Texas and Oregon
during a unite on political science, a social science teacher sets understanding issues, processes, and procedures related to international relations as a learning goal for students. Which of the following extended activities would best support students in achieving this learning goal?
as a class, planning and conducting an in-class simulation of plenary session of the united nations general assembly
Scientist consider the Amazon rainforest critical to the earths biodiversity into controlling the atmospheric carbon that is driving climate change. This essential research has long been threatened by rampant deforestation, typically the results of logging or clearing land for agriculture. Efforts by nations in this region succeeded in reducing rates of deforestation by more than 80% which in 2004 in 2012. Sadly policies protecting the rainforest have been undermined by powerful ranching and logging interest. In 2016 alone deforestation rates increased to 29% Based on the evidence in the passage the authors statement that efforts to protect the Amazon reference were undermined by ranching and logging interest is best characterized as
assertion
- Reliant on permanent Agriculture -organized a loose confederation of city-states -ruled by a bureaucracy of hereditary nobles this list describes which of the following new world civilizations before contacts with old world powers?
aztec
a SS researcher would most likely use the concepts of algorithms and heuristics in studying which of the following psychology/topics?
cognition and decisions making
the emergence of nationalism in the 19th century Eastern Europe was most closely associated with which of the following trends?
increased anti-Semitic rhetoric and violence against Jews
between 1910 and 1920 the African American population of Chicago increased nearly 150% primarly the result of
increased employment opportunities in wartime manufacturing industries
the efforts of post-Civil war Reconstruction were most successful in which of the following ways
increasing educational opportunities for African Americans in the South
in protesting the Townshend Act of 1767, colonists in port cities such as New York, Boston, and Charleston primarily adopted which of the following strategies?
non-importation and boycotting of British goods such as paper, glass, and tea
Political power is concentrate among small group positions of power may be reserved by law for the elite legal protections for political and economic rights may exist, but our subverted by the elite powers often handed down on generations of the elite The characters is six above best describe which of the following political systems
oligarchy
A historian analyzing the relationship between partial social orders and gender roles in the history of China from the Han to the Qing dynasty would most likely utilize which of the following historical concepts
patterns of continuity and change
during the 1930s, the Tennessee Valley Authority influences the economy of the south primarily through the
provision of electric power to rural communities
the Great Awakening contributed to the social and cultural circumstances behind the outbreak of the American Revolution by encouraging ordinary people to:
question authority and participate actively in debate about their religious leaders
a high school SS teacher could best use the adoption of the potato as a staple crop in Europe to illustrate how human activity can influence:
rates of a growth population
the works of the Harlem Renaissance broke with order literary and artistic traditions of African Americans primarily by
reclaiming and affirmative cultural identity and self-determination of African roots
the principle of comparative advantage is most useful for illustrating the benefits of which of the following economic policies?
reducing tariffs to encourage international trade
in anthropology, the concept of "culture relativism" holds that when conducting research in the field, anthropologists should:
refrain from making judgements based on the standards and norms of the anthropologist's own culture
which of the following social institutions typically plays a significant role in transmitting elements of culture from one society to another and across generations within societies?
religious organizations
