Study Set: Social Science 5-9

The _______ Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the ability to impose and collect an income tax.

16th

In which decades did states begin to assume responsibility for federal programs and mandates without actually gaining federal powers?

1970s and 1980s

When did the first city states emerge in Mesopotamia?

4th millennium B.C.

Which dates coincide with the Middle Period (Middle Ages)?

500 A.D. - 1500 A.D.

How many votes does a candidate need to have in order to become a member of the U.S. Senate?

51

What percent of the Medicare and social security does an employer pay?

7.65%

In the race for your congressional district seat, David Jones won 300,000 votes, which was 45% of the total vote, Mark Thompson won 298,000 votes, which was 44% of the total vote, and John Ceder won 20,000 votes, which was 11% of the total vote. For the next term, David Jones will represent your district in Congress. Evidently, your district uses which of the following electoral systems?

A plurality

Which of the following BEST defines Jim Crow?

A system of laws designed to discriminate against African Americans

Choose the best answer to explain progressive taxes.

A tax imposed based on your ability to pay.

What is Bloom's Taxonomy?

A way of organizing the cognitive skills necessary to complete tasks from lowest to highest

Which of these ruled over much of the Arabian Peninsula during the Golden Age of Islam?

Abbasids

Who was the successor of Muhammad?

Abu Bakr

Which two presidents ushered in the formation of the second evolution of the two-party system in the United States?

Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams

Which of the following is NOT a legacy of the Arabic language on Islamic culture?

Arabic is spoken almost universally in the Islamic world.

How are primary elections defined?

As the elections where a party chooses its nominee for a political office.

How did Egyptians first encounter the Kush?

As traders

What was the capital of the Abbasid Dynasty?

Baghdad

Alabama and South Carolina are holding a second primary between Tom Pearson and John Stierman, who had the most votes in the first round of voting. Why is this type of contest called a runoff primary election?

Because any election where the candidates from the first round who had the most votes face off in a second round is called runoff voting.

Which of the following is NOT a mechanism for political change?

Bialignment

Which statement best describes the role of bias in primary sources?

Biased sources should be complemented with biased sources from a different perspective.

What event did NOT come before the Emancipation Proclamation?

Black men were able to fight for the Union

How was the subject of slavery in the United States taught to schoolchildren in the 1940s?

Children were taught that slaves were happy on plantations.

This person's suntan made having a tan socially desirable.

Coco Chanel

partially caused the fall of the Ming Dynasty

Columbus's arrival in America, Silver from the Andes and Lower Silver Prices

Which of the following is a party committee in Congress that provides funds to members and would-be-members in Congress?

Congressional campaign committee

Which city was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in the year 1453?

Constantinople

According to the National Council for the Social Studies, what is the first step in creating an integrated lesson plan for geography and history?

Devise questions that ask students where a historical event took place

In this Supreme Court case, the Court decided that school-sponsored prayer was unconstitutional:

Engel v. Vitale

A proportional tax is often referred to as a _____.

Flat tax

Who gave the 'Four Freedoms' Speech?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

What did the Emancipation Proclamation grant?

Freedom to slaves in rebellious states and the right for these freed slaves to fight in the Union Army.

Who was Publius?

Hamilton, Madison, and Jay

What eventually happened to Ernesto Miranda?

He was retried and convicted.

What does the Latin phrase 'anno Domini' mean?

In the year of our Lord

Choose the best example of a progressive tax.

Income tax

What is the BEST reason to allow students to create their own media?

It forces students to explore their own opinions and express those opinions in a way that is relatable to their classmates.

What was the result of the Federalist Papers?

It gained support for the Constitution, The letters were compiled and published, New York ratified the Constitution and The writers played a large role in American history and government

What is the significance of McCulloch v. Maryland?

It greatly expanded the power of the federal government.

Mr. Smee is an elementary school teacher. He makes his students sign in on the classroom computer by simply typing their names into a spreadsheet. How does this empower students?

It makes them responsible for their own attendance record

How did the principle of the consent of the governed impact the Declaration of Independence?

It was an integral part of the Declaration and it meant common people have to allow their rulers to have any authority over them.

Why was Arabic learned by elites outside of the Arabic speaking world?

It was the language of the Qur'an

Example of a perforated state:

Lesotho; surrounded by another state

Which of the following is an example of a regressive tax?

Lottery tickets

Choose the best as it relates to regressive tax.

Lower income individuals pay a higher percentage of their income for regressive taxes.

Mansa Musa was from which African country?

Mali

Most associated with the late Roman Republic?

Marcus Licinius Crassus

The necessary and proper clause was used to determine the ruling in which court case?

McCulloch v. Maryland

Which city remains the holiest city to all Muslims?

Mecca

To which city did the Kush move their capital after the Egyptian invasion?

Meroë

A reason that Russians today often consider the Western Front to be a minor front during World War II?

Millions more soldiers fought on the Eastern Front.

Which region of Australia was established as a penal colony by the British in 1788?

New South Wales

The Semitic peoples of the Middle East claimed to be descendants of _____.

Noah's son, Shem.

Most of Egypt's pyramids were built during which kingdom?

Old Kingdom (2700-2200 BCE)

What power was NOT given to the federal government in the Articles of Confederation?

Organize and maintain an army

Which of these empires was founded in 1299 and ruled over modern day Turkey?

Ottoman

Thomas lives in a multi-party system with proportional representation. He is thinking of some of the advantages and disadvantages of living in such a system. What might he consider to be an advantage?

People are better able to vote in accordance with their complex individual belief systems.

A World War II helmet would be an example of which type of resource?

Physical

How did the adherence to one historical perspective lead to the Nazis gaining power in Germany?

Post-World War I treaties were considered cruel by the German people.

If the United States radically overhauled the tax code and established a flat tax, what type of tax structure would it have?

Proportional tax

Catherine II was know for ushering in

Russia's Golden Age

Which of these empires is considered the beginning of modern Persia?

Safavid

Choose the best examples of regressive taxes.

Sales and property tax

In this Supreme Court case, the Court decided that certain types of speech could be prohibited or limited, if they presented an imminent danger to the nation:

Schenck v. United States

What did NOT shift public opinion within the Colonies toward independence?

Similar revolutions in France and Haiti

If you were in Egypt, which direction would you travel to arrive in the Kingdom of the Kush?

South

What was the first set of government rules adopted by the United States?

The Articles of Confederation

Which of the following empires did NOT add Egypt to its territories?

The Babylonian Empire

Legal discrimination based on race and gender did not officially end in the United States until the passage of:

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

Which historical event ushered in the final evolution of our two major political parties?

The Great Depression

Who was Earl Warren?

The Supreme Court Justice who wrote the majority opinion in Miranda v. Arizona.

What impact did the Brown v. Board of Education ruling have on Plessy v. Ferguson?

The Supreme Court ruled that 'separate but equal' was illegal only in public schools

In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled that the state of Louisiana did not violate the 14th Amendment because:

The amendment did not intend for whites and African Americans to be equal in society

Why was the state of Maryland mad that the U.S. government established the Second Bank of the United States?

The bank was competing with other Maryland banks.

Which of these is NOT true about federal income taxes?

The employee and the employer split the tax.

How does the content of the preamble of the Declaration of Independence differ from that of the grievances?

The grievances list examples of the king's tyranny, while the preamble states the functions of government as the Founding Fathers saw them.

According to the National Council for the Social Studies, what is the scope and sequence for the first grade?

The person in school and family life

What defined the Neolithic era?

The rise of agriculture and the move towards non-mobile culture.

The most successful third party candidate to run for president was _____.

Theodore Roosevelt

What is a danger of too many secondary sources?

They can drag a work down and make it dull.

In this Supreme Court case, the Court ruled that students' right to free speech is not the same as outside school, but is still a protected right:

Tinker v. Des Moines School District

Why should we incorporate media literacy in our classrooms?

To teach students how to analyze and understand what they see, hear, or read as well as express their own opinions

In which situation might you pay a proportional tax?

When you buy a computer at a big box store

What scenario is the fifth amendment NOT relevant?

When you saw somebody commit a crime, but you refuse to testify about it because you fear retribution from that person.

History's cause and effect relationships most closely resembles

a Flow Chart

The Atlantic Charter was comprised in the early 1940s to outline

allied war goals

Which of the following practices may even predate the rise of agriculture?

animal husbandry

A term that refers to a teaching approach that ensures that lessons are diverse and recognize that people have different perspectives of topics and learning based on personal characteristics like race and religion.

culturally responsive teaching

The United States Constitution _____.

declares itself the Supreme Law of the Land

What term refers to the development of a military force as a form of threat to another state?

deterrence

The product choice a consumer makes and high levels of involvement with low perceived differences is associated with

dissonance-reducing buying behavior

The role of condottieri was significant in the development of the four main city-states during the Italian Renaissance because the condottieri

enforced religious practices to ultimately ensure the larger city-states had strong religious commitment

The Black Death was a significant impact on the landscape and features of cities throughout Europe because it

forced people to move out of the cities to avoid the spread of disease

The formal structure and organization of a political party is _____ than that of a Fortune 500 company.

less rigid

What was Clarence Gideon accused of in Gideon v. Wainwright?

minor larceny

What is the final step in the naturalization process?

participation in the naturalization ceremony

Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev's attempt to privatize some businesses and give some laborers more freedoms than they had?

perestroika

Assyrians prevented future uprisings in their empire by _____.

relocating conquered peoples from their lands to other parts of the empire

As a result of Plessy v Ferguson, _____ became law in the United States.

segregation

Prior to the Great Depression, investors make assumptions about

stock futures

Article I of the Constitution establishes _____.

the legislative branch of the government, the Congress.