Praxis 5086 part one

Which of the following is an example of pork-barrel politics?

Wrote discourse on origins of the inequality of mankind the social contract of Emile gove must rule @ will of ppl

Which of the following best describes the political organization of Maya civilization circa 300-700 C.E.?

Which of the following were important causes of the Russian defeat in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905?

Immigrants who settled in large cities in the US between 1890/1914 primarily came from which of the following regions?

Family- the base unit of any society.Education- the values and norms of culture are communicated via school/family. Etc.

Which of the following changes indicates long-run economic growth?

Imperial dynasty that ruled china and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy

European powers engaged in proxy wars, supporting powerful tribes jockeying for control of land in the Great Lakes/SE

The middle class including merchants industrialist and profession people of Russia

According to Karl Marx, the modern social structure is a product of

The main goal of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to provide

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

Monopolie/trusts, developed through horizontal/vertical integration, same business leaders controlled the same markets

The anti-monarchical philosophies of Enlightenment thinkers like Rousseau and Voltaire.

Economics is defined as a social science that deals with the study of how

In response to Boston tea party 4 acts passed in 1774 called the...

the "last good emperor" wrote "mediations" personal reflections on his beliefs at the end of Pax Romana

Government exists at the will of the people.

Athenian statemen whose leadership contributed to Athens political and cultural supremacy in Greece

Which issues caused both the Whig and Democratic Parties to split internally in the 1850s along sectional lines?

The knowledge, skills, and experience necessary for a person to perform a specific task is known as

Also referred to as the the tripartle agression was a military attack on Egypt by Britain France & Israel in 1956

The impact of reparations and the support of German industrialists.

a popular drug expires this year& a # of companies decided to produce generic versions resulting in the price will

Which of the following is a reward to entrepreneurs for assuming risk?

Abolitionist who helped runaway slaves escape to the N along the Ohio part of Underground Railroad led Ohio anti slavery

Which of the following regions was the first to develop settled agriculture

Selective incorporation is the process by which

Between 1820/1840, the growing economy of the US relied primarily on which of the following for transportation of goods

proclamation of 1763...

Which of the following is a major social institution?

An election in which voters are not required to be members of a political party to vote for party candidates is known as

Fans storm field after win, those in stands were law abiding citizens. their behavior canbe explained by principle of

Which of the following distinguishes the colonization of New France in the eighteenth century from that of New England?

Which of the following was most significant in allowing river valley civilizations to flourish?

To determine income distribution, family incomes are ranked low-high.ranking divided into sections called quintileswhich

Major dynasty that ruled china from mid 14th to mid 17th centuries

Which of the following are most common in states that use proportional representation electoral systems?

Which caused Spanish, British, and French forces to fight wars in North America prior to the American Revolution?

The Great Leap Forward was known as what

Which of the following was an immediate cause of the sale of the Louisiana Territory to the United States in 1803?

Had its origins in rise in nationalism in the Balkans/Russian goal of recvoering territorial loss during the Crimean war

Philosophical system by Laotzu/chuangtzu advocating a simple honest life/no interference w/course of natural events

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

Why did the European revolutions of 1848 fail in the years immediately following the uprisings?

Parliament measures that taxed tea and other commodities and edt a board of commissioners in 1767

in recessionthe Federal Reserve might implement expansionary monetary policy inaneffort to up aggregate demand& cause

Passed over Trumans veto law contained # of provision to weaken labor unions mandated cooling off on strikes

Which of the following examples best shows the spatial economic practice of agglomeration?

A doctrine of military strategy full scale of nuclear weapons 2 opposing sides effectively result in equal destruction

Which of the following strategies did the Union attempt as it sought to defeat the South during the American Civil War?

Participatory democracy, in which local groups made decisions directly by vote

Which of the following countries has had a woman as prime minister

Which of the following is the best example of a nation-state?

Important US railroad trust in 1902 by EH Harriman / James j hill/JP Morgan/Rockefeller controlled many railways

Result of the end of Austria-Prussian war Austria doesn't get involved in German affairs big step to German unification

John b Watsons theory, growth, learning, & training would always win out over any possible inborn tendencies.

Led a movement to create a United/unified democratic china free from foreign control

Federal Reserve implements all monetary policy in the US Monetary policy regulates amount of money available in banks

Communities of Hasidic Jews living in New York City and Mennonites living in rural Ohio are examples of

Politicalsystem nobles are granted use of lands that legally belong to king in exchange for loyalty military service etc

If a country imposes a tariff on imports, which of the following will occur?

fish/chicken are substitutes. If chicken farms experience a high increase in the price of chicken feeds, what happens

During Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, those who protested against the leadership of the colony were chiefly

The league of Indian tribes in the NE that fought w/ the English during the French Indian war. Supported loyalists

Most growth is the Pacific NW the Rocky Mountain W, and the S. While the agricultural midwest and Great Plains lose pop

Which most likely led to the shift in human societies from hunting and gathering to agriculture beginning circa 8k bce

socialreform movement of the 19th belief that est small communities based on common ownership a less competitive society

Middle part of the Stone Age beginning about 15000 years ago

Medieval philosophy and theological system that tried to reconcile faith and reason

The relationship between prejudice and discrimination is best characterized by which of the following?

Which of the following is the most common psychological disorder in the United States?

The post WW2 US foreign policy that called for supporting European countries against communist invasions or communists

In the late nineteenth century, economic development in the southern United States was largely characterized by

West African empire founded by syndicate kerita known for mansa Musa 1 along the Niger River

regarding the circumstances of Canada/Australia/South Africa within the British Empire during the 19th century is true

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

Which of the following powers does the Constitution grant to the president?

Which term describes the process which bureaucrats interpret the meaning of laws & decide how they should be implemented

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

A population's rate of natural increase is determined by which of the following?

Farming system where farmers move from 1 place to another when land becomes exhausted

Lenin's pamphlet in the 20th century Russia that argued for the vanguard of the revolution

Which characterizes the Articles of Confederation?

The framers of the Constitution argued that judicial independence would be best protected by

first mesoamerican civilization problem of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization

Whichpotential hazards has seen coordinated international efforts to prevent further damage to the environment

conquest of Greek peninsula by invaders of 1100s dedicated to king Agamemnon who led the Greeks in the Trojan war

Which of the following initiatives was a Progressive Era response to the threat of environmental degradation?

Proclaimed to be literal truth of the Bible published by conservative leaders anti-modernist protest movement

made by India bright to Europe by Arab mathematicians placevaluenotation more efficient than numerical system of Greeks

The practorian guard was

Interest groups regularly engage in which of the following activities?

Which describes the Eastern Woodland peoples, such as the Iroquois and Algonquin, before European colonization?

Mesoamerican civilization noted for the only fully developed written language of the pre Colombian Americans

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

Farming system where animals are taken to different locations for fresher pastures

Which of the following best describes the political landscape of the Northeast before European contact?

Progressivism is