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| How did the Civil War effect the Confederate economy? |
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The South’s output was primarily cotton. However, the North blockaded Southern ports, and prevented cotton from being exported. Because the South had no income, it was forced to print more and more money, resulting in higher and higher inflation. |
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Which of the following groups did not rebel against British control over the 13 colonies?
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| The second amendment was written to avoid what? |
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| What is the group of indigenous people of British Columbia, Canada? |
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| What Central Asian region constituted the northeastern extent of Alexander the Great’s Empire and was later ruled by Genghis Khan’s son, Chagatai? |
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| What does Article One of the Constitution discuss? |
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| The rights and responsibilities of Congress. |
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| Describe a Chomskyan, or universal grammar theory of language acquisition. |
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| Children are innately driven to develop language and will “learn” to speak regardless of whether they are rewarded or punished for doing so. |
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| ncreasing prices imply an increase in the rate of inflation. Inflation is caused by a surplus in the supply of money. In order to reduce inflation, the government needs to reduce the money supply. Printing more money will increase the money supply—clearly the wrong tactic. If the government buys bonds, this too will cause an increase in the money supply because the government would transfer money from the Federal Reserve into the economy. The government also should not reduce the capital gains tax, because this will also have the effect of putting more money into the economy. The only valid course of action among the options given is for the government to sell bonds, thereby taking money out of circulation and putting it in the reserve bank. |
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| What is the third amendment? |
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| The Third Amendment refers to the quartering of troops in private homes during wartime and reads in full as follows: “No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.” |
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| Describes the trend of the United States economy during the past two decades? |
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| The overall trend is toward greater trade deficits, with trade surpluses occurring only during recessions. |
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| Describe the effects of the Three-Fifths Compromise. |
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| Three-fifths of the total number of free Blacks in Northern states was counted for the purposes of representation. |
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| What was the immediate response of Czechoslovakian citizens to the invasion their country by Warsaw Pact forces in 1968? |
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| The Servicemen's Readjustment Act |
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| GI Bill, had the effect of stimulating the U.S. economy by increasing education and providing low-interest loans to former soldiers. An overall effect was increased job growth and wages, coupled with expanding suburbs and home ownership |
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| What is the capital of Bulgaria? |
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| In order to enter the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean, a ship must pass through which strait? |
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| The Strait of Gibraltar. Between Spain and Morocco. |
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| Which of the following represents a lasting consequence of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society? |
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| Federal funding for public schools. |
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| Which of the following was the last major action of the American Revolution? |
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| What represents the parts of Sternberg’s Triarchic Intelligence Theory of Intelligence? |
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| Componential, experiential, contextual. |
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| Name three effects of the Colombian Exchange. |
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1. The Colombian Exchange deeply affected worldwide society.
2. The Colombian Exchange involved legal action against a drug cartel.
3. The Colombian Exchange took place after Christopher Columbus arrived to the Americas. |
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| How did Hitler’s Nazi Party rise to power in the German government between 1924 and 1933? |
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| The Communist Party of Greece was declared illegal as a result of which of the following? |
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-Building adobe houses in canyons.
-Making geometrically-incised pottery.
-Weaving baskets |
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Which of the following ideologies contributed most to the accumulation of military power in the years leading up to 1914 in Europe?
-Communism, Isolationism, Nationalism, Socialism |
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| Which of the following electoral systems uses a formula to achieve a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates obtain in elections and the percentage of seats they receive? |
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| Proportional representation. |
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| A government decision to lower taxes involves a change in: |
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| the use of government expenditure and revenue collection to influence the economy |
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| In the past 35 years, significant parts of Brazil have been cleared to grow which of the following? |
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| The Orinoco River flows through which of the following countries? |
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| What is addressed by Article Four of the U.S. Constitution? |
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| Power and limits of the States. |
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| The largest amphibious invasion force ever gathered together for the purposes of a one-day assault was led by which of the following? |
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower,
In the capacity of Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, Eisenhower was in charge of planning and overseeing Operation Overlord: The Invasion of Nazi-Occupied France at the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. |
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| A country with a large number of major national parties, each with its distinct political agenda, most likely has which of the following electoral systems? |
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| Proportional representation. |
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| Proportional Representative |
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| there tends to be several national parties distinguished by fairly wide discrepancies in political outlook, pushing forward specific political agendas, as contrasted with the United States, where there are just two major parties, with broadly similar agendas differing mainly in terms of ideology. |
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| At the most basic level, justice can be considered the socio-political instantiation of the economic principle of: |
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| The concept of "tyranny of the majority" first appeared in which of the following? |
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Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America
lthough the concept was popularized by John Stuart Mill, de Tocqueville coined the idea of "tyranny of the majority", which asserts that decisions made by a majority would place that majority's interests so far above a minority's interest as to be comparable in cruelty to tyrannical despots. |
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| Which Latin American country has two capital cities? |
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| What is the difference between a recession and a depression? |
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| A recession is a normal downturn in the business cycle and a depression is a sustained downturn in the economy. |
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| “The History of the Present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.” In the preceding passage, “the Present King of Great-Britain” refers to |
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| Nullification Crisis of 1828–1832 |
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| involved South Carolina’s refusal to pay tariffs imposed by federal law. The legislature of South Carolina claimed that they had the right to annul any law of the United States that impinged upon its own interests. They threatened secession, and Jackson threatened sending in the U.S. military. Eventually a compromise was reached, and the Secessionist bent of South Carolina would lay dormant for another 28 years. Jackson’s Proclamation Regarding Nullification of December 10, 1832, was written by Secretary of State Edward Livingston. |
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| “The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.” The preceding sentence is most closely associated with which of the following political theorists? |
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| A flexible exchange rate system. |
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| system allows the free market laws of supply and demand to determine the values of currencies. |
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| The American Federation of Labor was founded by: |
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| The People Power Revolution in the Philippines succeeded in overthrowing a long-standing autocratic government through the use of: |
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| Which of the following was the first to suggest that the Earth was not the center of the universe? |
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| Which of the following is best defined by the ability to influence the behavior of others? |
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| The function of the Congressional Budget Office of the United States is to: |
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| Assist Congress in analyzing the President’s budget. |
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| The earliest archaeological evidence of the existence of cities tends to be found in which of the following areas? |
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| Ocean coasts and river valleys. |
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| Which of the following pre-Columbian civilizations was located in the coastal lowlands of south-central Mexico and is known for having carved large stone heads? |
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| “You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population. Its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.” The author of the preceding passage was a: |
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| A recent study of mental health in Britain found that adults who had been separated from their parents in early childhood had a greater chance of developing schizophrenia than those who had not been separated. This finding is most consistent with the ideas of which of the following theorists? |
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| Which of the following best describes the direct result of the Act of Supremacy of 1534? |
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| England became a Protestant country. |
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| King Henry VIII declared himself head of the Church of England. Before that time, England had been a Catholic country. After the Act, England became Protestant |
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| In the 1950's, oil was discovered off the coast of Nigeria. This discovery prompted some geologists to search for oil off the coast of Brazil, and their hunch paid off. Which of the following geographic processes best explains the geologists’ choice to look for oil off the coast of Brazil? |
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| The Theory of Plate Tectonics suggests that both countries were one at one time. |
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| Which of the following dramatically contributed to the economic viability of slavery in the South? |
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| The Long Count calendar is particularly associated with which of the following early civilizations? |
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| A person who has been exceedingly happy for at least four days may be considered hypomanic if they are also showing which of the following symptom triads? |
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| Grandiose sense of self; fast-paced speech; and racing thoughts. |
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| After the abdication of Tsar Nicholas in early 1917, which of the following prevented the establishment of constitutional democracy in Russia? |
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| The return of Lenin from exile in Switzerland. |
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| Which of the following is BEST defined by the exclusive right to have control over an area of governance, people or oneself? |
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| Which of the following provisions does the Constitution make for the removal of a President from office? I: Impeachment for high crimes and misdemanors; II: Citizen initiatives in the case of extreme disapproval ratings; III: Ouster by a three-fourths majority vote of both Houses. |
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| Which of the following accurately portrays the process by which the democratic government of ancient Athens could declare war on Sparta? |
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| After hearing pro and contra arguments, a simple majority of citizens in the assembly voted directly in favor. |
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| The crushing defeat of U.S. military forces by a combined Lakota-Cheyenne force in 1876 took place at which of the following sites? |
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