TExES Exam Social Studies 7-12 8

Question 1

The Columbian Exchange primarily refers to which historical phenomenon?

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The transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World following 1492

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The establishment of trade routes between European city-states during the Renaissance

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The diplomatic agreements signed between Spain and Portugal dividing the New World

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The migration of indigenous peoples across the Bering Land Bridge into the Americas

Question 2

Which economic system, dominant in Western Europe from roughly the 16th to 18th centuries, held that a nation's wealth was measured by its stock of gold and silver and that colonies existed primarily to enrich the mother country?

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Mercantilism

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Laissez-faire capitalism

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Feudalism

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Physiocracy

Question 3

The French Revolution's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789) was most directly influenced by which Enlightenment philosopher's concept of natural rights?

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John Locke

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Thomas Hobbes

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Niccolò Machiavelli

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Question 4

In the context of the U.S. Civil War era, the term 'popular sovereignty' as applied to new territories referred to:

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The concept that the residents of a territory should decide for themselves whether to permit slavery

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The principle that the President alone had authority to determine the legal status of territories

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The idea that the Supreme Court should decide whether slavery was constitutional in each territory

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The belief that Congress held exclusive power to regulate all territorial governance

Question 5

Which of the following best describes the significance of the Truman Doctrine (1947) in shaping U.S. foreign policy?

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It committed the United States to providing military and economic aid to any nation threatened by Soviet communist expansion

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It established the Marshall Plan to rebuild war-devastated European economies

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It declared that the United States would use nuclear weapons preemptively against the Soviet Union if attacked

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It created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a collective defense alliance

Question 6

In geographic terms, a region where the boundaries are defined by people's shared feelings of belonging or cultural identity — rather than physical features or administrative lines — is called a:

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Perceptual (vernacular) region

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Formal region

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Functional region

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Administrative region