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TEXES Social Studies 291 Exam Questions Complete Solutions Current Update (A+ Pass) Bill of Rights - Answers -The first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. They defined citizens' rights in relation to the newly established government under the Constitution. Common Sense (Thomas Paine) - A...

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TEXES Social Studies 291 Exam
Questions Complete Solutions
Current Update (A+ Pass)
Bill of Rights - Answers -The first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. They defined
citizens' rights in relation to the newly established government under the Constitution.

Common Sense (Thomas Paine) - Answers -Published in 1776, Common Sense
challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. Paine used
plain language that spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to
openly ask for independence from Great Britain.

Globalization - Answers -Commonly used as a shorthand way of describing the spread
and connectedness of production, communication and technologies across the world.
That spread has involved the interlacing of economic and cultural activity.

Caddo Indians - Answers -Lived in east and northeast Texas, near flowing creeks or
springs with fresh water. They farmed because were no big herds of buffalo or other
animals to hunt. They were sedentary because they farmed and did not have to move
around to get food so they had permanent houses. They also traded goods all over
Texas, the Mississippi river valley and the southeastern United States

Mary Austin Holley - Answers -Lived 1784-1846 and was an American historical writer
best known as the author of the first known English-language history of Texas(1833).
She was a cousin of Stephen F. Austin.

Lorenzo de Zavala - Answers -A colonizer and statesman, he was one of the most
talented and capable men of the many native Mexicans involved in Texas' struggle for
independence from Mexico.
At the Convention of 1836, he was elected vice-president of the interim government of
the Republic of Texas.

Lyndon B. Johnson - Answers -President of the U.S. from 1963-1969, also had a long
history as a Congressman and Senator beginning in 1937. In Congress, Johnson
worked hard for rural electrification, public housing, and eliminating government waste.
As Senator he guided the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and 1964 as
President. During his time in Congress and as President he was also instrumental in the
development of the space program that eventually landed a man on the moon in 1969.
His domestic program was known as The Great Society.

Economic nationalism - Answers -A term used to describe policies which emphasize
domestic control of the economy, labor and capital formation, even if this requires the
imposition of tariffs and other restrictions on the movement of labor, goods and capital.

, It opposes globalization in many cases, or at least it questions the benefits of
unrestricted free trade.

Expansionism - Answers -As the American factory system developed, the U.S. needed
to find foreign markets in which to sell its manufactured products and from which to
acquire raw goods. Instead of imposing a military presence and colonial government,
the U.S. aimed to advance its interests through investments and business transactions.

Manifest Destiny - Answers -Newspaper editor John O'Sullivan coined this term in 1845
to describe the philosophy and belief that the U.S. should expand across the entire
continent. It was this belief that spurred the westward movement of the young nation. It
had connections to economic motives (land, fur trade, etc.) as well as cultural motives
(the perceived superiority of the American culture).

WoodrowWilson's Fourteen Points - Answers -President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen
Points became the basis for a peace program that led Germany and her allies to agree
to an armistice in November 1918. The 14 points dealt with certain issues that were
involved in WWI. One of the points called for a League of Nations.

Good Neighbor Policy - Answers -Under FDR's leadership, the United States
emphasized cooperation and trade rather than military force to maintain stability in the
hemisphere. In his inaugural address on March 4, 1933, Roosevelt stated: "In the field
of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor--the
neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights
of others."

The Marshall Plan - Answers -U.S. Secretary of State George Marshal introduced this in
a speech in 1947. It was a plan to help the economies of European countries that had
been devastated by World War II recover and rebuild.

Jamestown - Answers -The first permanent English settlement in North America on the
banks of the James River in Virginia in 1607. Famine, disease and conflict with local
Native American tribes in the first two years brought Jamestown to the brink of failure
before the arrival of a new group of settlers and supplies in 1610.

Mexican-American War - Answers -The Mexican-American War had two basic causes.
First, the desire of the U.S. to expand across the North American continent to the
Pacific Ocean caused conflict with all of its neighbors. Second, was the desire of newly
independent Texas to join the U.S., an idea that Mexico opposed.

The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo - Answers -Ended the Mexican-American War in
February 2, 1848

Battle of Veracruz - Answers -Important and climatic battle of the Mexican-American
War

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