Praxis 5001 Practice Test Questions and Answers All Correct
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Praxis 5001 Practice Test Questions and Answers All Correct
Battle of Bunker Hill - Answer-took place on June 17, 1775; caused King George III to declare that the colonies were in rebellion
Battle of Fort Sumter - Answer-1861 attack on Union troops in Sumter, SC, by Confederate forces shortly ...
Praxis 5001 Practice Test Questions
and Answers All Correct
Battle of Bunker Hill - Answer-took place on June 17, 1775; caused King George III to
declare that the colonies were in rebellion
Battle of Fort Sumter - Answer-1861 attack on Union troops in Sumter, SC, by
Confederate forces shortly after SC seceded from the Union; this battle sparked the
Civil War
Battle of Lexington and Concord - Answer-beginning of violent conflict between
American rebel militiamen (minutemen) and the British is 1775
Battle of Yorktown - Answer-1781 defeat of British forces by the Continental Army with
support from France ending the Revolutionary War
Bill of Rights - Answer-the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution; a set of
guarantees of certain rights enjoyed by Americans
Boston Massacre - Answer-1770 event in which British troops fired on a crowd of
American protestors
Boston Tea Party - Answer-1773 protest of the Tea Act in which American colonial
protestors disguised as Native Americans tossed tea off a ship in the Boston Harbor
cardinal directions - Answer-north, south, east, and west
Cesar Chavez - Answer-civil rights activist; led the United Farm Workers, who
advocated for Hispanic farm workers who faced racial discrimination, poor treatment,
and low pay
checks and balances - Answer-each branch of government has certain powers that limit
the power of the other branches
Cherokee - Answer-Southeastern Native American civilization thought to be descended
from the Iroquois; emerged in present day Georgia; forced during the Trail of Tears to
leave their land and migrate to Indian Territory (Oklahoma)
Civil Rights Movement - Answer-social and political movement of the rights of African
Americans and other disenfranchised people in the 1960's
,Cold War - Answer-period of ongoing tension and conflict between the Us and the
USSR, the post WWII global superpowers, remained "cold" because the two countries
never engaged in direct military confrontation
Committees of Correspondence - Answer-colonial rebel protest group that distributed
anti-British propaganda
concentration camps - Answer-forced labor and math camps where the Nazis
imprisoned and killed Jews, Roma, Savic people, homosexuals, disabled people,
people of color, prisoners of war, communists and others as part of the Holocaust
Congress - Answer-the branch of the federal government that makes laws (legislative
branch); technically it has the power power in government
Constitution - Answer-the document that provides that framework for the US
government
Constitutional Convention - Answer-1787 meeting of the states to resolve problems
arising from limitations on federal power, a decision was made to completely throw out
the old articles and write a new governing document from scratch, the Constitution
Creek, Chickasaw, and Choctaw - Answer-major Muskogean-speaking southeastern
Native American civilizations; descendants of the Mississippi Mound Builders
cuneiform - Answer-a Sumerian development; the earliest known example of writing
using characters to form words
conflict - Answer-the process of disagreement, usually resolved when one of the parties
receives either the entirety or a satisfactory amount of the desired goal
cooperation - Answer-the process of working together to achieve similar goals, often
leads to positive outcomes
D-Day - Answer-June 6,1994 when the US led the invasions of Normandy invading
Europe during WWII
academic language - Answer-language used in formal settings and academic writing
active listening - Answer-listening that is focused and empathetic
advanced fluency stage of language acquisition - Answer-learners demonstrate near-
native ability and use complex, multiphase and mulitclause sentences to convey their
ideas
, affixes - Answer-added to words or roots to change their meanings; include prefixes
(added to the beginning of a word or root) and suffixes (added to the end of a word or
root)
analyzing text organization - Answer-analyzing how a text is organized in order to better
comprehend an author's purpose for writing
audience - Answer-the reader/readers
central idea - Answer-the basic underlying idea of informational text
character analysis - Answer-understanding the role of a character in a story via the
character's actions, traits, relationships, and personality
citations - Answer-identification of original sources of outside information
complex sentence - Answer-a sentence made up of an independent clause and one
more dependent clause
compound-complex sentence - Answer-a sentence that has two or more independent
clauses and one or more dependent clauses
connotation - Answer-the intended meaning of a word beyond its literal meaning
conversational language - Answer-familiar and informal language
credibility - Answer-proof of the reliability of a source
denotation - Answer-the literal meaning of a word
descriptive writing - Answer-a writing style that emphasizes the production of imagery
using words and figurative language that appeal to the reader's five sense
dialect - Answer-language that is particular to a geographical location or consolidated
social group
early production stage of language acquisition - Answer-learners produce single word
and two to three word phrases and can respond to questions and statements
expository writing - Answer-a writing style that explains an idea or concept or informs
the reader about a topic
figurative language - Answer-language that conveys images and ideas separate from
the actual meanings of the words used
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