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TEXES Social Studies 232 Exam withcorrect Answers
Montesquieu - Answer -Three branches of government with checks and balances
Voltaire - Answer -Importance of freedom of speech, religion, press
Locke - Answer -Two Treatises, people have natural rights and right to rebel
Full Employment - Answer -Allows for up to 4% unemployment
Money Market Funds - Answer -High rate of return, safe investment
Certificates of Deposit - Answer -High rate of return, safe, have to invest for set period
of time
Stocks - Answer -Risky investment, but highest rate of return
Muslim Achievements in Middle Ages - Answer -Algebra, Circumference of Earth,
Cataract Surgery, Doctor exams
Inca Farming - Answer -Terraces
Aztec Farming - Answer -"Floating" gardens
Robert Fulton - Answer -Invented the steamboat; Industrial Revolution
Second Industrial Revolution - Answer -Came about due to steel - able to build
skyscrapers
Ancient India Achievements - Answer -Concept of zero and decimal system
Circular Flow Model of Economy - Answer -Businesses pay households wages, rent,
interest, and dividends. Households provide businesses with the factors of production.
Keynes - Answer -Government intervention needed in times of economic instability.
Marx - Answer -Father of communism. Said people will rise up against government
,Adam Smith - Answer -Father of capitalism. Stresses minimal government involvement
in economy.
David Ricardo - Answer -Capitalist; Law of Iron Wages - wages always decrease
compared to prices
Traditional Economy - Answer -Traditional practices such as farming, fishing, herding
Market Economy - Answer -Supply and demand determines prices. AKA free
enterprise/capitalist
Command Economy - Answer -Government control - communist
Mixed Economy - Answer -Both market and command. Government imposes
regulations, but allows free enterprise
Monopolistic Competition - Answer -A few companies make the same product, advertise
differently
Oligopoly - Answer -A few companies dominate market, control prices
Monoploly - Answer -One company controls market
Pure Competition - Answer -Goal of capitalism - infinite companies compete
Trade Deficit - Answer -Total value of imports exceeds value of exports
Business Cycle - Answer -Expansion, Crisis, Recession, Recovery
Expansion (cycle) - Answer -GDP rises, unemployment shrinks, low interest rates
Crisis (cycle) - Answer -Stock crash, bankrupcies
Recession (cycle) - Answer -GDP drops, unemployment grows, high interest
Recovery (cycle) - Answer -Interest rates drop (~5%)
Reliability and Validity - Answer -Test must be reliable to be valid, but does not have to
be valid just because it's reliable
Plessy v. Ferguson - Answer -Set up separate but equal
Bakke v. California - Answer -Race cannot be deciding factor in admittance to university
La Folette - Answer -Opposed railroad, WWI, League of Nations
,Debs - Answer -Started railroad union
Jose de Escandon - Answer -Colonized Nuevo Santander (RGV)
Caddo Indian - Answer -Mound Builders
Apache Indian - Answer -Social system by extended family, Nomadic and lived off of
buffalo
Cabeza de Vaca - Answer -Shipwrecked, explored and traded with natives
Fray Damian Massenet - Answer -
Coronado - Answer -Searched for cities of Cibola. Explorer
Pineda - Answer -First to sail coast, made map
Battle of Gonzalez - Answer -First battle of Texas Revolution
Texas Declaration of Independence - Answer -March 1836, before the Alamo and
Goliad
Mirabeau Lamar - Answer -2nd President of TX, opposed joining US
J. Pickney Henderson - Answer -First governor of Texas after annexation
Juneteenth - Answer -Slaves freed in TX
TX Legislative Branch - Answer -31 Senators, 15 House, Governor can call special
sessions
TX Lieutenant Governor - Answer -Presiding official in Senate AND House
TX Executive Branch - Answer -Lieutenant Gov, Governor, Sec of State, Comptroller,
Commissioner, Attorney General
Electoral College - Answer -Vote for electors - Electors are chosen by political party at
conventions.
Cynthia Parker - Answer -White Comanche captive
Miriam "Ma" Ferguson - Answer -Served twice as governor
Henrietta King - Answer -Wife of King Ranch founder - ran after his death
, Barbara Jordan - Answer -First African American woman to serve in US congress from
Southern State
Ann Richards - Answer -First woman elected Governor of TX in her own right
Estevanico - Answer -First known African American on TX land (with de Vaca)
Buffalo Soldiers - Answer -African American soldiers, removed Native Americans from
western parts of TX
Chinese Cultural Revolution - Answer -Mao - anti-western and anti-intellectual.
Removed competition and squashed protest.
Iroquois Confederacy - Answer -Five Iroquois nations, allied with Britian
Great Awakening - Answer -1600s-1700s, religious revival, spread through colonies
Compromise of 1850 - Answer -Fugitive Slave Act, but added CA as free state
Populism - Answer -The average person is oppressed by the status quo - grew out of
Farmers Movement. Became political party
WEB Du Bois - Answer -Founder of NAACP, wanted immediate rights and change
Booker T. Washington - Answer -Thought Af.Ams should focus on education and self
improvement, and segregation would end naturally
Malcom X - Answer -Af. Am. leader who first opposed MLK's nonviolent approach, but
embraced more tolerant approach before was assassinated
Susan B. Anthony - Answer -Leader of fight for Women's suffrage
Berry Friedan - Answer -Wrote the Feminine Mystique
Regional Geography - Answer -Religion, economy, political structures, traditions,
languages
Physical Geography - Answer -Natural processes and features
Cultural Geography - Answer -language, religion, symbols, history, customs
Classical Conditioning - Answer -Response to stimulus
Operant Conditioning - Answer -Rewarded or punished
Observational Learning - Answer -People learn how to behave by observing others
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