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FTCE K-6 SOCIAL STUDIES EXAM
original documents such as papers, eyewitness accounts, letters, diaries, artifacts, and photos. Necessary to construct an accurate portrayal of history. Many primary documents available through the Library of Congress. - Precise Answer ✔✔Primary Source Documents the period before humans invented writing and kept written records. - Precise Answer ✔✔Prehistoric period The first civilizations are recorded in ________. - Precise Answer ✔✔Mesopotamia and Egypt Invented wheel, plow, windmill, solar calendars, writing. The plow ignited the Agricultural Revolution - Precise Answer ✔✔3000-6000 BC pyramids were built in Eygpt; pharaohs ruled and created complex civilizations - Precise Answer ✔✔2000 BC Greece organized in city-states; developed art, philosophy, education, astronomy - Precise Answer ✔✔800 BC Classical age and highlight of Greek civilization. - Precise Answer ✔✔500 BC Roman Empire then Byzantine Empire are world forces. Christianity is named the official religion by Constantine in 313 AD with the Edict of Milan. - Precise Answer ✔✔700 BC-1453 AD known for distinctive architecture, sewage and drainage systems, and roads. - Precise Answer ✔✔Roman Empire
a political leader in Rome who brought Rome from a Republic to the Roman empire. - Precise Answer ✔✔Julius Caesar Mohammad born and created the Islamic faith fundamentals - Precise Answer ✔✔570 AD _______ relies on teachings of Confucius; rule county by dynasties such as Tang, Sung, Ming, and Manchu dynasties. Established block printing and ceramic pottery. - Precise Answer ✔✔China and his son, Kublai Khan, rule China, Russia, Asia and Persia. - Precise Answer ✔✔Mongols Genghis Khan _______ sent 7 Crusades to the Middle East to liberate the people there and bring them Christianity but they massacred thousands of Muslims and Jews. - Precise Answer ✔✔Byzantine Empire Earliest civilizations were the _______ in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico and Guatemala - Precise Answer ✔✔Maya Children of the Sun - Precise Answer ✔✔Inca controlled area from Ecuador to Chile. - Precise Answer ✔✔Inca required the king to renounce certain rights, respect certain legal procedures and accept that the will of the king could be bound by law. - Precise Answer ✔✔Magna Carta a disease carried throughout Europe by fleas on rats; poor living and sanitation practices and killed from 25-40% of the population. - Precise Answer ✔✔Black Death artist and sculpture- he helped to bring about the Renaissance era. Painted the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. - Precise Answer ✔✔Leonardo DaVinci The Medici family were the Godfathers of Italy who controlled many aspects of the country, including the Pope, and also supported the Renaissance artists. - Precise Answer ✔✔Lorenzo Medici
Machines began to replace human laborers-much greater productivity Scientific revolution and mechanical inventions Increase in population in Europe Rise of the middle class - Precise Answer ✔✔Industrial Revolution promoted state of society in which there is no competition of capitalism or class systems. - Precise Answer ✔✔Socialism created socialism or Marxism that focused on taking power from the rich and everyone taking what they need according to their needs. Included the elimination of capitalism and class systems. - Precise Answer ✔✔Karl Marx Invention of ________ allowed greater navigation for exploration - Precise Answer ✔✔compass and astrolabe Norse seaman and explorer- leader in European sailing exploration - Precise Answer ✔✔Leif Erikson Portugal ruler who explored to bring wealth and trade - Precise Answer ✔✔Prince Henry the Navigator an Italian explorer, was sponsored by rulers in Spain- Ferdinand and Isabella to discover a Western route to India. - Precise Answer ✔✔Christopher Columbus Columbus sailed from Spain in the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. - Precise Answer ✔✔ 1492 Florentine Italian merchant who wrote about the new world and gave the name ―Americas to the continents. - Precise Answer ✔✔Amerigo Vespucci Many native populations were destroyed when _______ brought new diseases with them to the new world. - Precise Answer ✔✔Europeans Portuguese sailor who sailed around South America and named the Pacific Ocean. - Precise Answer ✔✔Magellan
_______ claimed the Americas as their land. - Precise Answer ✔✔Spain __________ was the Aztec king and was overtaken by the weapons of Hernando Cortez and a small Spanish army. - Precise Answer ✔✔Montezuma First permanent Spanish settlement is ________ established by Ponce de Leon and Hernando De Soto. - Precise Answer ✔✔St. Augustine, Florida Spain's fleet of military ships that dominated the oceans in late 1500s. - Precise Answer ✔✔Spanish Armada named Virginia after the queen - Precise Answer ✔✔Sir Walter Raleigh colonized Georgia (1696-1785) with colony of released prisoners from Europe. - Precise Answer ✔✔James Oglethorpe were settled with those seeking religious freedoms, economic prosperity, land ownership, and political freedoms. - Precise Answer ✔✔Colonies was established by King James of England. - Precise Answer ✔✔Jamestown 1606 built relations with the local Indians, including Pocahontas, and learned to grow food in the new world in Virginia. - Precise Answer ✔✔Captain John Smith Salem, Massachusetts town charged many young girls as witches and executed 19 of them. Only later did the accusers say their story was false. - Precise Answer ✔✔Salem Witch Trials 1692 American inventor and politician. Demonstrated electricity in 1792 by using a kite and made many American inventions. Also started the public library and bi-focal glasses. - Precise Answer ✔✔Benjamin Franklin
Between mid 1600s to mid 1700s, the _______ in the southern colonies grew tremendously to support the agricultural industry. - Precise Answer ✔✔slave population is considered the ―father of the Constitution because he framed out the major ideas. - Precise Answer ✔✔James Madison set out to explain the new constitution by writing a series of essays called the Federalist papers. - Precise Answer ✔✔John Jay and Alexander Hamilton was appointed as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by George Washington. - Precise Answer ✔✔John Jay was a famous American frontiersmen who explored and settled Kentucky. Boone founded the first US settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. - Precise Answer ✔✔Daniel Boone mid 1800s- America drive to own as much land as possible to the Pacific Ocean, Canada, and Mexico. - Precise Answer ✔✔Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion a cavalry created by Theodore Roosevelt that was made of cowboys, scholars, land speculators, Native Americans and African Americans. They fought in the Spanish American War. - Precise Answer ✔✔Rough Riders The Senate voted to let Maine join the Union as a free state and Missouri join the Union as a slave state.
- Precise Answer ✔✔The Missouri Compromise 1819 1876-1965 these laws separated blacks and whites in public places. - Precise Answer ✔✔Jim Crow 1860- When _______ was elected president, the Southern states seceded from the Union. - Precise Answer ✔✔Abraham Lincoln The first shots of the Civil War were shot in _______. - Precise Answer ✔✔Ft. Sumter, South Carolina
was the Southern general. Jefferson Davis was elected President of the South. - Precise Answer ✔✔Robert E. Lee South was winning the Civil War until the _______ in 1863. - Precise Answer ✔✔Battle of Gettysburg Mississippi surrendered to Northern General Ulysses Grant. - Precise Answer ✔✔Battle of Gettysburg General Lee surrenders in Virginia. - Precise Answer ✔✔ 1865 President Lincoln delivers the Emancipation Proclamation declaring all slaves free. - Precise Answer ✔✔ 1862 1865- Lincoln is assassinated by _______ while watching a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. - Precise Answer ✔✔John Wilkes Booth Offered 160 acres of government land in the western United States free of charge to any person who would farm it for 5 years. - Precise Answer ✔✔Homestead Act of 1862 1866- passed by Congress declaring all citizens born in the US are equal regardless of race. - Precise Answer ✔✔Civil Rights Act (1865-1943) developed hundreds of products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, pecans, and soybeans and improved Southern agriculture. - Precise Answer ✔✔George Washington Carver banking leader - Precise Answer ✔✔J.P. Morgan oil industry leader - Precise Answer ✔✔John D. Rockefeller steel industry leader - Precise Answer ✔✔Andrew Carnegie railroad leader - Precise Answer ✔✔E.H. Harrison
1935- the government employed people for 30 hours a week for projects across America. - Precise Answer ✔✔Works Administration Program (WPA)- President _______ took office in 1945 after Roosevelt died. - Precise Answer ✔✔Harry Truman helped to rebuild Europe after WWII. - Precise Answer ✔✔Marshall Plan 1949- Soviets blocked the route for Allies to bring supplies to Berlin and they had to be airlifted into the city. - Precise Answer ✔✔Berlin Air Lift feelings resulted in the McCarthy lists of Communists in the US. - Precise Answer ✔✔Anticommunism 1950 Korea had been split after WWII with US owning South Korea and the Soviet Union owning North Korea. - Precise Answer ✔✔Korean War Vietnam War - Precise Answer ✔✔1957- 1957- satellite creating fear America was falling behind in space exploration. 1958- NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration was established. Focus on educating young people in math and sciences occurred. - Precise Answer ✔✔Russia launched Sputnik (born 1921) piloted the first American manned orbital mission on February 20, 1962. - Precise Answer ✔✔John Glenn (born 1930) was the first person to walk on the moon in 1968. Upon his first step on the moon, Armstrong said, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." - Precise Answer ✔✔Neil Armstrong 1955- begins with Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on the city bus. - Precise Answer ✔✔Civil Rights movement
1965- gives his famous speech and fights peacefully for civil rights. - Precise Answer ✔✔Martin Luther King, Jr 1962- during the Cold War. Russia put nuclear war heads in Cuba pointed at Florida and the United States. - Precise Answer ✔✔Cuban Missile Crisis 1972- Nixon is charged with obstructing justice, resigns from the White House, and Gerald Ford becomes president. - Precise Answer ✔✔Watergate He attacks the Persian Gulf in the Operation Desert Shield and liberates Kuwait and accepts Iraq's cease fire. - Precise Answer ✔✔George bush Congress passes ___________ eliminated most tariffs and trade barriers with Mexico and Canada. - Precise Answer ✔✔North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) united Africans to rebel against the system of racial tyranny known as Apartheid. - Precise Answer ✔✔Nelson Mandela an official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa - Precise Answer ✔✔Apartheid drove India to independence in 1947 after nearly two centuries of British domination. He practiced non- violent demonstrations such as boycotts against the British rule. - Precise Answer ✔✔Mohandas Gandhi make up the largest minority group in Florida. - Precise Answer ✔✔Hispanics arrived in St. Augustine in 1513. - Precise Answer ✔✔Ponce de Leon arrived in Florida in 1539. - Precise Answer ✔✔Hernando de Soto settled in St. Augustine in 1565. - Precise Answer ✔✔Pedro Menendez
How people are connected through transportation and networks. The automobile industry had a great impact on the tourism in Florida. - Precise Answer ✔✔Movement and connections The culture of a region is dependent on the climate, economic, and political patterns and processes there. - Precise Answer ✔✔Regions, patterns, and processes a map maker - Precise Answer ✔✔Cartographer Relief maps, or ________, show the shape of the terrain by using contour lines - Precise Answer ✔✔topographic maps The ______ on a map tells the reader about the symbols and what they mean. It is the Key for reading the map properly. - Precise Answer ✔✔Legend shows the relationship between the map's measurements and the earth's measurements. - Precise Answer ✔✔Scale have an X and Y axis. The X axis is horizontal and the Y axis is vertical. - Precise Answer ✔✔Line graphs include information about people and social issues. - Precise Answer ✔✔Demographic tables the 2nd largest continent; includes the Nile River and the Sahara desert. - Precise Answer ✔✔Africa the largest continent; includes the Himalayas, Mt. Everest, and the Dead Sea - Precise Answer ✔✔Asia includes Canada and United States - Precise Answer ✔✔North America smallest continent - Precise Answer ✔✔Australia a form of government in which citizens rule through elected representatives. - Precise Answer ✔✔Democracy
Democracy originated in, and is now used in the United States. - Precise Answer ✔✔Athens, Greece a form of government in which the government controls all aspects of a country, its businesses, farms, and industry. There is not free market or capitalism. seeks total equality for all people in which there are no wealthy people and is only one social class; the working class. - Precise Answer ✔✔Communism a form of government in which a religious leader or religious council governs the country. Only one official religion is allowed. - Precise Answer ✔✔Theocracy a form of government in which a king or queen rules. the king or queen is decided upon through family line. - Precise Answer ✔✔Monarchy a dictator often takes control by force and bloodline is not a factor. - Precise Answer ✔✔dictatorship a form of government in which a few people rule such as a council of leaders. - Precise Answer ✔✔Oligarchy Americans place the source of authority in the people through elections of leaders to represent them in government. - Precise Answer ✔✔First principle ________ of U.S. democracy is a representative government. In a representative government, the people delegate their powers to elected officials. The elected leaders are accountable because they can be removed from office. - Precise Answer ✔✔second principle the system of checks and balances. The three branches of government—the legislative, the executive, and the judicial—restrain and stabilize one another through their separated functions. - Precise Answer ✔✔third principle how many principles of democracy are in the US? - Precise Answer ✔✔ 4 which is Congress (made of House of Representatives and the Senate), must pass bills before they can become law. - Precise Answer ✔✔The legislative branch
Trial by jury - Precise Answer ✔✔7th amendment Protection against cruel and unusual punishment - Precise Answer ✔✔8th amendment Cannot impose excessive bail/fines or give cruel or unusual punishment - Precise Answer ✔✔9th amendment The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.‖ - Precise Answer ✔✔10th amendment Formally abolished slavery in the United States. - Precise Answer ✔✔13th amendment granted citizenship to ―all persons born or naturalized in the United States,‖ which included former slaves recently freed. - Precise Answer ✔✔14th amendment Granted African American men the right to vote - Precise Answer ✔✔15th amendment Right of the government to collect income taxes. - Precise Answer ✔✔16th amendment Women's right to vote. - Precise Answer ✔✔19th amendment the power of an executive to cancel specific parts of a bill, without having to reject the entire proposal. This unique power is held by the state governor. - Precise Answer ✔✔A line item veto was created by the framers of the U.S. Constitution as a compromise for the presidential election process. - Precise Answer ✔✔Electoral College grants the states any power not explicitly stated as a federal power. - Precise Answer ✔✔10th amendment
conduct elections, establish local governments, manage education systems, levy direct taxes, regulate intrastate commerce. - Precise Answer ✔✔State Powers declare and wage war, regulate foreign trade and tax, make money, regulate immigration, grant copyrights and patents, maintain army and navy - Precise Answer ✔✔federal government powers a central bank that monitors the financial industry in the US by setting interest rates. - Precise Answer ✔✔Federal Reserve (lowest level) are entry-level courts of general jurisdiction - Precise Answer ✔✔The U.S. District Courts is the intermediate-level federal court. - Precise Answer ✔✔The U.S. Courts of Appeals is at the apex of the federal court system and consists of nine justices who hear and decide cases (one Chief Justice and eight associate justices). - Precise Answer ✔✔The U.S. Supreme Court Each of these nine justices are appointed by the President, approved by the Senate, and appointed to serve life terms. - Precise Answer ✔✔Supreme court justices district court, circuit court, or superior courts - Precise Answer ✔✔Tier 1 appellate court (for appeals) - Precise Answer ✔✔Tier 2 supreme court (last resort) - Precise Answer ✔✔Tier 3 The highest court in each state is the ______ on what the law is with regard to state law from the state's point of view. - Precise Answer ✔✔ultimate authority each city, town, or district can have its own court system overseen by local magistrates. - Precise Answer ✔✔Local Courts
