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Section 4: Sample Selected-Response Questions TX PACT: Social Studies: Grades 4–8 (718)Expand All Answers | Collapse All Answers This section presents some sample exam questions for you to review as part of your preparation for the exam. To demonstrate how each competency may be assessed, sample questions are accompanied by the competency that they measure. While studying, you may wish to read the competency before and after you consider each sample question. Please note that the competency statements do not appear on the actual exam. The correct answer is provided for each sample exam question. The sample questions are included to illustrate the formats and types of questions you will see on the exam; however, your performance on the sample questions should not be viewed as a predictor of your performance on the actual exam. Domain I—HistoryCompetency 001—Understand historical concepts, terms, sources, perspectives, and research skills.1. Which of the following sources would a historian most likely use to obtain information about the social and occupational structure of Atlanta, Georgia, during the late nineteenth century?
Competency 002—Understand major developments in world history from the beginnings of human society to 1350 CE.2. Which of the following geographic factors had the greatest influence on economic life in ancient Egyptian culture?
Competency 003—Understand major developments in world history from 1350 to 1850.3. Which of the following accurately lists four major historical events between 1600 and 1825 in the order in which they occurred?
Competency 004—Understand major developments in world history from 1850 to the present.4. World War 2 most influenced the movement for African independence by:
Competency 005—Understand major developments in early U.S. history from the precontact period to 1789.5. Which of the following best describes a major effect of the American Revolution on U.S. society?
Competency 006—Understand major developments in U.S. history from 1789 to 1877.6. During the first half of the nineteenth century, reformers such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton most often based their demands for women's rights on the:
Competency 007—Understand major developments in U.S. history from 1877 to 1929.7. Which of the following late nineteenth-century developments most influenced the emergence of a national market for the exchange of goods and services in the United States?
Competency 008—Understand major developments in U.S. history from 1929 to the present.8. Which of the following best describes a major reason for the unprecedented economic affluence of U.S. society in the two decades after World War 2?
Domain II—Geography and CultureCompetency 009—Understand geographic terms, concepts, sources, and research skills.9. Which of the following statements best illustrates the geographic theme of movement?
Competency 010—Understand physical features, physical systems, and the interaction between the environment and human societies.10. Which of the following patterns of global resource distribution had the greatest influence on international relations during the twentieth century?
Competency 011—Understand human systems.11. In 1800, most of the world's population lived in rural areas. By 2000, the overwhelming majority of people in developed countries lived in towns and cities. This change was primarily a consequence of the:
Domain III—GovernmentCompetency 012—Understand political science concepts, terms, perspectives, and research skills.12. The term gerrymandering refers to which of the following practices in the U.S. political system?
Competency 013—Understand the foundations of U.S. government, the U.S. political process, and the rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship.13. The ten amendments contained in the Bill of Rights can best be used to illustrate the meaning of which of the following principles of the U.S. Constitution?
Competency 014—Understand the structure, organization, and operation of different levels of government in the United States.14. Which of the following best illustrates how the principle of separation of powers operates in the U.S. system of government?
Domain IV—EconomicsCompetency 015—Understand basic economic concepts, microeconomics, and consumer economics and personal finance.15. A young woman is trying to decide whether she should return to college full time and complete her bachelor's degree or accept an entry-level management position at a local company. Which of the following economic concepts applies most directly to the decision this person is trying to make?
Competency 016—Understand macroeconomics and international economics.16. Which of the following best describes an important role of the Federal Reserve in the U.S. economy?
Return to Navigation Which of the following best describes the economic relationship between the North and South during the Antebellum period?Which of the following best describes the economic relationship between the North and South during the antebellum period? The South was like a colony, shipping raw goods to the North to be turned into salable goods.
What contributed to how the South remained so different from the North quizlet?Which of the following contributed to how the South remained so different from the North? The southern economy was tied to a culture that celebrated the wealth of planters and viewed slavery as a benevolent institution. While the agricultural economy of the Northeast had declined, that of the South was booming.
Which of the following best describes why wealthy Southerners invested little capital in manufacturing?Which of the following best describes why wealthy southerners invested little capital in manufacturing? Wealthy southerners had much of their capital tied up in their land.
Which of the following describe the lives of slaves in the South quizlet?Which of the following describe the lives of slaves in the South? They lived in rough cabins called "slave quarters." Slave women labored in the fields and also cooked and cleaned.
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