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Course Review – Spring 2010
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What do we call the type of historical thinking in which we put events in historical order
starting with the earliest event up through the most recent?
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What do we call the “effect” when one historical event causes or leads to the next?
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What explorer claimed lands in the new world for England and thus began the progression
towards a new nation in America?
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Put in order these events (write 1 next to the first, 2 the second and so forth):
_____ Pilgrims Settle Plymouth
_____ Jamestown Settled
_____ Roanoke Settled and Vanished
_____ Major European Empires Expand Settlements on Atlantic Coat of America
What event began or sparked all of the other events leading up to the American Revolution?
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Name 3 major “Acts” of taxation the British imposed on colonists that led to rebellion.
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What act of rebellion led to the death 5 colonists at the hands of British Troops in 1770?
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What were the 5 “Intolerable Acts?”
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What act of rebellion resulted in the destruction of $1 million worth of British goods in 1773?
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What group carried out this act?
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Where were the first shots of the American Revolution fired?
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What are the 3 major principles of the Declaration of Independence?
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Put in order these documents by their date (write 1 next to the first, 2 the second and so forth):
_____ Articles of Confederation
_____ Declaration of Independence
_____ U.S. Constitution
_____ Declaration of Rights & Grievances
How many articles are in the U.S. Constitution?
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How many amendments are there to the U.S. Constitution?
What are the first ten amendments known as?
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What 5 major “rights” come from the first amendment?
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What amendment states that Americans have a “right to privacy?” _______________________
What amendment clause protects Americans from government choosing their religion?
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What amendment clause protects Americans to practice the religion they want without
government restrictions?
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What 6 major amendments protect individuals from exploitation and discrimination in the
American justice & judicial systems?
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What 3 major amendments focus on granting suffrage to previously disenfranchised individuals
in America? Provide the amendment and the group who gained the right to vote.
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What constitutional article establishes the Executive Branch?
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What constitutional article establishes the Judicial Branch?
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What constitutional article establishes the Legislative Branch?
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Which is larger, the U.S. Constitution or the PA Constitution?
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What do we call a two chambered system of legislature? ______________________________
What do we call our collective two system legislature?
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How many members are in the U.S. Senate? ____________
How old must you be to serve in the U.S. Senate? _____________
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How many years are in a U.S. Senator’s terms?
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How many terms can a U.S. Senator serve: _____________
How many members are in the U.S. House of Representatives?
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How old must you be to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives?
How many years are in a U.S. Representative’s terms?
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How many terms can a U.S. Representative serve? _____________
How many Senators does each state have? _____________
Who are Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senators?
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How many U.S. Representatives does Pennsylvania have? _______________________
Who is the U.S. Representative for PA’s 5th District?
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Who is the U.S. Representative for PA’s 10th District?
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What are the 4 major components of the Federal Executive Branch?
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Who has the power to “Declare War?”
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What power does the president have to turn down proposed legislation? __________________
What fraction of Congress must agree to overrule the president? ________________________
The federal judicial system is made up of 3 levels of courts, what are they?
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What type of rights must be read to you if you are officially being interrogated and held for a
crime?
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What study of economics focuses on narrowed, small-scaled production, distribution, and
consumption of goods, resources, and services?
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What study of economics focuses on broad, large-scaled production, distribution, and
consumption of goods, resources, and services?
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What are the 5 components of an economy?
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What are the 4 categories of resources?
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What are the 2 categories of goods?
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What are the 4 types of world economies?
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What is the phrase Adam Smith coined for self-interest?
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If you trade goods for goods in an economy, this is known as?
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What is a universal method/rate of exchange in a society’s economy known as? _____________
What type of economic system does the United States have?
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When there are fewer resources available than needed, we have what?
Deciding how to best utilize & distribute resources is known as?
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Utilizing every last drop of resources for the greatest good is?
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The level of output you gained from a given level of input is?
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Division of labor such as the assembly line occurs when a producer separates tasks within a
system to become more productive, this leads to what?
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Sending operations to an external source to increase production and cut back on costs is known
as?
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This economic law states that there is an inverse relationship between price and quantity.
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This economic law states that there is a parallel relationship between price and quantity.
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The amount of a good/service that a consumer is willing and able to buy at various prices is
known as?
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The amount of a good/service that a producer is willing and able to producer at various prices is
known as?
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These curves slope up and to the right.
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These curves slope down and to the right. ________________________________
This type of power is based upon how much money and consumer has and the price of the item
the consumer plans to purchase.
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This effect states that the more money a person makes the more power they have to make
purchases and the less money a person makes, the less power they have to make purchases.
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This effect states that as the price of a particular good goes up, consumers demand less of it,
however their demand for a cheaper replacement good goes up.
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This effect states that as the price of a particular good goes up, consumers demand less of it,
but furthermore their demand for goods that go well with the original good goes down as well.
And vice-versa.
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This economic concept suggests that the more you consume of a particular good, the less you
are willing to pay for each additional unit of it because you get less and less usefulness from the
item the more and more you have of it.
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What factors alone create a supply and/or demand curve? ______________ ______________
The degree to which a change in a goods price changes supply or demand for a good is known
as?
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What are 3 characteristics of inelastic demand?
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What are 3 characteristics of elastic demand?
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What are 3 characteristics of inelastic supply?
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What are 3 characteristics of elastic supply?
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What is the point at which supply and demand are the same in terms of quantity and price?
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Anything above this point is known as? ________________________________
How do you solve this problem? ____________________________
Anything below this point is known as? ________________________________
How do you solve this problem? ____________________________
The price a borrower pays to a lender for their lending services is known as? _______________
The original amount of the loan a borrower takes out is known as?
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What is the formula for simple interest? _____________________________
What is the formula for compound interest?
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Which type of interest do you want as a borrower?
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Which type of interest do you want as a lender? ____________________________
What is the act of redirecting your financial assets from present use to future use?
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To spread your assets around to avoid total loss is known as?
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The ability to use as or quickly convert assets to cash is known as?
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When considering how to use your assets you should always compare two things:
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