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Multiple Choice Social Studies Assessment Questions
Principles of Education and Training
Chapter 130 Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Career and Technical Education
Subchapter E. Education and Training
Principles of Education and Training (2) The student understands societal impacts within the education
and training career cluster. The student is expected to:
(A) Summarize political and historical trends that have influenced the development of education
across the United States
(B) Identify cultural and societal changes that have affected educational systems across the United
States
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All Social Studies questions come from TEKS 113.41 Subchapter C. High School
United States History Studies Since 1877 and address TEKS 130.142.
(9) History. The student understands the impact of the American civil rights movement.
The student is expected to:
(B) describe the roles of political organizations that promoted civil rights, including ones from
African American, Chicano, American Indian, women's, and other civil rights movements
(C) identify the roles of significant leaders who supported various rights movements, including
Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks, Hector P. Garcia, and Betty Friedan
(F) describe presidential actions and congressional votes to address minority rights in the United
States, including desegregation of the armed forces, the Civil Rights acts of 1957 and 1964, and
the Voting Rights Act of 1965
(H) evaluate changes and events in the United States that have resulted from the civil rights
movement, including increased participation of minorities in the political process
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(13) Geography. The student understands the causes and effects of migration and immigration on
American society. The student is expected to:
(A) analyze the causes and effects of changing demographic patterns resulting from migration
within the United States, including western expansion, rural to urban, the Great Migration, and the
Rust Belt to the Sun Belt
(21) Government. The student understands the impact of constitutional issues on American society.
The student is expected to:
(A) analyze the effects of landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions, including Brown v. Board of
Education, and other U.S. Supreme Court decisions such as Plessy v. Ferguson, Hernandez v.
Texas, Tinker v. Des Moines, Wisconsin v. Yoder, and White v. Regester
(24) Citizenship. The student understands the importance of effective leadership in a constitutional
republic. The student is expected to:
(A) describe qualities of effective leadership
Assessment Questions
1. One similarity between the laws being challenged in the United States Supreme Court cases of Plessy
v. Ferguson (1896) and Korematsu v. United States (1944) is that:
a. specific groups of people were being targeted based on race or ethnicity
b. state laws were declared unconstitutional
c. immigrants were relocated to prison camps
d. federal laws segregating public transportation were upheld
2. In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that:
a. states may not secede from the Union
b. racial segregation was constitutional
c. slaves are property and may not be taken from their owners
d. all western territories should be open to slavery
3. The decisions of the United States Supreme Court in Tinker v. Des Moines and New York Times Co.
v. United States was based on interpretations of the:
a. meaning of a republican form of government
b. powers delegated specifically to Congress
c. president’s right to executive privilege
d. rights guaranteed by the 1st amendment
4. The major goal of the civil rights movement of the 1960’s was to:
a. establish a separate political state for African Americans
b. gain passage of an equal rights amendment to the Constitution
c. end segregation based on race
d. permit unlimited immigration to the United States
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5. An original purpose of affirmative action programs was to:
a. increase educational and employment opportunities for women and minorities
b. improve the American economy by guaranteeing that employees will be highly
skilled
c. decrease social welfare costs by requiring recipients of public assistance to work
d. reduce the Federal deficit by increasing government efficiency
6. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent Federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, during the 1957
school integration crisis, he was exercising his constitutional power as:
a. Chief Legislator
b. Commander-in-Chief
c. Chief Diplomat
d. Head of State
7. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed in an effort to correct:
a. racial and gender discrimination
b. limitations on freedom of speech
c. unfair immigration quotas
d. segregation in the armed forces
8. After World War I, which factor was the major cause of the migration of many African
Americans to the North?
a. the start of the Harlem Renaissance
b. increased job opportunities in Northern cities
c. laws passed in Northern States to end racial discrimination
d. federal Government job-training programs
9. Cesar Chavez created the United Farm workers Organization Committee (UFWOC) in
1966 primarily to:
a. secure voting rights for Mexican Americans
b. improve working conditions for migrant laborers
c. provide legal assistance for illegal aliens
d. increase farm income
10. Which of these terms means “A movement of peoples from one region to another
within the same country”?
a. Emigration
b. Immigration
c. Internal Migration
d. Migration
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Answer Key
1. A
2. B
3. D
4. C
5. A
6. B
7. A
8. B
9. B
10. C
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