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EC-6 SOCIAL STUIDIES (391) EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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EC-6 SOCIAL STUIDIES (391) EXAMQUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Legislative Branch - Answer -makes the laws, Congress (Senate and the House of
Representatives)
Executive Branch - Answer -Carries out the laws. (President & Vice President)
Judicial Branch - Answer -Branch of government that decides if laws are carried out
fairly. (Supreme Court and Lower Federal Court)
1st Amendment - Answer -Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition
4th Amendment - Answer -Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures
5th Amendment - Answer -The Right to Remain Silent/Double Jeopardy, right to due
process
8th Amendment - Answer -No cruel and unusual punishment
13th Amendment (1865) - Answer -abolished slavery
14th Amendment - Answer -Rights of Citizens
15th Amendment - Answer -gave African American men the right to vote
18th Amendment - Answer -Prohibition of alcohol
19th Amendment - Answer -Gave women the right to vote (suffrage)
Bills of Rights - Answer -10 amendments that guaranteed freedom of religion, speech,
press, petition, and assembly
Longitude - Answer -Distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees
Latitude - Answer -distance north or south of the Equator, measured in degrees
, Stephen F. Austin - Answer -The first man to bring Anglo settlers to Texas. Father of
Texas
Marybury v. Madison - Answer -Established judicial review
Judicial Review - Answer -The power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutional
Scarcity - Answer -A situation in which unlimited wants exceed the limited resources
available to fulfill those wants ( The price increase with scarcity of products.)
Eli Whitney - Answer -Invented the cotton gin
Audie Murphy - Answer -Texan who was most decorated soldier in WWII.
E pluribus unum - Answer -out of many, one (the motto of the US).
Statue of Liberty - Answer -European immigrants saw this structure as a symbol of hope
and freedom.
Virginia House of Burgesses - Answer -The first representative assembly in the new
world. Created due to distance between Great Britain and the colonies.
Magna Carta - Answer -a document constituting a fundamental guarantee of rights and
privileges.
Cold War - Answer -the power struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States
after World War II
George Mason - Answer -American Revolutionary leader from Virginia whose objections
led to the drafting of the Bill of Rights (1725-1792) known as the " The Founding Father
Who Gave Us The Bills of Rights"
James Madison - Answer -"Father of the Constitution," Federalist leader, and fourth
President of the United States.
Battle of the Alamo - Answer -1836 attack on the Alamo mission in San Antonio by
Mexican forces during the Texas revolution. (Texas wanted independence).
plate tectonics - Answer -A theory stating that the earth's surface is broken into plates
that move.(continental drift)
economic system - Answer -the structure of methods and principles that a society uses
to produce and distribute goods and services
opportunity cost - Answer -Cost of the next best alternative use of money, time, or
resources when one choice is made rather than another
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