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TEXES Social Studies 8 Exam Questions Complete Answers Current Update (Verified A+ Pass) Mercantilism - Answers -- The more gold a nation has, the better and stronger its economy and global power. - a nations wealth is determined by the amount of its exports compare to the amount of its import...

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TEXES Social Studies 8 Exam Questions
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Mercantilism - Answers -- The more gold a nation has, the better and stronger its
economy and global power.
- a nations wealth is determined by the amount of its exports compare to the amount of
its imports
- European nations would seek out colonies that could provide more raw materials to
produce goods and reduce their imports from other countries
-THE FOCUS WAS ON ENRICHING THE PARENT COUNTRY

Capitalism - Answers -the resources used to produce goods are privately owned and
operated to make a profit; free individuals used their resources to dictate price, demand,
quality, and quantity through purchasing of products

Allows more social mobility.

* consumers will seek out the goods that best serve their well being, forcing producers
to produce high quality goods at low prices. *

Relative Location - Answers -Describes a place in reference to another

Absolute Location - Answers -Describes where a place is situated without reference to
other places

Physical Map - Answers -shows major land formations and bodies of water

Political Map - Answers -shows boundaries of countries and locations of major cities

Topographic Map - Answers -shows change in elevation (decrease and increase)

Climate Map - Answers -Shows changes in temperature based on region; can be
numbers, colors, or lines

Economic/Resource Map - Answers -Shows the distribution of resources

Thematic Map - Answers -Shows a particular special topic in an area

Physical Regions - Answers -Share similar physical features; its easy to determine
where one region ends and another ends

, Internal forces - Answers -shape the earth's surface through the constant movements of
plate under the surface (earth quakes)

External forces - Answers -cause major changes on or above the surface of the earth
(hurricanes, tornadoes, drought, etc).

Elevation - Answers -distance above sea level

Mayans - Answers -Occupied modern-day southern Mexico and Guatemala; had an
agricultural city-centered economy maintained by large city states, built large pyramids
for religious ceremonies, had an advanced writing system, and was accomplished in
mathematics

Christopher Columbus - Answers -Convinced King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to
finance his exploration to sail west to Asia . landed in modern-day Caribbean

Colombian Exchange - Answers -Spanish traded horses, firearms, wheat, alcohol, and
small pox with Native Americans for corns, potatoes, tobacco, beans, and cocoa

Northwest Passage - Answers -a water route through North America that would facilitate
trade with Asia

Jamestown - Answers -(1607) England's first successful colony in the Americas; cash
crop= tobacco

Mayflower Compact - Answers -Established the first-regulating government; Based on
democratic principles and moral standards of the bible

Rhode Island Colony - Answers -Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson founded this
colony because they were exiled from their home land because they didn't agree and
spoke out against mixing religion and politics

Virginia House of Burgsses - Answers -The first representative legislative body

French and Indian War - Answers -"7 Year War"; war between the British colonist and
the french and Indian allies over land disputes west of the Ohio River Valley

Result of the French and Indian War - Answers -Established Great Britain as the
dominant force in North America and shifted French Colonial attention to the Caribbean
and Africa

Proclamation of 1763 - Answers -stated that the colonists would not be allowed to settle
the Ohio River Valley

Sugar Act - Answers -Parliament placed a tax on sugar, textiles, coffee, wine, and
indigo and forbid the importation of foreign rums and French wines

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