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PRAXIS II PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS, ALREADY
PASSED! (COMPLETE & ACCURATE)
Which of the following initiatives was a Progressive Era response to the threat
of environmental degradation? - ANS ✓The creation of the national park system
In the late nineteenth century, economic development in the southern United
States was largely characterized by - ANS ✓a continued reliance on agriculture
and related enterprises
Which of the following supported the unequal treatment of African Americans
in the United States throughout the late nineteenth century and the twentieth
century? - ANS ✓Jim Crow laws
Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were all
advocates for the claim that - ANS ✓women should be granted the same voting
rights as men
Which of the following most directly allowed early factories in the United
States to appear outside the mill towns of New England? - ANS ✓Steam power
The main goal of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to provide - ANS ✓public
work relief to young men during the Great Depression
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Immigrants who settled in large cities in the United States between 1890 and
1914 primarily came from which of the following regions? - ANS ✓Southern and
eastern Europe
Which of the following describes an effect of the First World War on civil
liberties in the United States before 1920? - ANS ✓Laws on espionage and
sedition were expanded to target anti-American language and behavior.
The enactment of the New Deal programs in the 1930s could best be
characterized as reflecting a popular belief that - ANS ✓the federal government
should provide assistance to people in times of economic distress
The post-Second World War United States foreign policy that called for
supporting European countries against communist invasions or communist
revolutions was the - ANS ✓Truman Doctrine
The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 and the invasion of Panama in 1989
are examples of attempts by the United States to - ANS ✓eliminate unfriendly
governments in the Western Hemisphere
"You may well ask: 'Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn't
negotiation a better path?' You are quite right in calling for negotiation.
Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks
to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has
constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to
dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored."
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (1963)
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Question: Of the following, which is a strategy reflected in the passage above
that the Civil Rights movement used to obtain racial equality? - ANS ✓Peaceful
civil disobedience to obtain social change
The elections of Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter as
president in the 1960s and 1970s provide evidence for - ANS ✓the growing
electoral power of Sun Belt states
In the decade after the end of the Cold War, United States foreign policy was
most strongly characterized by which of the following? - ANS ✓A focus on
expanding economic prosperity through globalization and free trade
Which of the following most likely led to the shift in human societies from
hunting and gathering to agriculture beginning circa 8,000 B.C.E. ? - ANS
✓Climate change
Which of the following regions was the first to develop settled agriculture? -
ANS ✓Middle East
Which of the following was a direct result of the Neolithic Revolution? - ANS
✓The growth of agricultural communities
Which of the following was most significant in allowing river valley
civilizations to flourish? - ANS ✓Agricultural production from relatively enriched
soils
Which of the following significantly contributed to the decline of both the
Western Roman Empire and the Han dynasty? - ANS ✓Nomadic invasions and
internal unrest
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PRAXIS II PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS, ALREADY
PASSED! (COMPLETE & ACCURATE)
Which of the following initiatives was a Progressive Era response to the threat
of environmental degradation? - ANS ✓The creation of the national park system
In the late nineteenth century, economic development in the southern United
States was largely characterized by - ANS ✓a continued reliance on agriculture
and related enterprises
Which of the following supported the unequal treatment of African Americans
in the United States throughout the late nineteenth century and the twentieth
century? - ANS ✓Jim Crow laws
Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were all
advocates for the claim that - ANS ✓women should be granted the same voting
rights as men
Which of the following most directly allowed early factories in the United
States to appear outside the mill towns of New England? - ANS ✓Steam power
The main goal of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to provide - ANS ✓public
work relief to young men during the Great Depression
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Immigrants who settled in large cities in the United States between 1890 and
1914 primarily came from which of the following regions? - ANS ✓Southern and
eastern Europe
Which of the following describes an effect of the First World War on civil
liberties in the United States before 1920? - ANS ✓Laws on espionage and
sedition were expanded to target anti-American language and behavior.
The enactment of the New Deal programs in the 1930s could best be
characterized as reflecting a popular belief that - ANS ✓the federal government
should provide assistance to people in times of economic distress
The post-Second World War United States foreign policy that called for
supporting European countries against communist invasions or communist
revolutions was the - ANS ✓Truman Doctrine
The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 and the invasion of Panama in 1989
are examples of attempts by the United States to - ANS ✓eliminate unfriendly
governments in the Western Hemisphere
"You may well ask: 'Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn't
negotiation a better path?' You are quite right in calling for negotiation.
Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks
to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has
constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to
dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored."
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (1963)
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Question: Of the following, which is a strategy reflected in the passage above
that the Civil Rights movement used to obtain racial equality? - ANS ✓Peaceful
civil disobedience to obtain social change
The elections of Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter as
president in the 1960s and 1970s provide evidence for - ANS ✓the growing
electoral power of Sun Belt states
In the decade after the end of the Cold War, United States foreign policy was
most strongly characterized by which of the following? - ANS ✓A focus on
expanding economic prosperity through globalization and free trade
Which of the following most likely led to the shift in human societies from
hunting and gathering to agriculture beginning circa 8,000 B.C.E. ? - ANS
✓Climate change
Which of the following regions was the first to develop settled agriculture? -
ANS ✓Middle East
Which of the following was a direct result of the Neolithic Revolution? - ANS
✓The growth of agricultural communities
Which of the following was most significant in allowing river valley
civilizations to flourish? - ANS ✓Agricultural production from relatively enriched
soils
Which of the following significantly contributed to the decline of both the
Western Roman Empire and the Han dynasty? - ANS ✓Nomadic invasions and
internal unrest
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