ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS
Social Studies
Chapter 1 Civics and Government
Exercise 1: Types of Historical and Modern Governments
1. Correct answer: C
2. 
Exercise 2: Basic Principles of American Constitutional Democracy
1. Correct answer: B
2. Correct answer: D
3. Correct answer: C
4. Correct answer: D
5. Correct answer: A
Exercise 3: Structure and Design of the U.S. Federal Government
1. 
Exercise 4: The Legislative Branch
1. Correct answer: B
2. Correct answer: C
3. Correct answer: B
Exercise 5: The Executive Branch
1. Correct answer: B
2. Correct answer: C
3. Correct answer: A
4. Correct answer: B
Exercise 6: The President’s Cabinet
1. Correct answer: A
2. Correct answer: D
Exercise 7: The Judicial Branch
1. Correct answer: John Marshall
2. Correct answer: 34
Exercise 8: Amending the Constitution
1. Correct answer: D
2. Correct answer: D
Exercise 9: The Bill of Rights
1. 
2. 
3. Correct answer: D
Exercise 10: Citizens’ Rights and Civic Responsibilities
1. Correct answer: Shirley M. Watts
2. Correct answer: C
3. Correct answer: D
Exercise 11: Political Parties
1. Correct answer: C
2. Correct answer: C
3. Correct answer: A
Exercise 12: Political Campaigns, Elections, and the Electoral Process
1. Correct answer: C
2. Correct answer: C
3. Correct answer: D
Exercise 13: Contemporary Public Policy
1. Correct answer: Education Is Primary
2. Correct answer: A
Practice: Civics and Government
1. Correct answer: A
2. Correct answer: D
3. Correct answer: A
4. Correct answer: B
5. Correct answer: C
6. Correct answer: B
7. Correct answer: C
8. Correct answer: A
9. Correct answer: D
10. Correct answer: B
Chapter 2 United States History
Exercise 1: European Exploration of the Americas
1. 
2. Correct answer: B
3. Correct answer: C. The line “Wrote down twenty-two” shows that Columbus may not be a credible source. He lied to his crew about the distance they had sailed. In the previous line he says they actually sailed 25 leagues.
Exercise 2: The English Colony in Virginia
1. Correct answer: B
2. Correct answer: A
Exercise 3: English Colonies in New England and Maryland
1. Correct answer: D
2. Correct answer: D
3. 
4. Correct answer: Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island
Exercise 4: The Thirteen Colonies Take Shape
1. 
2. Correct answer: D
3. Correct answer: C
Exercise 5: Tensions Rise Between the Colonies and Great Britain
1. Correct answer: B
2. Correct answer: B
Exercise 6: The First Continental Congress and the Beginning of the American Revolution
1. Correct answer: D
2. Correct answer: B
Exercise 7: The Second Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence
1. 
2. Correct answer: A
Exercise 8: The Revolutionary War
1. Correct answer: 6
2. Correct answer: C
3. Correct answer: C
Exercise 9: From the Articles of Confederation to the U.S. Constitution
1. Correct answer: C
2. Correct answer: B
Exercise 10: The War of 1812
1. Correct answer: C
2. Correct answer: C
Exercise 11: The Monroe Doctrine
1. Correct answer: A
2. Correct answer: B
Exercise 12: U.S. Policy Toward Native Americans
1. Correct answer: A
2. Correct answer: D
Exercise 13: Manifest Destiny
1. Correct answer: C
2. Correct answer: C
3. Correct answer: B
Exercise 14: Civil War and Reconstruction
1. 
2. Correct answer: C
Exercise 15: The United States Becomes a Major Industrial Nation
1. Correct answer: B
2. Correct answer: C
Exercise 16: The United States Becomes a World Power
1. Correct answer: B
Exercise 17: World War I
1. Correct answer: A
2. Correct answer: C
Exercise 18: The Great Depression
1. Correct answer: D
2. Correct answer: B
Exercise 19: World War II
1. Correct answer: D
Exercise 20: Postwar America
1. Correct answer: B
2. Correct answer: C
Exercise 21: The Cold War
1. Correct answer: D
Exercise 22: The Civil Rights Movement and the Women’s Movement
1. Correct answer: A
2. Correct answer: D
Exercise 23: The Great Society, the Vietnam War, and Watergate
1. Correct answer: C
2. Correct answer: A
Exercise 24: Presidencies in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries
1. Correct answer: C
Practice: United States History
1. Correct answer: A
2. 
3. Correct answer: B
4. Correct answer: D
5. 
6. Correct answer: B
7. Correct answer: C
8. Correct answer: D
9. Correct answer: D
10. Correct answer: A
Chapter 3 Economics
Exercise 1: Fundamental Economic Concepts
1. Correct answer: C
2. Correct answer: B
Exercise 2: Microeconomics and Macroeconomics
1. Correct answer: False
2. Correct answer: equilibrium
Exercise 3: Banking and Credit
1. Correct answer: D
2. Correct answer: False
Exercise 4: The Role of Government in the National Economy
1. 
Exercise 5: International Trade
1. Correct answer: C
2. Correct answer: B
Exercise 6: Key Economic Events in U.S. History
1. Correct answer: C
2. Correct answer: D
Practice: Economics
1. Correct answer: A
2. Correct answer: B
3. Correct answer: C
4. Correct answer: D
5. 
6. Correct answer:
7. Correct answer: A. If you draw a line of best fit for the data in the scatter plot, you can see that, in general, as the price of Item A increases, the price of Item B also increases.
8. Correct answer: C. A scatter plot shows how data may or may not be correlated. This scatter plot shows that the prices of Item A and Item B are positively correlated, but that does not show anything about causation.
9. Correct answer: B
10. Correct answer: According to the law of supply and demand, if the supply of the product is greater than the demand for a product, the price of the product will fall.
Chapter 4 Geography and the World
Exercise 1: Ecosystems
1. Correct answer: D
2. Correct answer: B
Exercise 2: Geography and the Development of Human Societies
1. Correct answer: D
2. Correct answer: C
Exercise 3: Human Changes to the Environment
1. Correct answer: B
2. Correct answer: B
Exercise 4: Human Migration
1. Correct answer: C
2. Correct answer: D
Exercise 5: Population Trends and Issues
1. Correct answer: C
2. Correct answer: False
Exercise 6: Geography Tools and Skills
1. Correct answer: D
2. Correct answer: A
Practice: Geography
1. Correct answer: C
2. Correct answer: A
3. Correct answer: True
4. Correct answer: C
5. Correct answer: B
6. Correct answer: A
7. Correct answer: B
Chapter 5 Focusing Themes
Exercise 1: The Earliest Civilizations
1. Correct answer: D
2. Correct answer: A
Exercise 2: Early China
1. Correct answer: C
2. Correct answer: D
Exercise 3: Early India
1. Correct answer: B
Exercise 4: Classical Greece
1. Correct answer: B
2. Correct answer: A
Exercise 5: Rome
1. Correct answer: C
2. Correct answer: A
Exercise 6: The Great Migration and the Middle Ages
1. Correct answer: C
2. Correct answer: D
Exercise 7: Feudalism
1. Correct answer: A
2. Correct answer: B
Exercise 8: The Middle East and Africa
1. Correct answer: D
2. Correct answer: C
Exercise 9: Civilizations in the Americas
1. Correct answer: A
Exercise 10: Renaissance and Reformation in Europe
1. Correct answer: B
2. Correct answer: C
Exercise 11: The Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution
1. Correct answer: C
2. Correct answer: C
Exercise 12: The Age of Exploration
1. Correct answer: D
2. Correct answer: True
Exercise 13: Building Empires
1. 
Exercise 14: Revolutions in Britain and France
1. Correct answer: B
2. Correct answer: A
Exercise 15: New Political Ideas in the 19th Century
1. Correct answer: B
2. Correct answer: B
Exercise 16: Political Developments in 19th-Century Europe
1. Correct answer: C
2. Correct answer: D
Exercise 17: World War I and the Russian Revolution
1. Correct answer: A
2. Correct answer: C
3. Correct answer: B
Exercise 18: The Rise of Fascism
1. Correct answer: C
2. Correct answer: D
Exercise 19: World War II
1. Correct answer: A
2. Correct answer: D
Exercise 20: The End of European Dominance and the Formation of the European Union
1. Correct answer: D
Exercise 21: The End of the Soviet Union
1. Correct answer: C
Exercise 22: China Today
1. Correct answer: C
Exercise 23: The Arab World
1. Correct answer: A
Practice: Focusing Themes
1. Correct answer: D
2. Correct answer: C
3. Correct answer: A
4. Correct answer: D
5. Correct answer: B
6. Correct answer: D
7. Correct answer: A
8. Correct answer: C
9. Correct answer: B
10. Correct answer: D