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AP Human Geography - Chapter 18 FRQDefine the concept of a megacity. - correct answers - population of over 10 mil - exerts influence regionally and/or ubiquitously - includes world's largest cities Explain the concept of a world city using either economic or political characteristics. - corre...

AP Human AMSCO Final Review Chapter 3-4 Which generalization is best illustrated by the world map above (Number of people per square mile?) A. Climate is the primary factor influencing population distribution B. People are spread out evenly throughout the world C. The majority of the world's po...

AP GOVERNMENT, AMSCO CHAPTER 3, THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH Bicameral - correct answers Two house legislature; resulted from a dispute between small and large states, each wanting a different form of representation Seventeenth Amendment - correct answers Ratified in 1913; broadened democracy by givin...

AP EURO AMSCO Final"This image (Peter the Great) is best understood within the context of which of the following developments in Russia? A. Urbanization and rapid population growth in Eastern Europe B. Military reform and growth of mercantile trade C. Educational reform to revise Russian traditi...

AMSCO US Government and Politics Ch. 16 Media affiliates - correct answers Local television stations that carry the programming of a national network associated press (AP) - correct answers Newspaper publishers from around the nation formed this to promote cooperative news gathering by wire-shar...

AMSCO Modern World History Vocabulary 2.4. 2.5, 2.6 & 2.7Sahara Desert - correct answers the largest desert in the world, covering most of northern Africa Oases - correct answers a place, usually in a desert, where water can be found Camel Saddle - correct answers An invention which gives came...

AMSCO Chapter 16 railroad - correct answers The nation's first big business, created a nationwide market for goods. This encouraged mass production, mass consumption, and economic specialization. (p. 320) Cornelius Vanderbilt - correct answers Called "Commodore", he used his millions earned f...

Amsco Chapter 5 MC answersWhich of the following statements in relation to the bureaucracy would Stevens most likely support - correct answers A degree of discretion is necessary when bureaucratic agencies must apply laws that ads imperfectly written Those who disagree with the above Supreme Cour...

AMSCO Ch. 6 AP PsychologySensation - correct answers process by which our brain and nervous system receive input from the environment through our five senses Transduction - correct answers transforms one form of energy into another Wavelength - correct answers distance from one wave peak to th...

Amsco APW: Lesson 1.2After Muhammad's death in 632 - correct answers Islam spread rapidly outward from Arabia and their reach spread from India to Spain Most Islamic leaders showed tolerance to - correct answers Christians, Jews, and others who believed in a single god and did good works Chal...

AMSCO AP WORLD UNIT 1Based on this passage, which of the statements concerning the trading city of Hangzhou is most accurate? - correct answers Hangzhou was a vital trading city because it had foreign merchandise and was also accessible by the Grand Canal for internal trade. What development, whi...

AMSCO AP World History Unit 6.6 and 6.7Colonial Service - correct answers Managers for plantations or other colonial enterprises. Taiping Rebellion - correct answers Revolt against Qing Dynasty brought poverty and disorder and led to people leaving China. Indentured Servants - correct answers ...

AMSCO AP World History Modern- Unit 2 magnetic compass - correct answers Chinese invention that aided navigation by showing which direction was north rudder - correct answers the hinged plate at the back and bottom of a boat, used for steering junk - correct answers A very large flat bottom s...

AMSCO AP WORLD HISTORY: MODERN, Topic 5.10What resulted in a leadership role in industrialization? - correct answers Access to lots of natural resources, trans-oceanic trade routes & capital combined with an increasing population Scientific Revolution - correct answers Influenced by scientific kn...

AMSCO AP WORLD HISTORY: MODERN, Topic 4.8What technology made ocean travel easier? - correct answers Astronomical charts, the astrolabe, compass, magnetic compass, lateen sail, carrack, caravel, fluyt Columbian Exchange - correct answers A biological exchange of plants, animals, people, & disease...

AMSCO AP WORLD HISTORY: MODERN, Topic 4.4Indentured Servitude - correct answers Arrangements thru which servants were contracted to work for a specified period of years in exchange for passage Chattel Slavery - correct answers System in which individuals are considered property to be bought & sol...

AMSCO AP WORLD HISTORY: MODERN, Topic 4.2Christopher Columbus - correct answers Gained the Spanish monarchs' - Queen Isabella & King Ferdinand - support in 1492 for voyages across the Atlantic; his voyages helped increase the interest in discovery What did conquest bring? - correct answers They ...

AMSCO AP World History Modern- Unit 9 radio - correct answers a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves Internet - correct answers A global network connecting millions of computers, making it possible to exchange information. Green Revolution - correct answers Rapid d...

AMSCO AP World History Modern- Unit 6Imperialism - correct answers A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. Nationalism - correct answers A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country Sino-Japanese War - correct answers a war bet...

AMSCO AP World History Modern- Unit 4Primogeniture Laws - correct answers English laws that only led eldest sons inherit land, leading younger sons to search for money via things like joint-stock companies. Omani-European Rivalry - correct answers Portuguese vs the Omani over the Muslim controlle...

AMSCO AP World History Modern- Unit 3Ming Dynasty - correct answers Succeeded Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1368; lasted until 1644; initially mounted huge trade expeditions to southern Asia and elsewhere, but later concentrated efforts on internal development within China. Manchu - correct ans...

Amsco AP World History Modern: Lesson 1.2After Muhammad's death in 632 - correct answers Islam spread rapidly outward from Arabia and their reach spread from India to Spain Most Islamic leaders showed tolerance to - correct answers Christians, Jews, and others who believed in a single god and di...

Amsco AP World History Modern: Lesson 1.1 East Asia - correct answers China, Japan, Korea South Asia - correct answers India Southeast Asia - correct answers Vietnam Song Dynasty - correct answers Most innovative; made the imperial bureaucracy Coal - correct answers made China succ...

AMSCO AP World History Chapter 9Malaria - correct answers disease caused by mosquitoes implanting parasites in the blood Bananas - correct answers tropical/sub-tropical, long curved fruit that grows in clusters Congo River - correct answers river in Central Africa that flows into the Atlantic ...

Amsco AP World History 1.1Song Dynasty - correct answers Replaced the Tang in 960 and ruled for three centuries with a prosperous reign under which the arts flourished. Bureaucracy - correct answers China's strength was partially the result of its imperial bureaucracy through which elected offic...

AMSCO AP World 8.2 The Cold War United Nations (UN) - correct answers an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security Iron Curtain - correct answers Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S....

AMSCO AP US History Chapter 27elections of 1952, 1956 - correct answers In these two presidential elections Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon defeated Adlai Stevenson quite easily. (p. 580-581) Dwight Eisenhower - correct answers The United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy...

AMSCO AP US History Chapter 26 Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (GI Bill) - correct answers Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 22, 1944, it was also known as the GI Bill. It provided veterans of the Second World War with funds for college education, unemployment insura...

AMSCO AP US History Chapter 25Good Neighbor Policy - correct answers President Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy of promoting better relations with Latin America by using economic influence rather than military force in the region. (p. 523) Manchuria - correct answers In September 1931, Japane...

AMSCO AP US History Chapter 24Great Depression - correct answers This depression of the 1930's lasted far longer, caused more business failures and unemployment, and affected more people - both of the middle class and the working class - than any other preceding period of hard times. Black Thurs...

AMSCO AP US History Chapter 23Warren Harding - correct answers In November 1920, he was elected the 29th president of the United States. He was a Republican whose slogan was: "Return to Normalcy". His term was marked by scandals and corruption, although he was never implicated in any of the scanda...

Amsco AP US History Chapter 22Beginning of the War - correct answers - Serbian terrorist assassinates Archduke Ferdinand - Austria declares war on Serbia - Germany, an ally of Germany, declares war on Russia, an ally of Serbia - Germany declares war on France, an ally of Russia - Britain, as an ...

AMSCO AP US History Chapter 21Progressives - correct answers Most of this were urban middle-class men and women. They included: doctors, lawyers, ministers, storekeepers, office workers, and middle managers. They hoped to create an idealistic American society cured of its social, political, and econ...

Amsco AP US History Chapter 19Gilded Age - correct answers A name for the late 1800s, coined by Mark Twain to describe the tremendous increase in wealth caused by the industrial age and the ostentatious lifestyles it allowed the very rich. The great industrial success of the U.S. and the fabulous li...

AMSCO AP US History Chapter 10Indian Removal Act - correct answers In 1830, this act forced the resettlement of thousands of Native Americans west of the Mississippi. (p. 195) Cherokee Nation v. Georgia - correct answers In 1831, this Supreme Court case ruled that the Cherokees were not a foreign...

Amsco AP US History Chapter 9sectionalism - correct answers a devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole, ultimately led to the Union's worst crisis: civil war between the North and the South in the early 1860s Daniel Webster - correct answers...

AMSCO AP US History Chapter 7 Thomas Jefferson - correct answers A prominent statesman, Thomas Jefferson became George Washington's first secretary of state. Along with James Madison, Jefferson took up the cause of strict constructionists and the Republican Party, advocating limited federal gove...

AMSCO AP US History Chapter 4 Patrick Henry - correct answers Young Virginian lawyer who coined the phrase "No taxation without representation" in his speech to the House of Burgesses. (p. 73) Stamp Act Congress - correct answers Representatives from nine colonies met in New York in 1765 and d...

AMSCO AP US History Chapter 2Cecil Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore - correct answers In 1634, Cecil Calvert (Second Lord Baltimore) was the son of George Calvert (First Lord Baltimore). Cecil Calvert set about making his father's dream of a Maryland colony that would be a haven for Catholics in Amer...

AMSCO AP US History Chapter 1-3corn - correct answers The Mayas and the Incas cultivated corn as an important stable food supply. (p. 2) horses - correct answers It was not until the 17th century that the American Indians acquired these animals from the Spanish. (p. 4) disease - correct answer...

AMSCO AP Psychology - Unit 1 Behaviorism - correct answers A theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behavior Classical conditioning - correct answers a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate ev...

AMSCO AP Modern World History Unit 1 ReviewUnit 1.1 East Asia Multiple Choice - correct answers - Based on the passage which of the statements concerning the trading city of Hangzhou is most accurate? - correct answers Based on the passage which of the statements concerning the trading city of Ha...

AMSCO AP Macroeconomics- Unit 4 asset - correct answers Anything of value that is owned demand deposit - correct answers the money in checking accounts Liquidity - correct answers the ease with which an asset can be converted into the economy's medium of exchange Securities - correct answ...

AMSCO AP Government Unit 1advice and consent - correct answers the power of the United States Senate to be consulted on and approve of treaties signed and appointments made by the President Bill of Rights - correct answers the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution checks and balances - corre...

AMSCO AP Government Chapter 10 Vocabulary ad hoc - correct answers Several subordinates, cabinet officers and committees report directly to the president on different matters. this structure allows great flexibility, minimizes bureaucratic inertia, and generates ideas and information from disparate...

AMSCO AP Government & Politics (2018 Redesign) Chapter 4 Executive Branchambassadors - correct answers official representatives to foreign governments bully pulpit - correct answers a brightly lit stage to pitch ideas to the American people Cabinet - correct answers the principal officers in e...

AMSCO AP Gov Unit 3 Practice QuestionsWhich of the following is the most complete summary of the selective incorporation doctrine? - correct answers The Supreme Court has required states to apply certain rights in the Bill of Rights through the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause. What was...

AMSCO AP GOV Chapter 10conservative - correct answers A person who believes government power, particularly in the economy, should be limited in order to maximize individual freedom. liberal - correct answers groups that may want government to provide welfare at a higher, though still impoverished...

AMSCO AP GOV Chapter 1 federalism - correct answers a system of government that divides the power between the national and state governments Federalists - correct answers group of people who endorsed the Constitution social contract - correct answers agreement between a democratic government ...

AMSCO: 5.5 How did technology shape economic production during the period from 1750 to 1900? - correct answers Water Transportation - Coal-powered steam engines could be built anywhere and could be used on ships and trains - Engines could be turned on by people when needed and turned off when not...

AMSCO: 4.1-4.4How did cross-cultural interactions spread technology and facilitate changes in trade and travel from 1450 to 1750? - correct answers Technology: - Increase in interactions of empires over the Atlantic Ocean led to an increase in naval technology - Compass - Astrolabe - Caravel - ...

AMSCO: 3.3-3.4How did different belief systems endure or change during the period from ? - correct answers Protestant/Roman Catholic Church: - Changed when Europe shifted from feudalism to centralized governments - Reforms were made in an effort to stop corruption - Theological disagreements: Jo...

AMSCO 3.1 European, East Asian, and Gunpowder Empires ExpandGunpowder Empires - correct answers large multiethnic states in Southwest, Central, and South Asia that relied on firearms to conquer and control their territories Suleiman the Magnificent - correct answers ruled the Ottomans as the empi...

AMSCO: 1.6How did the beliefs and practices of the predominant religions, agricultural practices, and political decentralization affect European society? - correct answers Religion: The predominant religions in Europe were Christians, Jews, and Muslims. The Christian Church established universities ...

AMSCO - 7.5 Reading Notes - AP HistoryWhat was the role of colonies in WWI? What were their overall experiences? - correct answers Their colonies sent supplies, food and soldiers to help in the war effort. How were colonies treated at the end of WWI? What did they expect and what did they receive...

MSCO - 3.1 Reading Notes - AP Historywho were the four gunpowder empires? - correct answers russia, the ottoman, the safavid, and the mughal empires. why did the gunpowder empires craft artist and architectural legacies? - correct answers to reflect the legitimacy of rulers. what did europe's...

AMSCO - 2.6 Reading Notes - AP History Generally speaking, what was the impact of new crops (the good and the bad)? - correct answers New crops often had an impact on land use and population growth and distribution. In some areas, people found ways to sustain abundant production; in others, overuse...

AMSCO - 2.5 Reading Notes - AP HistoryGenerally, in which ways did cultural diffusion in c. effect places? - correct answers Goods, people, and ideas traveled with relative freedom through the networks of exchange in Afro- Eurasia in the years between c. 1200 and c. 1450. Technological developments...

AMSCO - 1.4 Reading Notes - AP HistoryCahokia - correct answers - Largest of the earthen mounds that the Mississippians built - Located in southern Illinois - People abandoned here around 1450 Matrilineal society - correct answers - Means that social standing was determined by the woman's side...

AMSCO - 1.3 Reading Notes - AP HistoryDelhi sultanate - correct answers 1. Reigned for 300 years, from the 13th through the 16th centuries 2. Imposed a tax called the jizya on all non-Muslim subjects of the empire 3. Never organized an efficient bureaucracy in the style of the Chinese. Because of ...

7.6 AMSCO TermsNazism - correct answers German brand of fascism Weimar Republic - correct answers the republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933 Mein Kampf - correct answers "My Struggle"-a book written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment in , in which he set fort...

1.7 Notes- AP HistoryThe author makes the claim that states in core areas of civilization grew larger, while smaller states began to decline. Identify and explain two examples that prove this argument. - correct answers States in core areas of civilization grew larger because of cultural and technol...