AP Notes, Outlines, Study Guides, Vocabulary, Practice Exams and more!

Social Issues

APGov - Test: Political Beliefs & Behaviors

Subject: 
US Gov and Politics
Rating: 
0
No votes yet
Tags: 
Politics
elections
Statistics
public opinion
political science
United States nationality law
Voter turnout
Opinion poll
Party identification
Democratic Party
Citizenship in the United States
United States presidential election
Social Issues

TEST: POLITICAL BELIEFS & BEHAVIOR AP: UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT & POLITICS NAME:__________________________________ Part I: Multiple Choice (2 Points Each) Write in the letter of the best possible answer. _______1.) Which amendment states that ?the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?? Twelfth Amendment Fifteenth Amendment Seventeenth Amendment Nineteenth Amendment Twenty-Sixth Amendment _______2.) Political socialization is defined as the distribution of the population?s beliefs about politics and policy issues the process through which an individual acquires his or her particular political orientations

Review Game: Political Beliefs & Behaviors -- PPT Questions

Subject: 
US Gov and Politics
Rating: 
0
No votes yet
Tags: 
Statistics
sampling
Opinion poll
Psychometrics
public opinion
Survey methodology
Politics
Social Issues

Political Beliefs & Behaviors AP Government: Review Game Rules 1.) Write your answer on the white board 2.) Hold your board up when I call time 3.) Keep your own point total 4.) You can lose points on objective questions 5.) You must answer objective questions, you can choose not to answer identify questions 6.) Pay attention to the questions as you will see most of them on the test on Monday 1 point question True or False: Compared with citizens of other countries, Americans vote in more elections and for more offices. Answer: True 1 point question True or False: Americans are more likely to favor freedom over equality. Answer: True 1 point question True or False: Writing a letter to the editor of a newspaper COULD be an example of political participation. Answer: True

euro 20

Subject: 
European History
Rating: 
0
No votes yet
Tags: 
Industrial Revolution
Technology
Business
Technological and industrial history of the United States
Cotton mill
Textile industry
Modern history
Factory
Industrialisation
samuel slater
Cotton
Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution
Social Issues

Chapter 20 The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain Origins agricultural revolution rapid population growth surplus labor ready supply of capital for investment in new industrial machines and factories ample supplies of important mineral resources abundant rivers Parliament provided stable government; protected private property colonies provided a market as well as raw materials Technological Changes and New Forms of Industrial Organization The Cotton Industry James Hargreaves? spinning jenny Richard Arkwright?s water frame spinning machine Edmund Cartwright?s power loom concentration of labor in factories new towns grew up around factories The Steam Engine

euro 23

Subject: 
European History
Rating: 
0
No votes yet
Tags: 
Socialism
Economic ideologies
sociology
Social philosophy
Political philosophy
Labour relations
Collectivism
Labour law
Otto von Bismarck
Trade union
Anti-Socialist Laws
American Federation of Labor
Social Issues
Politics

Chapter 23 The Mass Society in an ?Age of Progress,? 1871-1894 The Growth of Industrial Prosperity New Products First major change in industrial development after 1870 was the substitution of steel for iron. Great Britain fell behind Germany in steel production Great Britain also fell behind in the new chemical industry. By 1910: power stations and plants districts tide to single power distribution systems commons source of power for homes, shops, industrial enterprises Thomas Edison: invention of lightbulb Joseph Swan: opened homes and cities to illumination by electric lights Alexander Graham Bell: 1876: invented telephone Guglielmo Marconi: 1901: sent first radio waves across the Atlantic 1897: invention of oil-fired engion 1902: used by Hamburg-Amerika Line ocean liners

Chapter 8 Vocabulary

Subject: 
Environmental Science
Rating: 
0
No votes yet
Tags: 
Demography
population
Demographic economics
Human Geography
Science
fertility
Demographic transition
Birth rate
Total fertility rate
Population growth
World population
Demographic trap
Social Issues
AP Environmental Science

4) Define each of the following terms: Demographic transition- Hypothesis that countries, as they become industrialized, have declines in death rates followed by declines in birth rates Demography-the application of principles from population ecology to the study of statistical change in human populations Industrial stage-3rd stage of demographic transition. Birth rates fall b/c children lose their economic value, women have employment opportunities outside of the home and access to birth control. Population growth is reduced Life expectancy-the average # of years an individual in a particular age group is likely to continue to live Natural rate of population change-change due to birth and death rates alone, excluding migration

AP Human Geography FInal Exam Study Guide

Subject: 
Human Geography
Rating: 
0
No votes yet
Tags: 
Demography
population
Human Geography
Demographic economics
Science
human migration
Overpopulation
Demographic transition
Population growth
Birth rate
Urbanization
World population
Social Issues

AP Human Geography Notes General Geography: US road map is not a thematic map Every meridian is the same length and has the same beginning and end According to environmental determinism, the physical environment causes social development Highest density: most in numbers Highest concentration: closest together Cloropleth map uses shading Five Themes of Geography: Location: Relative location Absolute location Place: Human Characteristics Physical Characteristics Human-Environmental Interaction: Humans adapt to the environment Humans modify the environment Humans depend on the environment Movement People Goods Ideas Regions Formal (uniform) Functional (nodal) Vernacular (perceptual) Culture:

AP Human Geography FInal Exam Study Guide

Subject: 
Human Geography
Rating: 
0
No votes yet
Tags: 
Demography
population
Human Geography
Demographic economics
Science
human migration
Overpopulation
Demographic transition
Population growth
Birth rate
Urbanization
World population
Social Issues

AP Human Geography Notes General Geography: US road map is not a thematic map Every meridian is the same length and has the same beginning and end According to environmental determinism, the physical environment causes social development Highest density: most in numbers Highest concentration: closest together Cloropleth map uses shading Five Themes of Geography: Location: Relative location Absolute location Place: Human Characteristics Physical Characteristics Human-Environmental Interaction: Humans adapt to the environment Humans modify the environment Humans depend on the environment Movement People Goods Ideas Regions Formal (uniform) Functional (nodal) Vernacular (perceptual) Culture:

test21-18

Subject: 
English
Rating: 
0
No votes yet
Tags: 
Slavery in the United States
African slave trade
History of the United States
Forestry
Plantation
Real estate
American studies
united states
Southern United States
Free negro
Cultural history of the United States
Plain Folk of the Old South
Social Issues

Southern Society at 1860 Group Size Notes Large planters (1000 or more acres) Less than 1% of the total number of white families The wealthiest class in all of America, the large planters exercised social and political power far beyond their percentage of the population. Most owned 50 slaves or more. Planters (100-1000 acres) Perhaps 3% of white families Usually owned 20-49 slaves. Provided many political leaders and controlled much of the wealth of the South Small slaveholders About 20% of white families Owning fewer than 20 slaves, the small slaveholders were primarily farmers, though some were merchants in Southern towns. Nonslaveholding whites About 75% of white families Yeoman farmers. They owned their small pieces

slavery and sectionalism vocabulary

Subject: 
US History
Rating: 
0
No votes yet
Tags: 
History of the United States
Presidency of James K. Polk
Politics of the United States
united states
Mexican–American War
mexico
slavery
James K. Polk
Manifest Destiny
Texas Annexation
Mexican Cession
Nat Turner
Social Issues

Slavery and Sectionalism (1845-1860) 136. Nat Turner?s Rebellion: Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Virginia, attacked many whites, prompted non-slaveholding Virginians to consider emancipation 137. Yeoman Farmers: family farmers who hired out slaves for the harvest season, self-sufficient, participated in local markets alongside slave owners 138. Underground Railroad: network of safe houses of white abolitionists used to bring slaves to freedom Harriet Tubman ? worked alongside Josiah Henson to make repeated trips to get slaves out of the South into freedom 139. ?Wage slaves?: northern factory workers who were discarded when too old to work (unlike the slaves who were still kept fed and clothed in their old age) 140. Nativism: anti-immigrant, especially against Irish Catholics

the civil war vocabulary

Subject: 
US History
Rating: 
0
No votes yet
Tags: 
History of the United States
Slavery in the United States
Bleeding Kansas
united states
Postmasters
Abraham Lincoln
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln–Douglas debates
Stephen A. Douglas
Abolitionism
Kansas–Nebraska Act
American Civil War
Social Issues
War
Politics

The Civil War (1850-1880) 147. William Seward: Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson;?purchase of Alaska ?Seward?s Folly? 148. Compromise of 1850: (1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico,(3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6)new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A .Douglas ? Fugitive Slave Act ? runaway slaves could be caught in the?North and be brought back to their masters (they were treated as?property ? running away was as good as stealing)

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - Social Issues

Need Help?

We hope your visit has been a productive one. If you're having any problems, or would like to give some feedback, we'd love to hear from you.

For general help, questions, and suggestions, try our dedicated support forums.

If you need to contact the Course-Notes.Org web experience team, please use our contact form.

Need Notes?

While we strive to provide the most comprehensive notes for as many high school textbooks as possible, there are certainly going to be some that we miss. Drop us a note and let us know which textbooks you need. Be sure to include which edition of the textbook you are using! If we see enough demand, we'll do whatever we can to get those notes up on the site for you!