GACE History (6-12) (721) Practice Questions - GACE History (6-12) Assessment (Test Code 721) Exam - GACE History (6-12) (721) Practice Questions - GACE History (6-12) Assessment (Test Code 721) Exam

Question 1

Which characteristic best describes the political organization of the Iroquois Confederacy in the centuries before sustained European contact?

A council of representatives from member nations that made decisions by consensus A single hereditary monarch ruling all the member nations A military dictatorship led by a war chief with absolute power A theocracy in which religious leaders held all civil authority

Correct Answer:

A council of representatives from member nations that made decisions by consensus

Question 2

What was a primary economic motivation behind early Spanish exploration and conquest in the Americas during the sixteenth century?

The search for gold, silver, and other precious resources The desire to establish religious freedom for dissenting Protestants The need to relieve overpopulation in Spanish cities The goal of opening a land route to the markets of India

Correct Answer:

The search for gold, silver, and other precious resources

Question 3

The Mayflower Compact of 1620 is significant primarily because it established which principle among the Plymouth settlers?

Self-government based on the consent of the governed Complete separation of church and state Universal suffrage including women and servants Royal control over all colonial legislation

Correct Answer:

Self-government based on the consent of the governed

Question 4

Which economic system, in which colonies existed to enrich the mother country by supplying raw materials and buying finished goods, shaped British policy toward its American colonies?

Mercantilism Laissez-faire capitalism Feudalism Communism

Correct Answer:

Mercantilism

Question 5

The phrase 'no taxation without representation' expressed colonial opposition to British measures such as the Stamp Act of 1765 primarily because colonists argued that

only their own elected assemblies could lawfully tax them Parliament had no power to make any laws for the colonies taxes should be paid only in colonial currency the king alone, not Parliament, had the right to tax them

Correct Answer:

only their own elected assemblies could lawfully tax them

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