Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program (MCAP) Terms Practice Test

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• Which term describes policies and events occurring within a nation's borders?
• Which plan focused on a strong central bank, internal improvements, and a protective tariff?
• Which historical event involved French agents X, Y, and Z demanding bribes from American diplomats before negotiations could begin?
• A secret network of routes and safe houses used by enslaved people to escape to freedom in the North and Canada.
• What term describes giving jobs to your political supporters rather than qualified individuals?
• Which policy sought to coerce Britain and France by restricting trade?
• Which term describes those who favored strong state governments?
• Which event saw the White House and other federal buildings burned during the British attack in 1814?
• Which term describes supporters of a strong central government?
• Which term refers to briefly restating the main points in your own words?
• Grants citizenship to all former slaves and guarantees equal protection under the law.
• Abolished slavery.
• To find a common solution, you would?
• Which item is a common graphic feature used to support understanding in a text?
• If two equations are solved to find a common solution, this is known as?
• A term for a person who moves to another country to live.
• Which term describes the perspective from which a story is told (e.g., first-person, third-person)?
• Which device is an extreme exaggeration for emphasis or humor?
• Which term describes the author's attitude toward the subject or audience?
• Which term refers to the value that occurs most often?
• A person who moves to a country where they are not native, with the intention of settling there permanently.
• Which court decision held that only Congress has the power to take away habeas corpus (the right to a fair trial), so the president needed Congress's approval to do it?
• Which doctrine did Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) uphold regarding racial segregation?
• Which ruling stated that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress had no right to ban slavery in the territories?
• The policy or belief that protects the interests of native-born inhabitants against those of immigrants.
• What is a rate?
• What term describes the 19th-century belief that U.S. expansion across the North American continent was justified and inevitable?
• Which measure describes the spread between the highest and lowest values in a data set?
• In the slope-intercept form y = mx + b, what does b represent?
• What is an ordered pair?
• In a system of equations, the common solution is?
• What is a proportion?
• The coordinate plane consists of?
• What was the deal between Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams to win Adams presidency while Jackson had popular vote?
• What is a scale in a map or drawing?
• Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
• Which term means the sequence of events that make up the story?
• What is volume?
• Which statement defines a radius?
• Which amendment is associated with birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law in the context of former slaves?
• What is the mode?
• Which presidential action involved appointing many Federalist judges late at night, creating lifetime appointments before the rival Jefferson took office?
• Which statement best describes area of a two-dimensional shape?
• A system of equations is?
• Which term describes the literal dictionary meaning of a word?
• Which government agency was established in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South during the Reconstruction era, providing food, shelter, clothing, medical care, education, and legal aid?
• What law established the federal court system and empowered the judiciary?
• Which term denotes the main struggle or problem between opposing forces?
• Which term involves giving human qualities to nonhuman things?
• Which term describes a phrase that uses imagery or creative comparison rather than literal meaning?
• Which term explains how the author reveals a character through description, actions, dialogue, and thoughts?
• Which early communication system used electrical signals sent through wires to transmit messages?
• What is the ideas and feelings that a word evokes beyond its literal meaning called?
• Which legal ruling established the doctrine that segregation was permissible if facilities were equal?
• What is the mean of a data set?
• Which term describes a nation's dealings with other countries?
• What is experimental probability?
• What is a coordinate plane?
• Which amendment guarantees citizenship and equal protection under the law for all persons born or naturalized in the United States?
• What document proclaimed the United States' neutrality in the war between France and Britain in 1793?
• Which statement best describes figurative language?
• Which crisis involved a tariff dispute over states' rights with South Carolina?
• Which institution was created to manage a unified currency and consolidate state debts?
• Which act is associated with allowing popular sovereignty in the new western territories and influencing the slavery issue?
• Which policy restricted immigration and criminalized opposition to the government?
• Which event solidified Andrew Jackson as a war hero?
• Which term means the facts, examples, and evidence that explain and prove the main idea?
• An ordered pair is primarily used to?
• What is a diameter?
• An ordered pair (3, -2) represents what?
• Which term best describes a guiding instance used for future decision-making?
• What term describes the belief that American expansion across the continent was justified and inevitable?
• Which term best matches the definition: a conclusion drawn from clues in the text and prior knowledge?
• Which of the following is a proportion?
• What is the formula for the circumference of a circle in terms of its radius?
• Which term describes the author's attitude toward the subject or audience?
• In a box-and-whisker plot, which feature is used to represent data points that fall far from the main distribution?
• Which figure of speech gives human qualities to nonhuman things?
• In a data set, which measure is used to describe the center and can be influenced by outliers?
• What policy aimed to destroy the national bank?
• Which agreement established the concept: For every Free State there will be a Slave State?
• Which event was a violent tax protest that Washington used to demonstrate that the Constitution could enforce laws?
• Which spinning machine, invented in the 1760s, allowed one worker to spin multiple spools of thread at once?
• A statement that can be supported by evidence is called
• Which term best describes the national program that promoted tariffs and federal funding for roads and canals in the early 1800s?
• Which act established that residents of new territories could vote to determine whether slavery would be legal there?
• Which statement correctly identifies the diameter of a circle?
• Graphs on the coordinate plane can show?
• Which coordinate pair identifies a point on the plane?
• What is the y-intercept?
• Which mechanized loom, powered by water or steam, automated weaving in the late 1700s?
• Which term is the ideas and feelings that a word evokes beyond its literal meaning?
• Which amendment prohibits states from denying due process and equal protection to any person within their jurisdiction?
• Which term refers to the underlying message or insight about life or human nature?
• Which term describes the main point or most important idea the author is conveying?
• Which event occurred during the War of 1812 era and involved the burning of the capital?
• A belief safeguarding native-born inhabitants against immigrants.
• What is area?
• Which machine, invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney, quickly removed seeds from cotton fibers?
• What is a linear equation?
• Which term is defined as the reason the author wrote the text (to inform, persuade, entertain, or explain)?
• Which Supreme Court decision overturned the 'separate but equal' doctrine established by Plessy v. Ferguson?
• Graphic features in a text are best defined as
• What term describes the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words?
• Which term means the sequence of events that make up the story?
• Which term describes a small-scale farmer who owned and worked his own land with his family?
• A graph can represent which of the following?
• Which machine, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, quickly and efficiently removed seeds from cotton fibers?
• In a function, the domain is defined as which of the following?
• Which term refers to the underlying message about life or human nature that a work conveys?
• Which term describes the social reform effort to end slavery in the United States?
• Which political crisis involved a confrontation between the federal government and South Carolina, ultimately resolved in favor of the federal government?
• Passed by southern states to reduce the newly won freedom of Black Americans.
• What is the median?
• Which statement describes a proportion?
• Which doctrine stated that Europe should stay out of the Americas?
• Which decision is widely cited as establishing the principle of judicial review in the United States?
• Which term best describes the belief that American expansion across the continent was justified and inevitable?
• What is the literal dictionary meaning of a word called?
• Domain and range refer to what?
• What is a function?
• Which term refers to the 19th-century practice that required separate facilities for different races?
• An ordered pair (0,0) identifies?
• Which expression represents the area of a circle with radius r?
• Which document proposed a plan to acquire Cuba from Spain?
• What is perimeter?
• Which treaty settled relations with Spain and ceded Florida to the United States?
• The study of a country's interactions with other nations is referred to as which term?
• Which era followed the War of 1812 and was marked by national unity and a single political party?
• Which term describes the violence in Kansas between 1854 and 1861 over the issue of slavery?
• Which act repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed the new states of Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether or not to allow slavery?
• Which amendment prohibits denying a citizen's right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
• Which political faction advocated for a strong federal government?
• Which court case held that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress had no right to ban slavery in the territories?
• Which group within the Executive Branch was formed to advise the president in specific areas?
• What term refers to a previous action serving as a guide for future decisions?
• The graph of a function on a coordinate plane shows?
• Which purchase significantly expanded U.S. territory by acquiring land from France?
• Which term refers to the narrator's perspective or lens used to tell the story?
• Which figure of speech is a direct comparison between two unlike things without using like or as?
• Which statement defines the mean of a data set?
• What are quotes or references from the text used to support claims or conclusions called?
• Which act halted exports to France and Britain, damaging the U.S. economy?
• Which invention allowed one worker to spin multiple spools of thread at once?
• In which amendment is the protection of voting rights irrespective of race most clearly stated?
• Which term refers to the alleged deal between Adams and Clay regarding the 1824 presidential election?
• What is theoretical probability?
• What term refers to man-made waterways used to allow boats to pass inland or to carry water for irrigation?
• In a box-and-whisker plot, which part shows the spread between the first and third quartiles?
• Which term describes the forced removal of five Native American tribes from their homelands?
• Which feature of a box-and-whisker plot shows the median?
• What is the formula for the area of a circle with radius r?
• Which legislation restricted rights of immigrants and suppressed criticism of the government?
• A box-and-whisker plot is used to
• What is slope?
• Which term refers to laws enforcing racial segregation in the United States, especially after the Civil War?
• Which concept contrasts with denotation by focusing on emotional associations?
• Which term describes a political philosophy emphasizing limited government, agrarian democracy, and civic virtue?
• Which act is associated with establishing the federal court system?
• A graph in math is best described as?
• What protection does the 15th Amendment primarily provide?
• Which political faction supported strong state governments?
• Which statement correctly defines volume?
• Which loom automated weaving and was powered by water or steam, developed in the late 18th century?
• Which term refers to how the author reveals a character through description, actions, dialogue, and thoughts?
• Which policy warned European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere?
• Which conflict involved Madison ordering the invasion of Canada to gain respect from Britain and expand the United States?
• Which figure of speech uses like or as to compare two things?
• What is a ratio?
• A graph can illustrate which of the following?
• Which option described a potential move to acquire Cuba from Spain?
• What is probability?
• Which treaty ceded Florida from Spain to the United States?
• Which system of tracks enables trains to transport goods and people across long distances?
• What is the range of a data set?
• Which acquisition doubled the size of the United States by acquiring territory from France?
• Which set of laws mandated racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans in many public spaces and services?
• Which statement about a map scale is correct?
• Which court case established the principle of Judicial Review allowing the Supreme Court to declare acts unconstitutional?