GACE History (6–12) (721)
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10 sample questions for the GACE History (6–12) (721), with the correct answer and an explanation for each. No account needed. Try each one before you open the answer.
Sections covered on the exam: United States History to 1877, United States History from 1877 to the Present, World History to 1750, World History from 1750 to the Present.
Question 1 · United States History to 1877
Answer: C. Maize farmers who built large earthen mound centers
Cahokia was the largest Mississippian center, supported by maize agriculture and dominated by earthen platform mounds. Cliff dwellings belong to the Ancestral Puebloans of the Southwest, a different culture region.
Question 2 · United States History to 1877
"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it." — Abraham Lincoln, letter to Horace Greeley, 1862
Answer: D. applied only to areas in rebellion against the United States
Because Lincoln framed emancipation as a war measure to save the Union, it targeted only Confederate-held areas and spared the loyal border states. Freeing people in the border states first is the opposite of what the proclamation did.
Question 3 · United States History from 1877 to the Present
Paraphrase: The United States should meet Soviet pressure with long-term, patient but firm containment, applying counterforce wherever the Soviets try to expand, until Soviet power mellows or breaks up from within. — Adapted from George F. Kennan, "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," 1947
Answer: B. Aid to Greece and Turkey under the Truman Doctrine
Kennan's containment idea was first applied in the Truman Doctrine (1947), which aided Greece and Turkey against communist pressure. Rollback aimed to push communism back, not merely contain it, and détente came decades later.
Question 4 · World History to 1750
"Let those who have been accustomed unjustly to wage private warfare against the faithful now go against the infidels... Let those who have been robbers now become knights... All who die by the way shall have immediate remission of sins." — Pope Urban II at Clermont, 1095, as reported by Fulcher of Chartres
Answer: C. redirect violence among European knights to an outside enemy
Urban urges those who "wage private warfare against the faithful" and "robbers" to fight abroad instead, showing a goal of channeling internal violence outward. The Western Schism began almost three centuries after Clermont, so it could not have been his concern.
Question 5 · World History from 1750 to the Present
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles... Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps... Bourgeoisie and Proletariat." — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848
Answer: C. History is driven by conflict between economic classes
Marx and Engels claimed that class struggle drives history and that industrial society was splitting into bourgeoisie and proletariat. Gradual parliamentary reform describes democratic socialists such as the Fabians, who rejected the revolutionary conclusion Marx drew.
Question 6 · United States History to 1877
Answer: A. Horses to the Americas and maize to Europe
The Columbian Exchange moved plants, animals, and diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres: horses went west and maize went east. Tobacco and potatoes were native to the Americas, so they could not have been carried there.
Question 7 · United States History to 1877
"... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." — Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 1863
Answer: D. a test of whether democratic government can survive
The Gettysburg Address framed the Union cause as preserving government by the people and a "new birth of freedom." States' rights was the Confederate justification, not Lincoln's.
Question 8 · United States History from 1877 to the Present
Answer: A. a Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin
When the Soviets cut road, rail, and canal access to the western sectors of Berlin, the United States and Britain flew in food and fuel for nearly a year until the blockade was lifted. The Berlin Wall was not built until 1961.
Question 9 · World History to 1750
"We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth and to assimilate it from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples." — al-Kindi, Arab philosopher, 9th century
Answer: A. the translation of Greek works at Baghdad's House of Wisdom
Al-Kindi urges accepting truth from any source, including foreign peoples, the outlook that drove the Abbasid translation of Greek, Persian, and Indian learning. The Abbasids moved the capital from Damascus to Baghdad, so that option reverses the facts.
Question 10 · World History from 1750 to the Present
Answer: B. they ruled many peoples who sought states of their own
Both were multinational empires, so Greek, Serbian, Hungarian, Czech, and other national movements threatened to break them apart. Liberal constitutions were not the problem; both empires resisted or limited liberal reform.
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