GACE History (6-12) (721) study guide
GACE History (6-12) (721) · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
GACE History (6-12), test code 721, is a content assessment in the Georgia Assessments for the Certification of Educators program - Georgia's state-approved educator certification assessment program. GACE exists to help the Georgia Professional Standards Commission (GaPSC) confirm that candidates have the knowledge and skills needed to perform the job of an educator in Georgia's public schools, so the History (6-12) test targets candidates preparing to teach history in the state's middle and secondary classrooms, including candidates in traditional or alternative preparation programs and educators moving to Georgia from other states. The GACE History (6-12) (721) study guide has 4 sections and about 1,924 words.
01Historical Inquiry, Research Skills, and Historical Thinking
Historical inquiry questions ask you to reason like a historian rather than recall a single fact. Know the difference between primary and secondary sources; primary sources are produced in the period under study, but they are not automatically trustworthy.
325 words, about 2 min02World History
World history questions emphasize patterns, connections, and comparisons across regions rather than isolated trivia. Build a mental timeline: Neolithic Revolution and river-valley civilizations; classical empires (Persia, Greece, Rome, Han, Maurya/Gupta); postclassical networks (Silk Roads, Indian Ocean, trans-Saharan trade, Mongols, Black Death); Renaissance and Reformation; the Columbian Exchange and Atlantic slave trade; Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment; industrialization; imperialism; world wars; decolonization; Cold War; globalization.
316 words, about 2 min03United States History
United States history questions test periodization, causation, and the relationship between ideals and practice. Know colonial development and the Revolution; the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution; federalism and sectionalism; westward expansion; the Civil War and Reconstruction; industrialization and immigration; Progressivism; the New Deal; World War II; the civil rights movement; the Cold War; and modern political realignment.
326 words, about 2 min04Georgia Studies
Georgia questions combine state history with national context. Know Mississippian chiefdoms; Spanish and English rivalry; James Oglethorpe's 1733 Savannah settlement; the trustee period and its early slavery ban; the 1752 transition to a royal colony and legalization of slavery; Revolutionary Georgia; the cotton gin and plantation economy; Cherokee removal, including New Echota and the Trail of Tears; the Civil War and Reconstruction; Bourbon Democratic rule and Jim Crow; the 1906 Atlanta race riot; the Leo Frank case; the New Deal and World War II; the civil rights era; and modern Atlanta's growth.
957 words, about 5 min