{"id":25942,"date":"2026-11-01T03:47:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T21:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/georgia-atlanta-capital-selection-evidence\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T03:47:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T21:47:30","slug":"georgia-atlanta-capital-selection-evidence","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/georgia-atlanta-capital-selection-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Atlanta&#8217;s current size insufficient to explain its historical capital selection?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is Atlanta&#8217;s current size insufficient to explain its historical capital selection?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>Historical transport evidence is irrelevant<\/li>\n<li>Current population contains every historical policy decision<\/li>\n<li>Capital cities are always chosen by current population<\/li>\n<li>Present size does not establish a past sole cause<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","subject":[3257],"topic":[4007,4005],"education_level":[1897],"class_list":["post-25942","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","subject-us-government-civics","topic-georgia-capital-history","topic-georgia-facts","education_level-graduate"],"mcq_note":"<p>A capital city's present population is not evidence that population size was the sole historical cause of its selection.<\/p>\n\n<p>Present conditions can be consequences of earlier decisions as well as possible evidence about a place. To explain the original selection, use contemporary historical evidence rather than assuming that today's population was also the cause in 1868.<\/p>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"Historical transport evidence is irrelevant"},{"right":"no","answer":"Current population contains every historical policy decision"},{"right":"no","answer":"Capital cities are always chosen by current population"},{"right":"yes","answer":"Present size does not establish a past sole cause"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":3257,"title":"U.S. Government &amp; Civics","slug":"us-government-civics"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":4007,"title":"Georgia Capital History","slug":"georgia-capital-history"},{"id":4005,"title":"Georgia Facts","slug":"georgia-facts"}],"education_level_terms":[{"id":1897,"title":"Graduate","slug":"graduate"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/25942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=25942"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=25942"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=25942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}