GED Practice Test: Social Studies
Social Studies: Question #1
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Questions in this topic: Social Studies
- 1.
- What historical document contains the phrase: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"?
- 2.
- What is the difference between lines of latitude and lines of longitude, and what do they measure?
- 3.
- Not enough organic milk is produced to meet the needs of customers, so the price increases. This is an example of what economics principle?
- 4.
- What infamous wall fell in November of 1989, and what was the significance of its collapse?
- 5.
- Does Puerto Rico participate in the Electoral College?
- 6.
- The Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves was issued by which president?
- 7.
- True or False: After Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941, U.S. citizens of Japanese descent were sent to internment camps?
- 8.
- What affects a country's balance of trade (cost of imports minus cost of exports)?
A) Increased immigration rates
B) Change in currency exchange rates - 9.
- Were guns and horses the only reason small armies of Spanish explorers could conquer the powerful Aztec empire?
- 10.
- What is plate tectonics?
- 11.
- From 1913 to 1984, AT&T functioned as a legal monopoly. What's an advantage of allowing one company to control an industry?
- 12.
- Susan B. Anthony campaigned for equal rights for women in the 19th century and is referred to as a:
A) civil rights activist
B) suffragette
C) terrorist
D) both A & B? - 13.
- During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Americans believed they were on the brink of nuclear war with which country?
- 14.
- A peninsula is a body of land surrounded on three sides by water. An example is:
A) Lake Erie
B) Florida
C) The Bering Strait - 15.
- What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do for African American men and women in the South?
- 16.
- True or False? During China's Cultural Revolution, high school and university students went to work in the countryside to be "reeducated."
- 17.
- Which is an example of a free market economy?
A) A government set selling price for wheat.
B) Customer demand sets the price of an iPod. - 18.
- Every ten years since 1790, the U.S. government has conducted a census. What does a census measure?
- 19.
- What is the difference between an adjustable-rate and a fixed-rate mortgage?
- 20.
- After World War II, the U.S. government spent billions of dollars to help rebuild Europe under the Marshall Plan. Why?
- 21.
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