General Educational Development Social Studies

1.Under the United States Constitution, what is the main job of Congress?

2.What is the main job of the president under the Constitution?

3.What is the main job of the federal courts?

4.Why is Congress called bicameral?

5.How long is one term for a member of the House of Representatives?

6.How many United States senators does each state have?

7.How long is one presidential term?

8.What limit did the Twenty-second Amendment place on the presidency?

9.What is the Bill of Rights?

10.Which freedoms are protected by the First Amendment?

11.What does the Fourth Amendment limit?

12.Which protection is found in the Fifth Amendment?

13.What right does the Sixth Amendment give a person accused of a crime?

14.What does the Eighth Amendment forbid?

15.What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?

16.Which protection is part of the Fourteenth Amendment?

17.What did the Fifteenth Amendment prohibit?

18.What did the Nineteenth Amendment do?

19.Whom did the Twenty-sixth Amendment protect at the polls?

20.What can a president do when Congress passes a bill the president opposes?

21.How can Congress make a bill law after a presidential veto?

22.In an impeachment, which chamber brings the charge, and which holds the trial?

23.What principle did Marbury v. Madison (1803) establish in practice?

24.What does federalism divide?

25.What is separation of powers?

26.Which example is a check and balance?

27.What does the Supremacy Clause say when a state law conflicts with the Constitution?

28.What is the usual way to amend the Constitution?

29.How is a president chosen under the Constitution?

30.Why does the Constitution require a census every ten years?

31.Who is commander in chief of the armed forces?

32.What must happen before a treaty negotiated by the president becomes binding?

33.A bill has passed the House and the Senate in the same form, and the president signs it. What is it now?

34.What does the Tenth Amendment reserve?

35.Which age and citizenship rules apply to the president?

36.When the Senate ties, who may cast the deciding vote?

37.What did the Declaration of Independence, adopted in 1776, announce?

38.Where and when was the United States Constitution drafted?

39.When were the first ten amendments ratified?

40.What was one complaint colonists raised against British rule before the Revolution?

41.What was the Louisiana Purchase of 1803?

42.Why did President Jefferson send Lewis and Clark west?

43.When was the American Civil War fought?

44.What did the Emancipation Proclamation do in 1863?

45.What was a main weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

46.What was the Great Compromise at the 1787 convention?

47.What was the Three-Fifths Compromise in the 1787 Constitution?

48.What meeting in 1848 called publicly for women's rights, including the vote?

49.What change did the transcontinental railroad bring after its completion in 1869?

50.What was a major result of late nineteenth-century industrialization in the United States?

51.What did Progressive Era reformers of the early 1900s often seek?

52.When did the United States enter World War I as a fighting power?

53.What marked the start of the Great Depression in the United States?

54.What was the New Deal?

55.Which program, created in 1935, provides retirement benefits financed by payroll taxes?

56.What happened at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?

57.In what year did World War II end?

58.What was D-Day on June 6, 1944?

59.What was the Cold War?

60.What did the containment policy aim to do during the Cold War?

61.What did the Supreme Court decide in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954?

62.What began the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955?

63.What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw in public places and employment?

64.What was a central purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

65.What did Apollo 11 accomplish in July 1969?

66.What was Reconstruction, beginning in 1865?

67.Which amendments were part of the Reconstruction effort to define freedom and citizenship?

68.What did the United States government do to many Japanese Americans on the West Coast during World War II?

69.Which statement about unemployment in the Great Depression is accurate?

70.Who were the principal Allied powers that defeated Nazi Germany?

71.What does scarcity mean in economics?

72.A student spends the evening at a shift instead of at a free class. What is the opportunity cost of the shift?

73.If demand for bus passes rises and the supply stays the same, what tends to happen to the equilibrium price?

74.If the supply of tomatoes increases and demand stays the same, what tends to happen to the equilibrium price?

75.At a price where quantity demanded is greater than quantity supplied, what exists?

76.At a price where quantity supplied is greater than quantity demanded, what exists?

77.What is an equilibrium price?

78.A store offers a bonus for weekend shifts. In economic terms, what is the bonus?

79.What is inflation?

80.A city sets a rent ceiling below the equilibrium rent. What shortage result is likely?

81.What does specialization mean in a workplace?

82.Which pair correctly labels a good and a service?

83.When many sellers offer similar sandwiches, what often happens to the price?

84.A household can afford either a repair or a trip, but not both. What does that choice illustrate?

85.Other things equal, what does the law of demand say happens when the price of a good rises?

86.Other things equal, what does the law of supply say happens when the price of a good rises?

87.Training that makes a worker able to run a more complex machine is an example of what?

88.What does higher productivity mean?

89.Into which body of water does the Mississippi River empty?

90.Where are the Rocky Mountains?

91.Where are the Appalachian Mountains?

92.Which five lakes are the Great Lakes?

93.Which state has the largest land area?

94.A map scale says one inch represents fifty miles. Two inches on that map stand for what ground distance?

95.Which example is an absolute location?

96.What is the equator?

97.What is the prime meridian?

98.In which region of the United States is Illinois?

99.Which coastline is California on?

100.What are the Great Plains?

101.What is the capital of the United States, and is it a state?

102.Which state has Gulf of Mexico shoreline?

103.On a standard map with north at the top, which direction is to the right?

104.What is a region, in geography?

105.Which state has the smallest land area?

106.Which ocean borders the eastern coast of the United States?

107.Which description is a relative location?

108.Which protection against being tried twice for the same offense is in the Fifth Amendment?