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Social Studies GED Practice Test Updated 2023 -2024 / Questions And Answers
Quiz :One of the earliest political parties in the United States was the Federalist
Party. Its decline is best explained by:
A. the enmity of wealthy Americans.
B. a failure to organize state political parties.
C. its opposition to the War of 1812.
D. its advocacy of a strong central government. - Answer :C
Quiz :Which statement best describes the significance of the Mayflower
Compact on colonial America?
A. It provided the Pilgrims the first written basis for laws in the New World.
B. It declared that the colonists were independent from King James.
C. It served as a blueprint for the later Bill of Rights.
D. established Puritanism as the official religion for Puritan colonies. -
Answer :A
Quiz :What Was the Purpose of the Navigation Acts Forced on the Colonists?
A. To Benefit Great Britain
B. To Restrict the Colonists to Only British Products
C. To forbid Sailing
D. A and B - Answer :D
Quiz :The following three statements were true for a small country in a recent
year:
1. Total income for the population: 24 billion U.S. dollars
2. Per capita income: 7,000 U.S. dollars
3. 90% of the total income was received by 5% of the population
Which of the following conclusions about
incomes in the country is best supported by these
statements?
A. The total income is evenly distributed among
the population.
B. 95% of the population have relatively low
incomes.
C. 25% of the population have relatively high
incomes.
D. 5% of the population have incomes less than
, $7,000. - Answer :B
Quiz :The United States Economy in the 1930s and 1940s
During the administrations of Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt,
poverty was widespread. The Great
Depression had dealt a severe blow to the economic well-being of the nation.
For example, the gross national
product (GNP), the total value of all goods and services produced in a year, had
dropped from $103 billion in
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1929 to $55 billion in 1933.
Full recovery from this depression did not come until the Second World War,
when United States industry
went into high gear, producing war materials. To enable the Allied armies to
win the war in both Europe and
the Pacific, technological miracles were achieved. Employment rose as
factories worked around the clock.
High wages and government-controlled prices helped create a tremendous
growth in family incomes. Because
of the emphasis on production of heavy goods and machinery, much of the
money people earned went into
10 savings. Measured in dollars of constant purchasing power, or what
economists call "real income," average
yearly take-home pay of families rose by about $800 from 1941 to 1946, an
increase of about $160 per year.
Dire predictions about mass unemployment after the war proved wrong. In the
peacetime economy, industry
flourished as price controls were removed and manufacturers scrambled to
meet the huge demand for
consumer goods. There were recessions during the twenty years after the war,
but they were minor economic
15 ripples compared with previous national depressions
According to the passage, which of the following
was primarily responsible for the end of the
Great Depression?
A. Federal antipoverty programs
B. Technological progress
C. Government controls over prices and wages
D. The development of a war economy - Answer :D
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