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GED Social Studies Test |Study terms &Quizzes with Correct Answers
amendment - ✔✔changes in, or additions to, a consitiution
amendment proposal - ✔✔must be proposed by a 2/3 vote of both houses of
Congress or by a convention called by Congress at the request of 2/3 of the state
legislatures
amendment ratification - ✔✔3/4 of the state legislatures
Articles of Confederation - ✔✔1st constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no
executive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade)
balance of trade - ✔✔the difference between a country's total exports and total
imports for 1 year
barter - ✔✔the direct exchange of one good or service for another without the use of
money
bias - ✔✔a strong opinion held by a person about a topic, sometimes without good
reason
bicameral - ✔✔A legislative body made up of 2 houses
Bill of Rights - ✔✔The first ten amendments to the US Constitution
,Bill of Rights began - ✔✔ratified in 1791
Bill of Rights purpose - ✔✔limits governmental power and protects basic rights and
liberties of individuals
boycott - ✔✔a form of protest in which a group refuses to buy the products of a
country or company until it makes some demanded change
bureaucracy - ✔✔an administrative organization that implements government
policies
business cycle - ✔✔the periods of recession and expansion that an economy goes
through because production does not increase continuously over time
Cabinet - ✔✔the secretaries, or chief administrators, of the major departments of
the federal government
Cabinet - How do you get this job? - ✔✔appointed by the president with the consent
of the Senete
capital - ✔✔manufactured resources such as tools, machinery, and buildings that are
used in the production of other goods and services; sometimes called real capital
capital gains tax (CGT) - ✔✔money paid to the federal government out of profits
from the sale of land, buildings, stocks, and other capital assets
capitalism - ✔✔an economic system that is based on the private ownership of
property and the resources of production
, case study - ✔✔an in-depth examination of an issue or an individual
checks and balances - ✔✔a Constitutional system that allows each branch of
government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of
power
civil rights - ✔✔the protections and privileges of personal liberty given to all US
citizens by the Constitution and Bill of Rights
civilization - ✔✔an advanced state of a society possessing historical and cultural unity
Cold War - ✔✔struggle for world power between the US and the Soviet Union
Cold War timeframe - ✔✔1945-1991
command economy - ✔✔an economic system in which the means of production are
publicly owned and economic activity is controlled by the government
common or public good - ✔✔to the benefit, or in the interest, of a politically
organized society as a whole
communism - ✔✔a political and economic system where factors of production are
collectively owned and directed by the state
compass rose - ✔✔map tool including the principal directions (N, S, E, W, NE, NW, SE,
SW)
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