GED - SOCIAL STUDIES U.S. HISTORY EXAM QUESTIONS

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GED - SOCIAL STUDIES (U.S. HISTORY) EXAM QUESTIONS

Qs and Ans - Expert- Explanation - ing score -46 Questions and Answers

-Format: Multiple-choice / Flashcard

Question 1: Tea Act

Answer:

Gave British company the right to sell low-priced tea to the colonists with tax.

Question 2: Continental Army

Answer:

American soldiers well trained to fight the British

Question 3: Boston Tea Party

Answer:

Group of colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor.

Question 4: Federalists

Answer:

Those who wanted the federal government to have control over the states.

Question 5: Rhode Island

Answer:

Founded by Roger Williams (law dealings and religion kept separate)

Question 6: Stock market crashed

Answer:

October 1929

Question 7: Second Continental Congress

Answer:

May of 1775, decision to create the Continental Army

Question 8: Boston Massacre

Answer:

An argument between a group of colonists and a British soldier grew to include several soldiers. Killed five colonists.

Question 9: Pennsylvania

Answer:

Founded by William Penn, for Quakers

Question 10: Townshend Act

Answer:

Taxed imported items from Britain to the colonies.

Question 11: Emancipation Proclamation

Answer:

Lincoln's decree that slaves in the states at war with the Union were henceforth free.

Question 12: Patriots

Answer:

colonists who opposed the British

Question 13: New Deal

Answer:

Roosevelt's program to create millions of jobs and restore the nation's banks.

Question 14: Anti-Federalists

Answer:

Those who thought the states would not have enough freedom if the federal government was too strong.

Question 15: Revolutionary War

Answer:

Forced colonists to decide which side they would support. Britain or American

Question 16: Magna Carta

Answer:

Document signed by English King John in 1215, inspired the colonists

Question 17: Loyalists

Answer:

20% of the people who were loyal to King George III after the writing of the Declaration of Independence

Question 18: Intolerable Act

Answer:

In response to the Boston Tea Party intended to punish the colonists by closing the port of Boston.

Question 19: George Washington

Answer:

Chosen commander of the Continental Army

Question 20: Andrew Jackson

Answer:

Defeated a group of Creek Native Americans.

Question 21: Delaware

Answer:

Once part of Pennsylvania, then became a new colony

Question 22: Constitution of the United States

Answer:

Created when the Articles of the Confederation failed. The oldest document currently in effect in the world today.

Question 23: Stamp Act of 1765

Answer:

Required colonists to pay for British stamps on any official document.

Question 24: Massachusetts

Answer:

Where the pilgrims landed

Question 25: New York

Answer:

Given by the king to his brother, the Duke of York

Question 26: North Carolina and South Carolina

Answer:

Settled because of it's quality farmland

Question 27: New Jersey

Answer:

Given by the Duke of York to his friends

Question 28: Thirteenth Amendment

Answer:

Abolished slavery in the United States

Question 29: Monroe Doctorine

Answer:

James Menroe's new foreign policy after the War of 1812.