FREE EOG Social Studies Questions and Answers

Question 1

Within sight of us today, there stands a tribute to useful work under Government supervision the first slum clearance and low-rent housing project. Here, at the request of the citizens of Atlanta, we have cleaned out nine square blocks of antiquated squalid dwellings, for years a detriment to this community. Today those hopeless old houses are gone and in their place we see the bright cheerful buildings of the ______________.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Atlanta, November 29, 1935
Which place should go in the blank in FDR's speech?

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Techwood Housing Project

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Bankhead Courts

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Clark Howell Homes

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Eastlake Meadows

Question 2

Which of these BEST describes why President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the New Deal?

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Americans were out of work and needed jobs.

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Americans were making a lot of money.

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Many businesses and banks were opening.

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Many immigrants were moving into the country.

Question 3

After the late 20th century influx of immigrant population in Georgia, civic leaders were MOST concerned with the

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education of children of immigrants.

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need for better roads.

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formation of workers unions.

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lack of affordable housing.

Question 4

Which statement BEST describes a role Andrew Young played in the Civil Rights Movement?

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Young organized voter registration and desegregation campaigns in various locations.

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Young encouraged human rights activists to use violence when necessary.

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Young competed with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. over executive control of the SCLC.

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Young served as the president of the SCLC for over twenty years.

Question 5

In the early 1900s, gasoline-powered tractors became part of the modern farm. In that same era, the modern combine harvester became common, allowing crops to be harvested mechanically and quickly.
Today, both of these are a part of nearly all farming endeavors.
Which answer would be the BEST prediction as to what might happen as a result of the events in the passage?

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City populations could increase.

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Factories would move away from Georgia.

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Fishing industries would lose money.

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Fewer factories would relocate to Georgia.

Question 6

Which statement BEST describes the "Leo Frank Case"?

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It involved the lynching of a Jewish man by a mob in Cobb County.

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It allowed the death penalty to resume in Georgia and around the United States.

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It involved the lynching of a Black man by a mob in Fulton County.

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It caused the death penalty to be halted in Georgia and around the United States.

Question 7

Which U.S. President worked closely with Andrew Young and gave him a position in the United Nations?

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Jimmy Carter

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John F. Kennedy

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Ronald Regan

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 8

According to the Founding Fathers, the United States was founded on the idea that all people are entitled to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." In which document would you find the phrase "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"?

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The United States Constitution

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The Federalists Papers

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The Declaration of Independence

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The Bill of Rights

Question 9

Many early Native American societies were matrilineal. What does matrilineal mean?

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Family and clan membership was traced through the mother's side of the family.

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They moved from place to place in search of food.

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Only males were allowed to hold leadership positions in tribal society.

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They believed in a "supreme being" and an afterlife.

Question 10

Which of these would have been MOST likely to have a Carpetbagger during the Reconstruction Era?

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a New York businessman who relocated to Mississippi

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a Carolina-born politician who supported the Democratic

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a former slave who was able to buy land in Birmingham