GED Social Studies 3

Question 1

The following selections best describe the term "amendment":

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Answer 1 and 2

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A change to the Constitution

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An addition to the Constitution

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None of the above

Question 2

What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?

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The right to bear arms

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Suffrage </label></li>

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Powers not granted to the federal government by the Constitution, nor prohibited to the States, are reserved to the States or the people.

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Assembly</label></li>

Question 3

What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?

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Answers 2 and 3

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The right to bear arms

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Life </label></li>

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Pursuit of happiness

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None of the above

Question 4

What prevents one branch of government from becoming too powerful?

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Checks and balances

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Congress </label></li>

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Integration of powers

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The President

Question 5

Who is in charge of the Executive branch?

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The President

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Speaker of the House

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Senate Majority Leader

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Vice-President

Question 6

US Senators serve the following duration per term?

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Six years </label></li>

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Two years </label></li>

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Four years </label></li>

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Eight years

Question 7

Name the Third US President.

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Thomas Jefferson

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George Washington

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John Adams </label></li>

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Abraham Lincoln

Question 8

The following was taken from George Washington’s Farewell Address on September 26, 1796:

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.

“Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind, (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight,) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.”

Judging from Washington’s comments, we can determine the following to be true:

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He felt the party system of government was detrimental to the country as a whole.

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He was a supporter of the two-party system.

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He was a supporter of a three-party system.

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None of the above.

Question 9

What significant historical event occurred on November 22, 1963?

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The assassination of John F. Kennedy

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The bombing of Pearl Harbor

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The close of World War II

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The end of the Cold War

Question 10

President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at the end of which conflict?

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The Civil War

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The War of 1812

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Vietnam </label></li>

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Spanish-American War