GED Social Studies

Innovation

Process of introducing something that is new

League of Nations

An organization designed to help nations settle disputes peacefully

Imperialism

The governing of weaker nations or colonies by a more powerful nation

Urbanization

Significant increase in the number and size of cities

Innovation

Process of introducing something that is new

League of Nations

An organization designed to help nations settle disputes peacefully

Imperialism

The governing of weaker nations or colonies by a more powerful nation.

Urbanization

Significant increase in the number and size of cities

The Great Depression

A severe recession that occurred in the 1930's. Stock market crashed, banks failed, homes and farms were lost.

FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

Established under Roosevelts New Deal this agency helps to prevent people from losing their money if the banks fail.

The American Civil War

A battle of the early North & South states from 1861-1865. 8 upper Southern states were "Union" 7 bottom states were Confederate.

Roaring Twenties

Period of prosperity and growth that preceded the Great Depression.

Micro-economics

Economic information and decision making at an individual level or company level includes individual, household, businesses, industry.

Interest

A rate charged as a fee to borrow money

A. Louisiana Purchase

11. In 1803 France sold this territory to the United States. This land was between Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. This was called?

A. Industrial Revolution

12. Machines replaced tools used by hand in manufacturing goods. People left farms to work in factories.

A. Referendum

13. A power granted to the citizens that allowed them to overturn legislation that was passed by legislature or by voters by gathering signatures.

A. Annexation

14. Taking control of another country or territory.

A. Castes

15. Categories that determined a persons' occupation and social class.

A. Abolitionists

16. People who wanted to end slavery

A. Monopoly

17. One company that owns 100% of all the businesses selling the same type of product.

A. The Watergate Scandal

18. President Nixon was involved in an immoral and illegal even that led him to resign from office. What was this called?

A. Entrepreneurship

19. Human creativity that produces new products or services

A. Landforms

20. The movement of tectonic plates shifting cause the formation of new.....?

A. Fiscal Policy

21. Taxing and spending policies of a government.

22. The total value of a country's production.

GDP (Gross Domestic Product)

A. Emancipation Proclamation

23. 1863 Lincoln issued this to free the slaves of the Confederacy.

A. Market Equilibrium

24. When demand is equal to supply.

A. Executive Branch

25. In this area of American Government, the president acts as commander in chief of armed forces, appoints judges, ambassadors, other officials, and enforces laws.

A. Tariff

26. A tax on goods that are imported into the United States.

A. Poverty Line

27. The minimum income that a family of four needs to live.

A. Credit Card Act.

28. Passed in 2009 limits charges credit card company can require. Limits late fees, inactivity fees and interest rate increases.

A. The Federal Reserve

29. The central bank created in 1913 may lower interest rates during a weak economy to encourage people and businesses to take out loans and buy goods.

A. Subsidy

30. Government payment to an individual or business to encourage or protect a particular economic activity.

A. Interest Group

31. A group of people with common concerns who join together to influence government policy.

A. Dictatorship

32. A form of government in which a single person holds all the power over people and country.

A. Sir Walter Raleigh

33. Upon the request of Queen Elizabeth of England this man-made attempt to settle colonies on "Roanoke Island" which is now North Carolina.

A. Lobbyists

34. People who work to sway public officials towards a particular opinion.

A. Plateau

35. A large flat area that is elevated about a surrounding area of land.

A. Battle of Antietam

36. 1863 this success gave Lincoln a way to change the course of the Civil War and enabled him to issue the "Emancipation Proclamation."

A. Inflation

37. A rise in the prices of goods/products over time.

A. Concurrent Powers

38. Powers that may be exercised by both the federal and state governments.

A. Tundra

39. Cold, dry, permanently frozen soil called permafrost lies beneath the surface and prevents trees from taking root. Short summer seasons, long winter seasons.

A. Culture

40. Custom beliefs and practices of a society or a people.

A. Tenements

41. Crowded buildings where many immigrants lived once in the U.S.

A. Socialism

42. An economic system in which property and the distribution of income are subject to social and governmental control rather than individual determination of market forces.

A. Internal Union for Conservation of Nature. They track and seek solutions to the problem of decreasing biodiversity.

43. What is the IUCN and what do they do?

A. Representative Democracy

44. A form of government in which power is held by the people and exercised indirectly through representatives who make decisions.

A. Isolationism

45. A policy of avoiding involvement in international affairs.

A. Legislative Branch

46. In this part of the US government is run by congress which is divided into two houses upper, smaller house. Senate/and lower, larger house house of representatives who write laws, approve government, spending on programs and power to impeach.

A. Macro-economics

47. Studies of the behavior of the entire economy as a nation. Example: What is the GDP of the United States or What is the unemployment rate.

A. Desert

48. This is an area where there is no rain fall to support grasslands, the driest with less than 25cm of precipitation.

A. Plain

49. A large area of that without trees.

A. Magna Carta

50. Document signed by King John of England in 1215 that limited the Kings power and guaranteed certain basic rights.

A. Judicial Branch

51. This part of the government is run by the "Supreme Court" they interpret laws, is made up of 9 justices, review lower house court decisions.

A. Latitude

52. Imaginary lines that run east to west but measure distance from north to south in relation to the equator which is at a latitude of 0 degrees.

A. Truman Doctrine

53. Policy of providing aid to countries threatened by Communism created by president Harry S. Truman in 1974.

A. Joseph Stalin

54. This man was once the Dictator of the Soviet Union who's goal it was to spread Communism over Europe.

A. Confederate States

55. A group of southern states that seceded from the union to permanently unite for common purpose before the Civil War.

A. Physical Boundaries

56. Natural features that separate two areas from each other.

A. Communism

57. Is a totalitarian system of government in which the STATE plans and controls economy and all goods are shared by the people.

A. Competition

58. Businesses work against each other to develop better products for better prices.

A. Natural Selection

59. The process by which individuals best adjusted to an environment survive and reproduce, thereby perpetuating traits best suited to the environment.

A. Law of Demand

60. As the price of a good rises the demand falls; as the price falls the demand rises.

A. The U.S. Constitution

61. The Preamble, The Articles, The Amendments make up this document.

A. Economic Growth

62. An increase in an economy's ability to produce goods and services which brings about a rise in standards of living.

A. Totalitarianism

63. A Centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over people's lives.

A." The New Deal"

64. 1930's a program created by Franklin Roosevelt where government agencies were made to establish economic recovery.

A. Rule of Law

65. Principle that every member of society even a ruler must follow the law.

A. The 13th amendment.

66. The constitutional amendment that ended slavery in the U.S.

A. Poll Tax

67. A tax that had to be paid in order to vote.

A. Political Boundaries

68. Lines that separate countries and states.

A. Independents

69. This group belongs to no organized political party and can play a major role in deciding which candidate is elected.

A. Open door policy

70. Gave equal trading rights in China.

A. Kennedy

71. In 1963 Lyndon B. Johnson (Vice Pres.) was sworn into office after this president was assassinated.

A. Demography

72. The statistical study of the size, growth, movement and distribution of people.

A. Lyndon B. Johnson

73. 1964 this president declared an "Unconditional War on Poverty" also introduced a set of policies known as the "Great Society."

A. Peninsula

74. A narrow strip of land surrounded by water on 3 sides.

A. Richard Nixon

75. This president adopted a relaxing of tensions- led to the end of the Cold War.

A. Arab Muslims

76. This group was displaced from Palestine in 1948.

A. Dynasty

77. Family of rulers.

A. (NATO) National Atlantic Treaty Organization

78. Organization designed to stop Soviet expansion in Europe.

A. Urban sprawl

79. Increased movement of people and businesses into outlying areas around cities.

A. Marshall Plan

80. US plan to provide aid to help Europe rebuild after WW2.

A. Marshall Plan

81. Used as a way to block Communist expansions this plan provided money to Western Europe to help start a Capitalist economy growing.

A. Federalists

82. Advocated of a strong Federal government and supporters of adoption of the US Constitution.

A. Fiscal Policy

83. Taxing and spending policies of a government.

A. Capitalism

84. An economic system that allows people to own businesses and keep the money businesses earn.

A. Foreign Aid

85. Money, goods, and services given to other nations.

A. Opportunity cost

86. The Alternative that one gives up when a choice is made.

A. Longitude lines

87. Imaginary lines that run north to south but measure distance east to west these lines also called meridians start at the Prime Meridian which marks 0 degrees.

A. Suffrage

88. The right to vote is also called what?

A. Reserve

89. Money banks retain for future use.

A. Bicameral

90. A legislative body composed of two houses.