CRCT Social Studies Test Practice 1

Read the questions on your answer board and choose the correct answer

from each slide. Write your answer on your answer board for each question.

Question 1

• A. E pluribus unum

• B. In god we trust

• C. Radical reconsruciton

• D. Equality for all

Question 2

• A. The Dust Bowl

• B. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• C. The Social Security Act

• D. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Question 3

A. To ensure that the US and Great Britain maintained control of all international policies and laws

B. To divide German in twoC. To maintain peace, protect human rights,

and make sure nations obeyed international law

D. To assist the US during the arms race

Question 4

• A. Natural resources such as cotton and tobacco

• B. Large labor populations and accessibility to water for easy shipping

• C. plenty of land for cattle grazing and lumber industries

• D. Availability of saw mills and fertilizer production

Question 5

• A. To produce the goods and services that consumers buy

• B. To encourage free trade within the nation

• C. To decide how much people should pay in taxes

• D. To loan people money

Question 6

• A. Due process was established by the federal government

• B. The states ratified the Twenty-sixth Amendment

• C. Michelle was the participant in double jeopardy

• D. The states ratified the Nineteenth Amendment

Question 7

• A. Reconstruction

• B. Jim Crow Laws

• C. Black codes

• D. Freedman’s Bureau

Question 8

• A. To give money to European nations

• B. To remove communism from all European nations

• C. To remove nuclear missiles from European nations

• D. To provide a military force to fight any Communist attack in Europe

Question 9

• A. By providing key routes for transporting goods

• B. By protecting the city form foreign invasion and attacks

• C. By providing running water to the suburbs of Pittsburgh

• D. By providing irrigation water for the crops

Question 10

• A. Immediately becomes part of the Constitution

• B. Must be ratified by three-fourths of the states before becoming part of the U.S. Constitution

• C. Must be approved by three-fourths of both houses of Congress before becoming part of the U.S. Constitution

• D. Is put on hold until Congress can meet and ratify it.

Question 11

• A. Eat in segregated restaurants

• B. Ride the public bus

• C. Be seen in public parks

• D. Speak to any white people

Question 12

• A. Because of the September 11th attacks

• B. In response to the Camp David Accord

• C. Because of a false report about Al Qaeda planning an attack

• D. To prevent a nuclear war in the U.S.

Question 13

• A. Ws the first part of the US Constitution

• B. Consists of ten amendments to the Constitution that protect citizens’ rights

• C. Upset people who believed in personal freedoms

• D. Includes the Twelfth through the Nineteenth Amendments

Question 14

• A. Before the Stock Market Crash in 1929• B. Between the Stock Market Crash of 1929

and the Attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.• C. After D-Day in 1944 and before the

dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

• D. After the dropping of the atomic bombs in August 1945

Question 15

• A. 1, 3, 2

• B. 2, 3, 1

• C. 3, 1, 2

• D. 1, 2, 3

Question 16

• A. It led to the decline of the US political system

• B. It contributed to the US becoming a world power

• C. It did not influence the US economy at all

• D. It led to the failure of may US businesses

Question 17

• A. It was a German submarine that spied on US shops during World War I

• B. It was a ship that Germany sank, leading to US involvement in World War I

• C. It secretly carried Spanish missiles to Cuba during the Spanish American War

• D. It was the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb.

Question 18

• A. A savings plan

• B. An opportunity cost

• C. A price incentive

• D. specialization

Question 19

• A. Delegates of the Electoral College must vote separately for president and vice president

• B. US senators shall be elected directly by the citizens of each state

• C. All US citizens who are at least eighteen years old have the right to vote

• D. The poll tax is illegal

Question 20

• A. Enforced poll taxes and literacy tests

• B. Refused to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment

• C. Ended Jim Crow laws

• D. Passed Radical Reconstruction

Question 21

• A. First Amendment

• B. Second Amendment

• C. Third Amendment

• D. Fourth Amendment

Questions 22-24

• Use the map on your answer board to answer these questions.

Question 25

• A. Victoria will have no competition

• B. Victoria is an entrepreneur

• C. Victoria will provide loans to clients

• D. Victoria’s actions are an example of fiscal policy.

Question 26

• A. Suez Canal

• B. Panama Canal

• C. Great Lakes Waterway

• D. Industrial Canal

Question 27

• A. They save all their money instead of paying bills

• B. They cannot pay back the money that they borrowed

• C. Their income is greater than the amount they owe

• D. They make a careful budget plan and stick to it

Question 28

• A. He was one of the most famous jazz musicians in history

• B. He wrote poems and stories about black life in America

• C. He invented the first automobile

• D. He created beautiful works of art

Question 29

• A. The Berlin Wall

• B. Charity Food Drop

• C. The Berlin Airlift

• D. British Air League

Question 30

• A. An agreement between the US and Canada about land boundaries

• B. A company that provided the Midwest with electricity.

• C. Government programs intended to help the US economy

• D. A strategy to improve foreign relations with the Soviet Union

Question 31

• A. The March on Washington

• B. the Nation of Islam

• C. The Montgomery Bus Boycott

• D. The Women’s Movement

Question 32

• A. Male citizens the right to vote regardless of their race

• B. Women the right to vote

• C. A certain amount of authority to state governments

• D. Civil defendants the right to a jury trial

Question 33

• A. Reasons Citizens Pay Taxes

• B. Causes of market Competition

• C. Economic Factors that Influence Trade

• D. Primary Purposes of Banks in the US

Question 34

• A. War on Terror

• B. Lebanon

• C. Al Qaeda

• D. Persian Gulf War

Question 35

• A. Democratic Nations During WWI

• B. Enemies of the US in 1898

• C. Territories Involved in the Spanish-American War

• D. Nations that Sent Millions of Immigrants to the US in the Early 1900s