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Social Studies
 USA
Test Prep—information is in the virtual
homeroom
 File transfer—GHSGT Review Topics
 Social Studies Intervention Wiki-http://gocsstestintervention.pbworks.com/w
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 Take Notes on this prepatory powerpoint!
 Monday
March 19th—Language Arts
 Tuesday March 20th—Social Studies
 Wednesday March 21st—Math
 Thursday March 22nd--Science
 World
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Studies (18-20% of the test)
Items test major themes of world history and
world geography. World history topics include
exploration, change, and world wars. World
geography topics include cultural and physical
geography and the relationship between
geography and human activity.
 Renaissance
 Reformation
 Exploration
 Scientific
Revolution
 U.S.
History to 1865 (18-20% of the test)
--Items test information related to early
inhabitants of North America and
exploration of the New World, Colonial
America, the Revolutionary Era, the
Constitutional Era, the growth of the
nation, the Civil War, and reconstruction.
 English
Colonies in America
 Trans-Atlantic Trade
 The Enlightenment and Causes of the
American Revolution
 The American Revolution, French
Revolution, Latin American Revolutions
 American Government, Articles of
Confederation, Constitution
 George
Washington, John Adams, and
American Political Parties
 Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe
 The Age of Jackson, Social Reform, and
Manifest Destiny
 Sectionalism and Causes of the Civil War
 Civil War and Reconstruction
 U.S.
History Since 1865 (18-20% of the
test)
Items test expansion and development of
the nation, the nation becoming a world
power, and the modern nation. The
American economic system, organized
labor, the banking system, and command
and market economies are also included.
 Gilded
Age Industrialism and Westward
Expansion
 Progressive Reform and 20th Century
American Foreign Policy
 American Expansion
 World War I
 1920s and 1930s
 Causes
of the Great Depression
 World War II
 Decolonization and the Cold War
 Civil Rights, Social Changes, Modern World
Events
 Globalization and Modern World Events
 Civics/Citizenship
(12-14% of the test)
Items in this strand, known as
Citizenship/Government in earlier forms
of the tests, assess the structure and
functions of government (local, state,
and national), the role of the citizen,
legal issues, individual rights and
responsibilities, and Constitutional
amendments.
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Federalism
government and 3 branches
legislative branch
judicial branch
checks and balances
enumerated powers
extent of shared powers
supremacy clause
“Supreme law of the land”
Representation
powers of Senate
chief executive
representative of nation
foreign policy leader
jurisdiction
state courts
creation of the Supreme Court
structure of the national
executive branch
separation of powers
federalism
implied powers
reserved powers
Article VI
term
powers of House
Commander-in-Chief
chief agenda setter
chief of state
party leader
federal courts
John Marshall
Marbury v. Madison
 Citizenship
 Elections
 Politics
 Map
and Globe Skills (15% of the test)
Items test map features such as scale,
direction, grids, keys, and legends.
Various types of maps are used in current
and historical settings to assess students’
abilities to gather and interpret
information and relate that information
to events.
 Information
Processing Skills (15% of the
test).
Items test several skills including
identifying the main idea in a passage,
separating fact and opinion, interpreting
charts and tables, recognizing different
types of information sources, and using
information from multiple sources to
solve a problem.
 VEP=Voting
Eligible Turnout
 VAP=Voting Age Turnout
 Now
we will review some of the types of
questions you might see on the test, but it is
best to go to USA Test Prep to get a better
idea of what to expect!
1. The U.S. Constitution gives state
governments the authority to be involved in
all of the following areas except
A. tax collection.
B. public education.
C. treaty negotiation.
D. highway construction.
2. What is the main purpose of the national
conventions that the Republican and
Democratic parties hold every four years?
A. to organize state primaries
B. to develop legislative strategies
C. to caucus about foreign-policy issues
D. to nominate presidential candidates
3. Which government body acts as the jury in
an impeachment trial in the United States?
A. the Senate
B. the Cabinet
C. the Supreme Court
D. the House of Representatives
5. Which principle
of U.S. government
is illustrated by the
diagram?
A. federalism
B. republicanism
C. popular
sovereignty
D. checks and
balances
2. Which factor has
had the greatest
influence on shaping
human culture in the
shaded region on
the map?
A. religion
B. agriculture
C. urbanization
D. democratization
6. Which natural resource is most important
for the growth of human populations?
A. oil reserves
B. precious gems
C. iron ore deposits
D. groundwater supplies
1. Which event changed the political
landscape of the Middle East in 1948?
A. the U.S. seizure of oil fields
B. the British takeover of Palestine
C. the creation of the state of Israel
D. the collapse of the Ottoman Empire
6. Which political ideology directly
contributed to the Holocaust of the mid1900s?
A. Nazism
B. liberalism
C. anarchism
D. Bolshevism
And reason…teaches all
mankind who will but
consult it, that being all
equal and independent,
no one ought to harm
another in his life,
health, liberty, or
possessions.
—John Locke, Second
Treatise of Civil
Government, 1689
1. Which American
document was most
influenced by the ideas
and language expressed
by Locke in the quotation?
A. the U.S. Constitution
B. the Mayflower Compact
C. the Articles of
Confederation
D. the U.S. Declaration of
Independence
4. Which issue caused British
 Use this list to
colonists to form the organizations in
answer the question. the list?
A. The British Parliament had passed
The Sons of Liberty
a series of taxes on its North
The Daughters of
American colonies.
Liberty
B. Native Americans had attacked
British colonial outposts within the
The committees of
Northwest Territory.
correspondence
C. British naval vessels had seized
colonial ships and forced colonial
sailors into service in the British navy.
D. Armed slave rebellions had begun
throughout the British colonies to end
the continued practice of slavery.
7. Which physical characteristic of colonial New
York directly affected its economic development
during the late 1600s?
A. its vast gold and silver deposits
B. its large harbor and river systems
C. its poor soil quality and dry climate
D. its mountainous terrain and geographical
isolation
9. The term Manifest Destiny directly relates to which
recurring theme in U.S. history during the 1800s?
A. abolition
B. federalism
C. social reform
D. territorial expansion
2. Which issue was brought to U.S. public
awareness by Rachel Carson’s book Silent
Spring in 1962?
A. labor conditions
B. atomic weapons
C. racial segregation
D. environmental pollution
3. Which industry did John D. Rockefeller
monopolize during the late 1800s?
A. the oil industry
B. the steel industry
C. the railroad industry
D. the meatpacking industry
4. Which
development
directly contributed
to the increase
shown in the graph?
A. Social Security
B. the Wagner Act
C. the Marshall Plan
D. the Roosevelt
Corollary
5. What was the historical context of the 1896
U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson?
A. Business entrepreneurs had formed
monopolies in key U.S. industries.
B. Labor unions had organized large-scale
workers’ strikes throughout the nation.
C. Southern states had passed Jim Crow laws
to limit the rights of African Americans.
D. Congress had established restrictions on
Chinese immigration to the United States.
7. Which development directly resulted from
the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik I?
A. the beginning of the space race
B. the creation of the Marshall Plan
C. the U.S. entry into the Korean War
D. the shift in U.S. policy toward détente
8. What was the historical
context of the data shown in
the table?
A. the U.S. strategy to remain
neutral in future conflicts
B. the U.S. attempt to contain
the spread of communism
C. the U.S. plan to counteract
the growth of global terrorism
D. the U.S. effort to limit the
development of atomic
technology
 We
didn’t start the fire—US History Music
Video Review
 An updated version of Mr Allsop's "We Didn't
Start the Fire" video for the Billy Joel hit.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8lrRvuw
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 Good
luck on your GHSGT!