1. 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.
2. Question 1
• A. E pluribus unum
• B. In god we trust
• C. Radical reconsruciton
• D. Equality for all
3. Question 2
• A. The Dust Bowl
• B. The Civilian Conservation Corps
(CCC)
• C. The Social Security Act
• D. The Tennessee Valley Authority
(TVA)
4. Question 3
A. To ensure that the US and Great Britain
maintained control of all international
policies and laws
B. To divide German in two
C. To maintain peace, protect human rights,
and make sure nations obeyed international
law
D. To assist the US during the arms race
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. Question 7
• A. Reconstruction
• B. Jim Crow Laws
• C. Black codes
• D. Freedman’s Bureau
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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.
12. Question 11
• A. Eat in segregated restaurants
• B. Ride the public bus
• C. Be seen in public parks
• D. Speak to any white people
13. 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.
14. 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
15. 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
17. 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
18. 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.
19. Question 18
• A. A savings plan
• B. An opportunity cost
• C. A price incentive
• D. specialization
20. 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
21. 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
22. Question 21
• A. First Amendment
• B. Second Amendment
• C. Third Amendment
• D. Fourth Amendment
24. 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.
25. Question 26
• A. Suez Canal
• B. Panama Canal
• C. Great Lakes Waterway
• D. Industrial Canal
26. 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
27. 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
28. Question 29
• A. The Berlin Wall
• B. Charity Food Drop
• C. The Berlin Airlift
• D. British Air League
29. 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
30. Question 31
• A. The March on Washington
• B. the Nation of Islam
• C. The Montgomery Bus Boycott
• D. The Women’s Movement
31. 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
32. 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
33. Question 34
• A. War on Terror
• B. Lebanon
• C. Al Qaeda
• D. Persian Gulf War
34. 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
