GACE MIDDLE GRADES SOCIAL SCIENCE
PRACTICE SET 2026 SOLVED CONTENT
◉ Cyrus McCormick. Answer: United States inventor and
manufacturer of a mechanical harvester (1809-1884)
◉ Noah Webster. Answer: American writer who wrote textbooks to
help the advancement of education. He also wrote a dictionary
which helped standardize the American language.
◉ Compromise of 1850. Answer: A series of Laws designed to be the
final solution to the issue of slavery in new states. , Forestalled the
Civil War by instating the Fugitive Slave Act , banning slave trade in
DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting up the Texas
territory, and instating popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession
◉ Kansas-Nebraska Act. Answer: 1854 - Created Nebraska and
Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to
chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
Stephen A. Douglas was responsible for supporting the act. Douglas
coined the doctrine of "popular sovereignty"
◉ Dred Scott. Answer: American slave who sued his master for
keeping him enslaved in a territory where slavery was banned under
the Missouri Compromise. The Court ruled not necessarily if he was
,right or wrong but instead said that he didn't have the right to sue so
they couldn't really rule one way or another.
◉ John Brown. Answer: Abolitionist who was hanged after leading
an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)
◉ Freedmen's Bureau. Answer: 1865 - Agency set up to aid former
slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and
clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs. Some
southerners accused them of deliberately inciting freed slaves to
view their former owners as enemies.
◉ Ku Klux Klan. Answer: A secret society created by white
Southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African
Americans from obtaining their civil rights and voting.
◉ Reconstruction. Answer: The period after the Civil War in the
United States when the southern states were reorganized and
reintegrated into the Union. Officially ended when the last Federal
troops left the South in 1877.
◉ General Grant. Answer: Union commander of western forces; was
later given command of all Union forces. Battered Lee's armies into
submission around Richmond and received Lee's surrender at
Appomattox Courthouse. Later became the 18th president. His
,terms were scandal ridden even tough he was honest because he
was too trusting of his friends.
◉ Black Codes. Answer: Southern laws designed to restrict the
rights of the newly freed black slaves
◉ Jim Crow Laws. Answer: State laws which created a racial caste
system in the South. They included the laws which prevented blacks
from voting and those which created segregated facilities.
◉ 13th Amendment. Answer: This amendment freed all slaves
without compensation to the slave owners. It legally forbade slavery
and involuntary servitude in the United States except as punishment
for crime.
◉ 14th Amendment. Answer: Declares that all persons born in the
U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws as
well as set up Due Process.
◉ 15th Amendment. Answer: Citizens cannot be denied the right to
vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude
◉ "Mountain Men". Answer: American adventurers and fur trappers
who spent most of their time in the Rocky Mountains. They were
, hired by fur companies to try and meet the demand in Europe and
the East.
◉ California Gold Rush. Answer: 1849 (San Francisco 49ers) Gold
discovered in California attracted a rush of people all over the
country to San Francisco. Had a large impact on the movement of
peoples westward.
◉ Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Answer: This was a law that made it
illegal to create monopolies or trust that restrained free trade. The
government dissolved the monopoly of John D. Rockefeller's
Standard Oil Company over the next decade.
◉ Monopolies. Answer: Corporations that gain complete control of
the production of a single good or service. Had some good effects on
the economy, because out of them grew the large, efficient
corporations, which made important contributions to the growth of
the nation's economy.
◉ Great Depression. Answer: The economic crisis and period of low
business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning
with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing
through most of the 1930s.
◉ National Recovery Act. Answer: A New Deal legislation that
focused on the employment of the unemployed and the regulation of
PRACTICE SET 2026 SOLVED CONTENT
◉ Cyrus McCormick. Answer: United States inventor and
manufacturer of a mechanical harvester (1809-1884)
◉ Noah Webster. Answer: American writer who wrote textbooks to
help the advancement of education. He also wrote a dictionary
which helped standardize the American language.
◉ Compromise of 1850. Answer: A series of Laws designed to be the
final solution to the issue of slavery in new states. , Forestalled the
Civil War by instating the Fugitive Slave Act , banning slave trade in
DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting up the Texas
territory, and instating popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession
◉ Kansas-Nebraska Act. Answer: 1854 - Created Nebraska and
Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to
chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
Stephen A. Douglas was responsible for supporting the act. Douglas
coined the doctrine of "popular sovereignty"
◉ Dred Scott. Answer: American slave who sued his master for
keeping him enslaved in a territory where slavery was banned under
the Missouri Compromise. The Court ruled not necessarily if he was
,right or wrong but instead said that he didn't have the right to sue so
they couldn't really rule one way or another.
◉ John Brown. Answer: Abolitionist who was hanged after leading
an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)
◉ Freedmen's Bureau. Answer: 1865 - Agency set up to aid former
slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and
clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs. Some
southerners accused them of deliberately inciting freed slaves to
view their former owners as enemies.
◉ Ku Klux Klan. Answer: A secret society created by white
Southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African
Americans from obtaining their civil rights and voting.
◉ Reconstruction. Answer: The period after the Civil War in the
United States when the southern states were reorganized and
reintegrated into the Union. Officially ended when the last Federal
troops left the South in 1877.
◉ General Grant. Answer: Union commander of western forces; was
later given command of all Union forces. Battered Lee's armies into
submission around Richmond and received Lee's surrender at
Appomattox Courthouse. Later became the 18th president. His
,terms were scandal ridden even tough he was honest because he
was too trusting of his friends.
◉ Black Codes. Answer: Southern laws designed to restrict the
rights of the newly freed black slaves
◉ Jim Crow Laws. Answer: State laws which created a racial caste
system in the South. They included the laws which prevented blacks
from voting and those which created segregated facilities.
◉ 13th Amendment. Answer: This amendment freed all slaves
without compensation to the slave owners. It legally forbade slavery
and involuntary servitude in the United States except as punishment
for crime.
◉ 14th Amendment. Answer: Declares that all persons born in the
U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws as
well as set up Due Process.
◉ 15th Amendment. Answer: Citizens cannot be denied the right to
vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude
◉ "Mountain Men". Answer: American adventurers and fur trappers
who spent most of their time in the Rocky Mountains. They were
, hired by fur companies to try and meet the demand in Europe and
the East.
◉ California Gold Rush. Answer: 1849 (San Francisco 49ers) Gold
discovered in California attracted a rush of people all over the
country to San Francisco. Had a large impact on the movement of
peoples westward.
◉ Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Answer: This was a law that made it
illegal to create monopolies or trust that restrained free trade. The
government dissolved the monopoly of John D. Rockefeller's
Standard Oil Company over the next decade.
◉ Monopolies. Answer: Corporations that gain complete control of
the production of a single good or service. Had some good effects on
the economy, because out of them grew the large, efficient
corporations, which made important contributions to the growth of
the nation's economy.
◉ Great Depression. Answer: The economic crisis and period of low
business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning
with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing
through most of the 1930s.
◉ National Recovery Act. Answer: A New Deal legislation that
focused on the employment of the unemployed and the regulation of
