HISET SOCIAL STUDIES FINAL EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Intolerable Acts - ✔✔in response to Boston Tea Party, 4 acts passed in 1774, Port
of Boston closed, reduced power of assemblies in colonies, permitted royal officers to
be tried elsewhere, provided for quartering of troop's in barns and empty houses
✔✔Transcontinental Railroad - ✔✔completed in 1869, a railroad linking the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans
✔✔Treaty of Versailles - ✔✔Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany and handed
down harsh punishment.
✔✔urbanization - ✔✔movement of people from rural areas to cities
✔✔War on Terror - ✔✔Initiated by President George W. Bush after the attacks of
September 11, 2001, the broadly defined war on terror aimed to weed out terrorist
operatives and their supporters throughout the world.
✔✔explorers - ✔✔people who travel to new and unfamiliar places in order to learn what
these places are like and describe them with words, pictures, and maps.
✔✔Reconstruction - ✔✔1865-1877; the period after the Civil War in the United States
when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
✔✔colony - ✔✔a country or area under the full or partial political control of another
country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
✔✔13 colonies - ✔✔colonies that composed the original United States in 1776:
Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and
Virginia.
✔✔pilgrims - ✔✔English Puritans who founded Plymouth colony in 1620
✔✔American Revolution - ✔✔political revolution began with the Declaration of
Independence in 1776 where American colonists sought to balance the power between
government and the people and protect the rights of citizens in a democracy; the
revolution of the American colonies against Great Britain
✔✔Bill of Rights - ✔✔first 10 amendments to the Constitution. Written by James
Madison in response to calls from several states for greater constitutional protection for
individual liberties, the Bill of Rights lists specific prohibitions on governmental power.
, ✔✔north vs. south - ✔✔conflict between the states during the Civil War
✔✔U.S. Constitution - ✔✔The document written in 1787 and ratified in 1788 that sets
forth the institutional structure of the U.S. government and the tasks these institutions
perform. It replaced the Articles of Confederation.
✔✔Confederacy (Confederate States of America) - ✔✔the southern states that seceded
from the United States in 1861
✔✔Union - ✔✔who the confederates fought against during the Civil War
✔✔sharecropping - ✔✔system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which
farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
✔✔natural resources - ✔✔materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and
fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain
✔✔immigrant - ✔✔a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country
✔✔union - ✔✔association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions
and higher wages.
✔✔strike - ✔✔organized work stoppage intended to force an employer to address union
demands.
✔✔Allies ( WWII) - ✔✔England, France, the United States, and Russia after their pact
with the Nazi Regime was violated.
✔✔Allies ( WWI) - ✔✔England, France, United States, and Russia, Serbia
✔✔Central Powers/Triple Alliance (WWI) - ✔✔Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
(Ottoman Empire)
✔✔Axis Powers (WWII) - ✔✔Germany, Italy, Japan
✔✔Fascism - ✔✔an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and
social organization headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism
and no tolerance of opposition
✔✔Pearl Harbor - ✔✔United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan
on December 7, 1941, bringing the United States into World War II.
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Intolerable Acts - ✔✔in response to Boston Tea Party, 4 acts passed in 1774, Port
of Boston closed, reduced power of assemblies in colonies, permitted royal officers to
be tried elsewhere, provided for quartering of troop's in barns and empty houses
✔✔Transcontinental Railroad - ✔✔completed in 1869, a railroad linking the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans
✔✔Treaty of Versailles - ✔✔Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany and handed
down harsh punishment.
✔✔urbanization - ✔✔movement of people from rural areas to cities
✔✔War on Terror - ✔✔Initiated by President George W. Bush after the attacks of
September 11, 2001, the broadly defined war on terror aimed to weed out terrorist
operatives and their supporters throughout the world.
✔✔explorers - ✔✔people who travel to new and unfamiliar places in order to learn what
these places are like and describe them with words, pictures, and maps.
✔✔Reconstruction - ✔✔1865-1877; the period after the Civil War in the United States
when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
✔✔colony - ✔✔a country or area under the full or partial political control of another
country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
✔✔13 colonies - ✔✔colonies that composed the original United States in 1776:
Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and
Virginia.
✔✔pilgrims - ✔✔English Puritans who founded Plymouth colony in 1620
✔✔American Revolution - ✔✔political revolution began with the Declaration of
Independence in 1776 where American colonists sought to balance the power between
government and the people and protect the rights of citizens in a democracy; the
revolution of the American colonies against Great Britain
✔✔Bill of Rights - ✔✔first 10 amendments to the Constitution. Written by James
Madison in response to calls from several states for greater constitutional protection for
individual liberties, the Bill of Rights lists specific prohibitions on governmental power.
, ✔✔north vs. south - ✔✔conflict between the states during the Civil War
✔✔U.S. Constitution - ✔✔The document written in 1787 and ratified in 1788 that sets
forth the institutional structure of the U.S. government and the tasks these institutions
perform. It replaced the Articles of Confederation.
✔✔Confederacy (Confederate States of America) - ✔✔the southern states that seceded
from the United States in 1861
✔✔Union - ✔✔who the confederates fought against during the Civil War
✔✔sharecropping - ✔✔system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which
farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
✔✔natural resources - ✔✔materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and
fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain
✔✔immigrant - ✔✔a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country
✔✔union - ✔✔association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions
and higher wages.
✔✔strike - ✔✔organized work stoppage intended to force an employer to address union
demands.
✔✔Allies ( WWII) - ✔✔England, France, the United States, and Russia after their pact
with the Nazi Regime was violated.
✔✔Allies ( WWI) - ✔✔England, France, United States, and Russia, Serbia
✔✔Central Powers/Triple Alliance (WWI) - ✔✔Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
(Ottoman Empire)
✔✔Axis Powers (WWII) - ✔✔Germany, Italy, Japan
✔✔Fascism - ✔✔an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and
social organization headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism
and no tolerance of opposition
✔✔Pearl Harbor - ✔✔United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan
on December 7, 1941, bringing the United States into World War II.
