GED SOCIAL STUDIES EXAM 2 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔FISCAL POLICY - ✔✔Actions of the federal government related to taxing and
spending
✔✔"GAG RULE" - ✔✔A rule passed in the U.S. House of Representatives to forbid any
discussion of slavery
✔✔GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP) - ✔✔The total annual value of goods and
services produced in the United States
✔✔HUMANISTIC THEORY - ✔✔A theory of personality based on the belief that people
strive to achieve their fullest potential
✔✔HUMNITARIANISM - ✔✔Concern for the well-being of all humanity
✔✔IMPERIALISM - ✔✔The policy of one country to extend its influence to other
countries, seeking to gain economic and political control
✔✔INFLATION - ✔✔A general rise in prices
✔✔INNOVATION - ✔✔A new tool, technology, idea, or method that is developed with in
a society.
✔✔INTERNAL CONFLICT - ✔✔A struggle within a society resulting from opposing
ideas, needs, or basic instincts
✔✔INTERVENTION - ✔✔Interference;an active role in someone else's affairs
✔✔JUDICIAL BRANCH - ✔✔The court system of the U.S. government
✔✔JUDICIAL REVIEW - ✔✔The power of the courts to determine the constitutionality of
laws and government actions
✔✔LATITUDE - ✔✔The position of a point on the Earth's surface, expressed as its
distance (up to 90) North or South of the equator
✔✔LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURNS - ✔✔The idea that at a certain point, additional
resources fail to increase out put (results) or profit (money above and beyond the cost
of production)
✔✔LEGISLATIVE BRANCH - ✔✔The part of government responsible for making laws
, ✔✔LOBBYISTS - ✔✔People attempting to influence government officials on behalf of
interest groups
✔✔LONGITUDE - ✔✔The position of a point on Earth's surface, expressed as its
distance (up to 180) East or West of the Prime Meridian
✔✔"MANIFEST DESTINY" - ✔✔The belief of Americans in the mid-nineteenth century,
that they had a special mission to explore the West
✔✔MIGRATION - ✔✔Movement of great numbers of people from one place to another
with the intention of settling in the new area
✔✔MODELING - ✔✔Shaping behavior based on observed behavior of others
✔✔MONETARY POLICEY - ✔✔Actions of the Federal Reserve Bank that affects
interest rates, and the supply of money
✔✔NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES - ✔✔A natural resource that cannot be recycled
or recreated
✔✔NORMS - ✔✔How a culture expects people to act in a certain situation
✔✔PACs - ✔✔Political Action Committees - special interest groups that attempt to
influence public policy
✔✔PERSONALITY - ✔✔The ways you act, think, and feel, that make you different from
others
✔✔POLAR REGIONS - ✔✔High-latitude regions, near the North Pole or South Pole,
with the coldest temperatures
✔✔PREJUDICE - ✔✔Judgment made before all the facts are known
✔✔PRIME MERIDIAN - ✔✔The standard (0) meridian of Earth, passing through
Greenwich, England, from which longitude is measured
✔✔PROGRESSIVE TAX - ✔✔A tax rate that increases as income increases
✔✔PROPORTIONAL TAX - ✔✔A tax rate that stays the same regardless of income
✔✔PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY - ✔✔Sigmund Freud's theory that much of human
behavior is controlled by forces in the unconscious mind, that may be linked to
childhood experiences and sexual motives
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔FISCAL POLICY - ✔✔Actions of the federal government related to taxing and
spending
✔✔"GAG RULE" - ✔✔A rule passed in the U.S. House of Representatives to forbid any
discussion of slavery
✔✔GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP) - ✔✔The total annual value of goods and
services produced in the United States
✔✔HUMANISTIC THEORY - ✔✔A theory of personality based on the belief that people
strive to achieve their fullest potential
✔✔HUMNITARIANISM - ✔✔Concern for the well-being of all humanity
✔✔IMPERIALISM - ✔✔The policy of one country to extend its influence to other
countries, seeking to gain economic and political control
✔✔INFLATION - ✔✔A general rise in prices
✔✔INNOVATION - ✔✔A new tool, technology, idea, or method that is developed with in
a society.
✔✔INTERNAL CONFLICT - ✔✔A struggle within a society resulting from opposing
ideas, needs, or basic instincts
✔✔INTERVENTION - ✔✔Interference;an active role in someone else's affairs
✔✔JUDICIAL BRANCH - ✔✔The court system of the U.S. government
✔✔JUDICIAL REVIEW - ✔✔The power of the courts to determine the constitutionality of
laws and government actions
✔✔LATITUDE - ✔✔The position of a point on the Earth's surface, expressed as its
distance (up to 90) North or South of the equator
✔✔LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURNS - ✔✔The idea that at a certain point, additional
resources fail to increase out put (results) or profit (money above and beyond the cost
of production)
✔✔LEGISLATIVE BRANCH - ✔✔The part of government responsible for making laws
, ✔✔LOBBYISTS - ✔✔People attempting to influence government officials on behalf of
interest groups
✔✔LONGITUDE - ✔✔The position of a point on Earth's surface, expressed as its
distance (up to 180) East or West of the Prime Meridian
✔✔"MANIFEST DESTINY" - ✔✔The belief of Americans in the mid-nineteenth century,
that they had a special mission to explore the West
✔✔MIGRATION - ✔✔Movement of great numbers of people from one place to another
with the intention of settling in the new area
✔✔MODELING - ✔✔Shaping behavior based on observed behavior of others
✔✔MONETARY POLICEY - ✔✔Actions of the Federal Reserve Bank that affects
interest rates, and the supply of money
✔✔NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES - ✔✔A natural resource that cannot be recycled
or recreated
✔✔NORMS - ✔✔How a culture expects people to act in a certain situation
✔✔PACs - ✔✔Political Action Committees - special interest groups that attempt to
influence public policy
✔✔PERSONALITY - ✔✔The ways you act, think, and feel, that make you different from
others
✔✔POLAR REGIONS - ✔✔High-latitude regions, near the North Pole or South Pole,
with the coldest temperatures
✔✔PREJUDICE - ✔✔Judgment made before all the facts are known
✔✔PRIME MERIDIAN - ✔✔The standard (0) meridian of Earth, passing through
Greenwich, England, from which longitude is measured
✔✔PROGRESSIVE TAX - ✔✔A tax rate that increases as income increases
✔✔PROPORTIONAL TAX - ✔✔A tax rate that stays the same regardless of income
✔✔PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY - ✔✔Sigmund Freud's theory that much of human
behavior is controlled by forces in the unconscious mind, that may be linked to
childhood experiences and sexual motives
