HISET Social Studies Test Questions
and Answers
Emancipation Proclamation (date and define) - Answer-1863 Freed slaves in South (signed by Lincoln)
Bill of Rights - Answer-First 10 amendments to the Constitution
Great Compromise - Answer-1787 Gave states equal voting representation in House and Senate (states
with lower population equally represented)
New Deal - Answer-1933-1938 President Roosevelt allowed funding for new job programs (like CCC) to
help people during the Great Depression
World War II - Answer-1939-1945 War of over 30 countries. Hitler invaded Poland, Japan bombed Pearl
Harbor. Persecution of Jewish in Europe (killed/imprisoned in concentration camps). Ended with D-
Dayand when U.S. dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz
Habeas Corpus - Answer-the legal procedure that keeps the government from holding you indefinitely
without showing cause. When you challenge your detention by filing a habeas corpus petition, the
executive branch must explain to a neutral judge its justification for holding you. Habeas corpus
prevents the King from simply locking up subjects in secret dungeons and throwing away the key. It's
been a pillar of Western law since the signing of the Magna Carta in England in 1215.
and Answers
Emancipation Proclamation (date and define) - Answer-1863 Freed slaves in South (signed by Lincoln)
Bill of Rights - Answer-First 10 amendments to the Constitution
Great Compromise - Answer-1787 Gave states equal voting representation in House and Senate (states
with lower population equally represented)
New Deal - Answer-1933-1938 President Roosevelt allowed funding for new job programs (like CCC) to
help people during the Great Depression
World War II - Answer-1939-1945 War of over 30 countries. Hitler invaded Poland, Japan bombed Pearl
Harbor. Persecution of Jewish in Europe (killed/imprisoned in concentration camps). Ended with D-
Dayand when U.S. dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz
Habeas Corpus - Answer-the legal procedure that keeps the government from holding you indefinitely
without showing cause. When you challenge your detention by filing a habeas corpus petition, the
executive branch must explain to a neutral judge its justification for holding you. Habeas corpus
prevents the King from simply locking up subjects in secret dungeons and throwing away the key. It's
been a pillar of Western law since the signing of the Magna Carta in England in 1215.
