Social Studies
Social Studies Practice Test Questions (for when you are ready for the actual test!)
Part 1: https://gotestprep.com/ged-social-studies-test/
Part 2: https://gotestprep.com/ged-social-studies-practice-test-pdf/
About to take the Social Studies test? Check out this comprehensive review video.
Take note of the information imbedded within the video that will steer you to additional studies. If you need additional time go the the links as per the video direction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn26nX9TzF4
GED Social Studies: Interpreting Charts and Graphs
GED/HiSET Social Studies: Interpreting Charts & Graphs 👍🎓👨‍🎓📚 - YouTube
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Social Studies Content (in alphabetical order):
American Revolution
GED Study Guide American Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkEKVSVhlEg
Crash Course: The American Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUiSBXQHCw
Branches of the US Government:
Branches of Government - FLVS Civics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX9Bpzw-e3M
Checks and Balances in the U. S. Government - FLVS Civics
Great explanation of the Branches of Government, includes executive order and impeachment explanation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W8W3p9Ot7M
Three Branches of Government Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvwlRTYvU8o
Branches of Government Review and Interactive Games
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/usa_game/government/branches_government.htm
https://www.quia.com/rr/103659.html
How is Power Divided in the United States Government? - Ted Ed Video (Really Good Explanation:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuFR5XBYLfU
Capitalism v. Communism:
Introduction to the differences between capitalism and communism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBxW2WLO9d8
The Census
2020 Census – What is the Census?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq-FMB4epyw
The 2020 Census Challenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVLYq--JZEo
The 2020 Census and Why It Matters for Kids!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBfaEpqJA9Y
These website has loads of information about the census and instruction for completing the census:
Civil Liberties and Civil Rights:
Detailed Overview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI01oMUM0Ek&t=625s
Introduction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYOOUqBmfnY
Brief Overview of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0D2_d2DTy4
Civil Rights Movement
Introductory Video to the Civil Rights Movement
Discusses Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., President John F. Kennedy , Bobby Kennedy, NAACP, KKK and lots more..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URxwe6LPvkM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loI96F57G9g--this is a greatvideo that distinguishes between civil rights and civil liberties
Plessy v. Ferguson
Good explanation of Jim Crow laws and "Separate but Equal"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsDTqtyiNZk
Plessy v. Ferguson | Separate but Equal OK'd by High Court!
Really good explanation of how the Supreme Court decided Separate but Equal was constitutional
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldd0PLPG3E0
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) | Separate Is NOT Equal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX9Dmo24_cc
Brown v Board of Education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Brown v. Board of Education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4edxloXCc
10 Things you should know about Brown v. Board of Education
http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-should-know-about-brown-v-board-of-education
Ruby Bridges Goes to School PBS - Good! discusses “separate but equal,” too
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/video/ruby-bridges-goes-to-school/
Lyndon B. Johnson - Before the War on Poverty. History.com (good!)
Discusses his life, what he stood for as president, and his desire to achieve civil rights for ALL Americans.
John F. Kennedy - Richard Nixon Debate 1960 Election (first televised debate)
http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/kennedy-nixon-debates
Civic Rights and Actions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-dkf8OKp90
Civic Engagement Is -nice variety of speakers and professions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7rLewkUsZU
Equal Pay act of 1963
Excellent overview of history and comparisons of men v.women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR41T36LhMA&t=188s
Civil War
The American Civil War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZV7F0X2d
The American Civil War
This website (created by a teacher) offers interactive activities and loads of information about the Civil War
https://mrnussbaum.com/civil-war-for-kids/
History Channel Videos to Provide Background on Civil War and Reconstruction
Lincoln's War Machine
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/american-civil-war-history/videos/lincolns-war-machine?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=falsehttps://www.slideshare.net/elenadimo/global-warming-good-presentation
Lincoln, The Commander in Chief
The Emancipation Proclamation
CLIMATE AND WEATHER:
Ecosystems, ecology, global warming
https//www.slide share.nabai/weather-and-climate-ppt-for-students
https://www.slideshare.net/elenadimo/global-warming-good-presentation
Preserving our Environment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aQcSUgkBhI&t=197s
Crash Course History Videos (longer, but faced paced videos, using humor, music, diagrams, graphics, clever technology)
Crash Course History, Overview of the Civil War, Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY9zHNOjGrs
Crash Course History, Civil War, Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzTrKccmj_I
Crash Course History, Civil War and Reconstruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nowsS7pMApI
Cold War:
"The Cold War in Seven Minutes" (Who, What, When, Where and Why!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVqziNV7dGY
Who Won the Space Race?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxpC-8f--xo
Colonial America
The History of Colonial America and the Thirteen Colonies - Flocabulary music video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do4Ryapg3eU
Contemporary Public Policy:
Defined:
http://www.jasonsclassroom.com/social-studies/cc-basics/chapter-1/lesson-1.8/
Introduction-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipm5Bk10Fio
Examples of Public Policies-
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-public-policy.html
credit, banks, currency, inflation :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S91Pe-BjL8
Cultural Diffusion/Human Systems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCuW6FUBIEA&list=TLPQMjExMTIwMTmN31JexHF4BA&index=
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLmKfXwWQtE
"(Population Pyramids")
Declaration of Independence:
The Declaration of Independence TED Ed Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKJMWHCUoiw
Introduction to the Declaration of Independence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja4wep22PH8&t=12s
Demography
Introduction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAZUdVg0ygg
Economics:
Gross Domestic Product Defined:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gdp.asp
Business Cycle:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/businesscycle.asp
Recession:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl7SelnprF8
The Great Depression
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62DxELjuRec
US Economic Timeline: https://prezi.com/5bcri4fifszl/usa-economic-timeline/
US Timeline (short and up to 2016): https://prezi.com/fcv7dz-2kprd/us-economic-timeline/
World Economic Timeline: https://prezi.com/52a4c0x6qbld/economic-timeline/
Introduction to Supply and Demand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-yWKgZv9JY
Supply and Demand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9aDizJpd_s
Gross Domestic Product
What the Heck is the GDP? Good explanation with modern examples.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqT5I0etVKg
Crash Course History Video on Productivity and Growth and why some countries are richer than others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHiUYj5EA0w
What is Inflation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKZvm_fqYRM
What is Deflation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIp-WLLyXOo
Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Crash Course Economics video explaining how the Federal Reserve manipulates the economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dq7mMort9o
Money and Finance - Crash Course History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dugn51K_6WA
Monetary Policy and the Fed- EconMovies #9: Despicable Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaeIBeJT5hY
Understanding the Federal Reserve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZTzXTBHpl8
What Is The Federal Reserve? Kal Penn Explains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsjAnqinqIw
Understanding your Credit Score
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S91Pe-BjL8
Money and Banking Explained
Video explaining how banks came about, what they do with interest and loans, stock prices, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTTGALaRZoc
Elections:
Electing a US President - Electoral College - well explained!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok_VQ8I7g6I
Does Your Vote Count? The Electoral College Explained - TED-Ed Video
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/does-your-vote-count-the-electoral-college-explained-christina-greer
The Election Process
http://www.pbseduelectioncentral.com/election-process
The Electoral College Explained
Khan Academy- Note: Excellent video BUT pre-2010 (census) statistics!
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/american-civics-parent/american-civics/v/electoral-college
Facts About the World:
World Population Map
http://www.unfpa.org/world-population-dashboard
Geography
Animated Atlas - watch an animated timeline of how the United States has changed from the beginning of the thirteen original colonies through the year 2000. Includes the Missouri Compromise, the relocation of Native Americans, and numerous other land acquisitions by the United States. Really cool!
http://www.tedmontgomery.com/ushistory/movie.html
Globalization
What is it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ0nFD19eT8
https://archive.org/details/WissensWerteGlobalization
Powerpoint
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/aSGuest125609-1322159-globalization-ppt/
United Nations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpQKoS_p8QY
Globalization Maps
Globalization: Problems
(NOTE: Drag time back to the beginning and do not start in mid-video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oTLyPPrZE4&t=239s
Government:
Types of Government
Video describing the three types of government: democracy, monarchy and dictatorship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdh9xo47OWM (video unavailable on 2/17/21)
Who Rules?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvPCYqKZP3Y&t=5s
state vs. federal government
https://exchange.smarttech.com/preview/7a43748d-1a21-495d-bef5-355d78057b49
good narration, slides on state gov't
https://slideplayer.com/slide/7593823/
Democracy - A Short Introduction TED Ed Video
https://ed.ted.com/featured/RgaIhs2w
Government: Federal-State-Local
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOQR-e6r7-M
Industrial Revolution:
Industrial Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Efq-aNBkvc
Crash Course: Industrial Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhL5DCizj5c
Industrial Revolution
Video lesson on the birth of the Industrial Revolution in England, the inventions which made it possible, and the effects it had on the growth of our nation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vjumHjARzg
Also: Scientific Revolution
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6_i0dInceg
Slideshow: https://www.slideshare.net/gsill/scientific-revolution-lesson-ppt
Flocabulary: https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/scientific-method/
Child Labor Concerns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHmqEqJN59
Steam Engine Drives Industrial Revolution
The Great Depression:
The Great Depression in 4 Minutes (shows the rise and fall of the economy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAZ-RpAO1z4
Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvcWeNf9g6A
The Great Depression TImeline set to music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrpgScqIESI
The Dust Bowl The Black Blizzard
http://www.history.com/topics/dust-bowl/videos/black-blizzard
Immigration Patterns
Past 200 Years (visual):
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/two-centuries-of-immigration/
Impeachment
How Does Impeachment Work? TedEd Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSszixvo7d8
Influences on Early Democracy:
The Magna Carta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xo4tUMdAMw
The Mayflower Voyage
http://www.history.com/topics/mayflower-compact/videos
The Mayflower Compact
http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4502727/mayflower-compact
International Relations:
Fun Look at the US and Its Relationship with Other Countries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqIh3N7_xGk
"Crash Course: US International Relations"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMhIQNkO_Y0
Kennedy-Nixon Debates:
http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/kennedy-nixon-debates
Longitude and Latitude
Introductory Video explaining longitude and latitude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swKBi6hHHMA
Monopolies
Introduction (Crash Course Economics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb_-wfmJnHA
Political Cartoons
Introduction to/How to Interpret Political Cartoons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shQULpeDg7k
More current info (but less US political info):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNkJNNuxsuQ
Political Parties
Political Parties - Introductory video on the Democratic and Republican Parties and smaller third parties in the U.S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMEHDuLrFxA
Crash Course History Political Parties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEmOUHxessE
Quizlet for Political Parties
Review, learn and quiz yourself on political party vocabulary
https://quizlet.com/137785934/flashcards
Population
Human Population Through Time
Video from The American Museum of Natural History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwmA3Q0_OE
World Population Clock
Government site that shows the world population in real time. Lots and lots of charts, graphs and data to study!
https://www.census.gov/popclock/
Profit
Revenue, Profits and Price - Crash Course History Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWImfFax8Ew
Four Factors of Production: Practice Problems Included
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU64lU4-yZ0
Economic Profit and Costs VIdeo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0nUWrnuUdo
Profit, Revenue and Cost Math Problem
Great explanation of formula using a lemonade stand!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFfef_cS9l8
How Entrepeneurial Are You?
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/docs_lessons/264_entrepreneur1.pdf
World Population Clock
https://www.census.gov/popclock/
Scientific Revolution
The Scientific Revolution (Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and the Birth of the Scientific Method)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6_i0dInceg
Supply and Demand:
Intro Video : 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwLh6ax0zTE
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewPNugIqCUM
Intro PPT: https://www.slideshare.net/lntrullin/supply-and-demand-1184484
Sustainabilityhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thdKsEA-llo
Introduction to Sustainability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILfhGyUmhn0
Slideshow: https://www.slideshare.net/UjjwalDatta/introduction-to-sustainability-45073736
Sustainable Development:
Paris Climate Accord:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tnDjCA4peY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGcrYkHwE80 sustainable development goals - rap song
The Sustainability Quiz/Video:
https://www.mydropintheoceans.org/767/
renewable and nonrenewable resources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thdKsEA-llo
Introductory video to subject-verb agreement from Smart English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKm98TVFTQ4
The US Constitution
Brain Pop video on the U. S. Constitution
https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/usconstitution/
America Gets a Constitution
http://www.history.com/topics/bill-of-rights
"The Almost Painless Guide to the US Constitution" (video introduction to the Constitution)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5LOqCy94_0
"US Constitution Interactive" (explains the Constitution and the Amendments in a "What it Says" and a "What it Means" manner)
http://mrnussbaum.com/flash/const.swf
Crash Course US Constitution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO7FQsCcbD8
US Amendments: Quiz yourself with flash cards.
https://quizlet.com/6767661/us-amendments-quiz-flash-cards/
Amendments Quiz:
http://www.funtrivia.com/html5/index.cfm?qid=7685
Women's Rights
What Happened at the Seneca's Fall Convention?
First official gathering in the US organized to promote women's rights, like voting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcYhuG1y3bc
Vocabulary (In Flash Card format to help with self-study):
General Terms (Especially good for English Language Learners)
https://quizlet.com/108923031/social-studies-vocabulary-flash-cards/original
https://quizlet.com/70415108/social-studies-flash-cards/
https://www.cram.com/flashcards/ged-social-studies-vocabulary-460222
Test Vocabulary (VERY IMPORTANT: Terms to know to best answer questions when testing)
https://quizlet.com/65333688/flashcards
American Government
https://quizlet.com/139707205/american-government-flash-cards/
Civil Rights Terms
https://quizlet.com/870940/civil-rights-flash-cards/
Constitutional Amendments
All 27: https://quizlet.com/5149242/constitutional-amendments-1-27-flash-cards/
"Key" Amendments: https://quizlet.com/49328520/us-history-flash-cards/
Presidents
Pictures Included: https://quizlet.com/110089199/us-presidents-flash-cards/
Information Included: https://quizlet.com/118337525/us-presidents-flash-cards/
The "Roaring 20's" Terms
https://quizlet.com/28152362/the-roaring-20s-flash-cards/
The "1950's" Terms
https://quizlet.com/17924466/us-history-cold-war-1950s-flash-cards/
The "1960's" Terms
https://quizlet.com/11886568/1960s-terms-flash-cards/
The "1970's" Terms
https://quizlet.com/5273230/apush-1970s-flash-cards/
The "1980's" Terms
https://quizlet.com/5294688/1980s-vocab-flash-cards/
The "1990's" Terms
https://quizlet.com/22931587/the-1990s-flash-cards/
World War 1 Terms
https://quizlet.com/23272549/social-studies-world-war-1-flash-cards/
World War 2 Terms
https://quizlet.com/22748024/world-war-ii-flash-cards/
World War I:
The U S in World War I - History Channel
Good Video -this link will take you to the History Channel website where there are more excellent videos on this topic
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history/videos/the-us-in-world-war-i
World War II:
"7 Minute Overview" (Who, What, When, Where and Why!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvDFsxjaPaE
The Holocaust and World War II
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?ModuleId=10005143&MediaId=7827
Year in Review Video:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/year-review-13-biggest-news-stories-2015/story?id=35852690