GED Social Studies Study Guide with Complete Solutions 2023/2024 Social Security - Correct Answer the use of contributions made by workers and employers through a social security tax to provide income to people and their families during retirement or in the case of unemployment, disability, or death sovereignty - Correct Answer the ultimate, supreme power in a state socialism - Correct Answer an economic system in which property and the distribution of income are subject to social and governmental control rather than individual determination of market forces spatial - Correct Answer pertaining to distribution, distance, direction, areas, and other aspects of space on Earth's surface specialization when a business focuses on producing a limited number of goods and leaves the production of other goods to other businesses; how each person working to produce a good might work on one part of the production instead of producing the whole good standard of living - Correct Answer the overall quality of life that people experience tariff - Correct Answer a tax on an imported good supply - Correct Answer the quantity of a product or service a producer is willing and able to offer for sale at each possible price summarize - Correct Answer to briefly express a writer's key thought structural unemployment - Correct Answer unemployment caused by a rapid change in the character of the economy suffrage - Correct Answer the right to vote technology - Correct Answer the application of processes, methods, or knowledge to achieve a specific purpose theocracy - Correct Answer any government in which the leaders of the government are also the leaders of the religion and they rule as representatives of the deity totalitarianism - Correct Answer a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life treaty - Correct Answer a formal agreement between sovereign nations to create or restrict rights and responsibilities 1 / 2
unitary government - Correct Answer a government system in which all governmental authority is vested in a central government from which regional and local governments derive their powers United Nations - Correct Answer an international organization composed of most of the nations of the world, formed in 1945, to promote global peace, security, and economic development urbanization - Correct Answer the process of an increasing number of people moving to cities to work and live, and the development that results veto - Correct Answer a privileged single vote that, according to some systems of rules for decision-making, has the effect of blocking or negating a majority decision voluntary exchange - Correct Answer trade between people when each one feels he or she is better off after the trade wealth - Correct Answer an accumulation of goods having economic value protectionism - Correct Answer the practice of protecting domestic industries from foreign competition by imposing import duties or quotas public service - Correct Answer service to local, state, or national communities through appointed or elected office quota - Correct Answer a limit on how much of a good can be imported; set either by quantity or by the dollar value radical - Correct Answer a person who advocates sweeping changes in the laws and methods of government with the least delay ratify - Correct Answer to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction reactionary - Correct Answer a political philosophy that advocates for the resisting of change and a return to an earlier social order or policy referendum - Correct Answer a form of direct democracy in which citizens of a state, through gathering signatures, can require that a legislative act come before the people as a whole for a vote; also allows the legislature to send any proposal for a law to the people for a vote refugee - Correct Answer a person who has fled or been expelled from his or her country of origin because of natural disaster, war or military occupation, or fear of religious, racial, or political persecution
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