Free GED Section 1: Social Studies Exam Braindumps (page: 38)

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Which conclusion about life in the United States in 1898 is best supported by the photograph?

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Saharan dust clouds brought particles of dust with iron to the waters off Florida's west coast, creating huge blooms [deposits] of toxic red algae.The Saharan dust entered the upper atmosphere and circled the globe.
When the dust reached the Florida's west coast, it increased surface water iron concentrations there by 300%, which then increased by tenfold the count of bacteria in the water.These bacteria caused a "red tide" which can kill some forms of marine life and causes serious skin and respiratory problems in humans.By using satellites to monitor Saharan dust clouds and bacteria blooms, scientists will one day be able to forecast red tides in areas that will be affected.
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Which long-term ecological problem was caused by the arrival in Florida of Saharan dust?

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In 1889, Jane Addams, a social reformer in Chicago, Illinois, founded a settlement house called Hull House, which provided child care, kindergarten, libraries, playgrounds, vocational and domestic training, and food services to poor city residents. It also sent visiting nurses to help care for the sick in Chicago's crowded neighborhoods.
At Hull House, young mothers practiced ways to care for their children--including the daily infant bath, which is illustrated in the photograph above. English-language classes, civic rights classes, and art classes were also offered. The settlement houses provided important services to the poor at a time when government and many churches did not provide them.
Many of the people who worked at the settlement houses also worked to outlaw sweatshop working conditions, to promote organized labor, and to secure workers' compensation laws.
Adapted from Winthrop D. Jordan, Miriam Greenblatt, and John S. Bowes, The Americans:
A History (Evanston, Ill.: McDougal, Littell & Company, 1994), 497.
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Based on the information, what did the middle-class settlement workers learn from their work at Hull House?

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This letter was written by a member of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
To Mr. T. D. Weld
Dear Sir:
"You have been appointed an agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society. . . . Our object is the overthrow of American slavery. We expect to accomplish this, mainly by showing to the public its true character . . . its denial of the first principles of religion, morals, and humanity.
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"You will teach everywhere, the great fundamental principle of IMMEDIATE ABOLITION, as the duty of all masters. . . . Insist principally on the SIN OF SLAVERY, because our main hope is in the consciences of men.
"The people of color ought at once to be emancipated and recognized as citizens, and their rights secured, equal in all respects to others, according to the fundamental principle laid down in the American Declaration of Independence."
Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimke Weld, and Sarah Grimke, Volume I (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1934), 124­28.


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The writer of the letter assumed which of the following statements was true?