[ 569 ] U.S. History GED ® TEST SOCIAL STUDIES FLASH REVIEW • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • _____________ What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? Who was president during the Great Depression and World War II? Read the passage and answer the following question. Friends and Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper . . . that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom a choice is to be made. Based on the excerpt, when did George Washington make this speech? a. during his tenure as general of the Continental Army b. at the Constitutional Convention c. prior to his first presidential nomination d. during his second term as president