Constitutional Foundations
Internal United States Conflicts and Compromises
Reformers and Reform Movements
Foreign Policy
Miscellaneous
100
Federalism is best defined as a principle of government that (1) divides power between the central government and state governments (2) includes a system of checks and balances (3) allows the states to nullify national laws (4) places the most power in the hands of the legislative branch
What is (1) divides power between the central government and state governments.
100
Which statement about the Missouri Compromise (1820) is most accurate? (1) Slavery was banned west of the Mississippi River. (2) Unorganized territories would be governed by the United States and Great Britain. (3) The balance between free and slave states was maintained. (4) The 36°30' line formed a new boundary between the United States and Canada.
What is (3) The balance between free and slave states was maintained.
100
Which 19th-century event supported the movement for women’s rights? (1) Seneca Falls Convention (2) Dred Scott decision (3) formation of the Republican Party (4) Lincoln-Douglas debates
What is (1) Seneca Falls Convention.
100
Which action was taken by the United States government to help Europe’s economic recovery after World War II? (1) forming the Alliance for Progress (2) sending troops to Turkey (3) creating the Marshall Plan (4) joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
What is (3) creating the Marshall Plan.
100
The British benefited from their mercantilist relationship with the American colonies primarily by (1) supporting the growth of colonial industries (2) prohibiting colonists from fishing and fur trading (3) taking large amounts of gold and silver from the southern colonies (4) buying raw materials from the colonies and selling them finished products
What is (4) buying raw materials from the colonies and selling them finished products.
200
This document was included in the U.S. Constitution to ensure that individual liberties were not abused by the federal government. (1) The Bill of Rights (2) Magna Carta (3) Declaration of Rights of Man (4) Emancipation Proclamation
What is (1) The Bill of Rights
200
In the 1850s, the phrase “Bleeding Kansas” was used to describe clashes between (1) proslavery and antislavery groups (2) Spanish landowners and new American settlers (3) Chinese and Irish railroad workers (4) Native American Indians and white settlers
What is (1) proslavery and antislavery groups.
200
Progressive Era authors such as Jacob Riis and Upton Sinclair are best known for (1) focusing attention on social conditions (2) fighting for the civil rights of African Americans (3) promoting the interests of the American farmer (4) supporting the goal of woman’s suffrage
What is (1) focusing attention on social conditions.
200
A primary goal of the Monroe Doctrine (1823) was to (1) prevent European intervention in Latin America (2) create an opportunity for the annexation of Canada (3) protect the site of a canal across Central America (4) help European nations establish new Western Hemisphere colonies
What is (1) prevent European intervention in Latin America.
200
The main reason Great Britian established the Proclamation Line of 1763 was to (1) avoid conflicts between American colonists and Native American Indians (2) make a profit by selling the land west of the Appalachian Mountains (3) prevent American industrial development in the Ohio River valley (4) allow Canada to control the Great Lakes region
What is (1) avoid conflicts between American colonists and Native American Indians.
300
The main reason the Articles of Confederation were replaced as the basis of the United States government was that they (1) lacked provision for a national congress (2) declared that political protests were unconstitutional (3) placed too many restrictions on the activities of state governments (4) failed to give the central government enough power to govern effectively
What is (4) failed to give the central government enough power to govern effectively.
300
Which factor is most closely associated with McCarthyism? (1) buildup of Soviet missiles in Cuba (2) fear of communist influence in the United States (3) rise of the Communist Party in China (4) creation of the Warsaw Pact by the Soviet Union
What is (2) fear of communist influence in the United States.
300
A major purpose of the Progressive movement (1900–1917) was to (1) stimulate the economy (2) support government control of factory production (3) encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe (4) correct the economic and social abuses of industrial society
What is (4) correct the economic and social abuses of industrial society.
300
The Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1937 were intended to (1) enforce the policies of the League of Nations (2) stimulate economic growth in the United States (3) avoid the policies that drew the nation into World War I (4) support the use of peacekeeping troops in Europe
What is (3) avoid the policies that drew the nation into World War I.
300
The term supreme law of the land refers to which document? (1) Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (2) Constitution of the United States (3) Articles of Confederation (4) Declaration of Independence
What is (2) Constitution of the United States.
400
The Mayflower Compact and the Virginia House of Burgesses are most closely associated with (1) abuses by absolute monarchs (2) establishment of religious toleration (3) steps toward colonial self-government (4) adoption of universal suffrage
What is (3) steps toward colonial self-government
400
The Radical Republicans in Congress opposed President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction because Lincoln (1) called for the imprisonment of most Confederate leaders (2) rejected the idea of harsh punishments for the South (3) planned to keep Northern troops in the South after the war (4) demanded immediate civil and political rights for formerly enslaved persons
What is (2) rejected the idea of harsh punishments for the South.
400
The initiative and referendum are considered democratic reforms because they (1) permit citizens to have a more direct role in lawmaking (2) let all registered voters select their state’s presidential electors (3) extend the right to vote to 18-year-old citizens (4) allow residents of one state to bring lawsuits against residents of another state
What is (1) permit citizens to have a more direct role in lawmaking.
400
Manifest Destiny was used to justify an American desire to (1) limit the number of immigrants entering the country (2) control the area located east of the Appalachian Mountains (3) expand the United States to the Pacific Ocean (4) warn European countries against colonizing Latin America
What is (3) expand the United States to the Pacific Ocean.
400
Which pair of Supreme Court cases demonstrates that the Supreme Court can change an earlier decision? (1) Schenck v. United States and United States v. Nixon (2) Korematsu v. United States and Miranda v. Arizona (3) Gideon v. Wainwright and Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (4) Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
What is (4) Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
500
Name a constitutional power specifically delegated to the state governments.
What is provide for education/marriage and divorce laws/issuing licenses.
500
The Great Compromise reached at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 settled a dispute over how...
What is the states would be represented in Congress.
500
The photographs that Jacob Riis took are most closely associated with the
What is the living conditions of the urban poor.
500
The foreign policies of President James Polk involving Texas, California, and the Oregon Territory were all efforts to...
What is fulfill the goal of Manifest Destiny.
500
Congress opposed President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s plan to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court because the plan violated this government principle.
What is threatened the principle of checks and balances.
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