Constitutional Foundations
Military Conflicts
Industrialization
Cold War
Miscellaneous
100
The unwritten constitution is best defined as the (1) amendments to the United States Constitution (2) powers that the Constitution reserves for the states (3) powers that the Constitution denies to Congress and to the states (4) practices of the government that are based on custom and tradition
What is (4) practices of the government that are based on custom and tradition
100
In the 1930s, Congress attempted to avoid the situations that led to United States involvement in World War I by (1) enacting a peacetime draft law (2) passing a series of neutrality acts (3) authorizing the deportation of American Communist Party members (4) relocating Japanese Americans to internment camps
What is (2) passing a series of neutrality acts
100
Which factor contributed the most to urbanization in the late 1800s? (1) assimilation (3) imperialism (2) industrialization (4) nullification
What is (2) industrialization
100
The main foreign policy objective of the Marshall Plan (1948–1952) was to (1) stop communist aggression in Korea (2) fight poverty in Latin America (3) rebuild the economies of European nations (4) provide jobs for unemployed Americans
What is (3) rebuild the economies of European nations
100
The term Great Society was used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his efforts to (1) lower taxes for all Americans (2) win the race for outer space (3) end poverty and discrimination in the United States (4) improve the nation’s armed forces
What is (3) end poverty and discrimination in the United States
200
During the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the plans for Congress proposed by delegates from New Jersey and Virginia differed mainly over the issue of (1) life terms of office or short terms of office (2) appointed legislators or elected legislators (3) equal state representation or proportionate state representation (4) power to check other branches or power limited to lawmaking
What is (3) equal state representation or proportionate state representation
200
One result of the Spanish-American War of 1898 was that the United States was (1) recognized as a world power (2) committed to isolationism (3) drawn into World War II (4) forced into an economic depression
What is (1) recognized as a world power
200
What major trend related to population occurred during the industrialization boom of the late 1800s? (1) Immigration decreased. (2) Suburbanization decreased. (3) Urbanization increased. (4) Migration to rural areas increased.
What is (3) Urbanization increased
200
United States involvement in the Vietnam War was based in part on a desire to (1) prevent renewed Japanese expansionism in the Pacific (2) assure access to an adequate supply of oil from the Middle East (3) contain communism in Southeast Asia (4) protect American business interests in China
What is (3) contain communism in Southeast Asia
200
Shays’ Rebellion of 1786 was significant because it (1) showed that the English still had influence after the American Revolution (2) convinced many Americans of the need for a stronger national government (3) revealed the increased threat from rebellious Native American Indians (4) endangered the lives of many recent immigrants
What is (2) convinced many Americans of the need for a stronger national government
300
Which governmental action illustrates the system of checks and balances? (1) a senator helping a governor solve a state problem (2) the president negotiating a trade agreement with foreign diplomats (3) the Senate ratifying a peace treaty (4) Congress raising taxes to pay for federal programs
What is (3) the Senate ratifying a peace treaty
300
In the years before the United States entered World War I, President Woodrow Wilson violated his position of strict neutrality by (1) secretly sending troops to fight for the democratic nations (2) openly encouraging Mexico to send troops to support the Allies (3) supporting economic policies that favored the Allied nations (4) using United States warships to attack German submarines
What is (3) supporting economic polices that favored the Allied nations
300
Which group’s numbers increased the most as a result of the Industrial Revolution? (1) skilled craftsmen (2) landed aristocracy (3) urban middle class (4) owners of small farms
What is (3) urban middle class
300
The main goal of President Richard Nixon’s foreign policy of détente was to (1) assure American victory in Vietnam (2) resolve conflicts in the Middle East (3) abolish the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (4) improve relations with the Soviet Union
What is (4) improve relations with the Soviet Union
300
The Supreme Court decisions in Mapp v. Ohio (1961) and Miranda v. Arizona (1966) directly expanded the rights of which group? (1) students with disabilities (2) women in the military (3) homeless Americans (4) persons accused of crimes
What is (4) persons accused of crimes
400
In its economic relationship with its North American colonies, Great Britain followed the principles of 18th-century mercantilism by (1) outlawing the African slave trade (2) limiting the colonies’ trade with other nations (3) encouraging the development of manufacturing in the colonies (4) establishing laws against business monopolies
What is (2) limiting the colonies' trade with other nations
400
Prior to the start of World War II, Great Britain and France followed a policy of appeasement when they (1) rejected an alliance with the Soviet Union (2) allowed Germany to expand its territory (3) signed the agreements at the Yalta Conference (4) opposed United States efforts to rearm
What is (2) allowed Germany to expand its territory
400
The Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act were passed in an effort to (1) promote the formation of new trusts (2) maintain competition in business (3) increase business investment (4) limit the activities of foreign corporations
What is (2) maintain competition in business
400
The United States committed to a Cold War policy of mutual defense when it (1) aided the Nationalists in China (2) established the Eisenhower Doctrine (3) joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (4) rejected United Nations efforts to halt the development of atomic weapons
What is (3) joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
400
Isolationists in the Senate objected to the United States joining the League of Nations because they opposed (1) creation of the Security Council (2) colonialism in Africa and Asia (3) membership in the League by Germany (4) involvement in future foreign wars
What is (4) involvement in future foreign wars
500
One similarity between the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights is that both documents...
What is stress the importance of individual liberty
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
During the late 1800s, the principles of Social Darwinism were used to justify...
What is the accumulation of great wealth by industrialists
500
McCarthyism led to...
What is fear of communist influence in the United States
500
The main purpose of the Mayflower Compact and the Virginia House of Burgesses
What is steps towards colonial self government
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