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CLEP U.S. History II
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Legislation championed by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the great depression that provided a safety net (Social Security) for all members of society
Miranda vs. Arizona
Block grants
Partisan
New Deal
2. A belief that one's ethnic group is superior
Iran-Contra affair
Big Three
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
ethnocentrism
3. The act of reducing or eliminating economic controls
Conglomerate
Tuman Doctrine
Franchise
Deregulation
4. Political opposition drawn along party lines
Bipartisan
Partisan
Original Intent
Class action suit
5. The act of placing members of the same political party on the bench so that opinion of the court will be consistent with the political party's ( seen most dramatically with Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Executive Agreement
Court packing
Scalawags
Black Tuesday
6. Using American military power to fortify the diplomatic policies of the United States
Reagan - Ronald
Big stick diplomacy
ABC programs
Filibuster
7. Legally established segregation
Contras
De Jure segregation
War Powers Act
Nixon - Richard M
8. What pro-inflation forces called the demonetization of silver
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9. International organization to promote peaceful resolution of international conflicts; called on all members to protect the territorial integrity and political independence of all nations; replaced by United Nations
League of Nations
Deregulation
War Powers Act
Watergate
10. A doctrine of Constitutional interpretation that says Supreme court Justices should base their interpretations of the Constitution in its authors' intent
Original Intent
Partisan
Roe vs. Wade
De facto segregation
11. Economic theory that says if government policies leave more money in the hands of people - they will invest it and stimulate the economy
Supply-side Economics
Black Tuesday
Roosevelt - Franklin D.
Caucus
12. October 29 - 1929 - the day the stock market fell about 40 points with 16.5 million shares traded
Reagan - Ronald
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Black Tuesday
United States vs. Nixon
13. Radical muslin leader who wanted a total separation of the races
Progressivism
Partisan
Malcom X
Nonproliferation Treaty
14. Two-term president during the 1980's whose economic policies follower supply-side theory
De facto segregation
Reagan - Ronald
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Filibuster
15. Those implemented by Franklin Delanor Roosevelt during the Great Depression to give relief to the unemployed.
Nixon - Richard M
eminent domain
Caucus
ABC programs
16. President of the united Sates during the Depression and WWII; most noted for his enactment of New Deal programs such as the Social Security Act
Scalawags
Jim Crow Laws
Roosevelt - Franklin D.
Affirmative action
17. Informal agreements made by the executive with a foreign government
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Big Three
Nonproliferation Treaty
Executive Agreement
18. Declared that trade with China should be open to all nations
Big Three
Franchise
Open Door Policy
Plessy vs. Ferguson
19. Political scandal involving the selling of arms to Iran so that the profits from these sales could be used to fund the contras in Central America
Contras
Populist
Iran-Contra affair
Court packing
20. The supreme court decision establishing a woman's right to an abortion
Civil rights act of 1964
Jim Crow Laws
Roe vs. Wade
Court packing
21. Parliamentary procedure for ending debate and calling for an immediate vote on a pending matter.
De facto segregation
Cloture
Original Intent
ABC programs
22. A lawsuit filed on behalf of a group of persons with a similar legal claim against a party or individual
Class action suit
Mapp vs. Ohio
War Powers Act
Bill of rights
23. The right to engage in the electing of public office holders
Big stick diplomacy
Franchise
Tuman Doctrine
Filibuster
24. Southerners who supported Reconstruction programs
Scalawags
Deregulation
Original Intent
Malcom X
25. Right wing guerillas who fought the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua
Kennedy - John F.
Contras
GOP
Tuman Doctrine
26. President Truman's assertion that the United States must support free peoples who were resisting Communist domination
Tuman Doctrine
Malcom X
Class action suit
Roosevelt - Franklin D.
27. A senator who gains the floor has the right to go in talking until the senator relinquishes the floor to another
Filibuster
War Powers Act
Miranda vs. Arizona
ABC programs
28. Christian conservatives - led by the Rev. jerry Falwell. who favored prayer and teaching of creationism in public schools - opposed abortion and pornography - and backed a strong national defense
Gideon vs. Wainwright
Miranda vs. Arizona
Moral Majority
Contras
29. Segregation that results from nongovernmental action; i.e. -administered by the pubic
War Powers Act
Big Three
De facto segregation
Moral Majority
30. The only president of the United States to resign after being confronted with impeachment (because of his alleged actions in the Watergate scandal)
Nixon - Richard M
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Reagan - Ronald
Black Tuesday
31. Redrawing of congressional districts in order to secure as many representative party voters as possible
Court packing
Gerrymander
King -Jr. - Martin Luther
ethnocentrism
32. A closed meeting of Democratic Party leaders to agree on a legislative program
Miranda vs. Arizona
Partisan
Caucus
GOP
33. The modification of the constitution or a law
Gerrymander
Jim Crow Laws
Muckrakers
Amendment
34. A political coalition of agrarians with urban workers and the middle class; goals included monetization of silver - a graduated income tax - public ownership of railroads - telegraph - telephone systems - an eight hour work day - and a ban on private
Franchise
Caucus
Black Tuesday
Populist
35. The power of a government to seize private property for public use - usually with compensation to the owner
eminent domain
Crime of '73
ethnocentrism
Naturalization
36. Investigative journalists and authors who exposed corruption in business and government
Mapp vs. Ohio
Iran-Contra affair
Bill of rights
Muckrakers
37. Leaders of the three major allied powers ( Roosevelt - Churchill and Stalin)
Big stick diplomacy
Big Three
Brown vs. Board of education of topeka
Mapp vs. Ohio
38. Federal money provided to a state of local government for a general purpose - such as reducing crime or improving education - with relatively few requirements on how the states can spend the money
Nixon - Richard M
Civil rights act of 1964
Block grants
Mapp vs. Ohio
39. Programs designed to overcome past discriminatory actions such as providing employment opportunities to members of a group that were previously denied employment because of racial barriers
Miranda vs. Arizona
Brown vs. Board of education of topeka
Dixiecrats
Affirmative action
40. A corporation that has many businesses in unrelated fields
Naturalization
Conglomerate
GOP
New Deal
41. The supreme court upheld the right of a slave owner to reclaim his property after the slave had fled into a free state
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
eminent domain
Gideon vs. Wainwright
Conglomerate
42. The supreme court declared the doctrine of 'separate but equal' constitutional
NATO
Original Intent
Brown vs. Board of education of topeka
Partisan
43. Case decided by the U.S supreme court in 1963 that established the right to legal representation for all defendants in criminal cases
King -Jr. - Martin Luther
Big stick diplomacy
Gideon vs. Wainwright
League of Nations
44. The illegal entry and phone monitoring in 1972 of Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington by members of the Republican Party
GOP
Open Door Policy
Watergate
Miranda vs. Arizona
45. The supreme court recognized that evidence seized without a search warrant cannot be used
Court packing
Black Tuesday
Mapp vs. Ohio
Affirmative action
46. Im 1960 became youngest man elected president of the united states; established peace corps in 1961; issued challenge to NASA to land a man on the moon; assassinated in 1963
Kennedy - John F.
Affirmative action
Plessy vs. Ferguson
De facto segregation
47. North Atlantic Treaty Organization; pledged that and attack against one was an attack against all
Crime of '73
NATO
Original Intent
Plessy vs. Ferguson
48. Supreme court ruling that established the rule of 'separate but equal' as being constitutional
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Big stick diplomacy
Moral Majority
Miranda vs. Arizona
49. An agreement not to distribute nuclear arms to countries that do not have them
Referendum
Kennedy - John F.
Gideon vs. Wainwright
Nonproliferation Treaty
50. Nonverbal communication of a political idea
Crime of '73
Symbolic speech
Mapp vs. Ohio
Kennedy - John F.