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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. The act of making concessions to a political party of military rival
Big stick diplomacy
Black Tuesday
Moral Majority
Appeasement
2. Two-term president during the 1980's whose economic policies follower supply-side theory
Reagan - Ronald
Caucus
Scalawags
Big Three
3. October 29 - 1929 - the day the stock market fell about 40 points with 16.5 million shares traded
Black Tuesday
King -Jr. - Martin Luther
eminent domain
ABC programs
4. A corporation that has many businesses in unrelated fields
Deregulation
Amendment
Conglomerate
ABC programs
5. The illegal entry and phone monitoring in 1972 of Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington by members of the Republican Party
Watergate
Conglomerate
Civil rights act of 1964
Gerrymander
6. The supreme court upheld the right of a slave owner to reclaim his property after the slave had fled into a free state
Populist
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Muckrakers
Block grants
7. The supreme court declared the doctrine of 'separate but equal' constitutional
Progressivism
Muckrakers
Kennedy - John F.
Brown vs. Board of education of topeka
8. A closed meeting of Democratic Party leaders to agree on a legislative program
ethnocentrism
De Jure segregation
Caucus
Malcom X
9. Leaders of the three major allied powers ( Roosevelt - Churchill and Stalin)
Gideon vs. Wainwright
Big Three
Original Intent
Malcom X
10. Southerners who supported Reconstruction programs
ethnocentrism
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Scalawags
Affirmative action
11. Political movement calling for rejuvenation of free enterprise capitalism and the destruction of illegal monopolies; also called for civil service reform and honest and efficient government
Conglomerate
Progressivism
New Deal
Plessy vs. Ferguson
12. Redrawing of congressional districts in order to secure as many representative party voters as possible
Executive Agreement
Referendum
Gerrymander
Amendment
13. Legislation championed by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the great depression that provided a safety net (Social Security) for all members of society
Malcom X
New Deal
Partisan
Contras
14. Southern Democrats who opposed Truman because of his support of civil rights; nominated Strom Thurmond for president in 1948 campaign
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Dixiecrats
NATO
Nonproliferation Treaty
15. The Supreme court ruled that material vested with a public interest could not be withheld from evidence under the rule of executive privilege
Progressivism
Contras
United States vs. Nixon
Malcom X
16. Legally established segregation
Malcom X
Moral Majority
Open Door Policy
De Jure segregation
17. Investigative journalists and authors who exposed corruption in business and government
Muckrakers
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Class action suit
Appeasement
18. Legislative act that removed racial barriers in all places vested with public interest
Civil rights act of 1964
Affirmative action
Muckrakers
Mapp vs. Ohio
19. Radical muslin leader who wanted a total separation of the races
NATO
GOP
Malcom X
Affirmative action
20. A senator who gains the floor has the right to go in talking until the senator relinquishes the floor to another
Big stick diplomacy
eminent domain
Block grants
Filibuster
21. The republican party
ethnocentrism
Nixon - Richard M
Referendum
GOP
22. The supreme court decision establishing a woman's right to an abortion
Roe vs. Wade
Progressivism
Affirmative action
Gerrymander
23. Political opposition drawn along party lines
Malcom X
Filibuster
Civil rights act of 1964
Partisan
24. President Truman's assertion that the United States must support free peoples who were resisting Communist domination
Original Intent
Tuman Doctrine
Nonproliferation Treaty
Bill of rights
25. 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)
Referendum
De facto segregation
Court packing
Big Three
26. An agreement not to distribute nuclear arms to countries that do not have them
Bill of rights
Bipartisan
Nonproliferation Treaty
Court packing
27. Those implemented by Franklin Delanor Roosevelt during the Great Depression to give relief to the unemployed.
Roosevelt - Franklin D.
ABC programs
Dixiecrats
Cloture
28. The modification of the constitution or a law
Iran-Contra affair
Filibuster
Amendment
Populist
29. 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
Muckrakers
Block grants
Watergate
Appeasement
30. North Atlantic Treaty Organization; pledged that and attack against one was an attack against all
Class action suit
NATO
Kennedy - John F.
Appeasement
31. 1966 case in which the supreme court decided that all persons who are detained or arrested must be informed of their rights
Naturalization
League of Nations
Miranda vs. Arizona
Amendment
32. Laws designed to promote racial segregation
Franchise
Jim Crow Laws
Big stick diplomacy
Malcom X
33. Parliamentary procedure for ending debate and calling for an immediate vote on a pending matter.
ethnocentrism
Civil rights act of 1964
Iran-Contra affair
Cloture
34. 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
Executive Agreement
Moral Majority
Roe vs. Wade
Bipartisan
35. Nonverbal communication of a political idea
United States vs. Nixon
Symbolic speech
Executive Agreement
Nonproliferation Treaty
36. Declared that trade with China should be open to all nations
Open Door Policy
Scalawags
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Iran-Contra affair
37. Case decided by the U.S supreme court in 1963 that established the right to legal representation for all defendants in criminal cases
Moral Majority
Kennedy - John F.
Gideon vs. Wainwright
Crime of '73
38. 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
Populist
United States vs. Nixon
Kennedy - John F.
Roe vs. Wade
39. Politics that emphasizes cooperation between the major parties
Bipartisan
Nixon - Richard M
Amendment
Big Three
40. A doctrine of Constitutional interpretation that says Supreme court Justices should base their interpretations of the Constitution in its authors' intent
United States vs. Nixon
Civil rights act of 1964
Original Intent
Tuman Doctrine
41. A belief that one's ethnic group is superior
Amendment
ethnocentrism
Muckrakers
Civil rights act of 1964
42. 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
War Powers Act
Black Tuesday
Roosevelt - Franklin D.
New Deal
43. The supreme court recognized that evidence seized without a search warrant cannot be used
Contras
Crime of '73
Mapp vs. Ohio
Black Tuesday
44. Civil rights leader who fought for the rights of minorities by the use of peaceful civil disobedience
Tuman Doctrine
Malcom X
Roe vs. Wade
King -Jr. - Martin Luther
45. The process whereby a legislative proposal is vetoed upon by popular vote
Civil rights act of 1964
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Referendum
Original Intent
46. Segregation that results from nongovernmental action; i.e. -administered by the pubic
Filibuster
Conglomerate
Crime of '73
De facto segregation
47. Right wing guerillas who fought the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua
Original Intent
Dixiecrats
Filibuster
Contras
48. 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
Class action suit
Brown vs. Board of education of topeka
Malcom X
Affirmative action
49. Process by which persons acquire citizenship
De facto segregation
Naturalization
Big Three
Malcom X
50. What pro-inflation forces called the demonetization of silver