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CLEP U.S. History II
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Informal agreements made by the executive with a foreign government
Black Tuesday
Symbolic speech
Mapp vs. Ohio
Executive Agreement
2. Those implemented by Franklin Delanor Roosevelt during the Great Depression to give relief to the unemployed.
Reagan - Ronald
United States vs. Nixon
ABC programs
Kennedy - John F.
3. Southern Democrats who opposed Truman because of his support of civil rights; nominated Strom Thurmond for president in 1948 campaign
Moral Majority
Contras
Dixiecrats
Black Tuesday
4. Politics that emphasizes cooperation between the major parties
Original Intent
Naturalization
Bipartisan
Brown vs. Board of education of topeka
5. The process whereby a legislative proposal is vetoed upon by popular vote
Black Tuesday
Scalawags
Referendum
NATO
6. Civil rights leader who fought for the rights of minorities by the use of peaceful civil disobedience
NATO
Crime of '73
King -Jr. - Martin Luther
New Deal
7. Segregation that results from nongovernmental action; i.e. -administered by the pubic
De facto segregation
Gerrymander
Iran-Contra affair
Filibuster
8. Using American military power to fortify the diplomatic policies of the United States
King -Jr. - Martin Luther
Civil rights act of 1964
Big stick diplomacy
eminent domain
9. Leaders of the three major allied powers ( Roosevelt - Churchill and Stalin)
Big Three
Block grants
Contras
Symbolic speech
10. Political opposition drawn along party lines
Partisan
De facto segregation
Miranda vs. Arizona
Muckrakers
11. The act of reducing or eliminating economic controls
ABC programs
Filibuster
Deregulation
Appeasement
12. Nonverbal communication of a political idea
Nixon - Richard M
Appeasement
Roosevelt - Franklin D.
Symbolic speech
13. The act of making concessions to a political party of military rival
Referendum
Appeasement
Plessy vs. Ferguson
War Powers Act
14. A belief that one's ethnic group is superior
Original Intent
ethnocentrism
Reagan - Ronald
Big stick diplomacy
15. 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
Affirmative action
Progressivism
Franchise
Big stick diplomacy
16. Southerners who supported Reconstruction programs
Scalawags
Crime of '73
Reagan - Ronald
Deregulation
17. 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
Progressivism
Moral Majority
Populist
Iran-Contra affair
18. 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
Block grants
Jim Crow Laws
Roosevelt - Franklin D.
Contras
19. The modification of the constitution or a law
Scalawags
Amendment
ABC programs
Gideon vs. Wainwright
20. The act requires Congress to approve stationing American troops overseas fro more than 90 days (so that another Vietnam wouldn't happen)
Moral Majority
United States vs. Nixon
ethnocentrism
War Powers Act
21. Radical muslin leader who wanted a total separation of the races
Kennedy - John F.
Malcom X
Muckrakers
Original Intent
22. The first ten amendments to the constitution
Bill of rights
eminent domain
Nixon - Richard M
Roe vs. Wade
23. The supreme court decision establishing a woman's right to an abortion
Roe vs. Wade
Contras
De Jure segregation
Gideon vs. Wainwright
24. The Supreme court ruled that material vested with a public interest could not be withheld from evidence under the rule of executive privilege
War Powers Act
Cloture
Civil rights act of 1964
United States vs. Nixon
25. The only president of the United States to resign after being confronted with impeachment (because of his alleged actions in the Watergate scandal)
De Jure segregation
Nixon - Richard M
Malcom X
Big Three
26. Legislative act that removed racial barriers in all places vested with public interest
Civil rights act of 1964
Amendment
Block grants
Populist
27. 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
Tuman Doctrine
Brown vs. Board of education of topeka
Cloture
Kennedy - John F.
28. The supreme court declared the doctrine of 'separate but equal' constitutional
Block grants
Brown vs. Board of education of topeka
GOP
Bill of rights
29. Economic theory that says if government policies leave more money in the hands of people - they will invest it and stimulate the economy
De facto segregation
Supply-side Economics
New Deal
Big Three
30. The illegal entry and phone monitoring in 1972 of Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington by members of the Republican Party
King -Jr. - Martin Luther
Block grants
Watergate
Scalawags
31. 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
Tuman Doctrine
Muckrakers
Iran-Contra affair
New Deal
32. 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)
Court packing
Appeasement
Miranda vs. Arizona
Black Tuesday
33. Right wing guerillas who fought the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua
Contras
Moral Majority
Conglomerate
Roe vs. Wade
34. Laws designed to promote racial segregation
Progressivism
Bill of rights
Jim Crow Laws
Dixiecrats
35. 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
Block grants
De Jure segregation
Bipartisan
League of Nations
36. Process by which persons acquire citizenship
Bill of rights
Brown vs. Board of education of topeka
Contras
Naturalization
37. October 29 - 1929 - the day the stock market fell about 40 points with 16.5 million shares traded
De Jure segregation
Black Tuesday
New Deal
Progressivism
38. Legislation championed by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the great depression that provided a safety net (Social Security) for all members of society
Gideon vs. Wainwright
New Deal
Open Door Policy
Franchise
39. A senator who gains the floor has the right to go in talking until the senator relinquishes the floor to another
Populist
Filibuster
Conglomerate
Original Intent
40. 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
Block grants
Tuman Doctrine
Appeasement
ethnocentrism
41. The power of a government to seize private property for public use - usually with compensation to the owner
Watergate
Naturalization
ABC programs
eminent domain
42. A doctrine of Constitutional interpretation that says Supreme court Justices should base their interpretations of the Constitution in its authors' intent
Deregulation
Original Intent
Bipartisan
Symbolic speech
43. A corporation that has many businesses in unrelated fields
Nixon - Richard M
Conglomerate
Kennedy - John F.
Partisan
44. Investigative journalists and authors who exposed corruption in business and government
Caucus
Muckrakers
Symbolic speech
Dixiecrats
45. 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
Reagan - Ronald
League of Nations
Affirmative action
Black Tuesday
46. North Atlantic Treaty Organization; pledged that and attack against one was an attack against all
Progressivism
NATO
Supply-side Economics
Iran-Contra affair
47. Two-term president during the 1980's whose economic policies follower supply-side theory
Crime of '73
De Jure segregation
Supply-side Economics
Reagan - Ronald
48. 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
De Jure segregation
Scalawags
Court packing
Populist
49. President Truman's assertion that the United States must support free peoples who were resisting Communist domination
ethnocentrism
NATO
Tuman Doctrine
Black Tuesday
50. An agreement not to distribute nuclear arms to countries that do not have them
Original Intent
Cloture
Nonproliferation Treaty
Amendment