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CLEP U.S. History II
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A corporation that has many businesses in unrelated fields
King -Jr. - Martin Luther
Dixiecrats
Conglomerate
Franchise
2. Laws designed to promote racial segregation
De facto segregation
Symbolic speech
League of Nations
Jim Crow Laws
3. The process whereby a legislative proposal is vetoed upon by popular vote
ethnocentrism
Roe vs. Wade
Scalawags
Referendum
4. The Supreme court ruled that material vested with a public interest could not be withheld from evidence under the rule of executive privilege
Bill of rights
United States vs. Nixon
Supply-side Economics
Big Three
5. The only president of the United States to resign after being confronted with impeachment (because of his alleged actions in the Watergate scandal)
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Nixon - Richard M
Bill of rights
Cloture
6. Southerners who supported Reconstruction programs
United States vs. Nixon
Roe vs. Wade
De Jure segregation
Scalawags
7. The power of a government to seize private property for public use - usually with compensation to the owner
Deregulation
Iran-Contra affair
Dixiecrats
eminent domain
8. Parliamentary procedure for ending debate and calling for an immediate vote on a pending matter.
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Kennedy - John F.
De Jure segregation
Cloture
9. The act requires Congress to approve stationing American troops overseas fro more than 90 days (so that another Vietnam wouldn't happen)
Bipartisan
Class action suit
War Powers Act
Dixiecrats
10. Investigative journalists and authors who exposed corruption in business and government
Muckrakers
Bipartisan
Block grants
Gideon vs. Wainwright
11. A belief that one's ethnic group is superior
Gerrymander
Civil rights act of 1964
ethnocentrism
War Powers Act
12. 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
Affirmative action
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Referendum
Open Door Policy
13. Those implemented by Franklin Delanor Roosevelt during the Great Depression to give relief to the unemployed.
Crime of '73
ABC programs
Roosevelt - Franklin D.
Brown vs. Board of education of topeka
14. North Atlantic Treaty Organization; pledged that and attack against one was an attack against all
NATO
Executive Agreement
Caucus
Symbolic speech
15. Declared that trade with China should be open to all nations
King -Jr. - Martin Luther
Open Door Policy
Executive Agreement
Civil rights act of 1964
16. Case decided by the U.S supreme court in 1963 that established the right to legal representation for all defendants in criminal cases
Bipartisan
Nixon - Richard M
Gideon vs. Wainwright
Amendment
17. 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
NATO
Moral Majority
Open Door Policy
Progressivism
18. The modification of the constitution or a law
United States vs. Nixon
War Powers Act
Gerrymander
Amendment
19. A closed meeting of Democratic Party leaders to agree on a legislative program
Bill of rights
Iran-Contra affair
Caucus
NATO
20. Leaders of the three major allied powers ( Roosevelt - Churchill and Stalin)
Big Three
United States vs. Nixon
Brown vs. Board of education of topeka
De facto segregation
21. Civil rights leader who fought for the rights of minorities by the use of peaceful civil disobedience
Roe vs. Wade
King -Jr. - Martin Luther
War Powers Act
Plessy vs. Ferguson
22. The supreme court declared the doctrine of 'separate but equal' constitutional
Brown vs. Board of education of topeka
Conglomerate
eminent domain
Populist
23. The right to engage in the electing of public office holders
Court packing
Iran-Contra affair
Franchise
Gideon vs. Wainwright
24. The illegal entry and phone monitoring in 1972 of Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington by members of the Republican Party
Watergate
Big stick diplomacy
Bipartisan
GOP
25. What pro-inflation forces called the demonetization of silver
26. Legally established segregation
Roe vs. Wade
Conglomerate
De Jure segregation
GOP
27. The act of reducing or eliminating economic controls
De Jure segregation
Roosevelt - Franklin D.
Gideon vs. Wainwright
Deregulation
28. President Truman's assertion that the United States must support free peoples who were resisting Communist domination
Tuman Doctrine
League of Nations
ethnocentrism
Conglomerate
29. Informal agreements made by the executive with a foreign government
Supply-side Economics
Executive Agreement
Block grants
Kennedy - John F.
30. Redrawing of congressional districts in order to secure as many representative party voters as possible
De Jure segregation
Roosevelt - Franklin D.
Gerrymander
Mapp vs. Ohio
31. 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
Progressivism
Tuman Doctrine
Watergate
32. Politics that emphasizes cooperation between the major parties
Naturalization
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Malcom X
Bipartisan
33. Radical muslin leader who wanted a total separation of the races
Court packing
New Deal
Malcom X
Black Tuesday
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
Populist
De facto segregation
Iran-Contra affair
Conglomerate
35. The first ten amendments to the constitution
Black Tuesday
Miranda vs. Arizona
De facto segregation
Bill of rights
36. Segregation that results from nongovernmental action; i.e. -administered by the pubic
Roosevelt - Franklin D.
New Deal
Filibuster
De facto segregation
37. Legislative act that removed racial barriers in all places vested with public interest
Affirmative action
New Deal
Civil rights act of 1964
League of Nations
38. 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
Gerrymander
League of Nations
Moral Majority
Roosevelt - Franklin D.
39. Process by which persons acquire citizenship
Bill of rights
Naturalization
Plessy vs. Ferguson
War Powers Act
40. A lawsuit filed on behalf of a group of persons with a similar legal claim against a party or individual
Class action suit
Original Intent
Amendment
Black Tuesday
41. Political opposition drawn along party lines
Roe vs. Wade
Iran-Contra affair
Partisan
NATO
42. 1966 case in which the supreme court decided that all persons who are detained or arrested must be informed of their rights
Miranda vs. Arizona
Gerrymander
Conglomerate
NATO
43. Using American military power to fortify the diplomatic policies of the United States
Big stick diplomacy
Referendum
Miranda vs. Arizona
Deregulation
44. The act of making concessions to a political party of military rival
ABC programs
Open Door Policy
Symbolic speech
Appeasement
45. Supreme court ruling that established the rule of 'separate but equal' as being constitutional
Tuman Doctrine
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Bill of rights
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
Conglomerate
Kennedy - John F.
Open Door Policy
Bipartisan
47. Nonverbal communication of a political idea
eminent domain
Symbolic speech
Reagan - Ronald
League of Nations
48. The republican party
GOP
Naturalization
Block grants
Amendment
49. An agreement not to distribute nuclear arms to countries that do not have them
United States vs. Nixon
Original Intent
Roe vs. Wade
Nonproliferation Treaty
50. Southern Democrats who opposed Truman because of his support of civil rights; nominated Strom Thurmond for president in 1948 campaign
Dixiecrats
Bipartisan
Partisan
Civil rights act of 1964