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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. 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
eminent domain
League of Nations
Watergate
Cloture
2. 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
League of Nations
Tuman Doctrine
Roosevelt - Franklin D.
New Deal
3. Nonverbal communication of a political idea
De Jure segregation
Symbolic speech
Cloture
Contras
4. 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
Mapp vs. Ohio
Tuman Doctrine
Moral Majority
Nixon - Richard M
5. Process by which persons acquire citizenship
Contras
Symbolic speech
Naturalization
Block grants
6. A lawsuit filed on behalf of a group of persons with a similar legal claim against a party or individual
De Jure segregation
Class action suit
New Deal
Gerrymander
7. 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
King -Jr. - Martin Luther
Civil rights act of 1964
De facto segregation
8. Southern Democrats who opposed Truman because of his support of civil rights; nominated Strom Thurmond for president in 1948 campaign
Dixiecrats
Symbolic speech
Black Tuesday
Conglomerate
9. The illegal entry and phone monitoring in 1972 of Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington by members of the Republican Party
Mapp vs. Ohio
Watergate
ABC programs
GOP
10. The act of reducing or eliminating economic controls
Gerrymander
Reagan - Ronald
Deregulation
Iran-Contra affair
11. The power of a government to seize private property for public use - usually with compensation to the owner
eminent domain
Moral Majority
Class action suit
Plessy vs. Ferguson
12. Legally established segregation
Caucus
De Jure segregation
Nonproliferation Treaty
Crime of '73
13. Parliamentary procedure for ending debate and calling for an immediate vote on a pending matter.
Malcom X
War Powers Act
Cloture
Watergate
14. The act of making concessions to a political party of military rival
Civil rights act of 1964
Appeasement
Tuman Doctrine
Filibuster
15. A belief that one's ethnic group is superior
Big stick diplomacy
Mapp vs. Ohio
Court packing
ethnocentrism
16. 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
Symbolic speech
eminent domain
Naturalization
17. An agreement not to distribute nuclear arms to countries that do not have them
Nonproliferation Treaty
War Powers Act
Miranda vs. Arizona
United States vs. Nixon
18. Right wing guerillas who fought the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua
Miranda vs. Arizona
Kennedy - John F.
Contras
Black Tuesday
19. The first ten amendments to the constitution
Moral Majority
Progressivism
Bill of rights
Crime of '73
20. Southerners who supported Reconstruction programs
De facto segregation
De Jure segregation
Symbolic speech
Scalawags
21. A senator who gains the floor has the right to go in talking until the senator relinquishes the floor to another
League of Nations
Filibuster
Progressivism
Reagan - Ronald
22. The modification of the constitution or a law
Cloture
Amendment
Roosevelt - Franklin D.
United States vs. Nixon
23. 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.
Black Tuesday
NATO
War Powers Act
24. Economic theory that says if government policies leave more money in the hands of people - they will invest it and stimulate the economy
Partisan
Supply-side Economics
Civil rights act of 1964
Cloture
25. 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
Amendment
Executive Agreement
Reagan - Ronald
26. Political opposition drawn along party lines
ethnocentrism
Partisan
Caucus
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
27. Segregation that results from nongovernmental action; i.e. -administered by the pubic
De facto segregation
Referendum
Amendment
Cloture
28. A closed meeting of Democratic Party leaders to agree on a legislative program
Deregulation
Caucus
De facto segregation
eminent domain
29. 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
Crime of '73
Affirmative action
Populist
Nixon - Richard M
30. Redrawing of congressional districts in order to secure as many representative party voters as possible
Big stick diplomacy
Gerrymander
Filibuster
NATO
31. The supreme court declared the doctrine of 'separate but equal' constitutional
ethnocentrism
Watergate
Brown vs. Board of education of topeka
Amendment
32. 1966 case in which the supreme court decided that all persons who are detained or arrested must be informed of their rights
Gideon vs. Wainwright
Roosevelt - Franklin D.
Franchise
Miranda vs. Arizona
33. A corporation that has many businesses in unrelated fields
Nonproliferation Treaty
Conglomerate
Jim Crow Laws
Bill of rights
34. Those implemented by Franklin Delanor Roosevelt during the Great Depression to give relief to the unemployed.
Mapp vs. Ohio
eminent domain
GOP
ABC programs
35. 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)
De facto segregation
Caucus
Court packing
Cloture
36. Supreme court ruling that established the rule of 'separate but equal' as being constitutional
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Iran-Contra affair
Filibuster
United States vs. Nixon
37. Informal agreements made by the executive with a foreign government
Brown vs. Board of education of topeka
Affirmative action
Executive Agreement
Filibuster
38. The process whereby a legislative proposal is vetoed upon by popular vote
Caucus
Referendum
Jim Crow Laws
Watergate
39. Investigative journalists and authors who exposed corruption in business and government
Muckrakers
Deregulation
Symbolic speech
Roosevelt - Franklin D.
40. Radical muslin leader who wanted a total separation of the races
Malcom X
Jim Crow Laws
Black Tuesday
Iran-Contra affair
41. Two-term president during the 1980's whose economic policies follower supply-side theory
Nixon - Richard M
Black Tuesday
Reagan - Ronald
De Jure segregation
42. 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
Iran-Contra affair
Dixiecrats
King -Jr. - Martin Luther
Miranda vs. Arizona
43. Using American military power to fortify the diplomatic policies of the United States
Referendum
Big stick diplomacy
Executive Agreement
Reagan - Ronald
44. Laws designed to promote racial segregation
Jim Crow Laws
Open Door Policy
New Deal
GOP
45. Legislative act that removed racial barriers in all places vested with public interest
Deregulation
Gideon vs. Wainwright
Civil rights act of 1964
Executive Agreement
46. 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
Black Tuesday
New Deal
Filibuster
Block grants
47. North Atlantic Treaty Organization; pledged that and attack against one was an attack against all
NATO
Miranda vs. Arizona
Caucus
Iran-Contra affair
48. The Supreme court ruled that material vested with a public interest could not be withheld from evidence under the rule of executive privilege
Civil rights act of 1964
United States vs. Nixon
Bill of rights
Amendment
49. Politics that emphasizes cooperation between the major parties
Miranda vs. Arizona
Partisan
Bipartisan
Caucus
50. 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
Gideon vs. Wainwright
Block grants
Progressivism
New Deal