STAAR US History Review 2024

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In this excerpt, Justice Harlan is warning against —

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allowing powerful monopolies to dominate interstate commerce

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As part of the Nixon administration’s policy of Vietnamization, the U.S. military

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trained South Vietnamese forces to take over combat responsibilities from U.S. troops

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What was the goal of the protests depicted on this map?

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To persuade states to abandon discriminatory voter-registration procedures

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Which demographic change in the United States is most associated with this transformation?

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Increased migration to urban areas

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What was one impact of this ruling? Options: Impeachment procedures were redefined, Due process guidelines were reexamined, Full faith and credit was reaffirmed, State laws were deemed supreme over federal laws.

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Due process guidelines were reexamined.

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The event reported in this dispatch led directly to:

• the implementation of sanctions against Japan
• U.S. entry into World War II
• the establishment of the Truman Doctrine
• U.S. annexation of Hawaii

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U.S. entry into World War II

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How did the creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation change the nature of banking in the United States?

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The government began to guarantee bank deposits.

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How does this resolution demonstrate the principle of checks and balances?

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It allows Congress to limit the military authority of the executive branch.

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Which value important to America’s success as a constitutional republic is best illustrated in this excerpt? Options: Social justice, Populism, Laissez-faire, Egalitarianism

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Egalitarianism

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Some of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs were declared unconstitutional when the Supreme Court held that they —

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infringed on powers reserved to the states