MAAP Practice Test 22-23

Which Civil Rights group, from its earliest days, used any means necessary to protect itself in its effort to achieve racial equality?

• . Black Panther Party (BPP)

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

1.       This chart describes different U.S. foreign policies toward Latin America during the early twentieth century.

Theodore Roosevelt

Big Stick Diplomacy

used strong U.S. military to achieve diplomatic goals

William Howard Taft

Dollar Diplomacy

invested in foreign economies to increase U.S. influence

Woodrow Wilson

Moral Diplomacy

promoted human rights, national integrity, and opportunity

Based on the chart and your own knowledge, which statement best describes how the focus of Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy toward Latin America differed from those of his two predecessors?

• Wilson supported the spread of self-governance and democracy.

• Wilson increased armed intervention to restore order in the area.

• Wilson encouraged American businesses to infuse money in the area.

• Wilson proposed providing U.S. financial support to rebuild the war-torn region.

The resolutions in this list were developed by an international organization.

1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

1984 Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace

Which international organization was responsible for the development of these resolutions?

• United Nations

• European Union

• League of Nations

• World Trade Organization

Which statement best describes how the completion of the first transcontinental railroad lines affected the economy of the post-Reconstruction era in the United States?

• It transformed human transportation by reducing the amount of time it took people to travel east.

• It made commerce available on a vast scale by providing a faster and cheaper way to move goods from coast to coast

• It led to a growing confidence among Americans by inducing them to believe that they could take on even greater technological quests.

• It changed the concept of reality for many Americans by allowing them the opportunity to see what other regions of the country looked like.

The following excerpt comes from the 1896 Democratic Party Platform.

"We denounce arbitrary interference by Federal authorities in local affairs as a violation of the Constitution of the United States . . . and we especially object to government by injunction as a new and highly dangerous form of oppression by which Federal judges, in contempt of the laws and rights of citizens, become at once legislators, judges, and executioners."

Which event is an example of “government by injunction” to which the Democratic Party objected?

• interference in the Pullman Strike

• subsidies for the transcontinental railroad

• spoils system of rewarding loyalists with political jobs

• restricting immigration from Cuba after the USS Maine exploded

What effect did the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact have on Europe?

• The alliances weakened the European economy

• The alliances created further divisions within Europe.

• The alliances strengthened the economic power across all of Europe

• The alliances created more peaceful relationships between European countries.

This political cartoon shows John D. Rockefeller wearing a large crown and standing on an oil storage tank labeled “Standard Oil.” The crown is adorned with railroad cars, oil tanks, and the names of four railroad companies and topped with a dollar sign.

This cartoon indicates that John D. Rockefeller became “The King of the Combinations” by

• limiting his oil sales to railroad companies.

• using his railroad profits to purchase oil companies.

• driving up oil prices to put the railroads out of business.

• forming an alliance to control railroad freight rates and oil prices.

This excerpt is from a resolution drafted during the United Nation’s Genocide Convention. The resolution was adopted unanimously by the General Assembly of the United Nations, of which the United States is a member nation, on December 9, 1948.

"Article I: The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish."

"Article VI: Persons charged with genocide . . . shall be tried by a competent tribunal of the State in the territory of which the act was committed, or by such international penal tribunal as may have jurisdiction with respect to those Contracting Parties which shall have accepted its jurisdiction."

Why did the United States agree to adopt this resolution?

• to prevent being pulled into another international war

• to avoid being involved in the prosecution of international war criminals

• to avoid being a party to future trials resulting from international conflicts

• to prevent the attempted destruction of a human group from happening again

This chart lists some events that occurred during the Gilded Age, those turbulent years beginning after the Civil War and ending at the start of the twentieth century.

1880 The Republican party splits into factions over the “spoils system.”

1880 Republican James Garfield, a reform candidate, is elected president.

1881 President Garfield is assassinated by Charles Guiteau.

1883 Congress passes the Pendleton Civil Service Act.

The events in the chart mainly relate to which problem of the Gilded Age?

• political patronage

• unregulated immigration

• bribery and graft scandals

• rapid urbanization and industrialization

The New York Evening World newspaper published this political cartoon on January 5, 1920.

With which statement would the cartoonist most likely agree?

• Americans were becoming more open to such new political ideologies as communism.

• Americans feared that the League of Nations would increase the spread of communism.

• Americans began to welcome the wave of immigrants who fled communism in eastern Europe.

• Americans supported increased government actions due to their fear of communism.