Standard 22 Test Review GA 2023

What law required Congress to authorize the troop deployment for a specific time period limiting the amount of time troops could remain on foreign soil?

• G.I. Joe Act

• War Powers Act

• Open Door Policy

• U.S. Deployment Act

What court case ruled that segregation was illegal?

• Scott v. Sanford

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Loving v. Virginia

• Brown v. Board of Education

What event resulted in President Nixon resigning from office after being accused of stealing Democratic campaign information?

• McCarthyism

• Nullification Crisis

• XYZ Affair

• Watergate Scandal

What is TRUE about the Gerald Ford administration?

• He was charged in the Watergate Scandal.

• He became President after Nixon was removed from office by Congress.

• He gave Nixon a presidential pardon.

• He negotiated the Camp David Accords.

Which was NOT a part of the American System?

• Infrastructure

• Popular Sovereignty

• National Banks

• Protective Tariffs

What was NOT true about the National Organization for Women?

• Sought for lower wages for women in the workplace.

• Sought to achieve equal hiring practices for women in the workplace.

• Sought for women’s equality in society after the passage of 19th amendment.

• Led to passage of Equal Rights Amendment.

The purpose of the Endangered Species Act was to protect animals and plants

• from extinction.

• from predators.

• that are been relocated from their habitats.

• that have been taken as pets and yard plants.

Clean Air and Clean Water was created by

• the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

• the US Environmental Protection Agency

• the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

A result of the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was that the

• Americans with Disabilities Act was passed.

• 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed.

• Modern environmental movement gained support.

• Consumer protection movement began.

What was President Abraham Lincoln’s primary goal at the outset of the Civil War?

• Abolish slavery.

• Preserve the Union.

• Punish Confederate states for seceding.

• Win the Civil War at all costs.