SLO test

Which US president pursued a massive buildup of US military forces to defeat the USSR, which he called the "evil empire?"

• Barack Obama

• Jimmy Carter

• Ronald Reagan

• George W. Bush

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What best completes the chart?

• AFrican Americans had greater access to jobs and participated in voting.

• There were more laws passed granting equal rights to African Americans.

• Southern Democrats took control in their states and used their power to disenfranchise African Americans.

• More AFrican Americans moved intro urban areas to start businesses.

Which Revolutionary leader is matched to his beliefs about the American identity?

• John Adams:

  a nation of small farmers enjoying equality

• Alexander HAmilton:

  a country with a strong central government and developing economy

• Thomas Jefferson:

  a country in danger from wild revolutionary ideas

• George Washington: a nation which needed to go back to rule by a monarchy

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Select the country which has been under the influence of the Declaration of Independence the longest.

• 1.

• 2.

• 3.

• 4.

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This painting represents:

• the Mexican-American War.

• slavery.

• Manifest Destiny.

• the common man.

Which statements are most accurate about the Vietnam War? (Choose all that apply)

• South Vietnam was communist and North Vietnam was capitalist.

• Vietnam was ruled by France for many years.

• Both the US and the Soviet Union helped North Vietnam.

• The US intervened on behalf of France, using nuclear weapons to win the war in 1954.

• North Vietnam was communist and South Vietnam was capitalist.

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Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the whim of men every bit as brutal and unscrupulous as the old-time-slave-drivers; under such circumstances immortality was exactly as inevitable, and as prevalent, as it was under the system of chattel slavery. -Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

Sinclair describes the life of

• Native Americans

• African American slaves

• Old immigrant farmers

• New immigrant factory workers

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But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer the department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others... Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

-James MAdison, The Federalist Papers: No. 51

What safeguard in the Constitution is Madison describing?

• The Bill of Rights

• the power of judicial review

• the separation of powers

• representative government

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What third action of Andrew Jackson would he have seen as for the benefit of the common man?

• Increase in national debt

• Growth of sectionalism

• End of the Whig Party

• Establishment of the spoils system

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The science of politics, however, like most other sciences, has received great improvement...The regular distribution of power into distinct departments, the introduction of the legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges, holding their offices during good behavior; the representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their own election; these are either wholly new discoveries, or have made their principal progress towards perfection in modern times...,

-Alexander HAmilton, The Federalist Papers, Federalist No. 9, 1787

Hamilton was describing the structure of the

• US Constitution

• federal governments

• the US during the Revolutionary War

• Articles of Confederation