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- 1. A major achievement of President Kennedy's foreign policy was the:
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- (A) Point Four program
- (B) Alliance for Progress
- (C) Bay of Pigs
- (D) New Nationalism
- (E) Common Market
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- (B) The Alliance for Progress provided aid to Latin America.
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- 2. Which of the following domestic programs is associated with the
- administration of Lyndon B. Johnson?
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- (A) the War on Poverty
- (B) the Marshall Plan
- (C) the Peace Corps
- (D) the New Frontier
- (E) the Fair Deal
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- (A) The Johnson Administration's War on Poverty was the first time since the
- New Deal that the federal government created an array of new social welfare
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- 3. Young men who evaded military service in Vietnam were eventually granted
- amnesty by:
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- (A) President Johnson
- (B) President Nixon
- (C) President Carter
- (D) President Reagan
- (E) the Supreme Court
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- (C) Upon assuming office, President Carter granted amnesty to everyone accused
- of draft evasion during the Vietnam War.
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- 4. In which of the following pairs of nations did revolutions occur in the
- 1970s?
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- (A) Iran and Thailand
- (B) Portugal and Nicaragua
- (C) Cuba and Haiti
- (D) Egypt and Pakistan
- (E) Mexico and Cambodia
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- (B) In 1974, the government of Portugal was taken over by a military junta.
- Likewise, the Somoza regime was removed from power in Nicaragua.
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- 5. Between 1960 and 1970, United States immigration policy was altered so
- as to:
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- (A) encourage a rise in immigration from Latin America and the Far East
- (B) end immigration from southern and eastern Europe
- (C) impose more severe quotas on Western Hemisphere immigrants
- (D) insure that every immigrant had relatives who were already citizens
- (E) effectively end illegal immigration
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- (A) A 1965 law abolished the national origins quota.
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- 6. The "Era of Good Feelings" is a term used to describe the period from:
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- (A) 1783-1789
- (B) 1815-1825
- (C) 1865-1877
- (D) 1919-1929
- (E) 1945-1960
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- (B) The "Era of Good Feelings" is a term used to refer to the period after the
- War of 1812 during which there were no wars or major political conflicts.
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- 7. Which of the following is known as editor of THE CRISIS and founder of the
- NAACP?
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- (A) Marcus A. Garvey
- (B) Booker T. Washington
- (C) Martin Luther King
- (D) W. E. B. DuBois
- (E) A. Philip Randolph
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- (D) W. E. B. DuBois, author of THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK (1903) and founder of
- the Niagara movement, participated in the creation of the NAACP in 1910 and
- edited its journal, THE CRISIS.
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- 8. Which of the following best describes the impact of the 18th Amendment
- on the Constitution?
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- (A) It had little impact on American life.
- (B) It stimulated growth of new feminist orginizations.
- (C) It brought women into public life and public office during the 1920s.
- (D) It repealed the 15th Amendment.
- (E) It was a divisive issue in political life.
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- (E) The 18th Amendment was a divisive issue throughout the 1920s.
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- 9. In opposition to which of the following did northern states uphold the
- doctrine of states' rights?
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- (A) the Alien and Sedition Acts
- (B) the War of 1812
- (C) the Tariff of Abominations
- (D) the Dred Scott decision
- (E) the Compromise of 1877
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- (B) In the Hartford Convention of 1814, Federalist delegates from the New
- England states who opposed the War of 1812 invoked the doctrine of states'
- rights.
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