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- 1. The Federal Reserve System can be most accurately described as:
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- (A) a result of the Greenbackers movement
- (B) the result of a constitutional amendment
- (C) the result of a New Deal reform measure
- (D) a reform measure enacted by Congress in 1913
- (E) a reform measure enacted by Congress after World War II
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- (D) The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 provided much-needed banking reform.
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- 2. The concept of the "tyranny of the majority" was introduced into American
- political thought by:
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- (A) James Bryce
- (B) James Otis
- (C) Alexander Hamilton
- (D) Alexis de Tocqueville
- (E) Woodrow Wilson
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- (D) In DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA (1835), de Tocqueville, a young French jurist,
- contended that the "tyranny of the majority" was a potentially dangerous
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- 3. A coup d'etat may be best described as:
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- (A) a form of guerrilla war
- (B) a sudden overthrow of a regime
- (C) any measure that starts a war, such as a blockade
- (D) a legislative declaration of war
- (E) the execution of a former leader
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- (B) A coup d'etat refers to a sudden overthrow of a government or regime by
- military means, and its replacement by another.
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- 4. The armed forces were racially integrated during the administration of:
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- (A) Theodore Roosevelt
- (B) Franklin D. Roosevelt
- (C) Harry S. Truman
- (D) Lyndon B. Johnson
- (E) James Earl Carter
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- (C) In 1949, the U. S. Army opened all jobs to qualified personnel without
- regard to race, and the other armed services soon followed the same policy.
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- 5. A list of Presidents elected by a MINORITY of the popular vote would
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- (A) Theodore Roosevelt in 1900 and Taft in 1908
- (B) Harding in 1920 and Hoover in 1928
- (C) Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 and Eisenhower in 1952
- (D) Cleveland in 1892 and Wilson in 1912
- (E) Eisenhower in 1952 and Kennedy in 1960
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- (D) Both were elected by a minority of the popular vote.
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- 6. The lowest tariff to be proposed between 1870 and 1930 was the:
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- (A) Dingley Tariff
- (B) Payne-Aldrich Tariff
- (C) Underwood Tariff
- (D) Wilson-Gorman Tariff
- (E) Fordney-McCumber Tariff
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- (C) The Underwood Tariff of 1913 drastically reduced rate schedules. It did
- not go into effect because of the outbreak of World War I.
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- 7. "The necessary consequence of taking the sense of the community by a
- concurrent majority is . . . to give to each interest or portion of the
- community a negative on the others." This statement was most likely made
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- (A) Madison, Hamilton, and Jay
- (B) Thomas Paine
- (C) John C. Calhoun
- (D) John Marshall
- (E) Thomas Jefferson
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- (C) Calhoun wanted to give minority groups power to resist the majority.
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- 8. According to the U. S. Constitution, revenue bills must originate with:
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- (A) the House Ways and Means Committee
- (B) the Senate
- (C) the Executive Branch
- (D) both houses of Congress
- (E) the House of Representatives
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- (E) Article 1, section 7 of the Constitution provides that revenue bills must
- originate with the House of Representatives.
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