Practice Test for the May 2011 AP Exam (40 Questions)
Removing federal troops from the South
Preserving the balance of power between free and slave states
Implementing a more stringent Fugitive Slave Law
Lowering tariff rates
Eliminating the consitutional ban on the importation of the slaves
Alger Hiss trial
McCarran Act
Federal Loyalty Program
"Palmer Raids"
"Hollywood Ten"
Used the state militia to break up the Boston police strike
Led the American Federation of Labor
Directed President Franklin D. Roosevelt's War Labor Board
Was a Populist candidate for governor in Kansas
Advocated Socialism as head of the Industrial Workers of the World
Sought passage of more long-lasting reform measures
Experienced less opposition from conservatives in Congress
Attempted to cooperate with business leaders to promote recovery
Averted a financial crisis with the Emergency Banking Act
Focused primarily on the creation of relief agencies such as the Civilian Conservation Corps
Freedom of religion
Freedom of the press
Separation of powers
Checks and balances
Taxation by elected representatives
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
To ban the importation of slaves in 1808
To repeal the "three-fifths" compromise
A constitutional amendment to free the slaves
That all Western lands be purchased with specie rather than paper money
To ban the importation of slaves into land acquired from Mexico
Promote the study of sciences and technology
Accommodate new movements in theology
Train Puritan ministers
Offer women a classical education
Give technical training to African-Americans in the South
It represented the height of racial tensions in the 1890s
It was influenced by the nativism of the 1920s
It decentralized the power of the federal government in the 1930s
It exemplified the anticommunist hysteria of the 1950s
It ensured the rights of those accused of crimes in the 1960s
Upton Sinclair
Henry George
John Spargo
Jacob Riis
Ida Tarbel
Completed the desegregation of the armed forces
Integrated all colleges and universities
Banned segregation in public places
Outlawed poll taxes and literacy tests
Proposed the Equal Rights Amendment
Steel
Railroad
Oil
Meatpacking
Automotive
Ulysses. S. Grant
William J. Clinton
Richard M. Nixon
Grover Cleveland
Warren G. Harding
Passed a revenue tax on a popular consumer item
Pitted eastern merchants against western farmers
Followed the closing of Boston Harbor
Granted the East India Company a virtual monopoly on the tea trade
Ruined colonial trade with the West Indies
It threatened the balance of power between political parties
They feared a war with Spain
They rejected the idea of the federal government accumulating debt
It would not improve Western commerce
It might jeopardize their goal of purchasing Canada
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Shiloh
Chancellorsville
New Orleans
Fedederal Trade commission Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Underwood Tariff
Clayton Antitrust Act
Federal Reserve Act
Feared the influx of cheap labor to the West Coast
Did not want to extend citizenship rights to nonwhites
Believed that the provisional government had unjustly undermined the existing government
Had little support for annexation from Republicans in Congress
Was more concerned with mounting tensions with Spain
Led the AIM occupation of Alcatraz Island
Wrote the Pentagon Papers
Integrated the University of Mississippi in 1962
Was the first Hispanic mayor of a major U.S. city
Organized farm workers into a powerful union
A mass-produced automobile
A young woman who challenged traditional gender roles in the 1920s
A steel ship introduced at the turn of the century
An electric record player of the 1930s
A jazz instrument
An international agreement that outlawed war
The blueprint for the Allied invasion at Normandy on June 6, 1944
An effort to root out communists from the State Department during the Truman Administration
An effort to provide economic aid to countries devastated by World War II
Designed to send military aid to Middle Eastern nations battling communism
During the Civil War
In the 1880s
During and after World War I
After World War II
During and after the Vietnam War
They maintained very high tariff rates to protect American industry
They lowered corporate and income taxes for the wealthy industrialists
They bargained with labor leaders to forestall crippling strikes
They passed legislation limiting investments abroad
They expanded the federal government's role in regulating economic growth
Farmers' Holiday Association
NRA
RFC
AAA
Farm Board
Distributed power among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government
Made presidential authority superior to Congress through the chief executive's veto powers
Empowered the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to supervise impeachement proceedings
Ensured that all states would be equally represented in the Senate
Forced the state legislatures to conform to federal laws
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