Presidential Exam Review Flashcards
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Everything President Washington did set a precedent for later American Presidents. Which area of presidential precedent have historians determined to be his most significant precedent?
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Establishment of the presidential cabinet
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Which of the following presidential advisers to Washington is mis-matched with the function he performed in the Washington Administration?
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Henry Knox as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
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What major crop would radically affect the economy of the nation forever after it was introduced during the Washington Administration in 1792?
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Cotton
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Alexander Hamilton became the financial wizard of the Washington Administration by recommending several economic moves. Among these was a bill of assumption to be paid by 8% tariff and…
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Excise tax on whiskey production
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In Washington’s “Farewell Address to the Nation” he pointed warned against the…
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establishment of permanent alliances with foreign nations
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John Adams played a major role in ALL OF THE FOLLOWING EVENTS EXCEPT:
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Serving as cabinet member to George Washington
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Which of the following treaties was the one in which the resolution of the Revolution of 1800 was made under the leadership of John Adams?
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Treaty of Mortefontaine
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John Adams held a firm, consistent, and almost blind proclivity for which of the following nations of Europe?
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Great Britain
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Which of the following exclamations did John Adams give voice when he heard about the XYZ Affair?
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“We will spend millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute!”
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The two issues that faced John Adams during his Presidential Administration were the Alien & Sedition Acts and…
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Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
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Thomas Jefferson’s vision of the good society included ALL OF THE FOLLOWING EXECPT:
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An economy that relied on the national government to provide subsidies
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The issue upon which Jefferson changed his view of strict construction of the Constitution was:
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition and Louisiana Purchase
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According to Thomas Jefferson, which of the following was most vital to the security of the United States in 1803?
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New Orleans
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In his first inaugural address Jefferson was pledged to the task of
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Repudiating the debt of the United States
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The unforeseen relocation of power within the Federal Government came as the result of…
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Marbury vs Madison
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In which of the following events does James Madison, NOT play a major and determinative role?
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A Justice of the Supreme Court
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A rising new young and dynamic group of men elected to Congress while Madison was the President included ALL EXCEPT:
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Andrew Jackson
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Which of the following was NOT a unique long range cause of the War of 1812?
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Anti-Spanish ethnicity
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What diplomatic conference ended the War of 1812 and thus achieved American nationalism from Britain, once and for all.
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Treaty of Ghent
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Which of the following events expressed dissatisfaction with the War of 1812, and can be called the first American anti-war movement?
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Hartford Convention
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Which of the following events or developments happen while James Monroe was President, but, which he had very little to with their development? Which is the lone EXCEPTION to this assertion?
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Recognition of Latin American Independence movements
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The Monroe Doctrine was issued in response to
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the threat of the Quadruple Alliance to reestablish Spanish Power in the Americas
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The Monroe Doctrine, which has been the foundation of American foreign policy, was brilliant bold step taken by which of the following secretaries of state?
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John Quincy Adams
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The Monroe Administration was called “The Era of Good Feelings” because of
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the dominance of one major party
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Thomas Jefferson, commenting on the Missouri compromise under James Monroe called it
A fire bell in the night
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John Quincy Adams have the distinction of being all of the following except
The first pro-Western politician on the national scene
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Which of the following is true of the John Q Adams administration
Adams refuse to use the spoil system and dismiss public workers to fill their jobs with political supporters
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It has been claimed that John Q Adams
Did his finest work for the American before and after he was President
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Which of the following historical issues did not occur under John Q Adams
Joseph Smith establishes the Mormon religion in Kirtland Ohio
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John Quincy Adams was president who dealt with revolutions of all but which of the following
Gender and revolutionary issues
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Jackson was the forerunner of which late 19 century movement
Populism
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During the age of Jackson, democracy was characterized by which of the following changes
The percent of eligible voters casting ballots increased with each election as mass politics became a popular activity
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Which was the major item have to be in the election of 1828 which saw the ascension of Andrew Jackson to the presidency
Personalities of the candidates
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The tariff of 1828 provoked publication of a pamphlet called the South Carolina exposition and protest. This pamphlet offered what solution to the tariff dilemma
Nullification
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Considering the issue of government and economics, Andrew Jackson was a
Hard money advocate
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What democratic political bureaucrat was the leader of the New York bucktails
Martin Van Buren
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The newly formed legislative caucus in New York would by Martin Van Buren was known as
Regency
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The consensus great Whig leader of the Van Buren era was
Henry clay
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Which of the following events did not transpire under Martin Van Buren
Whig party organized
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Which of the following events was considered by many to be Van Buren's major economic achievement
Large-scale development of railroads
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The distinguishing factors about William Henry Harrison as the president of the United States were all except
He was known as old hickory and Billy Budd
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The primary advocate of manifest destiny is the public policy of United States government was
James K Polk
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James K Polk, send John Slidell to Mexico to
Purchase California
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The Oregon Treaty of 1846
Was a reasonable compromise
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Which of the following movements did not occur in the 1844 to 1848 period Of US history
Hawthorne writes the Scarlet letter
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The cotton gin is to the south as ____ is to ____
Railroad ; west
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Mormons are to Utah as _____ is to _____
Catholics ; California
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The aggressive administration of President Franklin Pierce sought to
Acquire Cuba
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The election of 1852 was genuinely significant in US history because
It doomed the whig party in national political culture of the future
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Men who became giants and forerunners of the Civil War era included all except
Henry Clay
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The election of 1856 is significant for a variety of reasons. Which of the following is not a 1856 issue
The rendering of the Dred Scott case occurred
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James Buchanan openly sided with
Southerners who were proslavery in Kansas over the Lecompton constitution
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The period of 1856 to 1860 included all of the following historical crisis except
Buchanan excepted skillful aid of Thurlow weed
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Senator William H Seward, Liebold the national political crisis as
An irresponsible conflict
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The single greatest impact of actions and events taken during the Buchanan administration was the
Political reemergence of Abraham Lincoln
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Which of the following combinations of rivals did Lincoln choose to nominate as cabinet members upon his election of 1860
Seward, Chase, Bates, and Cameron
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Which descriptive term most carefully identifies Abe Lincoln's abolitionist feelings
He was a moral or conscious abolitionist
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Which of the following men did not participate in the election of 1860 as a candidate
Buchanan
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At the beginning of the Civil War the North had all of the following advantages except
Stronger consensus concerning war aims
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Abraham Lincoln viewed the Civil War primarily as a
Test of the inviolability of the union
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Andrew Johnson's conception of what was to be done following the Civil War is best described by the term
Restoration
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The remarkable characteristic of Johnson's reconstruction policy was that it was
Mild and compromising
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Historians Thomas a Bailey and David Kennedy have argued that reconstruction was
A more bitter pill for the south to swallow than the war itself
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Which post war president of reconstruction signed the now powerful and precedent Setting 14th amendment to the constitution
Andrew Johnson
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The reconstruction act of 1867 dealt specifically with
The establishment of military Reconstruction in five districts under Union generals
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The major achievement of the grant administration which was actually a process out of its control concerned which of the following issues that dramatically was beneficial to the whole American nation
Allowing the rise of industrialism to go forward unregulated
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The most vital trans continental development and railroad building occurred when
The Central Pacific and Union Pacific was joined at Promontary point
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Which of the following is not true of the pre-grant years of reconstruction
There were only minimal effects upon African-Americans
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Which of the following combination of events was clearly outside the period of the administration of President Ulysses S Grant
Publication of the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Atlanta compromise
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Which of the following massacres occurred during the presidential watch of ulysses S Grant
The Colfax massacre
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At the time of his inauguration, President Hayes was viewed by majority of the American people as having been
Elected by fraud
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During Hayes administration, he was able to gain recognition as reformer and fighter against
Abusive porkbarrel writers to essential appropriations bills
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A common feature of Southern agriculture under the Hayes administration was
Sharecropping
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Which of the late 19 century issues does not affect the administration of James a Garfield
James G Blaine change political parties after Garfield's nomination
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Who among the following became the colorful, magnetic, powerful Secretary of State, during garfield's presidency in much the same fashion William H Seward did under Lincoln
James G Blaine
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The presidential successor to Garfield, due to the assassin's bullet, Arthur is known for each of the following except
Arthur was a major foreign-policy expert
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Grover Cleveland became the first president after 1868 to
Break Republican control of the White House
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The Cleveland plain campaign of 1884 was aimed primarily at
Exposing the personal shortcomings of the candidates
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Which combination of two laws was Grover Cleveland famous for signing
Interstate commerce act and Dawes severalty act
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Benjamin Harrison is most commonly identified with and responsible for
Billion dollar out of control Congress of 1890
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William G McKinley was the first Gilded Age president to focus on aggressive
Development of imperialism in foreign-policy matters
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Which member of Lincoln's team of rivals was retained by McKinley to run the foreign-policy of the US
William Henry Seward
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Men who made a major impact upon foreign affairs in the Gilded Age include all of the following except
Samuel Gompers
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The week and ineffective presidents of the gilded age where complemented by powerful
Secretaries of State
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The primary feature of American government during those years signaled the development of
Powerful centralized government
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Who was the first American president to drop popular attention to the need for a national conservation policy
Theodore Roosevelt
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Which of the following items of modern power structures with Theodore Roosevelt have rejected is unacceptable
Fanaticism
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Which of the following deals did Theodore Roosevelt proposed the American people
Square deal
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Which of the following items was not an action of President Theodore Roosevelt
Veto veterans pension bill
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Theater Roosevelt on the Nobel Prize in 1906 for helping bring an end to a war between which combination of two nations
Japan and Russia
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Roosevelt victory in the Northern securities company case of 1904 was his first significant trust busting effort; was aimed at unpopular railroad industry in which of the following captains of industry
James J Hill
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The economic oriented foreign-policy of the man who succeeded Theodore Roosevelt was president was known as
Dollar diplomacy
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He graduated second in his class that you was in an viable lawyer in a traditional scholar. Which of the following progressive is historian David Kennedy talking about
William Howard Taft
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Which of the following issues were not issues on which Taft had to deal during his single term as president of United States
Impeachment crisis
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What did to have to call the supporters of Theodore Roosevelt when he returned to oppose Taft in 1912
Emotional and neurotic
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At the beginning of the 20th century Woodrow Wilson ascended to the White House with a profound sense of
Idealism
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Wilson by any standard of judgment was a(n) _____ President in 1912 in the first term of office
Minority
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Which of the following trust did Wilson go after upon his election to the presidency
Banking
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Woodrow Wilson was fundamentally opposite has two progressive presidential predecessors and that he hated which of the following
Imperialism
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Wilson did not confront any of the basic causes of the war that led to World War I except he did not approve of
Imperialism
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Wilson push societies envelope by appointing a man to the Supreme Court who he knew would be controversial. That person was
Louis D Brandeis
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The chief cause for the entry of United States into World War I, was Germany's
Resumption of submarine warfare
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Which of the following tandem issues were not long range causes of warfare in the first half of the 20th century
Manifest destiny and neutrality
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Wilsons a valid intentions and going to the Versallies peace conference was to
Achieve the provisions of the 14 points
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The battle which the Americans took the primary role of holding the Central Powers was
Muese Argonne Forest
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Under President Harding the US
Sacrificed potential naval superiority
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The Washington Naval conference of 1921 to 1922
Improve the tense atmosphere in the Pacific
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The Ohio gang include which pair of man appointed by Warren Harding
Harry M Daughtery and Albert B fall
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President Calvin Coolidge preside over a nation that was affected by all of the following except
A blistering depression and war
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Thomas Edison was to the Gilded Age as ____ was to ____
Henry Ford; the Jazz age
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One of the Great writers of the age who, in terms of the way he lived, and the themes of his literary works, the author most representative of the lost generation was
Ernest Hemingway
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Which of the following diplomatic treatises and attending doctrines was written and applied during the Herbert Hoover administration
Clark Memorandum---good neighbor policy
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What are the following is not true about Herbert Hoover
He was a Gregarious outgoing and social man who merged easily in high society
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Which of the following issues was not a long-range cause of the Great Depression which confronted Herbert Hoover
Overregulation of securities and exchange commission
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Hoover's presidential theme was
Rugged individualism
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Which of the following tandem events and statements is true of the 1932 Democratic convention in Chicago
FDR smashed precedent by excepting nomination person//"I pledge to you, I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people."
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FDR's first new deal aimed at a triad of pre-scriptural solutions to the depression. Which of the following combinations of programs is not correct
Reactionary actions and PWA, beer and wine acts, RFC
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FDR made many historical decisions, but one of the first decisions was a major issue involving women
Appointing Frances Perkins to serve as a secretary of labor and first woman to serve in the presidents cabinet
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Which the following economic groups needed Roosevelts attention due to natural disasters
Farmers from the dust bowl states
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Which dual set of programs were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court during the new deal years
NRA and AAA
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Which two crises enabled FDR to bring the US into the modern world of 1945
World War II and the great depression
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William H Seward was to Abraham Lincoln as _____ was to _____
Cordell Hall; Franklin D Roosevelt and
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The day that will live in infamy is which of the following
December 7, 1941
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What presidential action of FDR did not move this nation toward World War II
Pre-1940 Japanese relocation movement
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A major, early set of naval battles that stop Japanese aggression and expansion were
Midway and coral sea
126
Harry S Truman aided the cause of civil liberty
Desegregation of the Armed Forces of United States
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Trumans 20 decisions involving war in the modern world on a level never before known are
The Korean police action in 1950 in the bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki
128
During the second world war civil liberties and United States for most conspicuously violated by the
Relocation of Japanese-Americans
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Trumans action to remove General Douglas MacArthur from the committee United States forces during the Korean War exemplifies the constitutional power of
Civilian control of the military
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Which of the following World War II military figures became the architect of treatments foreign-policy
General George C Marshall
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President Dwight D Eisenhower's chief Cold War problem was
U2 incident
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Which Supreme Court case, rendered under the Eisenhower administration by Chief Justice appointed by Eisenhower, mandated racial integration
Brown versus Board of Education
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President Eisenhower's economic a national unification program was manifest in
Building the New Freeway, Parkway, and ribbons highways
134
The area of the world where the Cold War was most acutely focused was
Germany
135
Nuclear weaponry has reached a colossal xenophobia of fear, because of the creation of all except
Defense mechanisms
136
Which of the following issues did not occur during the Kennedy administration
Serious labor union strikes
137
John F. Kennedy surrounded himself with what he called, the best and the brightest. Among them were included all except
Thurgood Marshall
138
There is an interesting and somewhat significant correlation between cabinet members of FDR and JFK, in that they
Were intellectuals from the major universities of the nation
139
The twin relics of the national crisis and foreign shame that occurred during the Kennedy administration were
Vietnam and civil rights
140
The single greatest tragedy of Camelot was
Assassinations
141
In the years from 1963 to 1960 are a complete tragedy for a man who was such a political idealist and moral pragmatist, but it has the plot of an operatic tragedy. Which of the following was the only bright spot in the administration of Lyndon Johnson
War on poverty
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What was the single event that dealt Johnson's credibility a fatal blow
Tet Offensive
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Lyndon Johnson's done the nation in the world in March 1968 with the announcement
That he would not run again
144
To whom did Richard Nixon appeal and political quest for the presidency
The silent majority
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Leading figures appointed by newly elected president for always historically significant in that they are the ones who will set the agenda, formulate the policies, and execute the actions of the government looking forward. Which of The list is generally considered to be a foreign-policy mastermind of the Nixon years
Henry Kissinger
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The fascinating term that came to characterize Nixon foreign-policy was
Peace without victory policy
147
Which of the following two events occurred early in the next administration the both shocked and awed the world
Apollo 11 and Kent State murders
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The resignation of Richard Nixon came as the result of the investigation into the
Watergate scandal
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Which pair of African-American leaders role holy contrasting views about race relations in America
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
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What 19th-century concept of politics did both Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger Share in common
Realpolitik
