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1. Which of the following treaties restored the status quo ante bellum?
(A) the Treaty of Versailles
(B) the Treaty of Paris, 1783
(C) the Treaty of Ghent
(D) the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo
(E) The Treaty of Paris, 1898
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(C) This Treaty, which ended the War of 1812, returned the situation to what it
had been before the war, or, the status quo ante bellum.
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2. The right of the Supreme Court to invalidate legislation passed by both
houses of Congress and signed by the President was established in:
(A) Article III of the Constitution
(B) the Bill of Rights
(C) the Judiciary Act of 1789
(D) a Supreme Court decision of 1803
(E) a Supreme Court decision of 1857
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(D) The MARBURY v. MADISON decision, written by John Marshall in 1803, gave
the Supreme Court the power of judicial review.
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3. The right of each citizen to equal employment opportunity, regardless of
race or sex, was established by:
(A) the Fair Employment Practices Act
(B) the Wagner Act
(C) the Taft-Hartley Act
(D) the Civil Rights Act of 1866
(E) the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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(E) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 established the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission to enforce federal law and prevent employers from discriminating.
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4. The right of 18-year-olds to vote was established by:
(A) English Common Law
(B) the Bill of Rights
(C) a congressional law of 1917
(D) a Supreme Court decision in 1945
(E) an amendment to the Constitution in 1971
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(E) The 26th Amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1971, gave the vote to
citizens 18 years old or older.
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5. The "unwritten constitution" includes all of the following EXCEPT:
(A) the creation of the Cabinet
(B) organization of the executive departments
(C) the tradition of judicial review
(D) political conventions
(E) arrangements for presidential succession
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(E) Arrangements for presidential succession were added to the Constitution in
1933 by the 20th Amendment.
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6. An "ex-post facto" law may be defined as:
(A) a law enacted by Congress at the end of a congressional session
(B) a law that invalidates or repeals another law
(C) a law that declares criminal an act committed before the passage of the
law
(D) a law passed by Congress that is subsequently invalidated by the
Supreme Court
(E) any law enacted by Congress
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(C) Such laws are prohibited.
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7. When European explorers first arrived in Central America, the major
civilization they encountered was that of the:
(A) Incas
(B) Mayas
(C) Aztecs
(D) Iroquois
(E) Pueblo
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(C) By the start of the era of Spanish colonization, the Aztec civilization was
dominant in Mexico. Hernando Cortez, the Spanish explorer who arrived in
1519, destroyed the Aztec empire.
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8. A major Spanish motive in exploring and colonizing the New World was to
gain:
(A) new markets for Spanish industry
(B) an outlet for excess population
(C) uninhabited farmland
(D) mineral resources
(E) knowledge of world geography
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(D) Spanish explorers were eager to exploit American resources of gold and
silver.
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9. The religious doctrine of the "inner light" is associated with colonial:
(A) Quakers
(B) Catholics
(C) Congregationalists
(D) Episcopalians
(E) Deists
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(A) The Quakers, or Society of Friends, believed that God placed an inner light
in each soul. Quakers did not rely on clergy, the Bible, or church dogma.
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