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- 1. Which of the following treaties restored the status quo ante bellum?
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- (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:
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- (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:
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- (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:
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- (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:
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- (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:
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- (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
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- (D) a law passed by Congress that is subsequently invalidated by the
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- (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:
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- (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
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- (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
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- 9. The religious doctrine of the "inner light" is associated with colonial:
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- (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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