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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A The Progressives needed to develop a voting bloc to check and limit lower-class southerners.
B The Progressives believed women would support their reform movement.
C The Progressives needed to develop a voting bloc to check and limit upper-class northerners.
D The Progressives were dominated by women.
Question #2
A institutions and procedures by which a territory and its people are ruled.
B set of political principles and values that guide political life.
C invisible hand that turns private interests into public goods.
D means by which wealth is redistributed.
Question #3
A laissez-faire capitalism
B “one person, one vote”
C the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights
D popular sovereignty
Question #4
A 1920, when the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution allowed for universal suffrage.
B 1896, when the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson.
C 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution conferred citizenship on the freed slaves.
D 1857, when the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford.
Question #5
A 15; 323
B 4; 150
C 15; 150
D 4; 327
Question #6
A equality of result.
B equality of opportunity.
C educational opportunity.
D political equality.
Question #7
A 75
B 15
C 5
D 33
Question #8
A European ideals have influenced American political culture.
B Americans have never valued liberty.
C political needs are often placed above economic needs.
D American values are not always reflected in practice.
Question #9
A democratic
B totalitarian
C authoritarian
D monarchic
Question #10
A 6; Mexico and Central America
B 11; Asia and Africa
C 2; Mexico and Central America
D 11; Mexico and Central America
Question #11
A shifted as a result of people leaving the South and Southwest and moving to the Northeast and Midwest.
B not experienced any regional shifts.
C shifted as a result of people leaving urban areas and moving to rural areas.
D shifted as a result of people leaving the Northeast and Midwest and moving to the South and Southwest.
Question #12
A less than 1 percent of the entire population.
B approximately 33 percent of the entire population.
C approximately 50 percent of the entire population.
D approximately 10 percent of the entire population.
Question #13
A equality.
B capitalism.
C liberty.
D democracy.
Question #14
A decreased significantly between 1976 and 1996 but have increased significantly since 1996.
B decreased significantly over the last 40 years.
C increased significantly over the last 40 years.
D largely stagnated over the last 40 years.
Question #15
A struggling American economy made the United States an unattractive destination for most immigrants.
B Constitution was amended to eliminate naturalization and provide citizenship only to people born within the United States.
C National Origins Quota System placed strong restrictions on the number of immigrants who could enter the United States.
D federal government chose to deport nearly all foreign-born residents after World War II.
Question #16
A “Life, Liberty and Equality”
B “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity”
C “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”
D “Life, Equality and the pursuit of Happiness”
Question #17
A Anarchy, equality, and patriotism
B Equality, oligarchy, and free enterprise
C Liberty, equality, and democracy
D Democracy, patriotism, and the rule of law