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Question 1

Under the 25th Amendment, President Richard Nixon was able to __________.
 
  A) pardon Vice President Spiro Agnew for any crimes he may have committed
  B) claim executive privilege in not having to surrender his tapes to Congress
  C) remove Spiro Agnew as vice president
  D) appoint Gerald Ford as vice president

Question 2

What was the major reason why James Madison shifted his views on the need for a Bill of Rights in the Constitution?
 
  A) He wanted to eliminate lingering Anti-Federalist suspicion of the new federal government.
  B) He did not want Congress to give itself salaries while they were still in session.
  C) Jefferson convinced him that including this list would guarantee safeguards for the people.
  D) He wanted to further restrict the powers of the new central government.

Question 3

President Coolidge was asked by the French government in 1928 to sign a treaty with their country renouncing war, and instead, he decided to __________.
 
  A) negotiate a nonaggression pact with multiple nations
  B) abstain and develop a policy of isolationism
  C) finally enter the League of Nations
  D) sign a nonaggression pact with Britain and Japan

Question 4

How does this image of a Texas poll tax receipt exemplify the ineffectiveness of the Fifteenth Amendment when it came to the enfranchisement of African Americans?
 
  A) The amendment allowed states to establish property requirements for suffrage, and at the time
  most African Americans did not own land or property.
  B) The amendment stated that suffrage could not be denied or abridged because of race, color,
  or previous condition of servitude, so Southerners found other ways to disenfranchise blacks.
  C) The amendment used flowery, indirect language that was too vague and therefore very easy to
  undermine.
  D) The amendment denied suffrage to anyone who was unable to read and write.

Question 5

The Herblock 1974 political cartoon Nixon Hanging Between the Tapes comments on the fact that President Nixon __________.
 
  A) had many opponents intent on bringing him down
  B) might have salvaged his career if he had kept quiet about Watergate
  C) edited his tapes of White House conversations
  D) had the right through executive privilege to withhold information regarding his activities

Question 6

During negotiations for the Kellogg-Briand Pact in 1928, the United States worked to __________.
 
  A) limit industrial overproduction
  B) withdraw its commitment to free trade
  C) start an arms race with European powers
  D) renounce aggression and condemn war

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Answer 1

D

Answer 2

A

Answer 3

A

Answer 4

B

Answer 5

C

Answer 6

D

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