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All of the following are automatic stabilizers, EXCEPT:
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| “A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank.” The preceding passage most closely reflects the ideas of which political theorist? |
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| Niccolò Machiavelli, "Prince" |
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| Heightened suspicion of Communists and other radicals. There was fear that communism was anarchy and that it would destroy the United States. 1917-1920 |
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| In WWI, The United States remained ____for part of the War, then joined the ______ Powers. |
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| Which abolitionists was known for her extensive night shifts on the Underground Railroad as well as her scouting exploits for Union troops during the Civil War? |
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| Who introduced the Mudsill Theory? |
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| What is the Mudsill Theory? |
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| justify what he saw as the willingness of the lower classes and the hegemony of non-Whites to perform menial work which enabled the higher classes to move civilization forward. |
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| Who is famous for the Theory of Social Contract? |
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| What is the significance of the 38th parallel? |
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| It marked the division between the Soviet and American Zones of Korea in 1945. |
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| In 1957, President Dwight Eisenhower sent U.S. Army troops into Little Rock, Arkansas. What series of events caused Eisenhower to exercise his role as Commander-in-Chief of the military in such a manner? |
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| The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education desegregated the schools; Governor Orval Faubus resisted by deploying the Arkansas National Guard to prevent Black students from going to school. Eisenhower’s U.S. troops escorted the Black students safely to school, thereby enforcing constitutional law. |
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In 1832, Andrew Jackson vetoed a bill that would have allowed the Second Bank of the United States to continue its operations for all of the following reasons, EXCEPT:
- It excluded the majority of the American public from buying its stock.
- It backed all of its paper money with gold and silver reserves.
- More than a quarter of its stock was owned by non-citizens of the United States.
- It issued loans to investors in the Northeast at more favorable rates than to those in the West. |
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| It backed all of its paper money with gold and silver reserves. |
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| Article Six of the U.S. Constitution addresses what? |
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| What Freudian stage–Eriksonian task pair is an individual experiencing at two years of age? |
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| Freud- anal : Erikson-autonomy/shame |
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| In what country is Shi'a Islam the dominant religion? |
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| built the Great Wall of China and based its system of government on legalism--the philosophy that all people are basically evil and are in need of a strict system of law and punishment to keep them in line. Two such strict laws involved the burning of any book that offended the Emperor’s sensibilities, and the burying alive of any one who expressed thoughts construed to be offensive to the Emperor. |
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| Which theorist believed that human nature was nothing more than "self-interested cooperation"? |
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| Thomas Hobbes; Hobbes believed that due to the scarcity of things in the world, there is a constant and rights-based, "war of all against all" |
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| When did the empire of ancient Rome have its greatest extent? Who ruled and when? |
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| Which of the following astronomers was the first to formulate a coherent theory to explain that the apparent motion of the sun, stars, and planets is due to the fact that the Earth revolves around the sun as well as rotates on its own axis? |
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Which of the following lists documents and events in chronological order?
VA Convention, Common Sense, Dec of Ind, Committee of 5 |
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| Common Sense, Virginia Convention, Committee of Five, Declaration of Independence. |
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| A Senate committee that holds hearings to check on whether or not the National Park Service is allowing selective logging in national parks would be considered an example of: |
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| A legislative oversight hearing. |
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| The German Invasion of Belgium in 1914. |
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| In late summer 1914, Germany invaded Belgium, a country officially neutral since 1839, and hence equipped with a comparatively small army. The vastly outnumbered and under-equipped Belgian soldiers were forced, thus, to use guerilla tactics. These tactics led the Germans to ravage entire villages, based on the supposition that any civilian was a possible guerilla fighter. This was judged an excessive and illegal use of force at the time, and Germany’s war crimes in Belgium became collectively known as the “Rape of Belgium.” It is described in Emile Waxweiler’s 1915 book from which the passage was lifted: Belgium, Neutral and Loyal: The War of 1914 (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. pp. 233–234) |
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| Who was best known for his treatises on realist political theory? |
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"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
The quote above is from which of the following Amendments to the U.S. Constitution? |
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| “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” |
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| intended to establish Britain's new North American empire and stabilize relations with Native-Americans in the region. One of the effects of the Proclamation was outrage in the colonies because it did not take existing land ownership and settlement, among other things, into consideration. |
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| Why did the Proclamation of 1763 cause outrage in the 13 Colonies? |
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| It essentially forbade colonists from settling or buying land west of the Appalachian Mountains, even though many had already acquired land in that region. |
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| there cannot be higher authority in the realm of international politics than sovereign nations. Nations must negotiate interactions among themselves for their own interests, with no recourse to any international governing body. |
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| Who were the primary commanders of the armies fighting at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781? |
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| George Washington and Charles Cornwallis. |
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| Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 |
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| An attempt by the federal government to balance the rights of personal liberty and personal property when the laws of two States contradict one another. |
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| Which effect did the Nazi control of the government have on the German economy in the 1930's? |
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| The term Velvet Revolution refers to: |
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| The peaceful protests in Czechoslovakia in November,1989 which led to the collapse of the Communist government. |
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| Serfs in Russia were freed __ years __ US slaves were free. |
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| What is the difference between an accounting profit as opposed to an economic profit? |
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| An accounting profit does not take implicit costs into consideration, while economic profit does. |
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| Each voter is allowed to vote for only one candidate and the winner of the election is the candidate representing a plurality of voters; that is, whoever receives the largest number of votes. |
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| and the winner of the election is the candidate representing a plurality of voters; that is, whoever receives the largest number of votes. |
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| The Pendleton Act of 1883 favored the use of |
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| the merit system to gain government jobs |
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| Which of the following pair of resources were important elements of trade between the Islamic dynasties of theNorth Africa Empire and the kingdoms of West Africa, circa 1000 C.E.? |
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| Pollution and the diversion of water for agricultural use have destroyed 90% of the Aral Sea, once a large body of water between Uzbekistan and Kazkhstan. Which other large body of water in Kazakhstan is also under severe threat of ecological damage? |
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| In general, as the value of a country’s currency decreases relative to other currencies in the foreign exchange market, that country’s: |
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| Imports will decrease, and exports increase. |
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| Which of the following is the major reason that firms demand labor? |
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| Which of the following is an area of land adjacent to water on three sides? |
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| Which of the following independent agencies of the federal government was established by the Eisenhower Administration? |
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| The Civil Rights Commission |
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| What accounts for England’s neutrality with respect to the American Civil War? |
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| England's African and Indian possessions |
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| Before Francisco Pizzarro arrived in 1533, the capital of the Inca Empire was: |
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| The first President of the United States was elected by members of which of the following institutions? I: House of Representatives; II: Electoral College; III: Senate. |
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