What was the doctrine of nullification?
A) the belief that states should secede from the Union if federal power becomes too great
B) the belief that states have the right to void federal laws deemed unconstitutional
C) the belief that only federal courts have the final word on the constitutionality of legislation
D) the belief that all legislation should be tested in court before being considered law
E) the belief that no more states should be admitted to the Union
Answer is B) the belief that states have the right to void federal laws deemed unconstitutional .
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English colonies differed from the Spanish, French, and Dutch colonies in all the following ways EXCEPT that
A) slavery was illegal. B) settlers arrived with the purpose of staying. C) religious dissenters settled in the colonies. D) there was a tradition of self-government. E) entire families emigrated rather than single males.
Most people in both the North and the South did not hold extremist beliefs. "Doughfaces" were:
a. northerners who supported the South in sectional debates b. bakers in pre Civil War America who tried unsuccessfully to organize a union c. black northerners who acted white d. white southerners who favored abolition of slavery
What happened at Kent State University in May 1970?
A) Campus radicals ambushed National Guard Troop G, wounding eleven and killing four. B) Ohio governor James Rhodes ordered the National Guard to shoot all campus radicals. C) National Guard troops fired at student antiwar protesters, wounding eleven and killing four. D) A distraught student stood in the window of the library tower and shot professors walking on the main quadrangle below. E) Campus police fired into a women's dormitory, accidentally killing two male students who were in the midst of a panty raid.
All of the following measures were taken by the new Federal Republic of Germany except
A) outlawing Communist and Neo-Nazi parties. B) strengthening the authority of the chancellor. C) discouraging splinter parties. D) increasing the power of the multiparty Bundestag. E) emphasizing the need to compromise to rule all of Germany.