What did the Sedition Act of 1798 prohibit?
a. the publication of materials that brought the U.S. government into disrepute
b. the power of the federal government to control interstate commerce
c. the raising of militia by the state governments
d. the implementation of the draft
e. overseas travel by American citizens
ANS: A
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A. ?primary election B. ?party primary C. ?presidential primary D. ?delegate election E. ?general election
Based on historical trends, which of the following is most likely to be appointed to the Supreme Court?
a. A fifty-five-year-old Caucasian man with a successful private law practice, but no judicial experience. b. A thirty-eight-year-old Hispanic man with ten years' experience on a state trial court. c. A fifty-two-year-old Caucasian woman with fifteen years' experience on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. d. A fifty-eight-year-old Arab-American man with five years' experience as a district court judge.
The first treaty in which the United States and the USSR agreed to reduce their nuclear arsenals was
A) the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. B) the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. C) the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. D) détente. E) the Paris Peace Talks in 1944.
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a. violence requires specialized techniques and weaponry b. nonviolent resistance is typically conducted in the open, without need of safehouses c. nonviolent resistance does not require being physically present in a specific place d. nonviolence does not typically require the kind of physical prowess that violence does