Which of the following is true about poverty and the propensity of nations to engage in war?
a. Countries that experience a high degree of poverty are more likely to go to war.
b. Poor countries are more concerned with economic development than with conflict.
c. The most impoverished countries are the least likely to start interstate wars.
d. Both options a and c are true.
e. Both options b and c are true.
D
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Which statement about conservative and liberal views on the issue of private gun ownership is true?
a. Conservatives want more regulation, while liberals want less regulation. b. Conservatives want less regulation, while liberals want more regulation. c. Both conservatives and liberals favor more regulation. d. Both conservatives and liberals favor less regulation. e. There is no general trend in how conservatives and liberals view private gun ownership.
Which of the following is not a characteristic of the state system that existed from World War II until the early 1990s?
a. It was based on a balance of power model. b. It existed fundamentally unchanged, with few new additions to the numbers or types of international actors. c. It replaced a failed effort to create a collective security system between World Wars I and II. d. It had many fundamental flaws, but succeeded in keeping peace between major actors.
The U.S. Supreme Court in 1873 consolidated several cases, commonly known as The Slaughterhouse Cases, into one ruling. What was the impact of the ruling on the Fourteenth Amendment?
A) The case strengthened the Fourteenth Amendment's protections and advanced the cause of civil rights for African Americans. B) The justices ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment was unconstitutional. C) The justices ruled that Congress had overstepped its authority in its initial passage of the Fourteenth Amendment and in the freeing of slaves in southern states. D) The ruling declared that the great body of civil rights still lay under the protection of the state governments, not the U.S. Constitution. E) The case gave the Congress all powers to decide the level and reach of civil rights in the United States.
Which of the following pieces of legislation first required agencies to file environmental impact statements?
a. the National Environmental Policy Act b. the Clean Water Act c. the Clean Air Act d. the Superfund Act