QUESTION: 5

Budget deficits force U.S. and Canadian leaders to make hard choices.In each country, a large portion of the budget pays interest on the national debt.With remaining tax dollars, national lawmakers must decide how much money to spend on programs such as defense, health care, education, transportation, and environmental cleanup. Each of those programs has its own strong supporters.
Based on the information above, if legislators wished to get re-elected, which of the following should they do?

vote to increase defense spending
vote to increase the national debt
poll voters and groups about their views
cross party lines to vote with the opposition
vote to eliminate most social programs

Answer(s): C

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QUESTION: 6

"Resolved, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."
Richard Henry Lee, 1776
Which of the following statements reflects Lee's proposal to the Continental Congress in 1776?

Go to war with all of Europe.
Form a stronger union with Great Britain.
Break away from Great Britain to form independent states.
Promise their loyalty to the king of England.
Be patient with the British government.

Answer(s): C

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QUESTION: 7

In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt stated, "We demand that big business give people a square [fair and honest] deal." Roosevelt later became known as a "trust-buster" [one who seeks to break up large business combinations].
Which action by the U.S. government best reflects Roosevelt's 1901 statement?

The government grants secret trading privileges to a foreign nation.
The government allows tax breaks to a computer manufacturer that supplies free computers to a public school.
The government sues a utility company that creates a monopoly.
The Federal Reserve Bank raises interest rates by 0.5%.
The government awards an oil company the right to drill for oil on federal lands.

Answer(s): C

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QUESTION: 8

The map above shows how the 50 U.S. states voted on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

(The ERA proposed to guarantee equal rights under the law to all persons, regardless of gender.)
Based on the map, which statement about support for the ERA in 1985 is true?

All of the original thirteen colonies opposed the ER
Support for the ERA was limited to states west of the Mississippi.
The states of the Pacific Northwest were opposed to ratification of the ERA.
Opposition to the ERA was strong in the states in the Southeast.
No regional patterns existed in support of the ERA.

Answer(s): D

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