11th Grade - US History – Regents
Exam-Graded A
Gadsden Purchase - ANS-US purchased some land from Mexico in order to build the
TCRR
Louisiana Purchase - ANS-US purchased land from France in order to acquire the port
at New Orleans
Mexican Cession - ANS-Mexico ceded a lot of land to the US and US gets a lot of
territory including Texas
Missouri Compromise - ANS-admission of Missouri as a slave state compromising
Maine to enter as a free state
2) Louisiana Purchase - ANS-In the early 1800s, the need for a water route to help
farmers ship their products to market was one reason for the...
1) Gadsden Purchase
2) Louisiana Purchase
3) Mexican Cession
4) Missouri Compromise
Mayflower Compact - ANS-1st agreement of self government
House of Burgesses - ANS-1st representative assembly in the colonies that consisted of
a representative democracy and town meetings
2) promoted self-government - ANS-The Mayflower Compact and the House of
Burgesses were important to the development of democracy in colonial America
because they...
1) expanded freedom of religion
2) promoted self-government
3) protected private ownership of property
4) granted voting rights to all white males
habeas corpus - ANS-protection against illegal imprisonment
3) elastic clause - ANS-Congress established a minimum wage for workers and
regulations on radio broadcasts by combining its delegated power to regulate interstate
commerce with the...
1) sanctity of contract clause
,2) due process clause
3) elastic clause
4) writ of habeas corpus clause
Zenger Case - ANS-(New York Times Co VS United States) court case that debated
freedom of the press/freedom of speech concerning the Pentagon Papers publication
Alexander Hamilton - ANS-Federalist who wrote the Federalist Papers to encourage a
replacing strong central government than the one under the Articles to ratify the
Constitution - had a financial plan to industrialize and pass an excise tax and a national
bank
3) Theodore Roosevelt - ANS-Which president was known as a trustbuster?
1) George Washington
2) Calvin Coolidge
3) Theodore Roosevelt
4) Dwight Eisenhower
2) regulate the amount of money in circulation - ANS-President Woodrow Wilson
supported creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 to...
1) balance the federal budget
2) regulate the amount of money in circulation
3) serve as a source of loans for farmers
4) solve the financial problems of the Great Depression
Schenck VS United States - ANS-court case that establishes the clear and present
danger test that limits freedom of speech
1) clear and present danger test - ANS-In the case Schenck VS United States (1919),
the United States Supreme Court settled the issue of limits on individual freedoms
during wartime by establishing the...
1) clear and present danger test
2) states' rights principle
3) separate but equal doctrine
4) popular sovereignty principle
McCarthyism - ANS-throwing wild accusations at people suspected of
fascism/communism to jail them - result of the Cold War/Red Scare
3) reckless accusations unsupported by evidence - ANS-Since the 1950s, the term
McCarthyism has been applied to events that are related to...
1) the basic rights of citizens to own and carry guns
2) the violent activities of international terrorists
3) reckless accusations unsupported by evidence
4) questionable methods used to finance political campaigns
, 1) offset communist influence in the region - ANS-In 1957, the Eisenhower Doctrine
expanded the principles of the Truman doctrine by extending Middle East military
assistance in order to...
1) offset communist influence in the region
2) combat anti-American terrorist threats
3) force the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to ends its oil
embargo
4) defend Israel against Arab invasions
4) expanding the constitutional rights of people accused of crimes - ANS-Supreme
Court decisions in Mapp VS Ohio, Gideon VS Wainwright, and Miranda VS Arizona
affected individual liberties by...
1) eliminating the poll tax as a voting requirement
2) preventing the use of organized prayer in public schools
3) requiring equal pay for men and women performing the same job
4) expanding the constitutional rights of people accused of crimes
Gideon VS Wainwright - ANS-court case that said that an attorney must be provided to
people accused of crimes if they cannot provide one for themselves
Miranda VS Arizona - ANS-court case that protects people's right to remain silent so
that they don't have to incriminate themselves - criminal gets their rights read/stated to
them
Mapp VS Ohio - ANS-court case that protects people from illegal search and seizure to
find evidence without a warrant
The Feminine Mystique - ANS-book written by Betty Friedan to encourage feminism in
the 1960s
3) energized a new women's rights movement - ANS-The Feminine Mystique by Betty
Friedan was an influential book in the 1960s because it...
1) helped strengthen family values
2) led directly to the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment
3) energized a new women's right movement
4) reinforced the importance of women's traditional roles
1) nativist fears of foreign influence in the United States - ANS-The trial of Sacco and
Vanzetti in the 1920s was similar to the trial of the Rosenbergs in the 1950s in that both
trials were accompanied by...
1) nativist fears of foreign influence in the United States
2) concern that the United States would sink into a depression
3) public reactions against organized crime
4) a grassroots movement to gain equal rights for minorities
Exam-Graded A
Gadsden Purchase - ANS-US purchased some land from Mexico in order to build the
TCRR
Louisiana Purchase - ANS-US purchased land from France in order to acquire the port
at New Orleans
Mexican Cession - ANS-Mexico ceded a lot of land to the US and US gets a lot of
territory including Texas
Missouri Compromise - ANS-admission of Missouri as a slave state compromising
Maine to enter as a free state
2) Louisiana Purchase - ANS-In the early 1800s, the need for a water route to help
farmers ship their products to market was one reason for the...
1) Gadsden Purchase
2) Louisiana Purchase
3) Mexican Cession
4) Missouri Compromise
Mayflower Compact - ANS-1st agreement of self government
House of Burgesses - ANS-1st representative assembly in the colonies that consisted of
a representative democracy and town meetings
2) promoted self-government - ANS-The Mayflower Compact and the House of
Burgesses were important to the development of democracy in colonial America
because they...
1) expanded freedom of religion
2) promoted self-government
3) protected private ownership of property
4) granted voting rights to all white males
habeas corpus - ANS-protection against illegal imprisonment
3) elastic clause - ANS-Congress established a minimum wage for workers and
regulations on radio broadcasts by combining its delegated power to regulate interstate
commerce with the...
1) sanctity of contract clause
,2) due process clause
3) elastic clause
4) writ of habeas corpus clause
Zenger Case - ANS-(New York Times Co VS United States) court case that debated
freedom of the press/freedom of speech concerning the Pentagon Papers publication
Alexander Hamilton - ANS-Federalist who wrote the Federalist Papers to encourage a
replacing strong central government than the one under the Articles to ratify the
Constitution - had a financial plan to industrialize and pass an excise tax and a national
bank
3) Theodore Roosevelt - ANS-Which president was known as a trustbuster?
1) George Washington
2) Calvin Coolidge
3) Theodore Roosevelt
4) Dwight Eisenhower
2) regulate the amount of money in circulation - ANS-President Woodrow Wilson
supported creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 to...
1) balance the federal budget
2) regulate the amount of money in circulation
3) serve as a source of loans for farmers
4) solve the financial problems of the Great Depression
Schenck VS United States - ANS-court case that establishes the clear and present
danger test that limits freedom of speech
1) clear and present danger test - ANS-In the case Schenck VS United States (1919),
the United States Supreme Court settled the issue of limits on individual freedoms
during wartime by establishing the...
1) clear and present danger test
2) states' rights principle
3) separate but equal doctrine
4) popular sovereignty principle
McCarthyism - ANS-throwing wild accusations at people suspected of
fascism/communism to jail them - result of the Cold War/Red Scare
3) reckless accusations unsupported by evidence - ANS-Since the 1950s, the term
McCarthyism has been applied to events that are related to...
1) the basic rights of citizens to own and carry guns
2) the violent activities of international terrorists
3) reckless accusations unsupported by evidence
4) questionable methods used to finance political campaigns
, 1) offset communist influence in the region - ANS-In 1957, the Eisenhower Doctrine
expanded the principles of the Truman doctrine by extending Middle East military
assistance in order to...
1) offset communist influence in the region
2) combat anti-American terrorist threats
3) force the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to ends its oil
embargo
4) defend Israel against Arab invasions
4) expanding the constitutional rights of people accused of crimes - ANS-Supreme
Court decisions in Mapp VS Ohio, Gideon VS Wainwright, and Miranda VS Arizona
affected individual liberties by...
1) eliminating the poll tax as a voting requirement
2) preventing the use of organized prayer in public schools
3) requiring equal pay for men and women performing the same job
4) expanding the constitutional rights of people accused of crimes
Gideon VS Wainwright - ANS-court case that said that an attorney must be provided to
people accused of crimes if they cannot provide one for themselves
Miranda VS Arizona - ANS-court case that protects people's right to remain silent so
that they don't have to incriminate themselves - criminal gets their rights read/stated to
them
Mapp VS Ohio - ANS-court case that protects people from illegal search and seizure to
find evidence without a warrant
The Feminine Mystique - ANS-book written by Betty Friedan to encourage feminism in
the 1960s
3) energized a new women's rights movement - ANS-The Feminine Mystique by Betty
Friedan was an influential book in the 1960s because it...
1) helped strengthen family values
2) led directly to the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment
3) energized a new women's right movement
4) reinforced the importance of women's traditional roles
1) nativist fears of foreign influence in the United States - ANS-The trial of Sacco and
Vanzetti in the 1920s was similar to the trial of the Rosenbergs in the 1950s in that both
trials were accompanied by...
1) nativist fears of foreign influence in the United States
2) concern that the United States would sink into a depression
3) public reactions against organized crime
4) a grassroots movement to gain equal rights for minorities
