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Session 6- Practice Q’s
1. Which statement best describes President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy
position toward Latin America in the early 1900’s?
1. The United States should reduce its involvement in Latin American affairs.
2. The Monroe Doctrine permits the United States to intervene actively in the affairs
of Latin American nations.
3. Latin American nations should form an organization to help them achieve
political and economic stability.
4. The United States should give large amounts of financial aid to help the poor of
Latin Amenca.
2. One important conclusion that can be drawn as a result of the United States experience
in both the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Persian Gulf War (1991) is that
1. only the President should decide issues of war and peace
2. the media are a powerful influence in shaping American public opinion toward
war
3. the public has little confidence in the ability of the American military
4. international organizations play a decisive role in determining the outcome of a
war
3. Why did the United States formulate the Open Door policy toward China?
1. to develop democratic institutions and practices in China
2. to prevent a European and Japanese monopoly of Chinese trade and markets
3. to establish a military presence on the Chinese mainland
4. to support Japanese efforts to industrialize China
4. From 1900 to 1915, a basic aim of United States foreign policy was to
1. develop close economic ties with African nations
2. oppose revolutionary movements in western Europe
3. promote United States influence in Latin America
4. prevent the spread of communism in western Europe and Asia
5. Early in the 20th century, Presidents William Taft and Woodrow Wilson used the
concept of dollar diplomacy to
1. help European nations avoid war
2. expand United States influence in China
3. protect United States investments in Latin America
4. support welfare programs for immigrants to the United States
6. President Theodore Roosevelt’s policies toward Latin America were evidence of his
belief in
1. noninvolvement in world affairs
2. intervention when American business interests were threatened
3. the sovereign rights of all nations
4. the need for European interference in the Western Hemisphere
7. The Fourteen Points and the Atlantic Charter were both
1. statements of post-war goals for establishing world peace
2. plans of victorious nations to divide conquered territories
3. military strategies for defeating enemy nations
4. agreements between nations to eliminate further development of weapons
8. “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely
shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic."
-Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
Which interpretation of the Bill of Rights does this statement illustrate?
1. The needs of the government are more important than civil liberties.
2. Constitutional protections of liberty are not absolute.
3. The Supreme Court can eliminate freedoms listed in the Bill of Rights.
4. The Bill of Rights does not safeguard individual liberties
9. After World War I, the opposition of some Members of Congress to the Versailles
Treaty was based largely on the idea that the Treaty
1. did not punish the Central Powers harshly enough
2. did not give the United States an important role in world affairs
3. would require the United States to join the League of Nations and might result in
a loss of United States sovereignty
4. would require the United States to assume the cost of rebuilding the war-torn
European economies
10. The "clear and present danger" ruling of the Supreme Court in Schenck v. United
States illustrates the continuing conflict between
1. free speech and governmental authority
2. the use of search warrants and the rights of the accused
3. state powers and Federal powers
4. religious freedom and separation of church and state