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AP Political Parties Mr. Brush Units 1-19 Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans 1. The Anti-federalists included a large proportion of all the following groups EXCEPT [A] large planters [B] small-scale farmers [C] those afraid of federal power to tax [D] debtors 2. Which of the following statements concerning the Federalist Papers is true? They were written as propaganda to support the ratification of the Constitution 3. All of the following are true regarding the Anti-Federalists EXCEPT they maintained there was no need for a bill of rights 4. The most unpopular and least successful of President Thomas Jefferson’s policies was his adherence to neutrality in dealing with England and France 5. The chief goal of the Alien and Sedition Acts was to check the power of the Democratic-Republicans 6. What happened as a response to the Alien and Sedition Acts? The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions 7. The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions took the position that the authority of state governments included the power to decide whether or not an act of Congress was constitutional 8. While Chief Justice John Marshall presided over the Supreme Court, its decisions laid the groundwork for a “broad” interpretation of the Constitution 9. The vision of America as a country of yeoman farmers is most often associated with Alexander Hamilton or Thomas Jefferson 10. The Supreme Court’s decision in McCulloch v. Maryland confirmed the Hamiltonian, or “loose”, interpretation of the Constitution and established the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States 11. Washington’s response to the Whiskey Rebellion showed that he was determined to enforce federal laws 12. In the Report on Manufacturers [A] Hamilton sought to report the agrarian sector of the economy [B] Hamilton supported policies that would protect American industry from foreign competition 13. Hamilton’s economic program included all of the following EXCEPT [A] an excise tax [B] federal assumption of state debt [C] protective tariffs [D] a national bank [E] state assumption of federal debt 14. The compromise that led to the Assumption Bill involved southerners accepting Hamilton’s economic program in return for relocating the nation’s capitol to the south 15. The Hartford Convention was organized by the Federalist opposition to the war with Britain and focused on a desire to massively rewrite the Constitution to neutralize the power of the Southern Republicans Manifest Destiny Leads to the Civil War 1. The Wilmot Proviso specifically provided for prohibition of slavery in lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War 2. The prominent issue in national politics in the 1840’s was the westward expansion of U.S. territory 3. Which of the following is most closely associated with the presidency of James K. Polk? Manifest Destiny 4. Which of the following would most likely have expressed opposition to the idea of Manifest Destiny? [A] Advocates of the foreign policy of Secretary of State William H. Seward [B] Supporters of the Ostend Manifesto [C] Supporters of the acquisition of California [D] Members of the Whig Party in Congress during the Mexican War-Why? 5. To most Americans in the 1840’s and 1850’s, the idea of Manifest Destiny meant all the following [A]the Americans would irresistibly spread their democratic institutions over North America and possibly South America [B] The Creator had “manifestly” destined the American people for the hemispheric career [C] American civilization and “Anglo-American stock” were superior to the non-White and Hispanic peoples and cultures of North America [D] justification for the annexation of Texas 6. Which of the following decisions by the Mexican government angered the Americans who settled in Texas? The Mexicans abolished slavery. Whigs and Democrats 1. All of the following were among President Andrew Jackson’s objections to the Bank of the United States: it allowed the economic power of the government to be controlled by private individuals (monied and propertied) and it benefited a small group of wealthy and privileged persons at the expense of the rest of the country 2. Henry Clay’s “American System” advocated all of the following a national bank, high protective tariffs and federal funding for the building of roads and canals 3. Which of the following statements about the flow chart above, shows the evolution of the major parties is INCORRECT? [A] The Democrats evolved from the Whigs [B] The demise of the Federalist Party occurred in 1816 [C] The Jacksonian Democrats evolved from the Democratic-Republicans [D] The Hamiltonians and the Jeffersonians evolved into the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans [E] During the Era of Good Feelings there existed only one major political party 4. In the 1830’s and 1840’s, the primary difference between the Whigs and Democrats was that the Whigs favored an expanded, activist federal government while the Democrats favored a limited non-interventionist federal government Republicans and Democrats 1. Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election primarily because he gathered overwhelming support in the highly populated Northern states while his three opponents divided the anti-Lincoln vote in the North, West, and South 2. When Lincoln was elected President in 1860, the immediate effect was the secession of South Carolina 3. In his famous “Freeport Doctrine” set forth in his debate with Abraham Lincoln at Freeport, Illinois, Stephen A. Douglass stated that any territory desiring to exclude slavery could do so simply by declining to pass laws protecting it 4. The Republican Party in the antebellum period comprised all of the following Free-Soilers, Northern Democrats who felt betrayed by their party’s support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act, members of the Whig party who favored containing slavery and various labor groups in the North 5. For thirty years before the Civil War sectional conflicts centered chiefly around what pair of issues? tariffs and the slavery question 6. The Kansas-Nebraska Act created a firestorm of opposition because it allowed slavery north of the line agreed upon in the Missouri Compromise, effectively repealing it 7. The occasion for the rise of the Republican Party was the [A] Dred Scott Decision [B] Kansas-Nebraska Act [C] Missouri Compromise of 1820 [D] Compromise of 1850 Radical Republicans 1. When President Andrew Johnson removed Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton without the approval of the Senate, contrary to the terms of the recently passed Tenure of Office Act, he was impeached by the House of Representatives and came within one senatorial vote of being removed from office. Republicans in Gilded Age 1. The Union League worked to make African Americans loyal to the Republican Party 2. Which of the following is true of the 1873 Slaughterhouse Cases and the 1883 Civil Rights cases? They weakened the protections given to African-Americans under the Fourteenth Amendment. Populist Party 1. The Populist Party in the 1890’s had a great economic and political impact on the United States mainly due to its platform that raised the issue of uncontrolled industrial capitalism 2. He was a former Civil War General and Granger who ran as the Greenback Labor Party candidate for President in 1880 and later presidential nominee for the Populist Party in 1892: James B. Weaver (in 1896 it was William Jennings Bryan) 3. The Populists committed political suicide in 1896 when they concentrated on the coinage of silver money as their way to solve their economic problems 4. The Farmers’ Alliance of the 1880’s appealed primarily to Southern and Great Plain farmers frustrated with low crop process and mired in the sharecrop and crop lien systems 5. The Populist platform included all of the following: land grants given to railroad companies not used by the railroads should be returned to the government, a graduated income tax and government ownership of the railroads, support of labor unions, and free coinage of silver Progressive Republicans 1. The program that Theodore Roosevelt ran on in the election of 1912 where large corporations ought to be controlled and regulated by a strong President and where the federal government would protect the rights of children, women and labor was called [A] New Freedom [B] New Nationalism [C] Square Deal 2. Roosevelt settled the anthracite coal strike in 1902 by forcing the mine owners to arbitrate the dispute Democrats and Republicans in the 1920s and 1930s 1. A major reason why Al Smith lost the presidential election in 1928 was Smith’s Catholicism, which cost him Protestant votes 2. The Republican Presidents of the 1920’s favored tax cuts for wealthy Americans 3. The Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932 outlawed yellow-dog contracts 4. The main purpose of the Wagner Labor Relations Act of 1935 was to ensure worker’s rights to organize and bargain collectively Democrats and Republicans the 20th Century 1. The Taft-Hartley Act placed serious restrictions on the rights and powers of labor unions 2. The Employment Act of 1946 did which of the following? Declared it the objective of the federal government to foster full employment 3. The federally mandated desegregation of the civil service was first implemented in the armed forces 4. The principal reason for the formation of the Dixiecrat Party in 1948 was the opposition of dissident Democrats to President Truman’s proposal for civil rights legislation 5. The most important factor in the defeat of Democratic presidential candidates in the elections of 1952 and 1968 was the American public’s desire to avoid conflict and return to a more conservative political and social life 6. Which of the following actions did President Eisenhower take during his two terms as president? He sent troops to integrate Little Rock, Arkansas’ Central High School 7. The growth of suburbia was vastly accelerated by the Federal Highway Act of 1956 8. Legislation and executive orders associated with the Great Society created all of the following: the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Medicare, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Project Head Start 9. Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program was aimed primarily at securing civil rights for all Americans and eliminating poverty 10. The support for former Alabama governor George Wallace in the 1968 presidential campaign best illustrates the exploitation of race as a national political issue 11. Which postwar president is most associated with business deregulation? Ronald Reagan 12. “Reaganomics” or supply-side economics, led to which of the following? Large increases in the incomes of wealthy Americans 13. When Bill Clinton defeated President George Bush and Independent Ross Perot in 1992, the issue that most influenced the voters were the condition of the U.S. economy 14. During the Congressional campaigns in 1994, a year in which Republicans would take control of both houses of Congress, Newt Ginrich and 300 other Republican House candidates dramatically pledged to pass a Contract with America