NAEP US History Grade 12 - Question List

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51. What was the main reason that many leaders in Great Britain leaned toward supporting the Confederacy in the Civil War?
  1. Plantation owners in Britain held slaves.
  2. Most British immigrants to the United States lived in the South.
  3. Britain relied on Southern cotton for its factories.
  4. British politicians wanted to make the United States weaker so that they could conquer it.
52. What goal was most important in shaping United States foreign policy between 1945 and 1990?
  1. Preventing the spread of communism to new areas and weakening it where it already existed
  2. Encouraging trained scientists and other skilled workers who lived in foreign countries to immigrate to the United States
  3. Strengthening the United States industrial and agricultural sectors to help them compete against the British and the French
  4. Providing foreign aid to all poor countries to help them develop economically and technologically
53. Based on the graphs and your knowledge of history, you can conclude that the first successful steps toward partial recovery from the Great Depression occurred
  1. at the end of the First World War
  2. with the passage of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff
  3. with United States entry into the Second World War
  4. with the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as President
54. In Document K, Huey Long is criticizing President Roosevelt for his
  1. foreign policy
  2. agricultural policy
  3. Civilian Conservation Corps
  4. attacks on the rich
55. In United States politics, third parties such as the Populists and the Socialists have
  1. won presidential elections during times of economic and political distress
  2. often taken control of Congress from the two major parties
  3. contributed ideas and issues to the debates between the two major parties
  4. appealed predominantly to conservative voters

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