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NAEP US History Grade 12 - Question List

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26. To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority . . . that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. . . . We conclude that in the field of public education separate but equal has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.-1954The 1954 Supreme Court decision overturned which earlier decision?
  1. Marbury v. Madison , 1803
  2. McCulloch v. Maryland , 1819
  3. Dred Scott v. Sandford , 1857
  4. Plessy v. Ferguson , 1896
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27. What happened in Europe in the 1400’s and 1500’s that led people to explore the Americas and establish colonies there?
  1. The Black Plague caused many people to want to leave Europe.
  2. Political and economic competition among European countries increased.
  3. People needed to find new sources of manufactured goods.
  4. Local nobles became more powerful and kings lost power.
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28. Maryland was among the first colonies to grant
  1. legal rights to American Indians
  2. religious toleration to all Christians
  3. the right of all colonists to own slaves
  4. full political rights to all free Black people
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29. Why did Missouri’s application for statehood in 1819 cause a political crisis?
  1. The United States had equal numbers of slave and free states, and Missouri’s entry would have upset the balance.
  2. The United States had never before established a state west of the Mississippi, and Missouri’s entry would have likely caused conflict with American Indians.
  3. Missouri was a center of abolitionist activity, and its admission would have antagonized southern states.
  4. Missouri was a center of secessionist activity, and its entry would have antagonized northern states.
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30. "We may indeed be said to have reached almost the last stage of national humiliation. Do we owe debts to foreigners, and to our own citizens, contracted in a time of peril? These remain without any proper provision for their repayment. Have we valuable territories in the possession of a foreign power, which ought long since to have been surrendered? Are we in a condi- tion to repel aggression? We have neither troops, nor treasury, nor govern- ment." - A criticism of the Articles of Confederation made by Alexander Hamilton in 1787Hamilton said that "We have neither troops, nor treasury, nor government" in part because the Articles of Confederation did not give the
  1. central government the power to protect the rights of slaveholders
  2. central government the power to tax
  3. states the power to make treaties with other countries
  4. states the power to raise troops for war
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