Question 1

Learning political culture cannot be achieved with __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  force 
B)  public education 
C)  inaction 
D)  the media

Question 2

What author described America as "a teeming Nation of nations?"

Accepted Answer

A)  James Fenimore Cooper 
B)  Sam F.B. Morse 
C)  Emma Lazarus 
D)  Walt Whitman

Question 3

What describes a shared body of general values and attitudes that shapes views toward government?

Accepted Answer

A)  political culture 
B)  political indifference 
C)  identity politics 
D)  political knowledge

Question 4

The first immigrants that went on to found many different civilizations in North America were __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Africans 
B)  Asians 
C)  Native Americans 
D)  Europeans

Question 5

Your desire to drive a car drunk is trumped by the interests of public safety. What is this an example of?

Accepted Answer

A)  majority rule trumping individual rights 
B)  liberty trumping sovereignty 
C)  individual rights trumping majority rule 
D)  sovereignty trumping equality

Question 6

One person complaining about bilingual street signs in 1750s Philadelphia was __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Thomas Paine 
B)  James Madison 
C)  Patrick Henry 
D)  Benjamin Franklin

Question 7

Because of Americans' emphasis on liberty, especially "freedom from," there's an emphasis on __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  sovereignty 
B)  republicanism 
C)  individual rights 
D)  Madisonianism

Question 8

The classic and most costly regional conflict was during what event?

Accepted Answer

A)  the American Civil War 
B)  the War of Annexation 
C)  the American Revolution 
D)  World War II

Question 9

Africans, men and women, forcibly removed to America __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  did share the same language and culture 
B)  did share the same religion culture 
C)  did share the same religion 
D)  did not share common traditions

Question 10

The idea that every person should have the chance to realize her or his potential, economically, intellectually, and socially is called the equality of __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  opportunity 
B)  standard 
C)  rights 
D)  result

Question 11

Where are the core values of the United States found?

Accepted Answer

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Question 12

What is majority rule?

Accepted Answer

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Question 13

The Occupy Wall Street movement highlights the conflict between __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  rich and poor 
B)  older and newer immigrants 
C)  urban and suburban dwellers 
D)  young and old

Question 14

What percent of Americans claim no religious affiliation?

Accepted Answer

A)  5 percent 
B)  16 percent 
C)  28 percent 
D)  over 50 percent

Question 15

America's religious diversity has changed along with what?

Accepted Answer

A)  multiple Catholic presidents 
B)  its ethnic makeup 
C)  its geography 
D)  the makeup of the Vatican

Question 16

English Philosopher John Locke insisted people were equal, but the "why" conflicted with ___________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Karl Marx 
B)  Thomas Hobbes 
C)  Thomas Jefferson 
D)  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Question 17

Describe instances when liberty and equality conflict.

Accepted Answer

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Question 18

Europeans who migrated to America __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  came from the same country 
B)  spoke the same language 
C)  practiced the same religion 
D)  brought some of their conflict with them

Question 19

Constitutional amendments that led toward equality in life include __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  the Bill of Rights 
B)  the Seventeenth Amendment 
C)  the Fourteenth Amendment 
D)  the Second Amendment

Question 20

The Declaration of Independence denied political rights to __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  white men 
B)  Protestants 
C)  property owners 
D)  white women

Exam 1: The American People