US history?

Question

8. The outcome of the 2000 presidential election was decided by a
A. careful recount of the Florida votes.
B. majority of the popular vote.
C. majority vote of the electoral college.
D. decision of the Supreme Court.

d

9. You don't really approve of the idea of political parties. However, you're known as a Federalist and are soon associated with that party. Chances are good that your name is
A. James Madison.
B. Abraham Lincoln.
C. Thomas Jefferson.
D. George Washington.



10. The XYZ PAC operates on behalf of the XYZ interest group. Which campaign behavior of the XYZ PAC would be against current law?
A. The PAC creates its own campaign for candidate Kroll and contributes to the campaign of candidate Loon.
B. The PAC contributes $6,000 to candidate Kroll and $2,000 to candidate Loon.
C. The PAC contributes $4,000 to the campaigns of Kroll, Loon, Marble, and Noonkester for a total of $16,000.
D. The PAC contributes $2,000 to Kroll and $4,000 to Loon because both claim to support the PAC's legislative goals.

b

11. During the Cold War, the United States foreign policy of containment consisted of
A. wars and covert operations.
B. wars and mutual assured destruction.
C. deterrence and covert operations.
D. deterrence and mutual assured destruction.

a

Answer 1

The correct answer to 8 is C. The Supreme Court never made a decision in the election (they never heard the case) and we do not elect the President by popular vote. While a careful recount of Florida's votes was done, President Bush won by the majority of votes in the electoral college.

For number 9, the answer is clearly not b. Lincoln was not around during the same time period the Federalists were a party. Jefferson was not a Federalist, but a Democratic-Republican (yeah the name is kind of funny) and Washington never associtated himself with any party. This leaves James Madison, the fourth President as the correct answer. A.

For number 10, I am not certain of the specifics of the McCain-Feingold Act which is what this is referring to.

For number 11, B and D can automatically be eliminated. Mutually assured destruction is the reason why neither the United States nor the Soviet Union started a war. Deterrence kind of goes hand-in-hand with mutually assured destruction so C is not likely to be right. This leaves A, we did use war (Vietnam and Korea) as well as numerous covert operations to prevent the spread of communism.

Answer 2

#8
The answer is C.
In fact all of the other choices are irrelevant or mis-applied.

(A) The candidate that ultimately lost that election was seeking a selective recount of certain Democratically controlled counties utilizing irregular counting methods to evaluate ballots and not a complete recount of Florida's votes.

(B) As every US citizen should learn in High School civics a plurality of the total votes cast does not win a Presidential election. In fact neither candidate won a majority of the votes cast.

(D) The Supreme Court did not decide who would be President. They simply put a halt to the at that point ridiculous farce that The Florida supreme court had created with their seemingly endless recounts. The Florida electoral votes were then awarded to the certified winner of the Florida election, who also carried that state in the 2004 election handily.

#11. All of the Above,
which were the same tactics being used by the FORMER USSR with exception that the USSR used widespread repression of its own citizenry as well as the citizenry of the countries that it conquered during WWII.

Answer 3

The answer for #8 is definitely 'D'. I just took this exam, and C is wrong!