American History



AP US History

Quotation Multiple Choice

DIRECTIONS: Read each questions analytically, carefully, and completely. Then select the correct response.

1. “A situation has been created in Poland as a result of her complete liberation by the Red Army. The provisional government…should be reorganized on a broad basis with the inclusion of democratic leader from Poland itself and the Poles abroad…This new government…shall be pledged to the holding of free and unfettered elections as soon as possible on the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot.” The above quotation is taken from…

A) Atlantic Charter

B) Cairo Conference

C) Potsdam Conference

D) Tehran Conference

E) Yalta Conference

2. “The struggle for existence is aimed against nature. It is from her niggardly hand that we have to wrest the satisfactions of our needs, but our fellow men are our competitors for the meager supply. Competition, therefore, is the law of nature.”

This statement reflects the influence of:

A) Charles Darwin

B) Karl Marx

C) William James

D) William D. Haywood

E) William E.B. DuBois

3. “Resolved, that is the application of these states to the government of the United States, recommended in a foregoing resolution, should be unsuccessful, and peace should not be concluded, and the defense of these states should not be neglected, as it has been the commencement of the war, it will, in the opinion of the convention, be expedient for the legislature of the several states to appoint delegates to another convention, to meet at Boston…with such powers and instruction as the exigency of a crisis so momentous may require.” The above quotation came from which of the following documents

A) The Annapolis Convention

B) Jefferson’s Embargo

C) Federalist Paper # 51

D) The Hartford Convention

E) The Treaty of Ghent

4. “The blood of so many hundred thousand souls of Protestant and Papists, spilled in the wars of present and former ages, for their respective consciences, is not required nor accepted by Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace…an enforced uniformity of religion through the nation…denies the principles of Christianity…”

The author of the above quotation is:

A) Ignatius Loyola

B) Roger Williams

C) William Penn

D) John Winthrop

E) Benjamin Franklin

5. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breath free, The wretched refuse of your teaming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

A) Abigail Adams

B) Mary Todd Lincoln

C) Eleanor Roosevelt

D) Susan B. Anthony

E) Emma Lazarus

6. “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”

A) This rhetoric of the Progressive Era

B) The advocacy of a Jacksonian banker

C) The dicta of Alexander Hamilton in response to Jefferson

D) Eisenhower’s rage against an unbalanced budget

E) The rage of Daniel Webster in the compromise of 1850

7. “Are all the laws, but one, to go unexecuted, and the government itself to go to pieces, lest that one be violated?”

A) Thomas Jefferson talking the Embargo Act.

B) Sen. Everett Dirksen railing away at the Civil Rights Act of 1964

C) Abraham Lincoln’s address to Congress in April 1861

D) President Woodrow Wilson arguing about the League of Nations

E) President Harry S. Truman, talking about the labor strike

8. “We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to not more and should receive no less.”

A) Franklin D. Roosevelt

B) Theodore Roosevelt

C) Woodrow Wilson

D) Harry S. Truman

E) Dwight D. Eisenhower

9. “When a nation is at war many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight and that no Court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right.” This statement was made by…in which Supreme Court decision?

A) John Marshall // Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

B) Roger Taney // Dred Scott v. Sanford

C) Antonin Scalia // Griswold v. Connecticut

D) Oliver Wendell Holmes // Debs v. U.S.

E) Earl Warren // Gideon v. Wainwright

10. “Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that is not the best.”

A) James Madison, to the Constitutional Convention

B) George Washington, to the Annapolis Convention

C) Benjamin Franklin, to the Constitutional Convention

D) Thomas Jefferson, to the Articles of Confederation Congress

E) George Mason, speaking on behalf of the Bill of Rights

11. “For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.”

A) Governor John Winthrop, Massachusetts Bay Colony

B) Governor Patrick Henry, Commonwealth of Virginia

C) Governor Clinton of New York

D) Minister Roger Williams of Rhode Island

E) Minister Thomas Hooker of Connecticut

12. “Legislators represent people, not trees or acres, Legislators are elected by voters, not firms or cities or economic interests. As long as ours is a representative form of government, the right to elect legislators in a free and unimpaired fashion is a bedrock of our political system.”

A) Reynolds v. U.S.

B) Roe v. Wade

C) Dennis v. U.S.

D) Wesberry v. Sanders

E) Reynolds v. Sims

13. “I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.”

A) Martha Washington

B) Martha Jefferson

C) Abigail Adams

D) Deborah R. Franklin

E) Marcella Hamilton

14. “That union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit…Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proofs of its utility and blessings…It has been to us a copious fountain of national, social, and personal happiness...” This comes from:

A) Andrew Jackson

B) Robert Y. Hayne

C) John Quincy Adams

D) Daniel Webster

E) John C. Calhoun

15. “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nations’ wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and all nations.” This prophetic utterance came from the lips of…

A) Thaddeus Stevens

B) Abraham Lincoln

C) Stonewall Jackson

D) Jefferson Davis

E) Horace Greeley

16 “It is the opinion of the Court that the Act of Congress (Missouri Compromise) which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning property of this kind in the territory of the United States north of the line (36 x 30’) therein mentioned is not warranted by the Constitution, and is therefore void; and that neither Dred Scott himself, nor any of his family, were made free by being carried into another territory.” The Supreme Court opinion was held by:

A) Chief Justice John Marshall

B) Associate Justice Bushrod Washington

C) Chief Justice William Howard Taft

D) Chief Justice Roger B. Taney

E) Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite

17. “Death at the hand of the guards, though murder in cold blood, was merciful besides the systematic, absolute murder inside, by slow death, inch by inch! As before stated, one-third of the original enclosure was swampy—a mud of liquid filth, voidings from thousands, seething with maggots in full activity!” The was pathetic description of

A) Auschwitz, Nazi concentration camp

B) Japanese labor camp in Mongolia

C) A southern prisoner of war camp

D) Battle of Shiloh

E) American prisoner of war camp in the Philippines

18. “I do not believe that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislature, nor done many of the unholy things men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance. This is the voice of…

A) Jane Addams

B) Susan B. Anthony

C) Rosa Parks

D) Sandra Day O’ Connor

E) Margaret Chase Smith

19. “Pursuant to the provisions of Civilian Exclusion Order No. 33, this Headquarters, dated May 3, 1942, all person of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien, will be evacuated from the area by 12 o’ clock noon. P.W.T. Saturday May 9th, 1942” comes by command of…

A) General Dwight D. Eisenhower

B) General George Patton

C) General Douglas MacArthur

D) Admiral Chester Nimitz

E) Lt. Gen. J.L. De Witt

20. “Children should reverence and honor their parents…This is one of those commandments which the Great God uttered immediately with his own mouth…It becomes children of what age, sex, quality or dignity whatsoever to show respect and reverence to their parents…And woe unto them that despise, condemn or abuse their parents…God’s law made it a capital crime for any to smith father or mother.” This statement best reflects the view of:

A) New England Puritans

B) Pennsylvania Quakers

C) Virginia Anglicans

D) Maryland Catholics

E) 19th Century Mormons

21. “The great question is: Whose prerogative is it to decide on the constitutionality or unconstitutionality of the law?...I say the right of a state to annul a law of Congress cannot be maintained…When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven…let their fast feeble…glance…behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic…not a stripe erased…nor a star obscured, bearing for its motto, that sentiment dear to every true American heart—Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!”

22. “The Cherokee Nation, the, is a distinct community, occupying its own territory, with boundaries accurately described, in which the laws of Georgia can have no force…but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves or in conformity with treaties and the acts of Congress…The act of Georgia under which the plaintiff…was prosecuted is consequently voice…”

23. “Provided that the further introduction of slavery or involuntary servitude to be prohibited…and that all children born with the said state after the admission thereof into Union shall be free, but may be held to service until the age of twenty-five years.”

24. “The authority, thereof, given to the Supreme Court by the act of establishing the judicial courts of the United States, to issue writs of mandamus to public officers, appears not be warranted by the Constitution…It is…the province and duty of the judicial department to decide what the law is…”

25. “A little rebellion, now and then is a good thing, and is as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical world…An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in the punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government…

Using the five names below, match them correctly with quotations. NOTE: Use a name many times as it would constitute being a correct answer.

A. John Marshall

B. Alexander Hamilton

C. Thomas Jefferson

D. Daniel Webster

E. James Tallmadge

26. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.’ I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.”

A) John F. Kennedy

B) Thurgood Marshall

C) Stokley Carmichael

D) Martin Luther King

E) Ralph Bunche

27. “I saw the apparition of Sara Good, who did most grievously afflict me by pinching and pricking me…And then they did most grievously afflict and torture me also during the time of her examination…Also on the day of the examination I saw the apparition of Sarah Good go and hurt and afflict the bodies of Elizabeth Parris, Abigail Williams, and Ann Putnam…”

A) Charleston, South Carolina 1720

B) Dedham, Massachusetts, 1740

C) Salem Village, Massachusetts, 1693

D) Williamsburg, Virginia 1675

E) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1650

28. “It is to cooperation…that the eyes of the working men and women of the world should be directed, upon cooperation of their hopes…should be centered…There is no good reason why labor cannot…through cooperation, own and operate mines, factories, and railroads.”

A) Knights of Labor

B) National Labor Union

C) Patrons of Husbandry

D) Industrial Workers of the World

E) American Federation of Labor

29. “The general subject of the power of the state legislature to regulate taxes, fares, and tolls for passengers and transportation of freight over railroads within their limits has been much considered recently…and the question how far such regulations made by the states…are valid or void, as they may affect the transportation of goods through more than one state, in one voyage, is not entirely new here.”

A) Sherman Antitrust Act

B) Interstate Commerce Act

C) Granger Laws

D) Clayton Anti-Trust Act

E) Morrill Land-Grant Law

30. “ I never doubted…the existence of the Deity, that He made the world and governed it by His province, that the most acceptable service of God was…doing good to man, that our souls are immortal, and that all crime will be punished and virtue rewarded either here or hereafter. These I esteemed the essentials of every religion…I respect them all. This statement is typical of the ideas of…

A) Puritans

B) First Great Awakening

C) Half-way Covenant

D) Anglicans

E) Enlightenment

31. “The reason that the present school cannot organize itself as a natural social unit is because…common and productive activity is absent…When the school introduces and trains each child of society into membership with such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and providing him with the instruments of effective self direction, we…shall have the deepest and best guarantee of a larger society which is worthy, lovely, and harmonious.” The author of the quotation is:

A) John H. Vincent

B) Edward L. Bok

C) John Dewey

D) Herbert Spencer

E) Charles W. Eliot

32. “This secret, swift, and extraordinary buildup…in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to the United States…in violation of Soviet assurances, and in defiance of American hemispheric policy—this sudden, clandestine, decision to station strategic weapons for the first time outside of the Soviet soil—is a deliberately provocative and unjustified change…in the status quo which cannot be accepted by the country...

A) Chinese Communist Aggression toward Japan

B) Cuban Missile Crisis

C) Berlin Crisis

D) Bay of Pigs fiasco

E) Sandinista invasion & revolution in Nicaragua

33. We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” This statement comes from which of the court decisions of the 20th century?

A) Escobedo v. Illinois

B) Schenck v. US

C) Griswold v. Connecticut

D) Brown v. Board of Education

E) Roe v. Wade

34. The members of this [Colonial] congress…with the warmest sentiments of affection and duty to his majesty’s person and government…owe the same allegiance to the Crown of Great Britain…No taxes should be imposed on the colonies, except with their own consent, given personality, or by their representatives…The late act of parliament…have a manifest tendency to subvert the rights and liberties of the colonists. This declaration comes from:

A) The American Constitution

B) The Stamp Act Congress

C) The Townshend Acts

D) The Albany Congress

E) The Articles of Confederation

35. “It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction…that they shall set up a grammar school…”

A) Rhode Island Charter

B) Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges

C) Massachusetts School Law

D) Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

E) Virginia Statues of Civil Liberty

36. “That this westerne discoverie will be greately for thinlargmente of the gospel of Christe…That all other Englishe trades are grownen beggarly or daungerous…That this westerne voyadge will yelde unto us all the commodities …aw wee wonte to to travel and supply the wantes of all our decayed trades. This quotation comes from the…

A) The Diary of Bartholmew de las Casas

B) Sir Alfred Drake

C) Sir Francis Drake

D) Hernan Cortes

E) Richard Hakluyt

37. …the sentence of the court you hear is that you are banished from out of our jurisdiction as being a woman not fit for our society, and are to be imprisoned till the court shall send you away…” This is the fatal dicta of…

A) Abigail Adams

B) Sarah Good

C) Ann Hutchinson

D) Clara Zenger

E) Squanto

38. “The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked…” This quote comes from…

A) John Adams

B) Reverend Samuel Parris

C) Reverend John Cotton

D) Reverend Jonathan Edwards

E) Thomas Paine

39. A great and powerful British MP declared to the Americans: “All you have to have for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing and you shall it…” This was

A) Edmund Burke

B) William Pitt

C) Lord Baltimore

D) Robert Walpole

E) Lord Edward Channing

40. “O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. This strident cry comes from

A) Benjamin Franklin

B) John Peter Zenger

C) Thomas Jefferson

D) Patrick Henry

E) Thomas Paine

41. “In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded on four essential human freedoms. First is freedom of speech, Second is freedom of religion, Third is freedom from want, & Fourth is freedom from fear…” This famous address was given by…

A) Woodrow Wilson D) Franklin D. Roosevelt

B) Herbert Hoover E) John F. Kennedy

C] Harry S. Truman

42. The doctrine of national supremacy and constitutionality of the implied powers was…

43. The doctrine of the sanctity of contracts was held in which decision of…

44. The doctrine of the right to privacy was held in…

45. The legality of labor unions in the states and nation were established by…

46. The doctrine of the “clear and present danger” was established in…

A. Griswold v. Connecticut

B. Schenck v. United States

C. Dartmouth College v. Woodward

D. Marbury v. Madison

E. Commonwealth v. Hunt

47. On June 1, after its discussions…the Interim Committee unanimously recommended the following

--The bomb should be used against Japan as soon as possible

--It should be used on a dual target

--It should be used without prior warning [of the nature of the weapon]… The man making this recommendation was…

A) President, Franklin D. Roosevelt

B) Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson

C) Gen. George C. Marshall

D) Dr. Robert Oppenheimer

E) Gen. Douglas MacArthur

48. “The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her Allies for causing all the loss and damage…as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies.” This was the famous…

A) Zimmerman Telegram

B) Ostend Manifesto

C) Bismarck’s surrender agreement from the Franco-Prussian war

D) Hitler’s surrender agreement on V-E Day

E) War guilt clause of the Versailles Peace Treaty

49. “While our enemies…loudly and openly proclaimed war without mercy until our utter destruction, we are conducting a war in self-defense of our national existence and for the sake of peace…” This statement was made by:

A) German government justifying war

B) French government on encroachment of Germany

C) American government attempting to maintain neutrality

D) British government protesting Russian cowardness

E) Canadian protests against Holland for aggressiveness

50. “The world must me made safe for democracy!’ Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundation of political liberty. ”Declared…

A) Theodore Roosevelt

B) Robert LaFollette

C) Woodrow Wilson

D) Henry Cabot Lodge

E) Herbert Clark Hoover.

51. “There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing the cause; the other by controlling its effects. There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.” This immortal declaration was made by…

A) Benjamin Franklin to the Annapolis Convention

B) Thomas Jefferson to the Congress of the Articles of Confederation

C) Alexander Hamilton in his ‘Report On Public Credit’

D) James Madison’s 10th Federalist Paper

E) John Marshall’s opinion in Marbury v. Madison

52 “Let us, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, out attachment to union and representative government…” This comes from:

A) Jefferson’s First Inaugural address

B) Jefferson’s letter to Madison upon the founding of the Constitution

C) Washington’s speech to the Philadelphia Convention, 1787

D) Patrick Henry’s speech to Virginia House of Burgess

E) Alexander Hamilton’s advice to Washington in 1793

53. “Jackson looked upon removal as a means of protecting the process of civilization, as well as, providing land for white settlers, security from foreign invasion, and quieting of the clamors of Georgia against the federal government.” This is the view of which leading Jacksonian historian

A) Edward Pessen

B) Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

C) Marvin Meyer

D) John Belohlavek

E) Robert V. Remini

54. “The far-reaching, the boundless future will be the era of American greatness. In its magnificent domain of space and time, the nation of many nations is destined t manifest to mankind the excellence of divine principles…Yes, we are the nation of progress, of individual freedom, of universal enfranchisement…We must onward to the fulfillment of our mission—to the entire development…Our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the development of our…multiplying millions” This is declarative statement of:

A) John Quincy Adams

B) James Monroe

C) John L. O’Sullivan

D) John Tyler

E) Thomas Hart Benton

55. “We Americans will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds” So declared,

A) Henry David Thoreau

B) Nathaniel Hawthorne

C) Neal Dow

D) Ralph Waldo Emerson

E) Dorothea Dix

56. “I heartily accept the motto, That governs best governs least…and That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government they will have…government is at best an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometime inexpedient.” Such was the opinion of:

A) Herman Melville

B) Ralph Waldo Emerson

C) Henry David Thoreau

D) Walt Whitman

E) John Humphrey Noyes

57. “If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.”

A) Harriet Beecher Stowe

B) Abraham Lincoln

C) James K. Polk

D) Henry Clay

E) Ralph Waldo Emerson

58. “Secession! Peaceable secession! Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle.” This great declarative comes from:

A) Henry Clay’s impassioned speech to the Senate on Compromise of 1850

B) John Calhoun’s answer to Andrew Jackson

C) 7th of March speech by Daniel Webster

D) Martin van Buren invective against Robert Y. Hayne

E) Thomas Hart Benton lashes out against Sam Houston

59. “America stands at this moment at the summit of the world…it is her finest hour!” So observed:

A) General Charles de Gaulle in 1947

B) Winston Churchill in 1945

C) Gen. Douglas MacArthur aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, 1945

D) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in June, 1943

E) Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12, 1945

60. “Up to our day American history has been in large a degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, it continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.”

A) Walter Prescott Webb

B) Ray Allen Billington

C) Charles A. Beard

D) Richard Hofstadter

E) Frederick Jackson Turner

61. In 1935, Ernest Hemingway wrote, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain. All America comes from that. There was nothing before, There has been nothing as good since.” Hemingway was referring to:

A) The Scarlet Letter

B) To Kill A Mockingbird

C) Huckleberry Finn

D) Grapes of Wrath

E) The Great Gatsby

62. “Revolution is bloody, revolution is hostile, revolution knows no compromise, revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms…Singing, ‘We shall overcome?’ You don’t do that in a revolution. This was the opinion of which of the following civil rights leaders of late 20th century?

A) Martin Luther King

B) James Foreman

C) Jesse Jackson

D) Elijah Mohammed

E) Malcolm X

63. “Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans…” This observation was made by:

A) Lyndon B. Johnson

B) John F. Kennedy

C) Hubert H. Humphrey

D) George McGovern

E) Jimmy Carter

64. “Every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies…a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” This is voice of…

A) Adlai Stevenson B) Robert A. Taft

C) Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr D) Dwight D. Eisenhower

E) Barry Goldwater

65. “The millionaires are a product of natural selection acting on the whole body of men to pick out these few who can meet the requirements of certain work to be done…” The author of the above statement was most likely:

A) Samuel Gompers

B) William Graham Sumner

C) William Jennings Bryan

D) Eugene V. Debs

E) Theodore Roosevelt

66. “Meat scraps were also found being shoveled into receptacles from dirty floors, where they were left to lie until again shoveled into barrels or into machines for chopping. These floors, it must be noted, were most cases damp and soggy, in dark, ill-ventilated rooms, and the employees in utter ignorance of cleanliness or danger to health expectorated at will upon them. In a week, we saw meat shoveled from filthy wooden floors, piled on tables rarely washed, pushed from room to room in rotten box carts, in all of which processes it was in the way of gathering dirt, splinters, floor filth, and the expectoration of tuberculosis and other diseased workers.” The astonishing paragraph would have appeared in which Progressive Era book?

A) The Shame of the Cities

B) The Crisis

C) The Jungle

D) The Octopus

E) Looking Backward

67. “…Every family [will be] furnished by the government a homestead allowance, free of debt, of not less than one third the average wealth of the country…No family’s annual income would be less than from $2,000 to $5,000. The author of this passage was…

A) John D. Rockefeller

B) Henry Ford

C) Franklin Roosevelt

D) Huey Long

E) Herbert Hoover

68. “Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!” This statement is by:

A) Martin Luther King

B) John F. Kennedy

C) Eugene McCarthy

D) Lyndon B. Johnson

E) George Wallace

69. “Some say that the Soviet Union has been overestimating the significance of the incursions of United States aircraft into its territory. To those take this stand…we should like to say, put yourselves in our position, imagine that such a border violation is carried out by the aircraft of a State whose responsible leaders have repeatedly said that they are preparing their armed forces for war against your country and are gearing all their military preparations to that end… The above statement concerns:

A) the U-2 incident

B) the Berlin Airlift

C) the Bay of Pigs

D) cold war massive retaliation rhetoric

E) propaganda about invasion of Japan

70. “Whether it be criminal prosecution in court or a character prosecution in the Senate, there is little distinction when the life of the person has been ruined.” This statement refers to…”

A) the trials of the Rosenbergs

B) Nixon’s famous “Checkers” speech

C) the rising tide of McCarthyism

D) Khrushchev’s condemnation of Eisenhower

E) Black American criticism of the Montgomery bus boycott

71. “The American continents…are henceforth not be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.” This statement was most probably made by…

A) John Adams

B) Henry Clay

C) James Madison

D) Daniel Webster

E) James Monroe

72. “I shall only say that I hold with Montesquieu, that a government must be fitted to a nation , as much as a coat to the individual, and consequently, that what may be good at Philadelphia may be bad at Paris, and ridiculous in St. Petersburg.[Russia].” This statement at the turn of 19th century was the voice of…

A) Thomas Jefferson

B) James Madison

C) Alexander Hamilton

D) George Washington

E) John Adams

73. “The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the hearts and minds of the people.” So declared what great revolutionary patriot?

A) George Washington

B) Patrick Henry

C) Sam Adams

D) John Adams

E) Benjamin Franklin

74. “I never take a step in foreign policy unless I am assured that I shall be able eventually to carry out my will by force.” This is the stated declaration of…

A) Abraham Lincoln

B) Theodore Roosevelt

C) Woodrow Wilson

D) Franklin D. Roosevelt

E) Harry S. Truman

75. “We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. We have not yet reached the goal—but…we shall soon…be in the sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.

A) Franklin D. Roosevelt

B) Harry S. Truman

C) Dwight D. Eisenhower

D) Woodrow Wilson

E) Herbert Hoover

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