37 “… And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what Base your answer to question 40 on the cartoon your country can do for you—ask what you can do below and on your knowledge of social studies. for your country.…” — President John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, BUT HOW TO LET GO — GRACEFULLY January 20, 1961 Which action by President John F. Kennedy was most consistent with the challenge included in this statement? (1) forming the Peace Corps (2) negotiating the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (3) supporting the Bay of Pigs invasion (4) visiting the Berlin Wall Base your answers to questions 38 and 39 on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. …You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court’s decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may want to ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws Source: Vaughn Shoemaker, Chicago American, and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact 1965 (adapted) that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. 40 What is the principal message of this cartoon?(A) One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility (1) The United States is afraid of a united to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral Vietnam. responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would (2) Other nations in Southeast Asia might fall to agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no communism. law at all.”… (3) President Lyndon B. Johnson is finding it — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963 difficult to exit Vietnam. (4) President Lyndon B. Johnson is worried about 38 Which type of action against unjust laws is Dr. a communist attack on the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. supporting in this passage? 41 A main goal of President Richard Nixon’s policy (1) militant resistance (3) judicial activism of détente was to (2) civil disobedience (4) affirmative action (1) sponsor free elections in North and South Korea 39 Which statement most accurately summarizes the main idea of the passage? (2) reduce tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union (1) People must obey Supreme Court decisions. (3) negotiate an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict (2) You can never break some laws while obeying (4) build support for recognition of the others. Nationalist government of Taiwan (3) Violence brings faster results than peaceful protest. (4) Following moral principles is sometimes more important than following the law. U.S. Hist. & Gov’t. – Aug. ’11 [7] [OVER] 37 “… And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what Base your answer to question 40 on the cartoon your country can do for you—ask what you can do below and on your knowledge of social studies. for your country.…” — President John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, BUT HOW TO LET GO — GRACEFULLY January 20, 1961 Which action by President John F. Kennedy was most consistent with the challenge included in this statement? (1) forming the Peace Corps (2) negotiating the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (3) supporting the Bay of Pigs invasion (4) visiting the Berlin Wall Base your answers to questions 38 and 39 on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. …You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court’s decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may want to ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws Source: Vaughn Shoemaker, Chicago American, and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact 1965 (adapted) that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. 40 What is the principal message of this cartoon? One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility (1) The United States is afraid of a united to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral Vietnam. responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would (2) Other nations in Southeast Asia might fall to agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no communism. law at all.”… (3) President Lyndon B. Johnson is finding it — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963 difficult to exit Vietnam. (4) President Lyndon B. Johnson is worried about 38 Which type of action against unjust laws is Dr. a communist attack on the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. supporting in this passage? 41 A main goal of President Richard Nixon’s policy (1) militant resistance (3) judicial activism of détente was to (2) civil disobedience (4) affirmative action (1) sponsor free elections in North and South Korea 39 Which statement most accurately summarizes the main idea of the passage? (2) reduce tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union (1) People must obey Supreme Court decisions. (3) negotiate an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict (2) You can never break some laws while obeying (4) build support for recognition of the others. Nationalist government of Taiwan (3) Violence brings faster results than peaceful protest. (4) Following moral principles is sometimes more important than following the law. U.S. Hist. & Gov’t. – Aug. ’11 [7] [OVER] Base your answers to questions 36 and 37 on the Base your answers to questions 38 and 39 on the cartoon below and on your knowledge of social quotation below and on your knowledge of social studies. studies. “He’s finally getting the hang of it.” … We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. 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—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.… To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required—not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but Source: Dorman Smith, Phoenix Gazette, 1949 (adapted) because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few 36 Which statement most accurately expresses the who are rich.… main idea of the cartoon? — President John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, (1) American taxpayers hope the Marshall(B) Plan January 20, 1961 will quickly stabilize Europe’s economy. (2) The Marshall Plan will limit Europe’s 38 According to this quotation, President Kennedy economic recovery. wanted to (3) Europe will not take advantage of the (1) assert United States leadership in world Marshall Plan. affairs (4) The Marshall Plan will bankrupt the (2) follow a policy of neutrality American taxpayer. (3) adopt appeasement as a foreign policy (4) abandon the policy of containment 37 The United States undertook the action shown in the cartoon primarily to 39 Which foreign policy action by President (1) keep the Soviet Union from developing Kennedy was intended to relieve the human atomic weapons suffering described in this quotation? (2) prevent Adolf Hitler from returning to power (1) creating the Peace Corps in Germany (2) authorizing a naval blockade of Cuba (3) stop the spread of communism in Western (3) meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Europe in Vienna (4) force Soviet satellite countries to break away (4) negotiating the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty from Soviet control U.S. Hist. & Gov’t. – Jan. ’13 [8] Base your answers to questions 36 and 37 on the Base your answers to questions 38 and 39 on the cartoon below and on your knowledge of social quotation below and on your knowledge of social studies. studies. “He’s finally getting the hang of it.” … We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. 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—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.… To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required—not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but Source: Dorman Smith, Phoenix Gazette, 1949 (adapted) because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few 36 Which statement most accurately expresses the who are rich.… main idea of the cartoon? — President John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, (1) American taxpayers hope the Marshall Plan January 20, 1961 will quickly stabilize Europe’s economy.