FSOT PRACTICE TEST
QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+ 2025-2026
Council of Economic Advisers - ANS-A three-member body appointed by the president
to advise the president on economic policy.
War Powers Clause - ANS-Vests in the Congress the exclusive power to declare war,
Emancipation Proclamation - ANS-issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862,
it declared that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states would be free
Declaration of Independence - ANS-We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights,[72] that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
This document was
adopted on July 4, 1776. It
established the 13 American colonies as independent states, free from rule by Great
Britain. Thomas Jefferson wrote the
majority of this document.
Mayflower compact - ANS-This document was drafted in 1620 prior to settlement by
the Pilgrims at Plymouth Bay in Massachusetts. It declared that the 41 males who
signed it agreed to accept majority rule and participate in a government in the best
interest of all members of the colony. This agreement set the precedent for later
documents outlining commonwealth rule.
, Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title I - ANS-This act made racial, religious, and sex
discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government the power to enforce all
laws governing civil rights, including desegregation of schools and public places.
Monroe Doctrine - ANS-President James Monroe's statement forbidding further
colonization in the Americas and declaring that any attempt by a foreign country to
colonize would be considered an act of hostility.
Europe should not interfere with US affairs.
War Power Resolution - ANS-an act designed to place limits on how long a war can go
on.
Brown v Board of Education - ANS-1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v.
Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and
ordered all public schools desegregated.
Marbury v Madison - ANS-The 1803 case in which Chief Justice John Marshall and his
associates first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of
the U.S. Constitution. The decision established the Court's power of judicial review
over acts of Congress, (the Judiciary Act of 1789).
Plessy v Ferguson - ANS-a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered
segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
Roe v Wade - ANS-established national abortion guidelines; trimester guidelines; no
state interference in 1st; state may regulate to protect health of mother in 2nd; state
may regulate to protect health or unborn child in 3rd. inferred from right of privacy
established in griswald v. Connecticut
'73 Supreme ct decision that stuck down 46 state laws restricting women's access to
abortion (highlighted divisions within women's mvmt
QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+ 2025-2026
Council of Economic Advisers - ANS-A three-member body appointed by the president
to advise the president on economic policy.
War Powers Clause - ANS-Vests in the Congress the exclusive power to declare war,
Emancipation Proclamation - ANS-issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862,
it declared that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states would be free
Declaration of Independence - ANS-We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights,[72] that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
This document was
adopted on July 4, 1776. It
established the 13 American colonies as independent states, free from rule by Great
Britain. Thomas Jefferson wrote the
majority of this document.
Mayflower compact - ANS-This document was drafted in 1620 prior to settlement by
the Pilgrims at Plymouth Bay in Massachusetts. It declared that the 41 males who
signed it agreed to accept majority rule and participate in a government in the best
interest of all members of the colony. This agreement set the precedent for later
documents outlining commonwealth rule.
, Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title I - ANS-This act made racial, religious, and sex
discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government the power to enforce all
laws governing civil rights, including desegregation of schools and public places.
Monroe Doctrine - ANS-President James Monroe's statement forbidding further
colonization in the Americas and declaring that any attempt by a foreign country to
colonize would be considered an act of hostility.
Europe should not interfere with US affairs.
War Power Resolution - ANS-an act designed to place limits on how long a war can go
on.
Brown v Board of Education - ANS-1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v.
Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and
ordered all public schools desegregated.
Marbury v Madison - ANS-The 1803 case in which Chief Justice John Marshall and his
associates first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of
the U.S. Constitution. The decision established the Court's power of judicial review
over acts of Congress, (the Judiciary Act of 1789).
Plessy v Ferguson - ANS-a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered
segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
Roe v Wade - ANS-established national abortion guidelines; trimester guidelines; no
state interference in 1st; state may regulate to protect health of mother in 2nd; state
may regulate to protect health or unborn child in 3rd. inferred from right of privacy
established in griswald v. Connecticut
'73 Supreme ct decision that stuck down 46 state laws restricting women's access to
abortion (highlighted divisions within women's mvmt
