Foreign Service Officer Test - US History question and answers 2023 graded A+

Foreign Service Officer Test - US History question and answers 2023 graded A+12th Amendment - correct answer Brought about by the Jefferson/Burr tie, stated that presidential and vice-presidential nominees would run on the same party ticket. Before that time, all of the candidates ran against each other, with the winner becoming president and second-place becoming vice-president. 13th Amendment - correct answer 1865 - Freed all slaves, abolished slavery 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments - correct answer 13th - Ended slavery, 14th - Gave blacks civil rights, 15th - Black suffrage 14th Amendment - correct answer 1866 â€" Ratified in 1866. It fixed provision of the Civil Rights Bill: full citizenship to all native-born or naturalized Americans, including former slaves and immigrants. 15th Amendment - correct answer 1870 â€" No one could be denied the right to vote on account of race, color, or having been a slave. It was to prevent states from amending their constitutions to deny black suffrage. 16th Amendment - correct answer Enacted income tax. 17th Amendment - correct answer Direct election of US Senators 1893 Depression - correct answer Profits dwindled, businesses went bankrupt and slid into debt. Caused loss of business confidence. 20% of the workforce unemployed. Let to the Pullman strike. 18th Amendment - correct answer Banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol. It was ratified on January 16, 1919 and repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933. In the over 200 years of the U.S. Constitution, the 18th Amendment remains the only Amendment to ever have been repealed. 1992 - what went wrong (GB1) - correct answer (GB1) American economy favored powerful not middle class, natioanal debt, employment fell, forced into low paying jobs, losing benefits of pensiosn and health, black and hispanic = hit hardest 19th Amendment - correct answer Granted women the right to vote (finally). (1920) 20th Amendment - correct answer Written by George Norris and also called the "Lame Duck Amendment," it changed the inauguration date from March 4 to January 20 for president and vice president, and to January 3 for senators and representatives. It also said Congress must assemble at least once a year. 20th Amendment - correct answer (FDR) , change of dates for start of presidential/congressional terms 21st Amendment - correct answer (FDR) , 1933, repeal of prohibition 22nd Amendment - correct answer limits the number of terms a president may be elected to serve 23rd Amendment - correct answer (JFK), gave residents of Washington DC the right to vote 26th Amendment - correct answer (RN) , lowered the voting age to 18 27th Amendment* - correct answer (RN) , regulates pay raises for members of Congress 3/5 Compromise - correct answer The South wanted slaves to count of citizens in order to increase the population, and therefore increasing the number of Southerners in the House of Representatives. The North argued that slaves were property and couldn’t be counted. In the end, slaved came to be counted as 3/5 of a person. 54/40 of fight - correct answer An aggressive slogan adopted in the Oregon boundary dispute, a dispute over where the border between Canada and Oregon should be drawn. This was also Polk’s slogan â€" the Democrats wanted the U.S. border drawn at the 54 40 latitude. Polk settled for the 49 latitude in 1846.