2025 FSOT TEST QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Council of Economic Advisers - ANSWER A three-member body appointed
by the president to advise the president on economic policy.
War Powers Clause - ANSWER Vests in the Congress the exclusive power to
declare war,
Emancipation Proclamation - ANSWER issued by Abraham Lincoln on
September 22, 1862, it declared that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate
states would be free
Declaration of Independence - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER This was a document drafted in 1620 prior to
landing and settlement by the Pilgrims at Plymouth Bay in Massachusetts. It
proclaimed that the 41 males signing the document agreed to accept majority
rule and take part in a government in the best interest of all members of the
colony. This established the model for subsequent documents detailing
commonwealth rule.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title I - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER doctrine put forth by Pres James Monroe;
forbidden further colonization of the Americas stating any attempt on behalf of
foreign country to colonize would be construed as an act of hostility
Europe should leave the US Affairs alone.
War Power Resolution - ANSWER act that put some limitation on length of a
war.
Brown v Board of Education - ANSWER 1954 - The Supreme Court
overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, and decided that segregation was inherently
unequal in all public schools and they needed to be integrated.
Marbury v Madison - ANSWER 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).
AND ANSWERS
Council of Economic Advisers - ANSWER A three-member body appointed
by the president to advise the president on economic policy.
War Powers Clause - ANSWER Vests in the Congress the exclusive power to
declare war,
Emancipation Proclamation - ANSWER issued by Abraham Lincoln on
September 22, 1862, it declared that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate
states would be free
Declaration of Independence - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER This was a document drafted in 1620 prior to
landing and settlement by the Pilgrims at Plymouth Bay in Massachusetts. It
proclaimed that the 41 males signing the document agreed to accept majority
rule and take part in a government in the best interest of all members of the
colony. This established the model for subsequent documents detailing
commonwealth rule.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title I - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER doctrine put forth by Pres James Monroe;
forbidden further colonization of the Americas stating any attempt on behalf of
foreign country to colonize would be construed as an act of hostility
Europe should leave the US Affairs alone.
War Power Resolution - ANSWER act that put some limitation on length of a
war.
Brown v Board of Education - ANSWER 1954 - The Supreme Court
overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, and decided that segregation was inherently
unequal in all public schools and they needed to be integrated.
Marbury v Madison - ANSWER 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).
