Which of the following resulted from the efforts described in the passage above?

Questions 1-4 refer to the following information.
It is natural, it is a privilege, I will go farther, it is a right, which all free men claim, that they are entitled to complain when they are hurt. They have a right publicly to remonstrate against the abuses of power in the strongest terms, to put their neighbors upon their guard against the craft or open violence of men in authority, and to assert with courage the sense they have of the blessings of liberty, the value they put upon it, and their resolution at all hazards to preserve it as one of the greatest blessings heaven can bestow.… But to conclude: The question before the Court and you, Gentlemen of the jury, is not of small or private concern. It is not the cause of one poor printer, nor of New York alone, which you are now trying. No! It may in its consequence affect every free man that lives under a British government on the main of America. It is the best cause. It is the cause of liberty. And I make no doubt but your upright conduct this day will not only entitle you to the love and esteem of your fellow citizens, but every man who prefers freedom to a life of slavery will bless and honor you as men who have baffled the attempt of tyranny, and by an impartial and uncorrupt verdict have laid a noble foundation for securing to ourselves, our posterity, and our neighbors, that to which nature and the laws of our country have given us a right to liberty of both exposing and opposing arbitrary power (in these parts of the world at least) by speaking and writing truth.
—Andrew Hamilton, concluding argument, libel trial of newspaper editor
John Peter Zenger, August 4, 1735

1. Which of the following best describes the significance of the Zenger Trial?

A. An important incident in opposing British taxation policy

B. An early attack on the institution of slavery

C. A landmark case concerning voting rights

D. A landmark case concerning freedom of expression

2. Andrew Hamilton assumes which of the following?

A. Americans have more freedoms than people in other countries.

B. People in other countries have more rights than Americans.

C. Natural rights are merely ideas that don't really exist.

D. Rights are granted by the government.

3. The Zenger Case can best be compared to which of the following?

A. Abraham Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War

B. Government efforts to prevent the publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971

C. The trial of the accused Haymarket Square bombers in 1886

D. The Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision of 1954

4. Hamilton's success in the Zenger case most directly reflects which of the following?

A. American desires for independence from Great Britain

B. American rejection of Enlightenment ideals

C. A long tradition of self-rule in the American colonies

D. The weakening of economic ties between America and Great Britain

Questions 5-8 refer to the following information.
Thomas Nast, "The Union as It Was / The Lost Cause, Worse Than Slavery," Harper's Weekly, October 24, 1874

5. Which of the following best expresses the perspective of Thomas Nast in the cartoon above?

A. The Reconstruction of the South is going well.

B. The government is not adequately protecting freed slaves.

C. White people in the South need to stand together.

D. The Reconstruction of Southern society was a bad idea.

6. The situation described in the cartoon above most directly resulted in which of the following?

A. The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment

B. The passage of the Homestead Act offering settlers free land in the West

C. Efforts to create an industrialized New South

D. The Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision

7. The Southerners in the cartoon above wanted a "Union" characterized by which of the following?

A. Sovereignty centered in the federal government.

B. An "American System" of internal improvements.

C. Sovereignty centered in the states.

D. The anti-nullification nationalism of Andrew Jackson.

8. The ideas in the cartoon above most directly reflect which of the following continuities in U.S. history?

A. Debates about civil rights

B. Debates about the use of military power

C. Debates about gun control

D. Debates about the role of political parties

Questions 9-12 refer to the following information.
Tonight, the daughter of a woman whose highest goal was a future for her children talks to our nation's oldest political party about a future for us all. Tonight, the daughter of working Americans tells all Americans that the future is within our reach, if we're willing to reach for it. Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for (vice) president in the new land my father came to love.… Americans want to live by the same set of rules. But under this administration, the rules are rigged against too many of our people. It isn't right that every year the share of taxes paid by individual citizens is going up, while the share paid by large corporations is getting smaller and smaller.… It isn't right that young couples question whether to bring children into a world of 50,000 nuclear warheads. That isn't the vision for which Americans have struggled for more than two centuries.… Tonight, we reclaim our dream. We're going to make the rules of American life work for all Americans again.… The issue is not what America can do for women, but what women can do for America.
—Geraldine Ferraro, Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address, July 19, 1984

9. The nomination of Geraldine Ferraro for vice president was most directly a continuation of which of the following?

A. The successful assimilation of immigrants to the United States

B. The struggle for civil rights for ethnic minorities

C. Increased economic and political opportunities for women

D. The increasing democratization of the political nomination process

10. The political ideas expressed by Ferraro in the passage above most directly reflect those of which of the following?

A. Colonial opponents of British taxation in the 1760s and 1770s

B. Abolitionists of the antebellum period

C. Republicans of the 1920s

D. New Dealers of the 1930s

11. The ideas expressed in the passage above would most directly have strengthened which of the following during the 1980s?

A. Opposition to the administration's arms buildup

B. Efforts to deregulate many industries

C. Efforts to reform the welfare system

D. Support for the administration's cold war policies

12. Geraldine Ferraro can be most directly compared to which of the following women?

A. Abigail Adams

B. Sandra Day O'Connor

C. Jane Addams

D. Rosa Parks