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(A) wage and price controls
(B) rent controls
(C) rationing
(D) disbanding of unions
(E) additional taxes
48. The procedure whereby voters can petition to
have a special election to determine whether
an elected official should be removed from of-
fice is termed
(A) an initiative
(B) a referendum
(C) a recall
(D) an arraignment
(E) a mistrial
49. The Dawes Allotment Act of 1887, which dis-
tributed parcels of reservation land to Indian
heads of families for farming, was an attempt
to assimilate the Indians into white society. The
attempt failed for all of the following reasons
EXCEPT
(A) the land given to the Indians was not very
fertile and was particularly difficult to
cultivate
(B) most of the Indians could not speak
English and were unfamiliar with white
culture
(C) the Indians preferred to remain a separate
people and had no desire to be assimilated
(D) the Indians preferred to sell their land to
whites rather than try to farm it themselves
(E) most of the western tribes had no tradi-
tion of agriculture and no knowledge of
farming techniques
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■ SAT II Subject Tests
50. First, Lincoln and the Republicans initially did
not aim at abolishing slavery where it already
existed. In fact, Lincoln had even promised to
enforce the Fugitive Slave Law. Second, most
northerners were not abolitionists. Third, four
slave states did not secede from the Union.
Finally, few southerners owned slaves.
The points raised above could best be used to
support the thesis that