Conservative movement
Short Answer Questions (these will be the basis for the short answer on the test)
1. How did Nixon’s policies reflect the increasing influence of conservatives on the Republican Party? (pp. 1005-1013)
2. Why did economic inequality increase during the Reagan administration? (pp.1019-1025)
3. What gains and setbacks did minorities, feminists, and gays and lesbians experience during the Reagan years? (pp. 1026-1029)
Review (these questions will be the basis for the multiple-choice questions)
1. Describe the agenda of the new conservative movement of the 1970s.
2. Who contributed some of the most vigorous support for the growing grassroots conservative movement of the 1970s?
3. What was the significance of a number of conservative Democrats changing their party affiliation beginning in 1964?
4. In is 1978 decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the Supreme Court?
5. What triggered the Watergate scandal that began in 1972?
6. Following the 1972 election, Americans learned that President Nixon and his associates had been guilty of ________________________________________________.
7. What spurred the resignation of Nixon’s Vice President, Spiro Agnew, in 1973?
8. For what crime did the House Judiciary Committee vote to charge President Nixon as one of the grounds for impeachment?
9. After President Nixon resigned from office in August 1974, what did Gerald Ford do?
10. What factor helped Jimmy Carter win the presidency in 1976?
11. Before winning the presidency, what did Jimmy Carter’s political experience include?
12. What economic development characterized Jimmy Carter’s presidency?
13. To address the nation’s dependence on foreign oil, what did President Carter establish?
14. When he took office in 1976, how did President Carter promise to approach American foreign policy?
15. In 1977, what was the result of the treaties completed by the United States and Panama?
16. What was one of President Carter’s major accomplishments in mediating the political crises in the Middle East?
17. How did President Carter respond to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979?
18. What was one of the reasons the Iranian government was hostile to the United States after the shah left the country?
19. What made the election of 1980 so significant?
20. Before he won the presidency in 1980, what had Ronald Reagan done?
21. What was President Reagan’s initial strategy to fix the lagging U.S. economy?
22. What was the outcome of the Reagan administration’s decision to deregulate the banking industry?
23. What was the result of President Reagan’s pledge to reduce federal spending?
24. In the presidential election of 1984, Walter Mondale’s running mate was _________________.
25. By 1990, about what percentage of married women with young children worked outside of the home?
26. During the 1980s, as Americans’ average personal income increased, how did the level of economic inequality in the U.S. change?
27. Who did Ronald Reagan’s appointments to the federal court system tend to favor?
28. What happened to American defense spending under President Reagan?
29. In April 1983, a suicide attack on a U.S. embassy in which nation killed sixty-three people?
30. What did the independent prosecutor charged with investigating the Iran-Contra scandal conclude about President Reagan and Vice President George Bush?
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Describe the agenda of the new conservative movement of the 1970s.
It criticized the government’s intrusion into the individual’s economic life as a hindrance to prosperity and personal responsibility.Who contributed some of the most vigorous support for the growing grassroots conservative movement of the 1970s?
Middle-class suburban men and women in the Sun Belt………………………………..
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