US HISTORY Ch. 30

What was Phyllis Schlafly's agenda in her 1964 book A Choice Not an Echo?

Which of the following describes the agenda of the new conservative movement of the 1970s?

Some of the most vigorous support for the growing grassroots conservative movement of the 1970s came from which group?

What was Richard Nixon's "southern strategy" for winning the presidential election in 1968?

Which of the following was true of court-ordered busing during Nixon's presidency?

President Nixon saw Chief Justice Earl Warren's retirement in 1969 as an opportunity to put what kind of justice on the Supreme Court?

What was the significance of a number of conservative Democrats changing their party affiliation beginning in 1964?

In its 1978 decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the Supreme Court D. limited the range of affirmative action.

Which of the following was a surprising development in the 1972 presidential race between Richard Nixon and George McGovern?

What triggered the Watergate scandal that began in 1972?

Following the 1972 election, Americans learned that President Nixon and his associates had been guilty of

What spurred the resignation of Nixon's vice president, Spiro Agnew, in 1973?

For what crime did the House Judiciary Committee vote to charge President Nixon as one of the grounds for impeachment?

After President Nixon resigned from office in August 1974, he

What did the Democratic Congress aim to do after President Nixon's resignation?

Which of the following factors helped Jimmy Carter win the presidency in 1976?

Before winning the presidency, Jimmy Carter's political experience included

Which of the following economic developments characterized Jimmy Carter's presidency?

To address the nation's dependence on foreign oil, President Carter established the

What was a consequence of the nuclear accident near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1979?

What calamity led President Carter to sponsor legislation to create the Superfund?

When he took office in 1976, President Carter promised to approach American foreign policy

In 1977, the United States and Panama completed treaties that arranged

What was one of President Carter's major accomplishments in mediating the political crises in the Middle East?

How did President Carter respond to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979?

Which of the following was among the reasons the Iranian government was hostile to the United States after the shah left the country?

The American hostages were held in the U.S. Embassy in Teheran by their Iranian captors

What made the election of 1980 so significant?

Before he won the presidency in 1980, Ronald Reagan had been

Which of the following factors was a significant part of Ronald Reagan's appeal to voters?

Who founded the Moral Majority in 1979?

Why was Ronald Reagan often liked even by those who disagreed with his policies?

What was President Reagan's initial strategy to fix the lagging U.S. economy?

What was the ultimate result of President Reagan's two substantial tax cuts?

What was the outcome of the Reagan administration's decision to deregulate the banking industry?

What was the result of President Reagan's pledge to reduce federal spending?

Who was Walter Mondale's running mate in the presidential election of 1984?

By 1990, about what percentage of married women with young children worked outside the home?

During the 1980s, as Americans' average personal income increased, how did the level of economic inequality in the United States change?

Ronald Reagan's appointments to the federal court system tended to favor

Despite the antifeminist tone of the Reagan administration, feminists and the administration found common ground in A. lobbying for the Equal Rights Amendment. B. expanding abortion rights. C. expanding child care for poor working women. D. the collection of court-ordered child support payments for single mothers.

During the Reagan years, feminists were successful in

How did the gay and lesbian rights movement fare during the conservative 1980s?

What happened to American defense spending under President Reagan?

Which of the following describes President Reagan's Star Wars initiative?

In April 1983, a suicide attack on a U.S. embassy in which nation killed sixty-three people?

How did President Reagan respond to the growing black protests against the racist system of apartheid in South Africa in the mid- to late 1980s?

What did the Reagan administration do when Congress blocked its efforts to help opponents of the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua?

What did the independent prosecutor charged with investigating the Iran-Contra scandal conclude about President Reagan and Vice President George Bush?

What was the status of the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union at the time President Reagan left office in 1989?