Before his appointment to the vice presidency, Gerald Ford–who became president on Richard Nixon’s resignation and was the nation’s first non-elected vice president–had been |
House minority leader |
Evangelical Protestantism failed to embrace |
the "Social Gospel. |
Which of the following statements characterizes affirmative action? |
Opponents, many of whom had opposed civil rights, charged that it was reverse discrimination. |
Which of the following was the most polarizing Supreme Court decision of the 1970s? |
Roe v. Wade |
Who was the presidential candidate who ran as a Washington outsider and promised to clean up government? |
Jimmy Carter |
In the years from 1973 to 1975, the oil-exporting nations of OPEC |
declared an oil embargo against the United States. |
In 1978, California voters began a national trend by enacting a ballot initiative called Proposition 13 that |
rolled back property taxes and required future tax measures to pass the legislature with a two-thirds vote. |
Nearly every American city struggled to pay its bills in the 1970s because of |
the continuing process of suburbanization. |
How did the Supreme Court led by Warren Burger compare to that led by Earl Warren? |
The Burger Court refused to scale back the Warren Court’s liberal precedents. |
Which of the following Supreme Court cases was hailed by most conservatives? |
Bowers v. Hardwick (1987) |
Which of the following statements describes the Nixon administration’s domestic policies? |
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was signed into law by Nixon and had broad bipartisan support. |
Which of the following issues did evangelicals disregard as they fought against the influences of what they believed to be an immoral society? |
Individual rights |
Rachel Carson is associated with |
the rebirth of environmental activism. |
Which of the following was the largest Protestant denomination, which grew 23 percent between 1970 and 1985? |
Southern Baptist |
Who was the famous, openly gay supervisor from San Francisco who was assassinated after helping win passage of a gay rights ordinance? |
Harvey Milk |
Which of the following statements characterizes the energy needs and resources that the United States faced in the late 1960s and early 1970s? |
The United States, once the world’s leading producer of oil, had become heavily dependent on imported oil. |
Which group established the first rape crisis centers in the early 1970s? |
Women’s liberationists |
The post-Watergate political reforms passed by Congress |
made government more transparent. |
Why did President Ford pardon Nixon a month after Ford took office in 1973? |
He wished to spare the country the agony of rehashing Watergate. |
Economic competition from West Germany and Japan led to |
deindustrialization. |
In the 1970s, the phenomenon of deindustrialization in the United States was most visible in the |
Northeast and the Midwest. |
Which of the following statements describes the feminist movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s? |
Feminist activism addressed many issues, took a variety of forms, and affected millions of women. |
What accounted for the dramatic decline of the American labor movement in the 1970s and 1980s? |
The process of deindustrialization |
Which of the following describes the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)? |
It was ratified by thirty-four states by the end of 1974, but its progress stalled. |
Which of these developments spurred the birth of the modern environmentalist movement? |
The publication of Silent Spring in 1962 |
Why did the U.S. economy suffer from inflation in the mid-1970s? |
it was brought on in part by military spending in Vietnam. |
Why did the federal deficit grow dramatically in the late 1960s? |
The government had spent huge sums on the Great Society programs and the Vietnam War. |
Which of the following statements characterizes the energy needs and resources that the United States faced in the late 1960s and early 1970s? |
The United States, once the world’s leading producer of oil, had become heavily dependent on imported oil. |
Christian activists in the late 1970s and early 1980s made which of the following issues a high priority? |
Combatting the proliferation of pornography in American society |
Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced out of office in 1973 because |
he was indicted for accepting kickbacks while governor of Maryland. |
How did the United States respond to the OPEC oil embargo in the early 1970s? |
Congress passed a law limiting highway speeds to 55 miles per hour. |
Which of the following U.S. industries was most badly hurt by deindustrialization in the 1970s? |
Steel |
Which of the following made a critical contribution to the emergence of the sexual revolution of the 1960s? |
The birth control pill |
The National Environmental Policy Act (1970) required developers to |
file environmental impact statements on the effect of projects on ecosystems. |
n the case of Bakke v. University of California |
Affirmative action |
Which of the following was detrimental to expanding women’s rights in the 1970s and 1980s? |
Phyllis Schlafly’s STOP ERA |
In an attempt to combat stagflation, President Carter |
deregulated the transportation industries. |
Nuclear reactors account for what percentage of all U.S. power generation today? |
20 percent |
What happened to the typical American worker’s real wages between 1973 and the early 1990s? |
Wages declined by 10 percent. |
Which of the following factors accounted for the demographic growth of the Sunbelt in the 1970s and 1980s? |
Deindustrialization |
How did President Carter respond to the energy crisis of the 1970s? |
Carter advocated for energy conservation efforts as "the moral equivalent of war." |
Why did the federal deficit grow dramatically |
… |
A nuclear reactor came close to meltdown in 1979 at |
Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. |
Which of the following developments accounted for the dramatic increase in the number of women working outside the home in the 1970s? |
Stagflation |
Who masterminded the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate complex? |
Members of the Committee to Re-elect the President |
Which of the following was the cause of President Nixon’s downfall? |
His obstruction of justice in the Watergate matter |
The Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade |
the right to privacy. |
In the case of Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), the Supreme Court struck down an 1879 state law prohibiting the purchase and use of |
contraception. |
The resurgence of Christian faith in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s has been labeled by historians as the |
Fourth Great Awakening |
Before his appointment to the vice presidency, Gerald Ford–who became president on Richard Nixon’s resignation and was the nation’s first non-elected vice president–had been |
House minority leader. |
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