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The person who has contributed most directly to the rise of conservatism in American politics after WWII was |
Barry Goldwater |
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The Moral Majority was founded by which of the following evangelical Christians? |
Jerry Falwell |
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Which of the following describes the New Right in 1980? |
Its leaders opposed big government and feared declining social morality |
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Which of the following was the central theme of Carter’s foreign policy throughout his administration? |
A commitment to human rights |
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Which of the following precipitated a crisis in American-Iranian relations in 1979? |
American support for the deposed shah of Iran |
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Which of the following was one of the factors leading to Ronald Reagan’s Republican victory in 1980? |
His positive attitude and decisive demeanor |
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Ronald Reagan’s 1980 victory can be attributed to |
Americans’ frustrations over the nation’s declining prosperity and power |
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Which of the following issues did the New Right reject during the 1980 presidential election? |
Increasing federal spending on social welfare programs |
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Supply-side economics, as practiced by the Reagan administration, rested on |
using tax cuts to stimulate investment, which would eventually result in higher tax revenues |
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Which of the following is true of the Reagan presidency? |
The national debt tripled |
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Which of the following was a lasting legacy of Ronald Reagan? |
His conservative judicial appointments |
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Which is true of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s? |
More Americans died of AIDS than were killed in the Korean and Vietnam Wars combined |
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America’s main economic competitors in the world market in the 1980s were |
West Germany and Japan |
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Who did President Reagan christen as the "heroes for the eighties"? |
self-made entrepreneurs |
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By increasing America’s arms buildup in its defense against communism, President Reagan abandoned the diplomatic policy of |
Richard Nixon |
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During the Reagan administration, the CIA funded an anticommunist movement in |
Central America |
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The profits from the secret sale of arms to Iran in the 1980s were used to |
aid the Contras, an opposition group in Nicaragua |
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Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s policies of "glasnost" and "perestroika" resulted in |
a new willingness to tolerate significant changes in Soviet society |
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In 1985, over two hundred American marines were killed in an explosion in |
Lebanon |
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During the Cold War, the world was divided between the rival communist and capitalist blocs but, by 1990, it was clear that the post-Cold War world would be |
focused around multiple centers of power |
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What was the 1999 Battle of Seattle? |
A protest at the World Trade Organization meeting against the negative effects of globalization |
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Which nation quadrupled its gross domestic product between 2000 and 2008? |
China |
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Which of the following American groups benefited the most from China’s turn toward capitalism? |
Consumers |
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Which group of nations signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993? |
US, Mexico, and Canada |
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Which of the following statements describes the origins of the Internet? |
It originated from the need to preserve and manipulate military data |
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Which of the following describes patterns of immigration to the United States between 1970 and 2000? |
Almost 28 million immigrants came into the US |
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By 2000, approximately what percentage of California’s population was foreign-born? |
25% |
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The overwhelming majority of immigrants to the US between 1970 and 2000 came from |
East Asia and Latin America |
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The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 |
admitted immediate family members of legal residents into the United States |
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The Supreme Court’s ruling in the 2003 case "Lawrence V. Texas" was a landmark decision because it |
limited states’ power to prohibit private homosexual activity between consenting adults |
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Which of the following occurred during the Reagan and Clinton presidencies? |
Economic prosperity |
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Which of these figures led Bill Clinton’s health-care task force, which proposed national health-care reforms in 1993? |
Hillary Clinton, the First Lady |
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Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (1996) in response to public concern about |
dependence on welfare |
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President Bill Clinton was officially impeached in 1998 for |
perjury and obstruction of justice |
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Muslim fundamentalists began to target Americans in the 1990s because |
they objected to the American presence in Saudi Arabia |
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Which of the following states presented contested election returns that generated an intense political controversy in the 2000 presidential race? |
Florida |
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The election of 2000 was historically significant because |
the Supreme Court intervened and decided the outcome |
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The domestic issue that most engaged both Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush was |
taxes |
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What was the US Congress trying to achieve when it passed the USA Patriot Act in 2001? |
The suspension of certain civil liberties protections |
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What legislation did Congress and the Obama administration enact to relieve the economic crisis that began in 2008? |
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act |
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