Amh 2020 Test 4

Front 1

Which is NOT an agency created or act passed under the Nixon administration?

Back 1

Office of Economic Opportunity

Front 2

Nixon's Family Assistance Plan

Back 2

proposed to guarantee a minimum income for all Americans

Front 3

Richard Nixon's appointments to the Supreme Court were intended to

Back 3

lead the court in a conservative direction

Front 4

The 1971 ruling Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education led to the

Back 4

use of busing as a tool to achieve school integration

Front 5

In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the Supreme Court ruled that

Back 5

fixed affirmative action quotas were unconstitutional

Front 6

In 1972, Congress passed Title IX, which

Back 6

banned racial discrimination in higher education

Front 7

Why did the CIA seek to destabilize the government of Chile after 1970?

Back 7

The Country had elected socialist Salvador Allende into office

Front 8

In his relations with major communist powers, President Nixon

Back 8

signed a strategic arms limitation treaty with the Soviet Union

Front 9

What were the results of the U.S. Invasion of neutral Cambodia in 1970?

Back 9

The invasion destabilized the nation and ushered in a murderous regime

Front 10

In 1975, the Vietnam War ended:

Back 10

in the only war lost by the United States

Front 11

The Church Committee revealed that since the beginning of the Cold War

Back 11

the CIA and FBI had engaged in abusive actions

Front 12

In the early 1970's, which commodity did many Americans have to wait in long lines to purchase?

Back 12

gasoline

Front 13

The economic condition known as stagflation was caused by

Back 13

stagnant economic growth and high inflation

Front 14

In 1976, Jimmy Carter won the presidential race in part because he

Back 14

promised never to lie to Americans

Front 15

Which nation held fifty-three Americans hostage from November 1979 until January 1981?

Back 15

Iran

Front 16

During the 1970s, conservatives

Back 16

insisted on more local control and resisted the power of the federal government

Front 17

During the 1970s, evangelical Christians

Back 17

significantly increase in number, as they became more vocal

Front 18

Neoconservatives defined freedom as

Back 18

being free from governmental tyranny

Front 19

Jerry Falwell created the

Back 19

Moral Majority

Front 20

The Moral Majority

Back 20

feared family values were being undermined

Front 21

The Equal Rights Amendment

Back 21

passed Congress but failed ratification

Front 22

Voters approved Proposition 13 in California, a law that banned:

Back 22

further increases in property taxes.

Front 23

The Reagan Revolution

Back 23

included cuts to government programs

Front 24

Ronald Reagan's economic policy focused on

Back 24

tax cuts

Front 25

Which striking labor group did Reagan have fired?

Back 25

air traffic controllers

Front 26

Geraldine Ferraro is best known as

Back 26

the first female candidate on a major-party presidential ticket

Front 27

In foreign policy, Reagan

Back 27

initiated the largest military buildup in American history

Front 28

The Iran-Contra affair

Back 28

was the greatest scandal of the Reagan administration

Front 29

By the end of Reagan's second term in office, he viewed the Soviet Union

Back 29

with much less suspicion

Front 30

The internationalization of commerce and culture and the reshuffling of the world's peoples have been going on for

Back 30

500 years

Front 31

What were the student protesters who occupied Tienanmen Square in Beijing in June 1989 demanding?

Back 31

greater democracy

Front 32

The Velvet Revolution was

Back 32

the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe

Front 33

By the end of 1991, Soviet attempts at economic reform had created chaos, and the

Back 33

Soviet Union dissolved, ending the Cold War

Front 34

Operation Desert Storm

Back 34

quickly drove the Iraqi army out of Kuwait

Front 35

In 1992, Bill Clinton secured the Democratic nomination for president because he

Back 35

combined social liberalism with elements of conservatism

Front 36

The third-party candidate Ross Perot

Back 36

received the most votes for a third-party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt

Front 37

NAFTA

Back 37

created a free-trade zone for the United States, Mexico, and Canada

Front 38

Who did Clinton appoint to head the panel on health-care reform?

Back 38

Hillary Clinton

Front 39

Who devised the Contract with America?

Back 39

Congressional Republicans

Front 40

How did president Clinton respond to the Republican victory in the 1994 congressional elections?

Back 40

He campaigned against radical Republicans and moved towards the center.

Front 41

President Bill Clinton

Back 41

replaced welfare with state grants

Front 42

Bill Clinton was easily reelected in 1996 because he

Back 42

embraced popular Republican policies

Front 43

By the start of the twenty-first century, dot-coms symbolized the

Back 43

negative impact of stock speculation among technology companies

Front 44

The countless corporate scandals and stock frauds stemmed directly from the 1999 repeal of which New Deal measure?

Back 44

the Class-Steagall Act

Front 45

By the end of the 1990's, the American economy

Back 45

was characterized by decreasing unemployment rates and declining income for poor and middle-class Americans

Front 46

Because of the 1965 changes in immigration laws, thrifty-five years later the immigrant population in the United States

Back 46

increasingly came from Asia and Latin America

Front 47

Increasingly visible during the 1990's, Asian-Americans

Back 47

were hailed by white Americans as a "model minority"

Front 48

During the 1990's, African-American civil rights

Back 48

led to African-Americans being present in all facets of American society

Front 49

In the 1990's, school segregation

Back 49

was on the rise

Front 50

What is a visible sign of Native American quasi-sovereignty?

Back 50

casinos

Front 51

During the 1990's, twenty-three states passed laws

Back 51

making English the official language

Front 52

By the start of the twenty-first century, American women

Back 52

received over 40 percent of the advanced degrees in law, business, and medicine

Front 53

The only occupation in which women earned more than men in 2010 was in

Back 53

academia

Front 54

The 1995 truck bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City was organized by

Back 54

a far-right antigovernment group

Front 55

Which of the following was a scandal of the Clinton administration?

Back 55

Whitewater

Front 56

The 2000 presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore was

Back 56

finally decided by the Supreme Court

Front 57

The United States launched an offensive against Afghanistan in October 2001

Back 57

because the nation was harboring Osama bin Laden

Front 58

How did President Bush characterize the nations or Iraq, Iran, and North Korea?

Back 58

as an "axis of evil"

Front 59

Which of the following statements about Saddam Hussein turned out to be TRUE?

Back 59

He was a horrible tyrant who ruled Iraq ruthlessly

Front 60

The USA Patriot Act

Back 60

expanded the rights of law enforcement agencies to conduct secret searches and detain suspected aliens

Front 61

What did Justice Department label the captured members of Al Qaeda in order to get around the Geneva Conventions?

Back 61

unlawful combattants

Front 62

What happened at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq?

Back 62

Under the supervision of US military personnel, many prisoners were mistreated, humiliated, and tortured; one even died

Front 63

90 percent of jobs lost during the recession of 2001-2002 were in

Back 63

manufacturing

Front 64

What was the problem with the economic recovery in 2003 and after?

Back 64

Manufacturers continued to move factories and jobs to other countries

Front 65

All of the following statements about John Kerry and the 2004 presidential campaign are true EXCEPT

Back 65

Kerry was very in touch with the people and embraced by the common man

Front 66

Which entity was responsible for disaster planning and relief within the United States at the time of Hurricane Katrina?

Back 66

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Front 67

President George W. Bush insisted that the war on terror was

Back 67

not a war on Islam

Front 68

In Lawerence v. Texas (2003), the Supreme Court extended the right of freedom to

Back 68

intimate conduct

Front 69

Most American Muslims

Back 69

were as appalled by the terrorist attacks as their fellow countrymen

Front 70

By the end of 2009, for the first in in American history, more __ than __ in the United states held paying jobs:

Back 70

Women, Men

Front 71

Why did Goldman Sacs have to pay a fine of half a billion dollars in 2010?

Back 71

It had knowingly sold toxic mortgage-based securities and then betted on their failure

Front 72

Why did American consumer cut back on borrowing and spending after 2008?

Back 72

The net worth of Americans had shrunk by trillions of dollars in the great recession

Front 73

Banks that the Federal Government labeled as "too big to fail"

Back 73

were interconnected with other institutions, and the government argued that their collapse would drive the economy into a depression

Front 74

Why did the number of Americans receiving food stamps rise after 2008?

Back 74

The number of needy Americans skyrocketed with the recession

Front 75

What made Barack Obama's presidential campaign "the first political campaign of the twenty-first century"?

Back 75

it's widespread use of the Internet to raise money and communicate directly with voters

Front 76

What made Bush's 2002 "National Security Strategy" fundamentally different from previous American policy?

Back 76

it advocated the use of preemptive war

Front 77

All of the following statements about President Obama's inaugural address are true EXCEPT

Back 77

He spoke about freedom repeatedly

Front 78

All of the following statements about President Obama's first year in office are true EXCEPT

Back 78

The Obama administration abolished the military tribunals Bush had established

Front 79

Which of the following measures did not pass through Congress because it failed to get sixty votes in the Senate?

Back 79

the limit on factory emissions to curb global warming

Front 80

Which of the following actions of the Obama administration in his first term disappointed his most ardent supporters?

Back 80

The president chose the economic advisers from Wall Street

Front 81

Which of the following actions won President Obama wide acclaim in May 2011?

Back 81

He authorized the raid on a Pakistani compound that killed Osama Bin Laden

Front 82

Why did several Republican-controlled states pass new voter ID laws after the 2010 election?

Back 82

They alleged epidemic voter fraud

Front 83

What term did the Occupy Movement introduce into American political vocabulary in 2011 and 2012?

Back 83

"the one percent"

Front 84

Which of the following was a liability for President Obama as he entered his reelection campaign of 2012?

Back 84

the economic slump continued