Chapter 28 Quiz

. As the deindustrialization of the 1970s continued, what helped spur the American economy?

Education

The energy sector

The defense industry

Technology

. By the 1980s, the largest American Protestant denomination was/were the

Assemblies of God.

Presbyterian Church, USA.

Southern Baptists.

United Methodists.

. The Reagan image appealed to many Americans for all of the following reasons except

He seemed vigorous and energetic even though he was the oldest person to enter the presidency.

He cheerfully survived an assassination attempt.

He rejected the Ford-Carter model that the nation was "doomed to an inevitable decline."

He was a master of the details of issues and an effective micromanager of policy.

. At the center of Reaganomics was a commitment to

cut taxes.

increase domestic spending.

raise taxes.

solve domestic problems by government action.

. President Reagan shrunk the size of the national government in all of the following ways except

implementation of sharp cuts in Social Security and Medicare.

passage of the line-item veto.

cuts in public housing and job training funds.

passage of the Kemp-Roth Bill.

. Under President Reagan, expenditures for welfare

decreased.

increased.

stayed the same.

were eliminated.

. The Soviet Union opposed Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) because it would

threaten the peace of Western Europe.

require the Soviets to spend scarce resources to develop their own version of SDI.

mean "mutual assured destruction."

invalidate existing arms control treaties.

. All of the following refer to the Reagan Doctrine except

Anti-Communism would be the focus of American foreign policy.

The nation would distinguish between totalitarian regimes hostile to the United States and authoritarian governments friendly to American national security interests.

Opposition to the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.

Support for the rebels trying to topple the government in El Salvador.

. The Reagan Doctrine

was designed to halt the spread of Communism.

called for the distinction between antidemocratic governments that were supportive or antagonistic to the United States.

was applied in many developing nations and the Middle East.

All of the above

. All of the following refer to the status of women during the 1980s except

limits on the access and availability of abortion.

the persistence of a glass ceiling in job promotion.

the increasing "feminization" of poverty, particularly among black women in female-headed households.

continuing increases in the percentage of women in the workforce.

. African American activism resulted in all of the following except

an increase in the number of African Americans elected to public office.

the abandonment of social welfare programs by social conservatives.

difficulty for social conservatives to dismantle the gains of previous decades.

underscoring of the limits of the social conservative support.

. All of the following refer to the Iran-Contra affair except

Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North played a key role in creating and then covering up the Iran-Contra operations, but his conviction was later thrown out because of immunized testimony.

Three separate investigations did not turn up evidence to impeach President Reagan for any role in Iran-Contra.

Reagan insisted that he knew nothing about transferring profits from the arms sale to Iran to in turn aid the Nicaraguan Contras.

Reagan pardoned the Iran-Contra figures to prevent the full disclosure of the matter.

. Public scandals rocked all of the following institutions except

televangelists.

Wall Street.

higher education.

the Reagan administration.

. All of the following refer to economic problems in the Reagan years except

a short-lived stock market crash in October 1987.

an international trade deficit of $145 billion in 1986.

a large increase in the overall national debt.

cutting Social Security to help solve the deficit crisis.

. The greatest legacy of the Reagan presidency was

a greatly reduced federal bureaucracy.

reductions in entitlement programs.

the elimination of the trade deficit.

the creation of a huge federal debt.

. What did Reagan refer to as the "evil empire"?

American consumerism

Liberal media outlets

China

The USSR

. During the Iran-Iraq war, Reagan sent warships into the Persian Gulf to

try to end the war.

seek to gain new territory.

defend Iraq.

protect oil tankers.

. During the 1980s, conservatives

failed to narrow abortion rights.

fought against the "war on drugs."

won a major Supreme Court ruling that allowed for prayer in schools.

None of the above

. Coors brewery declared the 1980s, "The Decade of the _______."

Hispanic

True American

Woman

Patriot

. The dismantling of the Berlin Wall signaled

the collapse of Communism.

a more open USSR.

a new, more militant, phase of the Cold War.

American defeat in the Cold War.

. In the 1980s, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was most likely to be contracted by

homosexual men engaging in unprotected sexual practices.

heterosexual people engaging in unprotected sexual practices.

intravenous drug users who shared needles.

persons receiving blood transfusions.

. In the 1984 Presidential Election,

Ronald Reagan narrowly defeated Walter Mondale.

Mondale won the popular vote but lost the electoral college.

Reagan won a landslide victory.

Reagan easily won the election and the Republican party remained in control of the Senate and House of Representatives.

.

Mayor stands near a sign that reads, Caution Hazardous Waste Site Dioxin Contamination; Stay In Your Car; Minimize Travel; Keep Windows Closed; Stay On Pavement; Drive Slowly.

Welcome to Times Beach." The photo illustrates the effects of which of the following historical developments?

The Great Society

Reaganomics

The New Deal

None of the above

. The New Right of the 1980s drew strength from the transformation of the economy.

True

False

. The power of a conservative Christian coalition of several unrelated religious denominations singlehandedly elected Ronald Reagan in 1980.

True

False

. Ronald Reagan reversed the trend of tighter business regulation begun under President Carter.

True

False

. The policies of Reaganomics decreased the federal budget deficit.

True

False

. President Reagan continued to support the foreign policies of his predecessors Carter and Nixon.

True

False

. Sandra Day O'Connor, a conservative judge, became the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court.

True

False

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Map shows the Events that shaped Reagan’s anti-Communist initiative in the Western Hemisphere. In Cuba: Thousands of Cubans come to U S, April to September 1980. In Guatemala: Continued Gorilla Activity against rightist regimes; Civil War Begins in 1979. In El Salvador: U S sends military advisors early 1981. In Nicaragua: Sandinista rebels in power, July 1979. In Honduras: Staging area for Nicaraguan anti-Sandinista rebels aided by U S. In Panama: Panama Canal Treaties, 1978; Canal Zone under Panamanian Control, 1979; Canal under Panamanian Control by 2000. In Jamaica: Pro U S Regime elected November 1980. In Grenada: Pro Castro regime takes power, March 1979; U S forces land, October 1983; Elections held, December 1984.

Map 28-3: The Reagan Doctrine in Central America and the Caribbean. The map indicates the continuing power of the "Domino Theory" in American foreign policy.

True

False

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