True or False Chapter 29 Self-Quiz 1

. President Carter's elimination of tax breaks for private (religious) schools sparked the political activism of evangelical Christians in the Religious Right.

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False

. Voters chose Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter in 1976 for his political expertise and experience in Washington, DC.

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False

. In response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Jimmy Carter resumed registration for the draft.

True

False

. Spiking energy prices in the late 1970s caused inflation to rise to crisis levels.

True

False

. Carter tried to base his foreign policy on respect for human rights.

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False

. Carter tried to base his foreign policy on respect for human rights.

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False

. Although the economy produced 16 million new jobs between 1982 and 1988, the rate of job growth was higher in the 1960s, most of the 1970s, and in the 1990s.

True

False

. The traditional family that conservatives spoke of so glowingly dated back to the 1830s and was an antiquated model for the 20th century.

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False

. The US continued to assist anticommunist forces conflicts around the world throughout the 1980s.

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False

. Mikhail Gorbachev realized that the Soviet system was unsustainable once he realized that its nuclear arsenal was out of date by the mid-1980s.

True

False

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