True or False Chapter 29 Self-Quiz 1

s3e_TF 29.1

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

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

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

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

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

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

. 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.

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

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

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 Mikhail Gorbachev realized that the Soviet system was unsustainable once he realized that its nuclear arsenal was out of date by the mid-1980s.

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