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Which is NOT an agency created or act passed under the Nixon administration? |
Office of Economic Opportunity |
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Nixon's Family Assistance Plan |
proposed to guarantee a minimum income for all Americans |
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Richard Nixon's appointments to the Supreme Court were intended to |
lead the court in a conservative direction |
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The 1971 ruling Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education led to the |
use of busing as a tool to achieve school integration |
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In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the Supreme Court ruled that |
fixed affirmative action quotas were unconstitutional |
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In 1972, Congress passed Title IX, which |
banned racial discrimination in higher education |
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Why did the CIA seek to destabilize the government of Chile after 1970? |
The Country had elected socialist Salvador Allende into office |
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In his relations with major communist powers, President Nixon |
signed a strategic arms limitation treaty with the Soviet Union |
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What were the results of the U.S. Invasion of neutral Cambodia in 1970? |
The invasion destabilized the nation and ushered in a murderous regime |
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In 1975, the Vietnam War ended: |
in the only war lost by the United States |
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The Church Committee revealed that since the beginning of the Cold War |
the CIA and FBI had engaged in abusive actions |
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In the early 1970's, which commodity did many Americans have to wait in long lines to purchase? |
gasoline |
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The economic condition known as stagflation was caused by |
stagnant economic growth and high inflation |
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In 1976, Jimmy Carter won the presidential race in part because he |
promised never to lie to Americans |
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Which nation held fifty-three Americans hostage from November 1979 until January 1981? |
Iran |
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During the 1970s, conservatives |
insisted on more local control and resisted the power of the federal government |
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During the 1970s, evangelical Christians |
significantly increase in number, as they became more vocal |
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Neoconservatives defined freedom as |
being free from governmental tyranny |
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Jerry Falwell created the |
Moral Majority |
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The Moral Majority |
feared family values were being undermined |
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The Equal Rights Amendment |
passed Congress but failed ratification |
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Voters approved Proposition 13 in California, a law that banned: |
further increases in property taxes. |
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The Reagan Revolution |
included cuts to government programs |
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Ronald Reagan's economic policy focused on |
tax cuts |
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Which striking labor group did Reagan have fired? |
air traffic controllers |
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Geraldine Ferraro is best known as |
the first female candidate on a major-party presidential ticket |
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In foreign policy, Reagan |
initiated the largest military buildup in American history |
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The Iran-Contra affair |
was the greatest scandal of the Reagan administration |
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By the end of Reagan's second term in office, he viewed the Soviet Union |
with much less suspicion |
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The internationalization of commerce and culture and the reshuffling of the world's peoples have been going on for |
500 years |
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What were the student protesters who occupied Tienanmen Square in Beijing in June 1989 demanding? |
greater democracy |
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The Velvet Revolution was |
the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe |
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By the end of 1991, Soviet attempts at economic reform had created chaos, and the |
Soviet Union dissolved, ending the Cold War |
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Operation Desert Storm |
quickly drove the Iraqi army out of Kuwait |
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In 1992, Bill Clinton secured the Democratic nomination for president because he |
combined social liberalism with elements of conservatism |
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The third-party candidate Ross Perot |
received the most votes for a third-party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt |
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NAFTA |
created a free-trade zone for the United States, Mexico, and Canada |
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Who did Clinton appoint to head the panel on health-care reform? |
Hillary Clinton |
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Who devised the Contract with America? |
Congressional Republicans |
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How did president Clinton respond to the Republican victory in the 1994 congressional elections? |
He campaigned against radical Republicans and moved towards the center.
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President Bill Clinton |
replaced welfare with state grants |
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Bill Clinton was easily reelected in 1996 because he |
embraced popular Republican policies |
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By the start of the twenty-first century, dot-coms symbolized the |
negative impact of stock speculation among technology companies |
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The countless corporate scandals and stock frauds stemmed directly from the 1999 repeal of which New Deal measure? |
the Class-Steagall Act |
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By the end of the 1990's, the American economy |
was characterized by decreasing unemployment rates and declining income for poor and middle-class Americans |
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Because of the 1965 changes in immigration laws, thrifty-five years later the immigrant population in the United States |
increasingly came from Asia and Latin America |
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Increasingly visible during the 1990's, Asian-Americans |
were hailed by white Americans as a "model minority" |
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During the 1990's, African-American civil rights |
led to African-Americans being present in all facets of American society |
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In the 1990's, school segregation |
was on the rise |
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What is a visible sign of Native American quasi-sovereignty? |
casinos |
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During the 1990's, twenty-three states passed laws |
making English the official language |
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By the start of the twenty-first century, American women |
received over 40 percent of the advanced degrees in law, business, and medicine |
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The only occupation in which women earned more than men in 2010 was in |
academia |
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The 1995 truck bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City was organized by |
a far-right antigovernment group |
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Which of the following was a scandal of the Clinton administration? |
Whitewater |
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The 2000 presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore was |
finally decided by the Supreme Court |
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The United States launched an offensive against Afghanistan in October 2001 |
because the nation was harboring Osama bin Laden |
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How did President Bush characterize the nations or Iraq, Iran, and North Korea? |
as an "axis of evil" |
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Which of the following statements about Saddam Hussein turned out to be TRUE? |
He was a horrible tyrant who ruled Iraq ruthlessly |
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The USA Patriot Act |
expanded the rights of law enforcement agencies to conduct secret searches and detain suspected aliens |
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What did Justice Department label the captured members of Al Qaeda in order to get around the Geneva Conventions? |
unlawful combattants |
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What happened at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq? |
Under the supervision of US military personnel, many prisoners were mistreated, humiliated, and tortured; one even died |
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90 percent of jobs lost during the recession of 2001-2002 were in |
manufacturing |
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What was the problem with the economic recovery in 2003 and after? |
Manufacturers continued to move factories and jobs to other countries |
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All of the following statements about John Kerry and the 2004 presidential campaign are true EXCEPT |
Kerry was very in touch with the people and embraced by the common man |
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Which entity was responsible for disaster planning and relief within the United States at the time of Hurricane Katrina? |
Federal Emergency Management Agency |
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President George W. Bush insisted that the war on terror was |
not a war on Islam |
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In Lawerence v. Texas (2003), the Supreme Court extended the right of freedom to |
intimate conduct |
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Most American Muslims |
were as appalled by the terrorist attacks as their fellow countrymen |
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By the end of 2009, for the first in in American history, more __ than __ in the United states held paying jobs: |
Women, Men |
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Why did Goldman Sacs have to pay a fine of half a billion dollars in 2010? |
It had knowingly sold toxic mortgage-based securities and then betted on their failure |
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Why did American consumer cut back on borrowing and spending after 2008? |
The net worth of Americans had shrunk by trillions of dollars in the great recession |
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Banks that the Federal Government labeled as "too big to fail" |
were interconnected with other institutions, and the government argued that their collapse would drive the economy into a depression |
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Why did the number of Americans receiving food stamps rise after 2008? |
The number of needy Americans skyrocketed with the recession |
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What made Barack Obama's presidential campaign "the first political campaign of the twenty-first century"? |
it's widespread use of the Internet to raise money and communicate directly with voters |
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What made Bush's 2002 "National Security Strategy" fundamentally different from previous American policy? |
it advocated the use of preemptive war |
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All of the following statements about President Obama's inaugural address are true EXCEPT |
He spoke about freedom repeatedly |
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All of the following statements about President Obama's first year in office are true EXCEPT |
The Obama administration abolished the military tribunals Bush had established |
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Which of the following measures did not pass through Congress because it failed to get sixty votes in the Senate? |
the limit on factory emissions to curb global warming |
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Which of the following actions of the Obama administration in his first term disappointed his most ardent supporters? |
The president chose the economic advisers from Wall Street |
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Which of the following actions won President Obama wide acclaim in May 2011? |
He authorized the raid on a Pakistani compound that killed Osama Bin Laden |
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Why did several Republican-controlled states pass new voter ID laws after the 2010 election? |
They alleged epidemic voter fraud |
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What term did the Occupy Movement introduce into American political vocabulary in 2011 and 2012? |
"the one percent" |
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Which of the following was a liability for President Obama as he entered his reelection campaign of 2012? |
the economic slump continued |