Question 1

One of the more disturbing trends that became apparent in the 1990s was

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A) a movement toward more equitable income distribution. 
B) a decline in median household incomes and a squeeze on the middle class. 
C) an increasing number of working class Americans now moving into the middle class. 
D) a dramatic drop in home ownership and mortgage lending. 
E) the solidification of the welfare state. 
A) a movement toward more equitable income distribution. 
B) a decline in median household incomes and a squeeze on the middle class. 
C) an increasing number of working class Americans now moving into the middle class. 
D) a dramatic drop in home ownership and mortgage lending. 
E) the solidification of the welfare state.

Question 2

Ronald Reagan's supply side economic advisers assured him that the combination of budgetary discipline and tax reduction would do all of the following except

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A) stimulate new investment. 
B) deplete overall tax revenues for the federal government. 
C) boost productivity. 
D) foster dramatic economic growth. 
E) reduce the federal budget deficit. 
A) stimulate new investment. 
B) deplete overall tax revenues for the federal government. 
C) boost productivity. 
D) foster dramatic economic growth. 
E) reduce the federal budget deficit.

Question 3

Which of the following was not among the ways that the religious right of the 1980s imitated the tactics and approaches of the New Left of the 1960s?

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A) "Making the personal political" 
B) Practicing identity politics 
C) Seizing control of colleges and universities 
D) Using small group sessions to raise consciousness 
E) Engaging in tactics of street protest and civil disobedience 
A) "Making the personal political" 
B) Practicing identity politics 
C) Seizing control of colleges and universities 
D) Using small group sessions to raise consciousness 
E) Engaging in tactics of street protest and civil disobedience

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Boris Yeltsin

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Boris Yeltsin was a significant politica

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Chappaquiddick

Accepted Answer

Chappaquiddick refers to an incident tha

Question 6

What gains has the African American community attained since the 1960s? What are the greatest challenges still facing African Americans and U.S. society regarding race?

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The answer of What gains has the African American community...

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-New Right

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The New Right refers to a political move

Question 8

Was the Persian Gulf War a complete American triumph or only a qualified success? What were its long-term consequences?

Accepted Answer

The Persian Gulf War, also known as Oper

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-​Manuel Noriega

Accepted Answer

Manuel Noriega was a Panamanian military

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Reaganomics

Accepted Answer

Reaganomics refers to the economic polic

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Solidarity Movement

Accepted Answer

The Solidarity Movement, known in Polish

Question 12

All of the following represent the furor over Clarence Thomas's confirmation to the Supreme Court except

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A) many women were enraged by the all-male Senate Judiciary committee's behavior. 
B) a gender gap emerged between the two political parties. 
C) pro-choice women distanced themselves from the Republican party. 
D) the social issues that helped elect Republicans were growing in their public appeal. 
E) many women became increasingly critical of the president's stand on abortion. 
A) many women were enraged by the all-male Senate Judiciary committee's behavior. 
B) a gender gap emerged between the two political parties. 
C) pro-choice women distanced themselves from the Republican party. 
D) the social issues that helped elect Republicans were growing in their public appeal. 
E) many women became increasingly critical of the president's stand on abortion.

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Americans With Disabilities Act

Accepted Answer

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA

Question 14

Edward Kennedy's campaign to take the presidential nomination away from Jimmy Carter in 1980 was handicapped by

Accepted Answer

A) his poor performance as a senator. 
B) a growing dislike for the Kennedys. 
C) Carter's popularity. 
D) lingering suspicions about his involvement in an automobile accident in which a young woman was killed. 
E) his inability to reach beyond New England. 
A) his poor performance as a senator. 
B) a growing dislike for the Kennedys. 
C) Carter's popularity. 
D) lingering suspicions about his involvement in an automobile accident in which a young woman was killed. 
E) his inability to reach beyond New England.

Question 15

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
​The Middle East During the Persian Gulf Crisis, 1990-1991
-____ Jordan

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The answer of Locate the following places by reference number...

Question 16

Conservative Democrats who helped Ronald Reagan to pass his budget and tax-cutting legislation were called

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A) blue dogs. 
B) sagebrush rebels. 
C) scalawags. 
D) neoconservatives. 
E) boll weevils. 
A) blue dogs. 
B) sagebrush rebels. 
C) scalawags. 
D) neoconservatives. 
E) boll weevils.

Question 17

The explosive Senate hearings that nearly prevented Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from being confirmed involved charges that Thomas was guilty of

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A) racial discrimination. 
B) smoking marijuana and snorting cocaine. 
C) plagiarism. 
D) sexual harassment. 
E) disrespecting civil liberties and the First Amendment. 
A) racial discrimination. 
B) smoking marijuana and snorting cocaine. 
C) plagiarism. 
D) sexual harassment. 
E) disrespecting civil liberties and the First Amendment.

Question 18

Solidarity was

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A) the slogan of the southern Democrats who supported Reagan. 
B) a massive working-class labor union of Polish dissidents. 
C) the mutual pledge between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher to confront the Soviet Union. 
D) the slogan of the new religious right organization, the Moral Majority. 
E) a song widely used by the revived U.S.labor movement of the 1980s. 
A) the slogan of the southern Democrats who supported Reagan. 
B) a massive working-class labor union of Polish dissidents. 
C) the mutual pledge between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher to confront the Soviet Union. 
D) the slogan of the new religious right organization, the Moral Majority. 
E) a song widely used by the revived U.S.labor movement of the 1980s.

Question 19

Agree or disagree with the following statement: George H.W. Bush's administration was essentially the Reagan administration's third term in its policies and goals. Why or why not?

Accepted Answer

I disagree with the statement that Georg

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"supply-side" economics

Accepted Answer

Supply-side economics is an economic the

Exam 39: The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-1992

One of the more disturbing trends that became apparent in the 1990s was

Ronald Reagan's supply side economic advisers assured him that the combination of budgetary discipline and tax reduction would do all of the following except

Which of the following was not among the ways that the religious right of the 1980s imitated the tactics and approaches of the New Left of the 1960s?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Boris Yeltsin

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Chappaquiddick

What gains has the African American community attained since the 1960s? What are the greatest challenges still facing African Americans and U.S. society regarding race?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -New Right

Was the Persian Gulf War a complete American triumph or only a qualified success? What were its long-term consequences?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​Manuel Noriega

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Reaganomics

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Solidarity Movement

All of the following represent the furor over Clarence Thomas's confirmation to the Supreme Court except

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Americans With Disabilities Act

Edward Kennedy's campaign to take the presidential nomination away from Jimmy Carter in 1980 was handicapped by

Locate the following places by reference number on the map: ​The Middle East During the Persian Gulf Crisis, 1990-1991 -____ Jordan

Conservative Democrats who helped Ronald Reagan to pass his budget and tax-cutting legislation were called

The explosive Senate hearings that nearly prevented Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from being confirmed involved charges that Thomas was guilty of

Solidarity was

Agree or disagree with the following statement: George H.W. Bush's administration was essentially the Reagan administration's third term in its policies and goals. Why or why not?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"supply-side" economics

New World Beginnings, 33,000 Bce-1769 Ce

The Planting of English America, 1500-1733

Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700

American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692

Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775

The Duel for North America, 1608-1763

The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775

America Secedes From the Empire, 1775-1783

The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790

Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800

The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic, 1800-1812

The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824

The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824-1840

Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860

The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860

The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860

Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848

Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854

Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861

Girding for War: the North and the South, 1861-1865

The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865

The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896

Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900

America Moves to the City, 1865-1900

The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896

Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912

Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War, 1913-1920

American Life in the Roaring Twenties 1920-1929

The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920-1932

The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933-1939

Franklin D Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933-1941

America in World War Ii 1941-1945

The Cold War Begins 1945-1952

American Zenith 1952-1963

The Stormy Sixties 1963-1973

Challenges to the Postwar Order 1973-1980

America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2000

The American People Face a New Century, 2001-2014

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Manuel Noriega

Locate the following places by reference number on the map: The Middle East During the Persian Gulf Crisis, 1990-1991 -____ Jordan