Chapter 30

Question 1

Evangelical Christian organization supporting conservative republican candidates

Answer 1

Moral Majority & Christian Coalition

Question 2

President 1981-1989; term marked by patriotic rhetoric, tax cuts, and strong anti communism against the “Evil Empire” of the USSR

Answer 2

Ronald Reagan

Question 3

Model suggesting tax cuts to business would lead to investment, increased production, greater employment, and then more revenue; “trickled-down economics”

Answer 3

Supply-side economics

Question 4

President 1989-1993; presided over end of Cold War, but had poor domestic record including raising taxes after saying he wouldn’t

Answer 4

George H. W. Bush

Question 5

1989; showed nearing end of Cold War

Answer 5

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Question 6

Conflict in which US-led coalition ousted Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi army from Kuwait in 1991

Answer 6

Persian Gulf War

Question 7

President 1993-2001; term marked by surging economy

Answer 7

Bill Clinton

Question 8

Mid-1980s moderate democrat movement

Answer 8

New Democrat coalition

Question 9

Republican candidates pledges in 1994 to support tax cuts, tougher crime laws, balanced budget, and conservative cultural topics.

Answer 9

Contract with America

Question 10

Free trade between US, Mexico, and Canada

Answer 10

North American Free Trade Agreement

Question 11

Republicans win control of both houses of Congress for first time since 1950s on the back of Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America”

Answer 11

1994 Republican Revolution

Question 12

Removal of barriers to flow of capital, goods, and ideas across borders

Answer 12

Globalization

Question 13

Where did the Republican Party transition to?

Answer 13

More southern and western party

Question 14

Who were the Republican Party aligned with?

Answer 14

The growing power of conservative Christians in the party.

Question 15

What party saw itself as being the Christian Coalition having the “Moral Majority”

Answer 15

The Republican Party

Question 16

Reagans supply-side economic taxes cute put an end to Stagflation but increased what?

Answer 16

Increased defense spending- a product off Reagan’s intense anti-communism- increased the budget deficit

Question 17

Under what president did the Berlin Wall fall and the Cold War ends?

Answer 17

President bush

Question 18

The US was known as the what, as evidence of the Persian Gulf War?

Answer 18

The global policeman

Question 19

What does President Clinton undo and lower?

Answer 19

Lowers spending and undoes Reagan’s tax cuts

Question 20

The conservative republicans hold the republican revolution in 1994 how?

Answer 20

Focusing on social issues supported by moral majority and Christian coalition

Question 21

With the american economy growing, what was made easier because of this?

Answer 21

Trade