Chapter 40&41 Test

Question 1

In the 1980 election

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third-party candidate John Anderson won three states and seventeen Electoral College votes

Question 2

The New Right movement that helped to elect Ronald Reagan was spearheaded by

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evangelical Christians

Question 3

Ronald Reagan differed from Franklin D. Roosevelt in that Roosevelt

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branded big business as the enemy of the common man, while Reagan depicted big government as the foe

Question 4

Before being elected president, Ronald Reagan’s experience i elected public office had been as

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governor of California

Question 5

The strong tax revolt against extensive government programs and spending was spurred by the passage of Proposition 13 that severely limited property taxes in

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California

Question 6

President Ronald Reagan and the new British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, shared all of the following goals except

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enhancing the role of religion in public life

Question 7

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

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boll weevils

Question 8

One consequence of the record-high deficits and high interest rates of the 1980s was

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a soaring value for the dollar

Question 9

To President Reagan, “the focus of evil in the modern world”

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the Soviet Union

Question 10

The first woman to receive the vice-presidential nomination of a major political party was

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Geraldine Ferraro

Question 11

The Iran-Contra Affair essentially invovled

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selling arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and using the profits to illegally fund the Nicaraguan Contras

Question 12

Many of the movement conservatives of the new religious right gained political effectiveness by imitating the methods of

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the 1960s New Left

Question 13

Solidarity was

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a massive working-class labor union of Polish dissidents

Question 14

In response to the collapse of the Soviet Union, President George Bush called for a “new world order” where

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democracy would reign supreme and diplomacy would replace weaponry

Question 15

The result of the Persian Gulf War was that

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Kuwait was liberated but Saddam Hussein stayed in power

Question 16

In the beginning of the Clinton administration, First Lady Hillary Clinton was heavily criticized for

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developing an excessively complex health care plan that was quickly dropped by Congress

Question 17

The Branch Davidians were a(n)

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fundamentalist sect assaulted by the federal government

Question 18

Bill Clinton’s primary political advantage throughout his two terms of office was

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the tremendously prosperous economy

Question 19

The two articles of impeachment passed by the House of Representatives against President Clinton charged him with

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perjury and misuse of federal office facilities

Question 20

Which of the following was not among the polarizing conservative policies that George W. Bush pursued when he assumed the presidency?

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appointing extreme conservatives to the Supreme Court

Question 21

The new cabinet-level agency charged with protecting America against foreign terrorist attacks was the

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Department of Homeland Security

Question 22

The USA-Patriot Act provided for, among other things

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the detention and deportation of immigrants suspected of terrorism

Question 23

Among Bush’s advisers who pushed most strongly for the invasion of Iraq were

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Vice President Richard Cheney and administration neoconservatives.

Question 24

In June 2004, the United States handed over ____ to the new interim government of Iraq

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political power and limited sovereignty

Question 25

Violent resistance to the American presence in Iraq escalated when

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it was revealed that some American soldiers had humiliated Iraqi captives in the Abu Ghraib prison