Conservative Poliicies Under Reagan and Bush

Question 1

As sppm as reagan took office, what did he work to do

Answer 1

Reduce the size and influence of the federal government which he thought would encourage private investment,

Question 2

What did Reagan’s strategy for downsizing the federal government include

Answer 2

Deep cuts in government spending on social programs. Yet, these cuts did not affect all segments of the population equally. Entitlement

Question 3

What were programs that remained in tact

Answer 3

Social security, medicare, and veterens pensions. They benefitted the middle class

Question 4

What got cut

Answer 4

Urban mass transit, food stamps, welfare benefits, jobtraining, medicaid, school lunches, and student loans

Question 5

What did Reaganomics rest heavily on (define)

Answer 5

Supply side economics- the theory that if people paid fewer taxrs they would hsave more money. Banks could then loan money to businesses which could invest the money in resources to improve productivity. Then the supply of goods would increase and drive down prices

Question 6

How much did Congress lower income teaxes

Answer 6

By 25 percent during a three year period

Question 7

What did Reagan increase

Answer 7

military spending that more than offset cuts in social programs,

Question 8

Between 1981 and 1984, how much did Defense Department budget incrase

Answer 8

it doubled

Question 9

What two contrivorsial weapons did the president revive

Answer 9

MC missile and the B-i bomber

Question 10

in 1983, what did Reagan ask the country’s scientists to develop

Answer 10

A defense system that would Keep American safe from enemy missiles. This became known as the strategic defense initiative or SDI

Question 11

How much did this end up costing

Answer 11

trillions of dollarts

Question 12

Lasting from JUly 1981 until November 1982, what happened

Answer 12

There was the most severe recession since the Great Depression

Question 13

in 1983 an economic upturn began

Answer 13

as consumbers went on a spending spree.

Question 14

Where was the consumers go on the spending spree

Answer 14

BeTheir confidence int the economy was bolstered by tax cuts a decline in interest rates and lower inflation. The stock market surged, unemployment declined and the gross national product went up

Question 15

What happened in 1987

Answer 15

The stock market crashed

Question 16

Beneth the surface of recovery what lay

Answer 16

a bunch of problems—tax cuts had helped the rich, while social welfare cuts had hurt the poor. Despite large reductions in parts of the budget, federal spending still outstripped federal revenue. Budget deficits were growing.

Question 17

What was happening to budget deficit

Answer 17

It was growing

Question 18

Did reagan back away from supply side economics

Answer 18

yes. In 1982, he iimposed new taxes they were not enough to balance them

Question 19

Who did Reagan nominate (OCON) for supreme justice

Answer 19

Sandra Day O’Conner

Question 20

Who else did Reagan nominate for supreme court Justice

Answer 20

Antonin Scalia, and Anthony M. Kennedy

Question 21

What was Sandra Day O’Conner

Answer 21

The first women to be appointed to the Court

Question 22

Who did Reagan also nominate

Answer 22

William Rehnquist the most conservative justice in the court at the time

Question 23

President H.W. later made the Court even more conservative when

Answer 23

David H. Souter replaced William Brennan. Bush also nominated Clarence Thomas to take the place of Thurgood Marshall

Question 24

The Reagan and Bush appointments to the Supremem Court eventually ended the

Answer 24

liberal countrol over the Court that had began with FDR

Question 25

The appointments to the supreme court became increasingly significant when

Answer 25

The court revisited constitutional issues related to such topics as discrimination, aboration, and affirmative actions.

Question 26

IN 1989 the Court in a series of rulings restricted a woman’s right to an abortion. The court had also restricted civil rights and in 1990-1991 restricted the rights of accused persons

Question 27

Reagan achieved one of his most important objectives-reducing the size and power of the federal government-in part by cutting federal entitlement programs but also through

Answer 27

Deregulation: the cutting back of federal regulation of the industry.

Question 28

As his part of his campaign for a a smaller government what did Regan remove

Answer 28

controls on oil and eliminated federal health and safety inspection for nursing homes. He deregulated the airline industry and allowed airlines to abandon unprofitable air routes. And the savings and loan industry

Question 29

What was a positive effect of Deregulation

Answer 29

It increased competition and often resulted in lower prices

Question 30

Reagan cut the budget of the EPA which did what

Answer 30

It had been established to fight pollution and conserve natural resources. He ignored please from Canada to reduce acid rain and appointed opponents f the regulations to enforce them

Question 31

James Watt reagan’s secretary of teh interior sold millons of what

Answer 31

acres of public land to private developers often at bargan prices. He opened the continental shelf to oil and gas drilling which many people thoght posed environmental rists.

Question 32

Which people highly approved of Reagan

Answer 32

1. Business people: who wanted to deregulate the economyu

Southerners: Who welcomed the limits on federal power

Westerners : Who resented federal controls on mining and grazing

Reagan democrats: Who agreed with reagan on limiting ffederal government and thought that the dem. Party had drifted too far to the left

Question 33

In 1984 Reagan and Bush won the republican nomination but who were the democratic candidates

Answer 33

Walter Mondale (VP UNDER CARTER) and Vo Geraldine Ferraro -she was the first women

Question 34

1984 election

Answer 34

Ronald Reagan won!

Question 35

Michael Dukakis the democratic governor ran for presidency against Geroge Bush, voters saw no reason for

Answer 35

CHANGE. Bush built on Reagans legacy by promising no new tacrd.

Question 36

There was teh lowest voter turnout in 64 years