Ford and Carter Domestic Policy Dates

Question 1

When is Gerald Ford inagurated?

Answer 1

August 1974

Question 2

Who does Ford select as his VP?

Answer 2

Rockefeller

Question 3

When does Ford grant Nixon a pardon?

Answer 3

September 1974

Question 4

When is the Economic Policy Board formed?

Answer 4

September 1974

Question 5

When is the WIN (Whip Inflation Now) campaign announced?

Answer 5

November 1974

Question 6

When is the Freedom of Information Act passed?

Answer 6

November 1974

Question 7

When is the Tax Reduction Act ($22 billion tax cut)?

Answer 7

March 1975

Question 8

When does unemployment rise to 9.2%?

Answer 8

1975

Question 9

When does Ford refuse economic aid to NYC?

Answer 9

October 1975

Question 10

When is the Sunday Morning Massacre?

Answer 10

November 1975

Question 11

When does Carter win the presidency?

Answer 11

November 1976

Question 12

How did Carter defeat Ford in the election?

Answer 12

• visited 37 states
• gave 200 speeches
• portrayed himself as a Washington outsider

Question 13

Why was Congress uncooperative with Carter?

Answer 13

He was unwilling to use his position to win friends in Congress through the usual method of promising federal spending in certain states and districts.

Question 14

How did Carter attempt to establish his authority?

Answer 14

• he fired four cabinet secretaries, transferred several others and asked for the resignation of dozens of lower ranking White House staff.

Question 15

What was the Three Mile Island Accident?

Answer 15

1979 - nuclear generator had a partial meltdown and released radioactive gases into the atmosphere. Massive demonstrations occurred culminating in 200,000 in New York.

Question 16

When were 14 gay people invited to the White House for the first official visit?

Answer 16

1977

Question 17

When did Carter refuse to issue an Executive Order banning anti-gay discrimination legislation in the federal government?

Answer 17

1980

Question 18

What was the Equal Credit Opportunity Act?

Answer 18

outlawed credit discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, religion, national origin, sex, marital status or age.

Question 19

What was the 1975 Taylor v. Louisiana case?

Answer 19

Supreme court ruled that excluding women from the jury pool was illegal because it violates a person’s right to a fair trial by a representative segment of the community.

Question 20

What did Betty Ford speak out about?

Answer 20

abortion, women’s rights and addiction

Question 21

What was the Pregnancy Discrimination Act?

Answer 21

1978 - employment discrimination on the basis of pregnancy illegal

Question 22

Why did Ford have difficulty working with Congress?

Answer 22

• the pardon of Nixon led to substantial Democrat gains in the 1974 mid terms, giving them a 291 to 144 advantage in the House and a 61 to 39 advantage in Senate.

Question 23

What was Koreagate?

Answer 23

30 congressmen were accused of taking bribes from the South Korean government for working to reverse Nixon’s decision to remove troops from South Korea.

Question 24

What was Billygate?

Answer 24

Billy Carter marketed his own brand of beer, ‘Billy Beer’ and had received a sum of £250,000 for an unspecified reason from the Libyan government.

Question 25

What was the Milliken v. Bradley decision?

Answer 25

a 1974 decision where it was made clear that districts where de facto segregation occurred could only be forced into an integrated busing plan if it was clear that there was segregation that was a pattern of violation.

Question 26

What was the University of California v. Bakke decision?

Answer 26

1978 - barred racial quotas in admissions to university but also affirmed the constitutional validity of the affirmative action programmes.

Question 27

What kind of black cultural gains were made in the 1970s?

Answer 27

• increasing presence of black people in cinema (blaxploitation films).
• 1976 saw the founding of Black History Month.
• music also became increasingly influenced by black culture with disco music becoming popular.

Question 28

What kind of an effect did Nixon’s ‘War on Drugs’ have on the prison system?

Answer 28

increase in US prison population by 800%

Question 29

What was the economic state of half of the African-American population?

Answer 29

African-Americans comprised 12% of the population but made up 43% of those receiving welfare, 34% of those in subsidised housing and 35% of those receiving food stamps.

Question 30

In 1975,, what percentage of African-American young adults had completed high-school education?

Answer 30

65%

Question 31

What was the percentage increase of black people who had graduated college from 1960 to 1980?

Answer 31

3% to 8%

Question 32

How had the civil rights groups experienced a decline in the 1970s?

Answer 32

SNCC largely disappeared, CORE was refocused on economic development, NAACP continued the fight and win cases and the Black Panthers had on 27 members by 1980.

Question 33

What was the population increase from 1970 to 1980?

Answer 33

11%

Question 34

By 1980 why was the country in a recession?

Answer 34

• oil crisis
• grain embargo

Question 35

What were the main reasons behind Reagan’s election victory?

Answer 35

• benefitted from his celebrity status
• good performance at the 1980 Republican
• Christian roots
• Carter’s weak domestic and foreign policy
• He won 51% of the vote.