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Question 1

What was supply-side economics

Answer 1

Reagan’s system of lowering taxes to stimulate the economy and increase government revenue.

Question 2

Why didn’t Reagan’s Supply-Side Economics plan work?

Answer 2

Because he also had HUGE spending increases on military which created a “revenue hole” of $200 billion

Question 3

How much did Reagan add to the national debt during his presidency?

Answer 3

nearly $2 Trillion

Question 4

What happened to the median household income during Reagan’s time in office?

Answer 4

It declined from $33,500 to $31,000

Question 5

What was the Religious RIght?

Answer 5

A group of conservative, evangelical Christians who entered into American Politics during Reagan years.

Question 6

What was the Moral Majority?

Answer 6

A political organization founded by evangelist Jerry Falwell that gained great success.

Question 7

What two areas of politics did the Moral Majority focus it’s efforts?

Answer 7

Registering between 2-3 million conservative voters and raising millions of dollars to bring attention to conservative issues such as abortion, homosexuality, feminism, and school prayer.

Question 8

What was meant by “movement conservatives?”

Answer 8

This is what the religious right was called because they used many of the tactics of the activists of the 60s when they claimed that “personal was political” and organized peaceful protests and civil disobedience measures to get their message out.

Question 9

How did the religious right practice civil disobedience?

Answer 9

By blocking entrances to abortion clinics and draft offices.

Question 10

What is meant by “Conservatism in the Courts?”

Answer 10

Reagan’s fight against liberals through his appointment of conservative judges to the Supreme Court.

Question 11

Who is Sandra Day O’Connor?

Answer 11

The first woman Supreme Court Justice

Question 12

What two areas of liberal politics did the new conservative court attack?

Answer 12

Abortion and Affirmative Action

Question 13

What did the case Webster vs Reproductive Health Services do?

Answer 13

It weakened Roe vs Wade decision that protected abortion rights.

Question 14

What did the court case decision of Planned Parenthood vs. Casey do?

Answer 14

It ruled that states could restrict abortion access as long as it did not place “undue burden” on the woman.

Question 15

What happened in the Senate during the off year voting of 1986?

Answer 15

Republicans lost the majority in the Senate

Question 16

How did the new Democratic majority show it’s power in the Senate?

Answer 16

It blocked a conservative nominee to the Supreme Court.

Question 17

What two areas of Reagan’s presidency did Democrats seek to attack?

Answer 17

The Iran-Contra Affair and Economic Troubles

Question 18

What two problems did falling oil prices create in the Southwest that had a massive effect on the economy?

Answer 18

Real estate values lowered and Savings & Loan institutions failed

Question 19

What was Black Monday?

Answer 19

The day the stock-market crashed 508 points which was the largest one-day decline in history.

Question 20

What did Newsweek say about Black Monday?

Answer 20

It was “the final collapse of the money culture…the death knell of the 1980s”

Question 21

Who were the “Seven Dwarfs”?

Answer 21

Seven Democratic presidential hopefuls that hoped to cash in on Reagan’s economic troubles and win the presidency.

Question 22

Who was Gary Hart?

Answer 22

One of the hopeful Democratic candidates that was forced to drop out of the race because of an extra-marital affair.

Question 23

Who was Jesse Jackson?

Answer 23

An African American Democratic candidate that represented the “rainbow coalition” of minorities and disadvantaged. He was not taken seriously.

Question 24

Who was Michael Dukakis?

Answer 24

The Democratic nominee that ran against George H W Bush in the next presidential election. He was bland and boring and lost.

Question 25

Who was George H W Bush?

Answer 25

Reagan’s vice president who ran on the record of tax cuts, strong defense, tough on crime, and against abortion.

Question 26

Who won the 1988 Presidential election?

Answer 26

George H W Bush - from Texas

Question 27

What position did George H W Bush’s father hold?

Answer 27

He was a US Senator from Connecticut

Question 28

Where is George H W Bush go to college?

Answer 28

Yale

Question 29

How did George H W Bush make his fortune?

Answer 29

In the oil business in Texas

Question 30

Name three political positions George H W Bush held before running for president.

Answer 30

Ambassador to the United Nations
Director of CIA
Vice President of the US

Question 31

What happened in China soon after Bush became president?

Answer 31

Thousands of pro-democracy protesters marched in Tiananmen Square and raised a 30 foot high “Goddess of Democracy” then Chinese rulers rolled over many protesters with tanks and killed hundreds.

Question 32

How did Bush respond to the violence in China against pro-democracy protesters?

Answer 32

He was outraged but would not place any punitive restrictions on trade with China.

Question 33

What happened to communist regimes in Eastern Europe (Soviet Union) early in Bush’s presidency?

Answer 33

Communist regimes began to crumble and the Berlin wall came down ending the 45 year Cold War.

Question 34

Who was Boris Yeltsin?

Answer 34

President of the Russian Republic that helped Gorbachev when some some old members of the communist party tried to unseat him with a military coup.

Question 35

Why did Boris Yeltsin resign?

Answer 35

He had become a leader without a country because the Soviet Union had dissolved.

Question 36

What was the Commonwealth of Independent States? (CIS)

Answer 36

The group of fifteen republics that formed a confederation with Russia as its most powerful state and Yeltsin as its president.

Question 37

What did Bush mean by a “New World Order”?

Answer 37

A period in history where democracy would reign all over the world and instead of war, countries would settle their differences through talks (diplomacy)

Question 38

Who was Nelson Mandela?

Answer 38

The African leader who was freed after serving 27 years in prison.

Question 39

What happened in Nicaragua in 1990?

Answer 39

Free elections were held and the Sandinistas were removed from power.

Question 40

Who was Manuel Noriega?

Answer 40

The Panamanian drug lord and dictator that Bush captured.

Question 41

Who was Saddam Hussein?

Answer 41

The brutal ruler of Iraq who attacked Kuwait.

Question 42

Why did Saddam Hussein attack Kuwait?

Answer 42

After being at war with Iran for 8 years, Iraq needed Kuwait’s oil to pay the war bills.

Question 43

What was Operation Desert Storm?

Answer 43

a war that lasted only 4 days when UN forces captured and destroyed Iraq’s forces and Kuwait was liberated.

Question 44

Who was Norman Schwarzkof and what was his nick name?

Answer 44

He was the commander of the allied forces that attacked Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf War. His nick name was “Stormin’ Norman”

Question 45

What was the Americans with Disabilities Act?

Answer 45

a bill signed into law by Bush that prohibited discrimination against people with physical or mental disabilities.

Question 46

Who was Clarence Thomas?

Answer 46

The Conservative African American jurist that Bush nominated for the Supreme Court and was opposed by many liberal organizations.

Question 47

Who was Anita Hill?

Answer 47

Days before the senate was to vote on Clarence Thomas, this woman brought sexual harassment charges against him. It was never proven and Thomas was approved by a 52-48 vote in the Senate.

Question 48

What decision of Bush’s damaged his credibility as president most?

Answer 48

His decision to raise taxes after he had said, “Read my lips, no new taxes.” He raised taxes by $133 billion in order to fix a disastrous deficit.