The Conservative Tide - Chapter 33

Question 1

Program that guarantees benefits to particular people

Answer 1

Entitlement Program

Question 2

Alliance of conservative groups to support conservative ideas

Answer 2

New Right

Question 3

Programs that required special consideration for racial and ethnic minorities and women

Answer 3

Affirmative action

Question 4

Discrimination against whites to make up for past discrimination against others

Answer 4

Reverse discrimination

Question 5

Alliance of business interests, religious people, and dissatisfied middle-class voters to support conservative candidates

Answer 5

Conservative coalition

Question 6

Organization formed to fight for traditional values

Answer 6

Moral Majority

Question 7

40th president

Answer 7

Ronald Reagan

Question 8

Reagan’s economic policies

Answer 8

Reaganomics

Question 9

Economic theory that tax cuts will increase jobs and government revenues

Answer 9

Supply-side economics

Question 10

Proposed system to defend the United Sates against missile attacks

Answer 10

strategic Defense Initiative

Question 11

First woman Supreme Court Justice

Answer 11

Sandra Day O’Connor

Question 12

The cutting back of federal regulation of industry

Answer 12

Deregulation

Question 13

Agency established in 1970 to fight pollution and conserve natural resources

Answer 13

Environmental Protection Agency

Question 14

Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1984

Answer 14

Geraldine Ferraro

Question 15

Reagan’s vice president elected president in 1988

Answer 15

George Bush

Question 16

Fatal disease with no known cure, that became a U.S. and world-wide epidemic

Answer 16

AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)

Question 17

Situation in which women and men receive equal pay for equal work

Answer 17

Pay equity

Question 18

Nation’s first African-American governor

Answer 18

L. Douglas Wilder

Question 19

Civil rights leader and presidential candidate

Answer 19

Jesse Jackson

Question 20

Appointed secretary of education by President Reagan

Answer 20

Lauro Cavasos

Question 21

Named Surgeon General by President Bush

Answer 21

Dr, Antonia Coello Novello

Question 22

Last leader of the Soviet Union

Answer 22

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 23

Gorbachev’s policy of openness in discussing problems in the Soviet Union

Answer 23

Glasnost

Question 24

Gorbachev’s policy of reforming the economy in the Soviet Union

Answer 24

Perestroika

Question 25

Treaty to reduce nuclear weapons

Answer 25

INF Treaty

Question 26

Place in Beijing where Chinese protesters demonstrated against the Communist government

Answer 26

Tiananmen Square

Question 27

Communist rebel group that took power in Nicaragua

Answer 27

Sandinistas

Question 28

Rebel forces supported by Ronald Reagan to overthrow the Sandinistas

Answer 28

Contras

Question 29

The 1991 U.S. attack on Iraq to force the Iraqis out of Kuwait

Answer 29

Operation Desert Storm