APUSH Chapter 29 Learning Curve
The Supreme Court decision in Bakke v. University of California represented what?
A victory and a defeat for opponents of affirmative action
Which member of the House was one of the prominent congresswomen who championed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) during the 1970s?
Bella Abzug
How did President Richard Nixon try to tackle inflation in the 1970s?
He imposed temporary price and wage controls in 1971.
Why did President Jimmy Carter have such chilly relations with congressional leaders even from his own party?
He operated with an outsider strategy.
How did the economic decline of the 1970s affect organized labor in the United States?
It decreased the number of union jobs, which hurt union membership and power.
How did television portray sexual issues in the 1970s?
It was more moderate than the portrayal of sex in books or movies.
Why were feminists hopeful in the 1960s that the Supreme Court might legalize abortion?
The Court had already made decisions that opened the door to the possibility.
How did Democratic "Watergate babies" in Congress attempt to decentralize power in Washington?
They reduced the number of votes needed to end a filibuster in the Senate.
The U.S. economy experienced "stagflation" in the 1970s when...
unemployment and inflation rates rose dramatically.
The creation of the Natural Resources Council in 1942 reflected which trend?
Anxiety about overpopulation
Which of the following developments made a critical contribution to the emergence of the sexual revolution of the 1960s?
Birth Control Pill
Why did the two parties become more partisan and rigid after the 1970s?
Committee chairs lost power to party leaders in the House and the Senate.
Which statement describes the feminist movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s?
Feminist activism addressed many issues, took a variety of forms, and affected millions of women.
Why was San Francisco politician Harvey Milk significant?
He represented the new emerging gay political power.
Why did nearly every major American city struggle to pay its bills in the 1970s?
Inflation and shrinking tax revenues created budget crises.
Why did Israeli-Arab tensions in the region grow closer to boiling over between 1967 and 1973?
Israel had gained considerable territory in the Six-Day War of 1967.
Which statement describes the 1970 National Environmental Policy Act?
It required developers to file environmental impact statements.
How did the War Powers Act of 1973 seek to limit presidential power?
It required the president to secure congressional approval for any substantial deployment of troops abroad.
Which statement describes the impact of the 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade?
It said that states could not prohibit abortion in the first trimester.
Who was the first evangelical Christian president of the United States?
Jimmy Carter
Which development of the 1960s or 1970s did the United States consider a blow to its national pride?
Nine Western European countries surpassed the United States in GDP per capita by 1980.
Which statement characterizes the historical development of OPEC?
OPEC was ineffective until the mid-1970s when Arab states issued an oil embargo.
Which statement reflects the impact of Phyllis Schlafly during the 1970s?
She organized a movement to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment
What book from the early 1960s gave an impetus to the environmental movement?
Silent Spring
What development accounted for the dramatic increase in the number of women working outside the home in the 1970s?
Stagflation
In his speech at the 1980 Republican National Convention, candidate Ronald Reagan said, "Make no mistake. We will not permit the safety of our people or our environmental heritage to be jeopardized, but we are going to reaffirm that the economic prosperity of our people is a fundamental part of our environment." What was Reagan suggesting with these remarks?
That protecting American economic prosperity was just as important, if not more important, as protecting the environment
Why did America's share of world trade drop from 32 percent in 1955 to 18 percent in 1970?
The United States faced more industrial competition from Germany and Japan.
Why did the federal budget deficit grow in the late 1960s?
The government spent large sums on the Great Society and Vietnam War.
Between 1973 and the early 1990s, every major income group except the top 10 percent saw their earnings stagnate or decline. At the same time, the proportion of women working for pay increased from 37 to 75 percent. What story do these numbers tell?
The need for women to work both to make ends meet and to make up for the declining earning power of men
Why did more than 100,000 people flee their homes in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in March 1979?
The reactor core at a nearby nuclear plant nearly melted down.
Why did conservatives in Congress push for economic deregulation and tax cuts in the late 1970s?
They argued that Keynesian economics had failed.
Why did conservatives, Catholics, and fundamentalist Christians object to the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade?
They believed that abortion involved the immoral taking of an innocent human life.
Why were conservative Republicans critical of Richard Nixon during his presidency?
They thought that he was too conciliatory toward China and the Soviet Union.
What characterized the affirmative action programs instituted in the 1960s and 1970s?
They were procedures designed to account for the disadvantaged position of minorities.
Why did the federal government adopt a system of affirmative action in the 1960s and 1970s?
To expand employment access to minorities and women
Why did OPEC nations initiate an oil embargo on the United States in 1973?
To punish the United States for supporting Israel in the Yom Kippur War
Why did Democrats reduce the number of votes needed to end a filibuster in the mid-1970s?
To weaken the ability of the minority to block legislation
Who established the first rape crisis centers in the early 1970s?
Women's Liberationists
The most popular television shows of the 1970s focused on which theme?
Working-Class life
The gains of the women's movement in the 1970s included...
abortion rights