Chapter 29 (part 2) - Social Change
In the case of Bakke v. University of California (1978), which of the following issues was under review?
Affirmative action
Which of the following Supreme Court cases was hailed by most conservatives?
Bowers v. Hardwick (1987)
Christian activists in the late 1970s and early 1980s made which of the following issues a high priority?
Combating the proliferation of pornography in American society
The resurgence of Christian faith in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s has been labeled by historians as the
Fourth Great Awakening
Which of the following issues did evangelicals disregard as they fought against the influences of what they believed to be an immoral society
Individual rights
Which of the following describes the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?
It was ratified by thirty-four states by the end of 1974, but its progress stalled.
Which of the following developments accounted for the dramatic increase in the number of women working outside the home in the 1970s?
Stagflation
How did the Supreme Court led by Warren Burger compare to that led by Earl Warren?
The Burger Court refused to scale back the Warren Court's liberal precedents.
Which group established the first rape crisis centers in the early 1970s?
Women's liberationists
In the case of Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), the Supreme Court struck down an 1879 state law prohibiting the purchase and use of
contraception
Evangelical Protestantism failed to embrace
the "Social Gospel."
Which of the following made a critical contribution to the emergence of the sexual revolution of the 1960s?
the birth control pill
The Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade was based on
the right to privacy