Chapter 29 SmartBook

What two economic moves did President Nixon make in 1971?

-He established wage and price controls administered by the federal government. -He took the United States off the gold standard.

In May 1970, students at which colleges were killed by National Guardsmen and police while participating in anti-war rallies on campus?

-Jackson State University. -Kent State University.

Which groups did Nixon exclude when making overtures to Northern blue-color workers?

-Jewish Americans. -Black Americans.

What were the two prongs of President Nixon's duel strategy in the Vietnam War?

-Keep enough military pressure on the North Vietnamese to force them to the negotiating table. -Reduce the political costs of the Vietnam War.

Richard Nixon built a new Republican political coalition be attracting which two groups to the party?

-Northern working-class whites. -Southern segregationists.

Which of the following was true of the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography in 1969?

-President Nixon and the U.S. Senate rejected the findings. -Its report turned up no evidence of the negative social impact of pornography.

Which of the following were results of the passage of Proposition 13 in California?

-Public services like education deteriorated. -The state lost billions of dollars in revenue.

What two factors drew evangelicals into politics in the 1970s?

-The Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion. -IRS policies threatened the tax-exempt status of private religious schools.

What did the three landmark 1969--1970 environmental laws that President Nixon signed do?

-They set new pollution standards. -They created a major federal agency for environmental issues.

In the 1970s, gay and lesbian Americans expressed the ideals of gay pride and gay liberation by ______.

-coming out to family and friends. -participating in gay pride parades.

President Nixon continued the Great Society programs by ______.

-indexing Social Security to the cost of living. -increasing food stamp support.

As part of his blue-collar strategy, Nixon emphasized which cultural values?

-patriotism and support for the Vietnam War. -traditional sexual morality and gender norms.

American foreign policy under National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger included which of the following?

-preserving international power balances. -conducting quiet negotiations with other countries. -building up military arms.

What economic challenges did President Nixon face?

-rising inflation. -a growing trade deficit.

President Nixon backed civil rights initiatives that aimed to do which of the following?

-support minority-owned businesses. -promote initiatives to increase employment amongst minorities.

Which three landmark environmental laws did President Nixon sign into law in 1969 and 1970?

-the National Environmental Policy Act. -the Environmental Protection Act. -the Clean Air Act Extension.

Conservative social critics accused the documentary series An American Family of symbolizing which of the following?

-the breakdown of marriages. -the spread of permissive parenting.

The landmark television mini-series Roots (1977) followed seven generations of an _____ American family.

African.

The most notorious protests over school busing took place in _____ after white parents organized as a group called Restore Our Alienated Rights (ROAR) and refused to cooperate with the court order.

Boston, Massachusetts.

President Nixon authorized the CIA to undermine ______ democratically elected leader Salvador Allende, setting the stage for brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet to take power.

Chile's.

In the 1970s, both the Soviet Union and the United States worried about the other nation developing close ties to ______.

China.

Evangelical preachers reached ever-wider audiences in the 1970s with the advent of ______.

Christian cable television networks.

In 1979, ____ formed the Moral Majority organization to harness the political power of the evangelical constituency.

Jerry Falwell.

The outcome of the Six Day War inspired and emboldened young _____ Americans into activism.

Jewish.

Because of the popularity of the self-improvement movement in the 1970s, writer Tom Wolfe labeled the period the ______ Decade.

Me.

The ______ revealed that the Johnson administration had lied about the goals and progress of the Vietnam War.

Pentagon Papers.

How was 1970s radical feminism different from the new feminism of the 1960s?

Radical feminism harshly attacked the male power structure.

What did the Pentagon Papers reveal?

The Johnson administration had lied about the goals and progress of the Vietnam War.

President Nixon's Revised Philadelphia Plan was an early milestone for ______.

affirmative action.

The U.S. policy of _____ called for easing tensions with the Soviet Union.

détente.

What religious movement experienced a rebirth in the 1970s?

evangelical Protestantism.

As part of a "Save Our Children" campaign, Anita Bryant successfully repealed a civil rights ordinance in Florida prohibiting discrimination against ______.

gay men and lesbians.

As part of the policy of Vietnamization, President Nixon announced in 1969 that ______.

he would be shifting the burden of ground combat to South Vietnam.

As part of her public opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment, Phyllis Schlafly argued that the ERA was an assault on the rights of ______.

homemakers.

The 1970s witnessed a general rise in ______.

individual quests for personal fulfillment.

SALT I was a treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union that focused on ______.

limiting nuclear arms.

What decision by President Nixon spurred Congress to pass the War Powers Resolution?

ordering a secret invasion of Cambodia that led to the overthrow of the country's government.

After President Nixon revealed the secret invasion in Cambodia and its outcome, Congress ______.

passed the War Powers Resolution.

In 1978, California's Proposition 13 instituted caps on which type of taxes in that state?

property taxes.

The Occupational Safety and Health Act (1970) ______.

protected workers against smaller-scale environmental dangers.

California's 1978 Briggs Initiative was a statewide ballot proposition that authorized the firing of _____ for "public homosexual conduct."

public school employees.

As a result of the ruling in the Bakke v. Regents of the University of California (1978) Supreme Court case, universities could consider ____ as a factor in admissions decisions.

race.

Opposition from which group helped defeat the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972?

religious conservatives.

Which domestic proposal of President Nixon's died in the Senate after being criticized by both conservatives and liberals?

replacing welfare payments with a federally guaranteed income.

By the early 1970s, many Americans spoke about _____ with much greater candor than before, and eagerly sought out the books of Xaviera Hollander and Alex Comfort as a result.

sex.

Americans descended from ______ Europeans were most likely to embrace the white ethnic revival of the 1970s.

southern and eastern.

In the Bakke v. Regents of the University of California (1978) decision, the Supreme Court ruled that ______.

the university could consider race in its admissions process, but it could not have numerical racial quotas for filling slots.

The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 was intended to provide federal regulation for ______.

the workplace.

The white ethnic revival of the 1970s meant that many European Americans began embracing ______.

their distinct cultural heritage.

In its most radical form, the new feminism of the late 1960s rejected ______.

traditional notions of marriage and family.

On the subject of school desegregation, President Nixon ______.

was a vocal critic of "forced busing".

After easing tensions with the Soviet Union and China, the Nixon administration chose allies from countries that ______.

were friendly to an immediate American interest.

As a result of the Milliken v. Bradley (1974) decision, places like Detroit experienced ______.

white flight to the suburbs.

How did masses of Americans react to the announcement that the United States had secretly invaded Cambodia and installed a pro-U.S. government there?

with immediate outrage.