american history chapter 29
Nuclear reactors account for what percentage of all U.S. power generation today?
20 percent
n 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)
How did President Carter respond to the energy crisis of the 1970s?
Carter advocated for energy conservation efforts as "the moral equivalent of war."
Christian activists in the late 1970s and early 1980s made which of the following issues a high priority?
Combatting the proliferation of pornography in American society
How did the United States respond to the OPEC oil embargo in the early 1970s?
Congress passed a law limiting highway speeds to 55 miles per hour.
Which of the following factors accounted for the demographic growth of the Sunbelt in the 1970s and 1980s?
Deindustrialization
Which of the following statements 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.
The resurgence of Christian faith in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s has been labeled by historians as the
Fourth Great Awakening
Who was the famous, openly gay supervisor from San Francisco who was assassinated after helping win passage of a gay rights ordinance?
Harvey Milk
Why did President Ford pardon Nixon a month after Ford took office in 1973?
He wished to spare the country the agony of rehashing Watergate.
Which of the following was the cause of President Nixon's downfall?
His obstruction of justice in the Watergate matter
Before his appointment to the vice presidency, Gerald Ford--who became president on Richard Nixon's resignation and was the nation's first non-elected vice president--had been
House minority leader
Before his appointment to the vice presidency, Gerald Ford--who became president on Richard Nixon's resignation and was the nation's first non-elected vice president--had been
House minority leader.
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.
Who was the presidential candidate who ran as a Washington outsider and promised to clean up government?
Jimmy Carter
Who masterminded the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate complex?
Members of the Committee to Re-elect the President
In the 1970s, the phenomenon of deindustrialization in the United States was most visible in the
Northeast and the Midwest.
Which of the following statements characterizes affirmative action?
Opponents, many of whom had opposed civil rights, charged that it was reverse discrimination.
Which of the following was detrimental to expanding women's rights in the 1970s and 1980s?
Phyllis Schlafly's STOP ERA
Which of the following was the most polarizing Supreme Court decision of the 1970s?
Roe v. Wade
Which of the following was the largest Protestant denomination, which grew 23 percent between 1970 and 1985?
Southern Baptist
Which of the following developments accounted for the dramatic increase in the number of women working outside the home in the 1970s?
Stagflation
Which of the following U.S. industries was most badly hurt by deindustrialization in the 1970s?
Steel
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 of the following statements describes the Nixon administration's domestic policies?
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was signed into law by Nixon and had broad bipartisan support.
Which of the following statements characterizes the energy needs and resources that the United States faced in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
The United States, once the world's leading producer of oil, had become heavily dependent on imported oil.
Which of the following made a critical contribution to the emergence of the sexual revolution of the 1960s?
The birth control pill
Why did the federal deficit grow dramatically in the late 1960s?
The government had spent huge sums on the Great Society programs and the Vietnam War.
What accounted for the dramatic decline of the American labor movement in the 1970s and 1980s?
The process of deindustrialization
Which of these developments spurred the birth of the modern environmentalist movement?
The publication of Silent Spring in 1962
A nuclear reactor came close to meltdown in 1979 at
Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania.
What happened to the typical American worker's real wages between 1973 and the early 1990s?
Wages declined by 10 percent.
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.
In the years from 1973 to 1975, the oil-exporting nations of OPEC
declared an oil embargo against the United States.
Economic competition from West Germany and Japan led to
deindustrialization.
In an attempt to combat stagflation, President Carter
deregulated the transportation industries.
The National Environmental Policy Act (1970) required developers to
file environmental impact statements on the effect of projects on ecosystems.
Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced out of office in 1973 because
he was indicted for accepting kickbacks while governor of Maryland.
Why did the U.S. economy suffer from inflation in the mid-1970s?
it was brought on in part by military spending in Vietnam.
The post-Watergate political reforms passed by Congress
made government more transparent.
In 1978, California voters began a national trend by enacting a ballot initiative called Proposition 13 that
rolled back property taxes and required future tax measures to pass the legislature with a two-thirds vote.
Evangelical Protestantism failed to embrace
the "Social Gospel.
Nearly every American city struggled to pay its bills in the 1970s because of
the continuing process of suburbanization.
Rachel Carson is associated with
the rebirth of environmental activism.
The Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade was based on
the right to privacy.
