APUSH Chapter 29

Nuclear reactors account for what percentage of all US power generation today?

20 percent

How did the US 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 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

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

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

Why did the US economy suffer from inflation in the mid-1970s?

It was brought on in part by military spending in Vietnam

Which of the following describes the Equal Rights Amendment?

It was ratified by thrity-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

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 US 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 was signed into law by Nixon and had broad bipartisan support

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 of the Great Society programs and the Vietnam War

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

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

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.

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