Chapter 29

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 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

Which of the following was the cause of President Nixon's downfall?

His obstruction of justice in the Watergate matter

Why did the U.S. economy suffer from inflation in the mid-1970s?

It was brought on in part by military spending in Vietnam.

Who masterminded the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate complex?

Members of the Committee to Re-elect the President

The War Powers Act, the Freedom of Information Act, the Fair Campaign Practices Act, and the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act were passed as a result of

Nixon's imperial presidency

In the 1970s, the phenomenon of deindustrialization in the United States was most visible in the

Northeast and 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

Evangelical Protestantism failed to embrace

Social Gospel

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.

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.

Which of these developments spurred the birth of the modern environmentalist movement?

The publication of Silent Spring in 1962

In the case of Bakke v. University of California (1978), which of the following issues was under review?

affirmative action

Which of the following made a critical contribution to the emergence of the sexual revolution of the 1960s?

birth control pill

Which of the following factors accounted for the demographic growth of the Sunbelt in the 1970s and 1980s?

deindustrialization

The National Environmental Policy Act (1970) required developers to

file environmental impact statements on the effect of projects on ecosystems.

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 issues did evangelicals disregard as they fought against the influences of what they believed to be an immoral society?

individual rights

The post-Watergate political reforms passed by Congress

made government more transparent.

Nearly every American city struggled to pay its bills in the 1970s because of

the continuing process of suburbanization.