AP Review Questions for Chapter 39

What legal claim did President Nixon unsuccessfully make to the US supreme court to resist the efforts of the watergate special prosecutor and congress to obtain his taped conversations with aides in the White House?

A. Executive privilege (presidential confidentiality) allowed him to withhold the tapes

Which was the most controversial action of Gerald Ford's presidency

A. pardoning Richard Nixon for any known or unknown crime Nixon had committed during his presidency

Why did the creation of the environmental protection agency and occupational safety and health administration arouse such bitter opposition among many businesspeople

B. the work of these two agencies directly involved the federal government in many aspects of business decision making

How did the watergate scandal prove that the US Constitution could work effectively in a crisis?

B. two branches of government of government investigated and punished abuses of power in the third

What was guiding principle of President Carter's foreign policy?

D. Human rights

The energy crises of 1973 and 1979 were similar in all of the following ways EXCEPT that

D. both signaled the end of an era of cheap and abundant energy sources

The list of illegal activities perpetrated by the law and order nixon administration that were uncovered in the watergate scandal included all of the following EXCEPT

D. bribing US supreme court justices to write favorable judicial opinions

Which of the following best characterizes President Nixon's policy of detente?

D. it ushered ink an era of relaxed bilateral tensions between the US and the two leading communist powers China and the Soviet Union

Which of the following most accurately describes the key holding of the supreme court in the Bakke case

E. Racial quotas were unconstitutional, but race could be taken into account as one plus factor in university admissions.

All of the following were sources of the economic stagnation that plagued America in the 1970s EXCEPT

E. Steep tax increases in the 1960s and early 1970s to fund increased domestic and military spending

The presidency of Jimmy Carter was undermined by all of the following EXCEPT

E. armed conflict in the middle east between Israel and Egypt

President Richard Nixon's Vietnam policy included all of the following EXCEPT

E. steadily increasing American troop commitments in Vietnam.

Which of the following was NOT a decision issued by the US supreme court during the warren court era

E. the court upheld the right of state legislatures to disregard the one man, one vote principle in apportioning legislative districts

Which was NOT among the notable achievements of the feminist movement in America during the 1970s?

E. the ratification of the Equal rights amendment constitutionally guaranteeing women equality of rights under law in all fifty states