APUSH-Chapter 24

Tom Wolfe dubbed the 1970s, a time in which "lifestyle" emerged in depoliticized form, the:

"Me Decade."

What was the name for the plan by which, beginning in 1969, President Nixon gradually drew down the number of American troops in Vietnam, saying they would be replaced by South Vietnamese soldiers?

"Vietnamization"

A leading voice of the Beats was:

Allen Ginsberg.

The movement to reverse the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision was supported by all of the following except:

Feminists.

Which of the following was not a major theme raised by critics of Reagan's presidency?

He appears more interested in safeguarding the environment than in safeguarding the nation from communism.

Which was not one of President Nixon's apparent motivations in the context of his administration's Philadelphia Plan, and its promotion of "affirmative action"?

He sought to garner the support of white working class voters for the Republican Party in initiating the Philadelphia Plan.

Which of the following was not a central theme of the Reagan revolution?

Military spending has grown far too lavish, and must be reduced.

Who was the author of the 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, which held the capitalist free market to be the necessary foundation for individual liberty, and called for the repeal of the minimum wage and the Social Security system?

Milton Friedman

What was the 1979 organization created by Virginia minister Jerry Falwell, devoted to waging a "war against sin" and electing "pro-life, pro-family, pro-America," candidates?

Moral Majority

A major initiative of the Carter administration was the:

Panama Canal treaty.

What was 1978 Supreme Court decision that rejected the idea of fixed affirmative action quotas, but allowed that institutions of higher learning could use race as one factor among many in admissions decisions?

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

Who was the author of Ideas Have Consequences (1948)--a principal figure in the "new conservatism"--who asserted that the Free World needed to arm itself morally, and called for a return to a civilization based on values grounded in the Christian tradition?

Richard Weaver

Which does not describe Rosa Parks in the years prior to her December 1, 1955 arrest?

She was a housewife, with no previous experience as a political activist.

The 1960 statement drafted by young conservatives, members of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), which asserted that the free market underpinned "personal freedom," and that international communism posed a grave menace to American liberty was called:

The Sharon Statement

An indication of America's economic troubles during the 1970s was:

The coming of a merchandise trade deficit. A decline in manufacturing. The advent of an urban fiscal crisis.

Which was not a reason that AFDC rolls expanded rapidly during the 1960s?

The federal government quintupled AFDC payments to individual recipients.

Which was not one of the conservative ideas that informed Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidency in 1964, and shaped conservatism for years thereafter?

a call for expansion of governmental regulations

Which of the following was not a key factor behind President Carter's 1980 reelection defeat?

a general feeling that Carter was morally corrupt and hopelessly indifferent to the concerns of the people

Which of the following was not a significant trend in 1950s America?

a surge of student radicalism on college campuses

President Richard Nixon sought to replace the polarized and hostile relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union with a new era of "peaceful coexistence" called:

détente

From 1973 to 1993, real wages:

essentially did not rise.

Which of the following issues was not a focus of political conflict during the Seventies?

federal programs addressing AIDS

Which is not central to libertarian conservatism?

regulatory controls

"Stagflation" refers to:

stagnant economic growth and high inflation.

Which of the following developments did not help undermine public faith in the effectiveness of federal government?

the Camp David agreement

Evangelical Christians of the Religious Right believe that, too often, American culture seems to trivialize religion and promote immorality, and demanded the Supreme Court reverse decisions in all of the following, except:

the overly easy access to divorce.