Chapter 29 (part 2) - Social Change

In 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)

Christian activists in the late 1970s and early 1980s made which of the following issues a high priority?

Combating the proliferation of pornography in American society

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 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.

Which of the following developments accounted for the dramatic increase in the number of women working outside the home in the 1970s?

Stagflation

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 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

Evangelical Protestantism failed to embrace

the "Social Gospel."

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

the birth control pill

The Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade was based on

the right to privacy