Chapter 29 Reading Quiz

Nuclear reactors account for what percentage of all U.S. power generation today?

20 percent

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)

How did President Carter respond to the energy crisis of the 1970s?

Carter advocated for energy conservation efforts as "the moral equivalent of war."

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

Combatting the proliferation of pornography in American society

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

Deindustrialization

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.

Who was the famous, openly gay supervisor from San Francisco who was assassinated after helping win passage of a gay rights ordinance?

Harvey Milk

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

Before his appointment to the vice presidency, Gerald Ford--who became president on Richard Nixon's resignation and was the nation's first non-elected vice president--had been

House minority leader.

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 U.S. 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 (ERA)?

It was ratified by thirty-four states by the end of 1974, but its progress stalled.

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

Members of the Committee to Re-elect the President

In the summer of 1975, which city was loaned money by the federal government and granted a three-year moratorium on municipal debt in order to stave off bankruptcy?

New York City

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 the 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

Which of the following was the largest Protestant denomination, which grew 23 percent between 1970 and 1985?

Southern Baptist

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

Stagflation

Which of the following U.S. 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 (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.

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 on the Great Society programs and the Vietnam War.

What accounted for the dramatic decline of the American labor movement in the 1970s and 1980s?

The process of deindustrialization

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.

What happened to the typical American worker's real wages between 1973 and the early 1990s?

Wages declined by 10 percent.

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.

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.

In an attempt to combat stagflation, President Carter

deregulated the transportation industries.

The National Environmental Policy Act (1970) required developers to

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

Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced out of office in 1973 because

he was indicted for accepting kickbacks while governor of Maryland.

Who was the presidential candidate who ran as a Washington outsider and promised to clean up government?

immy Carter

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.

Evangelical Protestantism failed to embrace

the "Social Gospel."

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

the continuing process of suburbanization.

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.

California's Proposition 13 harmed

working-class families.