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.