HIS chapter 26
Which of the following assessments of the Carter administration in 1980 is accurate?
Carter's approval ratings in 1980 had fallen lower than Nixon's at the time of his resignation.
Ronald Reagan was the most effective president at reshaping the nation's agenda and political language since which president?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
As a result of Watergate, what happened to Richard Nixon?
He resigned as president.
Which of the following U.S. presidents used "freedom" as his watchword and invoked an image of America as the "beacon of liberty and freedom"?
Ronald Reagan
Which of the following accurately describes the Iran Crisis?
The Iranian Revolution signaled that opposition movements in Middle Eastern countries were shifting to religious fundamentalist ideologies.
Reagan strengthened the role of the federal government in
crime control.
The Reagan Revolution
included cuts to government programs.
In 1976, Jimmy Carter won the presidential race in part because he
played as an "outsider."
Reaganomics initially produced what result in regard to the economy?
severe recession
The Iran-Contra affair
was the greatest scandal of the Reagan administration.
