Review Questions
- Before becoming a conservative Republican, Ronald Reagan was ________.
- a liberal Democrat
- a Socialist
- politically apathetic
- a Herbert Hoover Republican
- The belief that cutting taxes for the rich will eventually result in economic benefits for the poor is commonly referred to as ________.
- socialism
- pork barrel politics
- Keynesian economics
- trickle-down economics
- What were the elements of Ronald Reagan’s plan for economic reform?
- Which statement best describes Reagan’s political style?
- folksy and likable
- conservative and inflexible
- liberal and pragmatic
- intelligent and elitist
- What rationale did Phyllis Schlafly and her STOP ERA movement cite when opposing the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment?
- the ERA would ultimately lead to the legalization of abortion
- the ERA provided insufficient civil rights protections for women
- mothers could not be feminists
- the ERA would end gender-specific privileges women enjoyed
- What were some of the primary values of the Moral Majority?
- The group the Reagan administration encouraged and supported in its fight against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua was known as the ________.
- anti-Somozas
- Shining Path
- Contras
- Red Faction
- The country that Iraq invaded to trigger the crisis that resulted in the Persian Gulf War was ________.
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Saudi Arabia
- Iran
- What was the Iran-Contra affair about?
- Bill Clinton helped create a large free market among Canada, the United States, and Mexico with ratification of the ________ treaty.
- NAFTA
- NATO
- Organization of American States
- Alliance for Progress
- The key state in the 2000 election where the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a recount of votes was ________.
- Florida
- Texas
- Georgia
- Virginia
- What were some of the foreign policy successes of the Clinton administration?
