Review Questions

1. Before becoming a conservative Republican, Ronald Reagan was ________.

a liberal Democrat
a Socialist
politically apathetic
a Herbert Hoover Republican

2. 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

3. What were the elements of Ronald Reagan’s plan for economic reform?

4. Which statement best describes Reagan’s political style?

folksy and likable
conservative and inflexible
liberal and pragmatic
intelligent and elitist

5. 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

6. What were some of the primary values of the Moral Majority?

7. 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

8. The country that Iraq invaded to trigger the crisis that resulted in the Persian Gulf War was ________.

Jordan
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
Iran

9. What was the Iran-Contra affair about?

10. 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

11. The key state in the 2000 election where the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a recount of votes was ________.

Florida
Texas
Georgia
Virginia

12. What were some of the foreign policy successes of the Clinton administration?