America Topic 4

Question 1

What year did Kenedy win the election?

Answer 1

1960

Question 2

What was the name of Kenedy’s plans for reform?

Answer 2

The New Frontier

Question 3

What were the main things that the New Frontier addressed?

Answer 3

Civil rights, the economy and social reform

Question 4

What year was Kenedy assasinated?

Answer 4

1963

Question 5

For what years was Lyndon Johnson president?

Answer 5

1963-1968

Question 6

What was the name of Johnson’s reform scheme?

Answer 6

The Great Society

Question 7

What was the main aim of the Great Society?

Answer 7

To declare war on poverty

Question 8

What other things did the Great Society involve?

Answer 8

An end to racial injustice and civil improvements like minimum wage and access to healthcare

Question 9

What was the main oppositioin of the Great Society?

Answer 9

The Vietnam war, as it reduced the money spent on the Great Society and it led to Johnson not running for re-election

Question 10

When was Nixon elected as president?

Answer 10

1968 and won re-elecction in 1972

Question 11

When was Nixon forced to resign?

Answer 11

August 1974

Question 12

What was the Watergate scandal?

Answer 12

The Watergate scandal was a break in to the headquarters of the Democrat party, in which the facility was bugged to give Nixon an upper hand in his re-election campaign.

Question 13

In what way did Nixon make the scandal worse?

Answer 13

Nixon decided to attempt a cover up, but was later exposed due to taped convosations from the White House

Question 14

In what way did the Watergate scandal affect the powers of a US government?

Answer 14

An American president could no longer use government money for their own good and they could not send troops to war without consulting congress.

Question 15

What act gave citizens access to files the government may have had on them?

Answer 15

The Privacy Act of 1974

Question 16

In what year was Ronald Reagan elected as president?

Answer 16

1980

Question 17

How many terms did Reagan serve as president?

Answer 17

Two terms, from 1981 to 1989

Question 18

What was Reaganomics?

Answer 18

Reaganomics was the name for Reagan’s economic plans, in which he wanted to employ Arthur Laffer’s ideas of a ‘trickle down economy’

Question 19

What was the unemployment percentage in 1980?

Answer 19

7.5%

Question 20

By how much did Reagan cut welfare spending during his first three years?

Answer 20

$20 billion per year

Question 21

How much did the 1981 Economic Recovery Tax Act reduce taxes?

Answer 21

$33 billion per year

Question 22

What level did US debt rise to in the years of Reagan’s presidential term?

Answer 22

Nearly $1 trillion

Question 23

What year did the Challenger space shuttle crash?

Answer 23

1986

Question 24

How much money, by 1989, was the USA spending on AIDS research?

Answer 24

$2.3 billion per year

Question 25

When was Bush elected as the president?

Answer 25

1989, serving one term

Question 26

What percentage of Americans were predicted to be living in poverty in 1992?

Answer 26

14.2%

Question 27

What political party did Bill Clinton belong to?

Answer 27

The Democrat party

Question 28

What figure was the budget deficit reduced to by 1996?

Answer 28

$107 billion

Question 29

Which coutries signed the North American Free Trade Agreement?

Answer 29

Canada, Mexico and the USA

Question 30

What were three important social reforms under Clinton?

Answer 30

The Medical leave act, allowing for unpaid leave to look after a family member, the US munimum wage of $4.75 per hour and the supply of healthcare for newborns and their mothers

Question 31

What scandal was clinton linked to in 1996?

Answer 31

The Whitewater scandal, involving two former business associates