Make-Up Flashcards
Lyndon Johnson’s insistence on fighting the Vietnam War and finding the Great Society with a tax increase to pay for them led to
a. a drastic inflation of prices in the 1970s.
b. a decline in the competitive advantage of American business.
c. severe cutbacks in the size of the federal government
d. a taxpayer revolt.
e. a growing reliance on overseas trade to sustain the American economy.
a
One reason for the end of the postwar economic boom in the 1970s was
a. the entry of large numbers of women in the work force.
b. the Arab oil embargo.
c. a decline in technological innovation.
d. a lack of government safety and health regulations.
e. a drastic decline in worker productivity.
e
The proposed Equal Rights Amendment
(ERA), passed by Congress in 1972 and eventually ratified by 35 states, stated the following:
a. “Congress shall pass no law restricting the equal right of privacy in marital relations or reproduction.”
b. “The equal rights of unborn citizens of the United States under the Fourteenth Amendment shall not be abridged.”
c. “Equal access to the courts of the United States and any state shall not be abridged on account of race, gender, or physical handicap.”
d. “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on the basis of sex.”
e. “Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed by the courts or any state to prohibit the guarantee of equal pay for equal work to women.”
d
Title IX was passed by Congress in 1972 to
a. prohibit sex discrimination in any federally funded education program or activity.
b. guarantee women equal pay for equal work.
c. prohibit any form of sexual harassment or sexual innuendoes on the job.
d. establish quotas for women in sports, business, and government positions.
e. protect women’s access to birth control and abortion.
a
While many of the social movements born in the 1960s declined or disappeared, the one that remained strong and even gathered momentum in the 1970s was
a. the counterculture movement.
b. the peace movement.
c. the feminist movement.
d. the civil rights movement.
e. the antipoverty movement.
c
When the North Vietnamese launched
their full invasion of South Vietnam in 1975
a. the United States provided even more military aid to South Vietnam.
b. the Chinese intervened to seek a neutral settlement.
c. the United States renewed bombing against North Vietnam.
d. all the South Vietnamese who supported the U.S. were trapped inside the country.
e. the South Vietnamese government quickly collapsed.
e
The most controversial action of Gerald Ford’s presidency was
a. signing the Helsinki accords with the Soviet Union.
b. frantically evacuating the last Americans and Vietnamese by helicopter during the fall of South Vietnam to the Communists.
c. arranging the deal whereby Nixon resigned the president.
d. pardoning Nixon for any known or unknown crimes he had committed while president.
e. pardoning Vietnam War draft resisters and evaders.
d
Richard Nixon tried to resist giving his taped conversations to the special prosecutor and the Congress by claiming that
a. portions of the tape were erased.
b. they were his private property.
c. he had executive privilege (confidentiality).
d. they were inaudible.
e. it would violate his right to privacy.
c
The list of Nixon illegal administration activities uncovered in the Watergate scandal included all of the following except
a. breaking into the Democratic party headquarters in order to “bug” them.
b. paying Supreme Court justices to write favorable opinions.
c. using the internal Revenue Service to harass its “enemies.”
d. forging documents to discredit Democrats.
e. using the FBI and CIA to cover up previous crimes.
b
The “first wave” of feminism grew out of the movement, and the “second wave” of feminism grew out of the movement.
a. abolitionist; civil rights
b. prohibition; black power.
c. peace; environmental
d. progressive; antiwar.
e. evangelical revival; gay.
a
American Indian activists brought attention to their cause in the 1970s by seizing
a. the Little Big Horn battleground and Mount Rushmore in the sacred Black Hills.
b. Alcatraz Island and Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
c. the major tribal headquarters throughout Oklahoma.
d. salmon fishing grounds in Washington and trout streams in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
e. the Tippecanoe battlefield and Mesa
Verde National Park.
b
The supreme Court in the Bakke case held that
a. all forms of affirmative action in college admissions were unconstitutional.
b. “reverse discrimination” was just as wrong as antiblack discrimination.
c. public universities could impose racial quotas but private universities did not have to do so.
d. it was acceptable for universities to establish minority-based programs and housing arrangements.
e. racial quotas were unconstitutional but race could be taken into account as one factor in college admissions.
e
The most explosive domestic controversy of the 1970s centered around issues of
a. race.
b. labor.
c. the environment.
d. education.
e. immigration.
a
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) failed to be ratified by the needed 38 states largely because
a. the Catholic Church opposed it.
b. many Americans realized that its goals had already been achieved without amending the Constitution.
c. an antifeminist backlash led by Phyllis Schlafly stirred sufficient opposition to stop it.
d. many suspected that it would require such things as rigid quotas and unisex pathrooms.
e. many Americans believed that equal gender treatment was a matter of changing attitudes, not creating laws.
c
The most humiliating failure during the Iran hostage crisis came when
a. the Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah.
b. America’s allies approved the hostage takeover.
c. President Carter’s attempted rescue mission ended in disaster.
d. some of the hostages took the side of their Iranian captors.
e. the Iranians demonstrated their control of American oil supplies.
c
