Questions for Chapters 28-32

1. What was The Moral Majority’s primary goal when it was founded in 1979?

*encouraging traditional values

improving education in the United States

providing a political voice for conservatives  

2. President Jimmy Carter helped negotiate the Camp David Accords between which two rival nations?

*Egypt and Israel

El Salvador and Nicaragua

Iran and Iraq

3. Immigrants from which continent were most likely to be the ancestors of hippies?

*Europe

Africa

Asia

4. Which of the following data points for Native Americans in 1970 inspired the formation of the American Indian Movement?

*all of these answers

low life expectancy

high poverty rate

high infant mortality rate

high suicide tae

5. Why were many gay rights groups founded in Los Angeles and San Francisco?

*Gay soldiers received dishonorable discharges at military administrative centers there.

Both city councils declared their cities "sanctuary cities" for those suffering from anti-gay discrimination

President Nixon ordered all lesbian and gay people shipped to California

6. What was the ultimate goal of the National Organization for Women?

*Passage of the Equal Rights Amendment

Establish a nationwide chain of shelters for victims of domestic violence

Election of a woman as president

7. Which of the groups was NOT part of the coalition that elected Richard Nixon to the presidency?

*African Americans

whites in the Deep South

blue-collar workers

8. What were the southern Democrats called who opposed the advances of the civil rights movement?

*Dixiecrats

Yippies

Chicago Seven

9. Which state agency leader would likely be the biggest fan of President Nixon's "New Federalism"?

*A transportation department director interested in trying new ideas in road design and traffic management

A parks department director satisfied with the funding provided by that state's legislature

An education department director who wanted the state's curriculum to match what was being taught across the country

10. What was the long-term impact of the Watergate scandal on the U.S. government?

It strengthened the system of checks and balances.

*It weakened the executive privilege of the president.

It established the order of succession to the presidency.