The Reagan Revolution

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is evidence that Nixon eased Cold War tensions?

• Watergate

• Cambodia incursion

• Ping Pong diplomacy

• founding the EPA

Multiple Choice

When Republicans won office after World War II, they did it mostly by...

• stoking racial tensions

• acting like Democrats

• promising an end to the Cold War

• stuffing ballot boxes

Multiple Choice

What key figure was a major opponent of ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment?

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Betty Friedan
• Phyllis Schlafly
• Gloria Steinem

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was not assassinated as part of the unrest in the US in 1968?

• Malcolm X

• Robert F. Kennedy
• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Trick question. All of those were assassinated in 1968

Multiple Choice

What did the Supreme Court effectively legalize in the Griswold v. Connecticut ruling?

• Free speech in school

• Access to birth control

• Right to bear arms
• Access to abortion

Multiple Choice

Between the Civil War and the 1970s, social conservatives in the US were mostly concerned about protecting...

• economic equality
• Jim Crow

• religion in government

• individual freedoms

Multiple Choice

Who founded the Moral Majority?

• Billy Graham
• Pat Robertson
• Jimmy Swaggart
• Jerry Falwell

Multiple Choice

Which of the following features of the Republican Party platform changed between 1920 and 1980?

• support of big business

• laissez faire economic policy

• aggressive foreign policy

• support for traditional family values

Multiple Choice

When Democrats won office after 1980, they did it mostly by...

• stoking racial tensions

• acting like Republicans

• promising an end to the Cold War

• stuffing ballot boxes

Multiple Choice

The "Reagan Revolution" refers to a...

• period of technological advancements and scientific discoveries during Ronald Reagan's presidency.

• period of political instability and social unrest during Ronald Reagan's presidency.

• shift toward conservative policies and economic reforms starting with Ronald Reagan's presidency.

• shift toward liberal policies and economic reforms starting with Ronald Reagan's presidency.

Multiple Choice

What role did the Moral Majority play in changing American politics?

• It promoted atheism and secularism in the United States

• It merged religious conservatives with conventionally pro-business Republicans.

• It pushed for the creation of a third party to oppose the existing corrupt parties.

• It encouraged religious conservatives and religious liberals to join together in Christian unity.