USH Chapter 25

Programs that provide guaranteed benefits to particular groups.

• Moral Majority 
• Conservative Coalition
• Supply Side Economics 
• Entitlement Programs 

A conservative during the 1980s would have wanted states, businesses, and individuals to have more freedom from the federal government.

• True 
• False 

Right wing grassroots groups that emerged to support and promote single issues that reflected their interests in the 1970s and 1980s.

• Entitlement Programs 
• New Deal 
• New Right 
• New Left 

Which would a supporter of the New Right NOT support? 

• Evading Busing 
• Abortion 
• Prayer in Schools 
• Tax Cuts 

It required employers and educational institutions to give special consideration to women, blacks, and other minority groups, even though these people were not necessarily better qualified.

• New Right 
• Conservative Coalition 
• Affirmative Action
• Moral Majority  

Some would say that affirmative action is reverse discrimination.

• True 
• False 

An alliance of business leaders, middle class voters, disaffected Democrats, and fundamentalist Christian groups.

• New Left 
• Conservative Coalition
• New Democrats 
• Liberal Coalition 

Influential evangelist who formed the Moral Majority which consisted of Christians who interpreted the Bible literally and believed in absolute standards of right and wrong.

• Jerry Falwell
• Ronald Reagan 
• Billy Sunday 
• Franklin Graham 

Republican who won the 1980 and 1984 presidential elections.

• George W. Bush
• George H.W. Bush 
• Bill Clinton 
• Ronald Reagan

Which of these issues would Ronald Reagan have agreed with?

• Evolution
• Abortion
• Removal of Prayer in Schools
• Tax Cuts