Ch30 A Conservative Resurgence

A program required but not paid for by the federal government

• unfunded mandate

• Moral Majority

• Silent Majority

• preloaded debit

Politicians who generally favor more government intervention in the economy to address inequalities

• liberals

• conservatives

• moderates

• anarchists

A political organization founded by Reverend Jerry Falwell to fulfill religious goals

• moral majority

• silent minorty

• major majority

• loud minority

Politicians who generally favor limited government intervention in the economy

• conservatives

• liberals

• communists

• socialists

A resurgent conservative movement that grew rapidly during the 1960s and 1970s

• New Right

• Old Right

• New Left

• Old Left

The conservative president elected in 1980.

• Ronald Reagan

• Gerald Ford

• George H. W. Bush

• Richard Nixon

Liberals tend to prefer which of the following when in comes to foreign policy?

• isolation

• international cooperation

• unilateral action

• limited global involvement

Some conservatives believe that a large central government ....

• harms economic growth

• promotes industrialization

• undermines public welfare

• encourages individual choice

Neoconservatives warn about the dangers posed to society by

• inhibiting the mass media

• funding religious programs

• abandoning traditional values

• resisting the counterculture

Ronald Reagan convinced many Americans that he would

• usher in a new era of prosperity

• prolong the Cold War with the Soviet Union

• use higher taxes to increase public welfare

• focus on practical action rather than on idealistic optimism