A.H. 1980s-Present Standards 30,31, 33

What does EPA stand for?

• Environmental Project Act

• Environmental Protection Agency

• Environmental Potential Agency

• Environmental Protection Academy

True or False: The Clean Air Act was created as part of the EPA to improve air quality in the United States.

• True

• False

Why did more and more people buy cars after WWII?

• People had more money to spend

• There was less public transportation

• More people moved away from cities

• All of the above

What is a Carbon Tax?

• Money companies get back in taxes for using carbon.

• An idea that has been proven to not work in places like Sweden and British Colombia.

• A successful law that has been in place in the US for a decade.

• A tax that companies would pay based on the amount of carbon they use.

President Reagan's economic policy cut taxes to corporations in an effort to do what?

• give businesses more money to hire employees

• give businesses less money for investment in growing their business

• give more money to social programs for the poor

• decrease federal budget deficits

Broad tax cuts, cuts to the federal budget, and increased military spending, Reagan believed all of these would promote economic expansion, these are examples of what policy:

• Reaganomics

• Strategic Defense Initiative

• Containment

• Fiscal Responsibility

What did Reagan do to taxes?

• Increased Taxes

• Lowered taxes

• Left taxes the same

• Only increased taxes on the rich

Which program below faced budget cuts under Reagan's administration?

• Medicare

• Social Security

• Medicaid

• Job Corps

Broad tax cuts, and financial deregulation, which would promote economic expansion, are examples of what policy's objective:

• Reaganomics
• Trade Imbalance
• Iran-Contra Affair
• Heritage Foundation

The fall of the Berlin Wall marked...

• End of the Cold War

• Start of the Soviet Union

• End of the Great Depression

• End of the Gulf War