APUSH Chp 30 Quiz: The Lean Years

Throughout Carter's administration, the central theme of its foreign policy was

• increasing tariffs to protect American businesses.

• a commitment to human rights.

• economic aid to non-Communist countries.

• military aid to non-Communist countries

Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced out of office because he was

• generally recognized by Republicans and Democrats alike as being unsuited for the presidency should President Nixon be removed from office as a result of Watergate.

• centrally involved in the Watergate cover-up.

• indicted for accepting kickbacks on construction contracts while governor of Maryland.

• arrested on a morals charge in Baltimore.

In 1972, the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP)

• raised over twenty million dollars.

• supplied funds used for illegal activities by the Nixon White House.

• extorted contributions from corporations by implying that failure to contribute would result in federal tax audits.

• All of the choices are correct.

In selecting Supreme Court justices, President Nixon sought candidates who favored

• expanding civil liberties.

• strengthening the presidency.

• a pragmatic approach to interpreting the Constitution.

• conservative social values.

The downfall of president Nixon is most accurately attributed to

• the political and media vendetta against him.

• his ordering of the Watergate break-in

• his obstruction of justice.

• his broad pattern of illegal activities.

The so-called Pentagon Papers

• were a set of documents on the conduct of the Vietnam that the Pentagon deliberately leaked to the media in order to blame military failures on the White House.

• were classified documents that clearly showed that Johnson had specifically ordered the invasion of Cambodia>

• were an expose of policy mistakes and deceptions in the Pentagon during the Vietnam War, written by investigative reports for the Washington Post.

• were a classified study of the American conduct of the Vietnam War commissioned by Secretary of Defense and later leaked to the New York Times.

What was the "smoking gun" that was found in the unexpurgated White House tapes that Nixon was finally forced to release in August 1974, which made it virtually certain that the Senate would convict him in an impeachment trial?

• Direct evidence that Nixon had ordered the Watergate cover-up as early as six days after the break-in

• The foul language and evidence of devious machinations that a prominent Republican senator called "deplorable, disgusting, shabby, and immoral.

• The long-missing text of the suspicious "eighteen minute gap"

• Evidence linking Nixon to new unsuspected crimes.

The birth of the modern environmentalist movement is usually debated to

• Theodore Roosevelt's administration.

• the public outcry against illegal waste dumps that began in Toledo, Ohio.

• the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962.

• The first celebration of Earth Day in 1970.

In 1977, a lingering dispute between Panama and the U.S.

• worsened when Carter insisted on the United States being paid for future lost revenue caused by turning the Panama Canal over to Panama.

• ended when the Carter administration negotiated a treaty providing for the eventual turnover of control of the Panama Canal to Panama, which the Senate narrowly ratified.

• worsened when Carter tried by failed to oust a Panamanian dictator who was actively participating in the exports of narcotics to the U.S.

• worsened when the Senate rejected a treaty-negotiated by the Carter administration- that would have given Panama eventually control of the Panama Canal.

Problems at the Love Canal housing development brought national attention to

• radiation.

• pesitcides.

• smog.

• chemical waste.