Unit 11 Test Review

The return of power to the states and a reduction of the size and influence of the federal government

• Camelot

• The New Deal

• New Federalism

• Old Federalism

An increase in funding to the states and allowing them flexibility to determine how they spend it.

• revenue sharing

• revenue hoarding

• deficit spending

• budget surplus

Nixon's practice of withholding funds from specific programs.

• rebounding

• speculating

• impounding

• revenue sharing

President Carter led peace talks led to the first peace agreement between Israel and an Arab nation.

• Oslo Accords

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Versailles

• Camp David Accords

A day to demonstrate support for environmental protection.

• Earth Day

• Endangered Species Day

• Plant a Tree Day

• Enviro-Day

An agency that enforces pollution standards, conducts environmental research, and assists with environmental controls.

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• Endangered Species Act

• Clean Air & Clean Water Act

• Department of Energy

Designated millions of acres of land for conservation and tribal rights purposes.

• The Dawes Act

• Western Expansion Act

• The Homestead Act

• Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

Government-paid benefits that go to particular groups (ex. welfare).

• impounding

• Entitlement programs

• Reaganomics

• revenue sharing

Policies that government and private institutions use to give consideration to minorities and women (employment and education).

• affirmative action

• desegregation

• integration

• boycott

People who hold more conservative social, political, and economic views.

• Old Right

• New Left

• New Right

• Old Left