Chapter 19 Quiz McGraw Hill

Richard Nixon won Southern support in the 1968 election by promising to

• support busing.

• push for repeal of the Civil Rights Act.

• appoint a Southerner to the Supreme Court.

• win the Vietnam War.

To make good on his campaign promise to fight crime, Nixon targeted

• Communists

• African Americans.

• welfare recipients

• antiwar protesters.

The Architectural Barriers Act mandated that

• all new buildings built with federal funds be accessible to people with disabilities.

• all children with disabilities be given new technologies to access information.

• qualified individuals with disabilities should not be excluded from government programs.

• all children with disabilities be given access to free education.

Evidence on Watergate seems to show that Nixon

• was never directly involved in it.

• ordered the break-in.

• ordered the cover-up.

• ordered the break-in and the cover-up.

Affirmative action called for companies and institutions to

• meet quotas in hiring African Americans.

• actively recruit African American employees.

• hire the best-qualified candidates, regardless of race, religion, or national origin.

• provide diversity training for all employees.

The prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s rested in large part on easy access to raw materials around the world and

• increased consumer spending.

• low unemployment.

• a strong manufacturing base.

• low inflation.

By the 1970s, the U.S. economy had become heavily dependent on

• imported oil.

• steadily increasing production.

• steadily rising prices.

• government regulation.

American oil companies in the 1970s claimed it was difficult to make a profit because of

• price gouging by their suppliers.

• government regulation of the oil industry.

• decreased demand for oil.

• an abundance of alternative fuels.

President Carter imposed an embargo on the sale of grain to the Soviet Union as a result of the Soviet

• invasion of Afghanistan.

• boycott of the Summer Olympics Games.

• expansion in the Middle East.

• aid to the Arab nations during the Yom Kippur War.

According to the time line, Archibald Cox’s appointed position lasted

• 3 months.

• 4 months.

• 5 months.

• more than 6 months.