WorksheetsConservativism and Modern Issues
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
What was the nickname given to Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI), which proposed nuclear defence from space?
Space Force
Star Wars
Star Trek
Ender's Game
This was a conservative movement that promoted traditional family and "moral" values, lower taxes & deregulation of business.
The New Left
The New Right
The Counter Culture
The Grand Old Party
"Gorbachev Proposes Nuclear Arms Reductions"
"Berliners Travel Freely Between East and West"
"Russia Seeks To Join NATO"
These headlines are most closely associated with the
military arms race
decline of Cold War hostilities
failures of the containment policy
successes of communism in the Soviet Union
President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed a missile treaty in hopes of?
Reducing tensions associated with the threat of nuclear war
Providing an exchange of weapons for war hostages
Allowing secret weapons technologies to be shared
Establishing an official cease-fire
A relaxing of tensions by Richard Nixon, which included visiting China for the first time, was known as the policy of
laissez-faire
containment
brinksmanship
detente
The hiding of information such as the focus of this cartoon became the focus of
The Moral Majority
The Southern Strategy
The Watergate Scandal
The Pentagon Papers
The scene in the image was the result of actions of which organization?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Nations
North America Free Trade Agreement
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
One way in which the feminist movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s is similar to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s is that both
used public demonstrations and protests to draw attention to their goals
opposed Supreme Court decisions expanding the rights of the accused
refused support from churches and religious leaders
focused on securing equal access to housing
Activists such as the ones in this photo advocated for which of the following?
rejecting the provisions of Title IX
opposing affirmative action programs
demanding the right to vote in all elections
supporting the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution
"Grant Administration Caught Up in Credit Mobilier Controversy"
"Harding's Secretary of the Interior Indicted in Teapot Dome Investigation"
"Iran-Contra Scandal Leads to Resignation of Reagan Advisor"
Which conclusion can be drawn from these headlines?
American presidents are not subject to the nation's laws.
Senate trials have been used to remove corrupt presidents.
Only Democratic presidents have been investigated for misdeeds.
Some presidents have been damaged by the actions of their aides.
Which development is the topic of this cartoon?
increase in trade between the United States and Southeast Asia
outsourcing resulting from globalization
abandonment of free trade agreements with other countries
payment of higher wages to overseas workers
What economic policy is being criticized in the cartoon?
Supply-side
trickle-down
Reaganomics
Socialism
President Richard Nixon chose to resign the presidency mainly because of his involvement in the
secret bombing of Cambodia
escalation of the Vietnam War
Watergate scandal
implementation of wage-price controls
The photograph above shows a newspaper being read at a gasoline service center in January 1974. Its headline states: "Gas Rationing Set Monday". What was the primary cause of the shortages shown in the photograph?
A war in Afghanistan had cut oil supplies from Central Asia
The Mexican government had nationalized its petroleum industry
Arab members of OPEC had placed an oil embargo on the United States
Iran had halted its oil exports after the former Shah was admitted into America
The photograph above shows foreign leaders meeting with President Carter at Camp David in 1978. What was the outcome of this meeting?
The United States and its allies halted grain sales to the Soviet Union
The United States persuaded Egypt and Israel to sign a future peace treaty
The United States signed a treaty promising the return of the Panama Canal Zone
The United States successfully rescued hostages held by Iranian students in Tehran
A diplomatic standoff between Iran and the United States in which 52 American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for over a year.
Iranian Revolution
Iran Hostage Crisis
Camp David Accords
Iraq Hostage Crisis
“We must go forward now together. . . .I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. In all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.”
—Gerald Ford, August 9, 1974
Why do you think Ford made this speech immediately after gaining the presidency?
Nixon’s scandal shook the public’s trust in government.
Ford faced criticism for pardoning Nixon.
Newspaper were not covering economic issues.
Ford needed to successfully fight inflation.
The passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798, the McCarthy hearings in the 1950s, and the passage of the USA Patriot Act in 2001 created controversy because they
required large sums of money to enforce
raised questions about the protection of civil liberties
created alliances with foreign governments
limited the power of the executive branch
