Exam 28: The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973-1980

Which of the following statements characterizes the energy needs and resources that the United States faced in the late 1960s and early 1970s?

In the summer of 1975,which city was loaned money by the federal government and granted a three-year moratorium on municipal debt in order to stave off bankruptcy?

In the years from 1973 to 1975,the oil-exporting nations of OPEC

Nearly every American city struggled to pay its bills in the 1970s because of

Which of these developments spurred the birth of the modern environmentalist movement?

Which group established the first rape crisis centers in the early 1970s?

A nuclear reactor came close to meltdown in 1979 at

Which of the following developments accounted for the dramatic increase in the number of women working outside the home in the 1970s?

Which of the following was the cause of President Nixon's downfall?

For this question,refer to the following photograph of an old steel mill being demolished during the 1980s. The photograph above best serves as evidence of

Refer to the following except to answer the question. Nothing could be more misleading to our children than our present affluent society.They will inherit a totally different world,a world in which the standards,politics,and economics of the 1960s are dead.As the most powerful nation in the world today,and its largest consumer,the United States cannot stand isolated.We are today involved in the events leading to famine;tomorrow we may be destroyed by its consequences. Our position requires that we take immediate action at home and promote effective action world-wide.We must have population control at home,hopefully through a system of incentives and penalties,but by compulsion if voluntary methods fail.We must use our political power to push other countries into programs which combine agricultural development and population control.And while this is being done we must take action to reverse the deterioration of our environment before population pressure permanently ruins our planet. Paul Ehrlich,The Population Bomb,1969 Which of the following nineteenth-century issues most closely parallels the controversy expressed in the excerpt above?

Why did the environmental movement prove so divisive? Whose interests were threatened?

Which of the following describes the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?

Nuclear reactors account for what percentage of all U.S.power generation today?

Answer the following questions : -energy crisis

How did the idea of civil rights expand during the 1970s?

How did the United States respond to the OPEC oil embargo in the early 1970s?

What were the sources of growth for the women's rights movement in the 1970s?

What were the major causes of the environmentalist movement?

Answer the following questions : -Three Mile Island