Deck 28: Conservatism Revived

Question 1

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the national "Sanctuary movement"?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Answer 1

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Question 2

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the 1980 presidential election?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Answer 2

Answer not provided.

Question 3

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the neoconservatives?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the 1981 air traffic controllers strike?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 5

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, and Sandra Day O'Connor?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 6

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the 1984 presidential election?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 7

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: Webster v. Reproductive Health Services?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 8

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: Bowers v. Hardwick?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 9

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: Ronald Reagan?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 10

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the New Right?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 11

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: organized labor in the 1980s?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 12

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: Reaganomics?
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-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 13

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: Reagan's policies toward regulatory agencies?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 14

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the new conservative coalition of 1980?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 15

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: Reagan's policies toward social welfare programs?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 16

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: supply-side economics?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 17

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the Reagan tax cuts?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 18

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: James Watt?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 19

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: Luisa Orellana?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 20

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the recession of the early 1980s?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 21

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the 1987 INF treaty?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 22

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the culture wars?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 23

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the intifada of 1987?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 24

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the Reagan defense buildup?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 25

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: Grenada and El Salvador?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 26

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the Iran-contra scandal?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 27

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: insider trading scandals of the late 1980s?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 28

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the Reagan Doctrine?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 29

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: hostile takeovers and corporate downsizing?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 30

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the contra war in Nicaragua?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 31

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the Lebanese crisis of 1982-1983?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 32

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: perestroika and glasnost?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 33

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the Reykjavik summit?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 34

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: Mikhail S. Gorbachev?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 35

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 36

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item:the junk bond industry?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 37

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the policy of constructive engagement and the passage of divestment laws?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 38

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: deregulation?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 39

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the growing danger of terrorism?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 40

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the apartheid system in South Africa?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 41

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the Immigration Reform and Control (Simpson-Rodino) Act?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 42

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the Clean Air Act?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 43

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item:anti-immigrant sentiment of the 1980s?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 44

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the "crack" epidemic?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 45

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: homelessness in the 1980s?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 46

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the religious right?
Instructions:
- Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 47

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the Tiananmen Square massacre?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 48

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 49

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the Moral Majority?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 50

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 51

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the AIDS epidemic?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 52

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the disintegration of the Soviet Union?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 53

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: President Bush's "new world order"?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 54

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: George Herbert Walker Bush?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 55

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: poverty in the 1980s?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 56

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the "new immigrants" of the 1970s and 1980s?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 57

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the 1988 presidential election?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 58

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: growth of the Latino population in the 1970s and 1980s?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 59

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: F. W. DeKlerk and Nelson Mandela?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 60

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: People for the American Way?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 61

When the 11,300 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization went on strike in 1981, President Reagan

A) refused to intervene.
B) ordered the Federal Aviation Administration to cut air traffic controllers' working hours to reduce their stress and improve air safety.
C) fired the strikers and barred them from ever being rehired as federal air traffic controllers.
D) ordered the National Labor Relations Board to mediate the strike.

Question 62

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: Saddam Hussein?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 63

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: Operation Desert Storm?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 64

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: Clarence Thomas?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 65

Which of the following was a reason for the decline in inflation during the first years of Reagan's presidency?

A) A decline in the value of the dollar on foreign exchange markets
B) The Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates on bank loans to an unprecedented level
C) The end of federal health and safety regulations on businesses
D) A substantial decline in the balance-of-trade deficit

Question 66

As a believer in supply-side economics, Reagan called for

A) expansion of federally-guaranteed home mortgage programs.
B) extension of federal grants to state and local governments to stimulate spending.
C) lower income-tax rates for individuals and corporations.
D) increases in direct federal assistance to the poor and unemployed.

Question 67

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: Security Council resolutions 687 and 688?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 68

Which of the following was a consequence of the Federal Reserve Board's 1981 decision to tighten the money supply?

A) The inflation rate increased.
B) Interest rates began a slow but steady decline.
C) Economic activity declined and the unemployment rate increased.
D) Federal budget deficits were brought under control.

Question 69

During the Reagan administration, those appointed to head federal regulatory agencies

A) often opposed the federal regulations they were supposed to enforce.
B) demanded rigorous enforcement of health and safety standards in the workplace.
C) dismantled those agencies, thus leaving American industry to regulate itself.
D) often changed their anti-regulatory views after learning of corporate abuses.

Question 70

The ruling by the Supreme Court in Bowers v. Hardwick is evidence of which of the following?

A) Despite the conservative mood of the nation, the Supreme Court remained a bastion of liberalism.
B) The Court had no sympathy with the concept of affirmative action.
C) The Court had taken a decisive turn in the direction of federal power over the concept of states' rights.
D) President Reagan's appointments to the Supreme Court made that body more conservative.

Question 71

During President Reagan's first term, the nation's environmental movement was reenergized because of which of the following?

A) The accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant
B) The views and actions of Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, James Watt
C) President Reagan's veto of the Clean Air Act
D) Crop failures in the Midwest obviously caused by the greenhouse effect

Question 72

As president, Ronald Reagan pleased the New Right by

A) imposing sanctions against South Africa.
B) supporting legislation to end television advertising by tobacco companies.
C) supporting environmental-protection legislation designed to promote conservation and preservation of the nation's natural resources.
D) supporting prayer in public schools.

Question 73

Which of the following was one of the items on Reagan's agenda at the beginning of his first term?

A) The prevention of wasteful defense expenditures
B) The reduction of East-West conflicts through negotiations
C) An increase in welfare subsidies to the working poor
D) The weakening of federal environmental, health, and safety regulations

Question 74

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the recession of 1991?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 75

This person was the first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court.

A) Anita Bryant
B) Geraldine Ferraro
C) Sandra Day O'Connor
D) Phyllis Schlafly

Question 76

As governor of California, Ronald Reagan

A) dismantled the state's welfare system.
B) signed one of the nation's most liberal abortion laws.
C) proposed the legalization of marijuana.
D) instituted a statewide healthcare program.

Question 77

As a result of President Reagan's economic policies,

A) the poverty rate declined.
B) U.S. corporations suffered under the burden of higher tax rates.
C) the United States became the world's largest debtor nation.
D) the national debt declined.

Question 78

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the 1989 U. S. invasion of Panama?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

Question 79

According to advocates of supply-side economics, an increase in savings and investments by the upper classes and corporations would lead to which of the following?

A) An economic recession resulting from the withdrawal of money from circulation
B) The revival of heavy industry in the United States
C) A proliferation of small businesses that would increase competition within the economic system
D) Renewed prosperity as profits from the top trickled down to the middle and lower classes

Question 80

Among President Reagan's accomplishments was

A) the restoration of a mood of confidence and optimism in an America shaken by the social and economic crises of the 1970s.
B) an enormous reduction in the budget deficit.
C) improved relations with most of Latin America.
D) passage of major environmental-protection legislation.