The Moral Majority (1996)

Multiple Choice

The Moral Majority (1996)
William Martin, With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America
This combination of covenantal thinking, conviction of divine mission, and profound awareness of human fallibility have marked American political institutions and movements from the Mayflower Compact to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, from the New Deal and New Frontier and Great Society, to the rise of the Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition and the construction of the Republican Party's 1994 Contract With America.
-Which of the following actions by the Reagan administration best demonstrates the interests of the movement described in the excerpt?

A) asserting a more aggressive foreign policy against the Soviet Union
B) appointing antiabortion activist as surgeon general
C) proposing tax cuts
D) shrinking the size of the welfare state