APUSH Unit 9 Exam – Flashcards
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The person who has contributed most directly to the rise of conservatism in American politics after WWII was
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Barry Goldwater
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The Moral Majority was founded by which of the following evangelical Christians?
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Jerry Falwell
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Which of the following describes the New Right in 1980?
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Its leaders opposed big government and feared declining social morality
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Which of the following was the central theme of Carter's foreign policy throughout his administration?
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A commitment to human rights
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Which of the following precipitated a crisis in American-Iranian relations in 1979?
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American support for the deposed shah of Iran
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Which of the following was one of the factors leading to Ronald Reagan's Republican victory in 1980?
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His positive attitude and decisive demeanor
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Ronald Reagan's 1980 victory can be attributed to
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Americans' frustrations over the nation's declining prosperity and power
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Which of the following issues did the New Right reject during the 1980 presidential election?
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Increasing federal spending on social welfare programs
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Supply-side economics, as practiced by the Reagan administration, rested on
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using tax cuts to stimulate investment, which would eventually result in higher tax revenues
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Which of the following is true of the Reagan presidency?
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The national debt tripled
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Which of the following was a lasting legacy of Ronald Reagan?
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His conservative judicial appointments
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Which is true of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s?
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More Americans died of AIDS than were killed in the Korean and Vietnam Wars combined
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America's main economic competitors in the world market in the 1980s were
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West Germany and Japan
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Who did President Reagan christen as the "heroes for the eighties"?
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self-made entrepreneurs
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By increasing America's arms buildup in its defense against communism, President Reagan abandoned the diplomatic policy of
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Richard Nixon
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During the Reagan administration, the CIA funded an anticommunist movement in
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Central America
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The profits from the secret sale of arms to Iran in the 1980s were used to
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aid the Contras, an opposition group in Nicaragua
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Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of "glasnost" and "perestroika" resulted in
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a new willingness to tolerate significant changes in Soviet society
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In 1985, over two hundred American marines were killed in an explosion in
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Lebanon
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During the Cold War, the world was divided between the rival communist and capitalist blocs but, by 1990, it was clear that the post-Cold War world would be
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focused around multiple centers of power
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What was the 1999 Battle of Seattle?
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A protest at the World Trade Organization meeting against the negative effects of globalization
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Which nation quadrupled its gross domestic product between 2000 and 2008?
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China
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Which of the following American groups benefited the most from China's turn toward capitalism?
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Consumers
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Which group of nations signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993?
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US, Mexico, and Canada
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Which of the following statements describes the origins of the Internet?
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It originated from the need to preserve and manipulate military data
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Which of the following describes patterns of immigration to the United States between 1970 and 2000?
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Almost 28 million immigrants came into the US
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By 2000, approximately what percentage of California's population was foreign-born?
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25%
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The overwhelming majority of immigrants to the US between 1970 and 2000 came from
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East Asia and Latin America
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The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
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admitted immediate family members of legal residents into the United States
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The Supreme Court's ruling in the 2003 case "Lawrence V. Texas" was a landmark decision because it
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limited states' power to prohibit private homosexual activity between consenting adults
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Which of the following occurred during the Reagan and Clinton presidencies?
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Economic prosperity
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Which of these figures led Bill Clinton's health-care task force, which proposed national health-care reforms in 1993?
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Hillary Clinton, the First Lady
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Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (1996) in response to public concern about
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dependence on welfare
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President Bill Clinton was officially impeached in 1998 for
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perjury and obstruction of justice
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Muslim fundamentalists began to target Americans in the 1990s because
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they objected to the American presence in Saudi Arabia
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Which of the following states presented contested election returns that generated an intense political controversy in the 2000 presidential race?
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Florida
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The election of 2000 was historically significant because
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the Supreme Court intervened and decided the outcome
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The domestic issue that most engaged both Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush was
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taxes
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What was the US Congress trying to achieve when it passed the USA Patriot Act in 2001?
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The suspension of certain civil liberties protections
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What legislation did Congress and the Obama administration enact to relieve the economic crisis that began in 2008?
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
