HIST: US History Since 1865 (MULTIPLE CHOICE)

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Environmental Protection Agency

Pell Grants for higher education

Doubling of the budget for the National Endowment for the Humanities

Increased funding for the National Endowment for the Arts

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illegal taping of White House conversations.

an extramarital affair.

tax evasion and bribery.

ordering illegal surveillance of reporters who had been hounding him.

admitted to his involvement in the Watergate scandal.

was the first president to be impeached by both the House and Senate.

resigned as president.

refused to provide his secret taped White House conversations to Congress.

the New Left would not support him.

Islamic militants took 52 hostages from the American Embassy in Tehran.

his ambitious plans were struck down by the Supreme Court.

the economy remained too troubled overall.

Democratic National Committee headquarters.

National Endowment for the Arts headquarters.

Republican National Headquarters.

National Review.

limited all further increases on property taxes in California to 2 percent per year and inspired similar legislation in other states.

was the order that got the final troops out of Saigon, Vietnam in 1973.

was a plan against stagflation authored by a group of MIT economists.

was a movie shot in Detroit at the height of the oil embargo.

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resented the help America had given Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

wanted to convince the United States to stay out of Middle Eastern affairs.

believed the United States had pushed Israel to begin the 1973 war.

resented the friendly relationship between Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and the American press.

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shifted towards cultural conservatism.

enjoyed a sense of moral superiority.

went through an identity crisis.

lived in a period of increasing moral complexity.

It required that educational institutions spend equally on women’s and men’s athletics.

It legalized access to safe and legal abortions.

It led to the nuclear disarmament.

It banned wiretapping of political candidates and government officials.

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opened up improved relations with the Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev.

made the SALT agreements unnecessary.

was successful because the U.S. president came with Chinese recommendation to Moscow.

angered American farmers committed to anticommunism.

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publication of Rachel Carson’s book, Silent Spring.

the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

the celebration of the first Earth Day.

All of these choices.

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his pardon of Richard Nixon.

his decision to attempt to try Nixon.

his fumbling speeches that made him a laughingstock across America.

his pardon of Spiro Agnew.

labeling feminists as lesbians.

denouncing the women’s movement for promoting divorce, putting families in jeopardy and encouraging the sexual revolution.

charging that members of NOW were using the women’s movement to fix problems in their personal lives.

All of these choices.

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try to take the Soviet Union’s place as China’s closest ally.

have a chance to visit China during his administration.

drive a further wedge between China and the Soviet Union.

try to convince the Chinese to trade with the United States and help cut trade protections between the two countries.

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the alliance with the women’s liberation movement.

the police raid on the Stonewall Inn.

the election of Harvey Milk as Mayor of San Francisco.

the first national conference for gay rights in 1971.

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he resented the Eastern Establishment.

of his crimes of tax evasion and bribery.

of his commitment to liberal principles.

his preoccupation with getting reelected led him to advocate many liberal goals.

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the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment.

the acceptance of women in gender-equal military units.

the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion.

the transition from using the term “stewardess” to “flight attendant,” thus opening that profession to males for the first time.

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They opposed Great Society and New Deal-style government programs.

They opposed abortion and embraced traditional family values.

They advocated aggressive imperial expansion.

They urged tax cuts and less government intervention in people’s lives.

unionizing Mexican American workers in the West.

changing the name Mexican American to that of Chicano.

separating itself from earlier, more accommodationist, leaders such as Cesar Chavez.

broadening the interaction between Chicanos and white Americans in order to remove some elements of the racism which had been so prevalent.

Nixon tried but failed to cause a breakup of the Democratic coalition of blacks and whites that had been forged during the New Deal years.

Many of the nation’s universities adopted affirmative action policies only after lengthy court battles.

In the 1978 case Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the Supreme Court upheld the legality of affirmative action but denied the right of an entity to use exact quotas to achieve the goal of equality.

Programs of affirmative action were generally developed at the state level, since the federal government could not create a one-size-fits-all policy.

hosting teach-ins at Berkeley.

marching peacefully.

occupying the former federal prison on Alcatraz for over one year.

rioting in the cities’ poorer neighborhoods.