President Reagan's four main goals when elected president were to increase military spending, maintain an anti-Soviet foreign policy, reduce the size of the federal government, and do this.
What is lowering tax rates?
100
To reduce government red tape related to new regulations, President Jimmy Carter created two new cabinet-level agencies called the Departments of this and this.
What are Energy and Education?
100
This 1973 Supreme Court decision helped shape the rising conservative movement and is still hotly debated today.
What is Roe v. Wade?
100
This president running for re-election lost by a landslide after he carried just six states and received 49 electoral votes to his opponent's 489.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
100
This plan championed by future Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich helped Republicans to win back the House in 1994.
What is the Contract with America?
200
This alliterative group was formed by Reverend Jerry Falwell to campaign for the political objective of the religious right.
What is the Moral Majority?
200
The Camp David Accords were brokered by President Carter between Israel and this country and marked the first time that any Arab nation recognized Israel's existence
What is Egypt?
200
In this case involving affirmative action, the Court ruled that race could not be considered in college admissions.
What is Hopwell v. Texas?
200
This former vice president to Jimmy Carter made history by choosing the first female vice presidential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro.
Who is Walter Mondale?
200
The movement against the Equal Rights Amendment was headed by this woman who argued that it would violate biblical teachings of women's "God-given" roles as nurturers.
Who is Phyllis Schlafly?
300
When this trade agreement that had been negotiated by President George H. W. Bush was passed in 1994, President Clinton lost a large amount of support from some members of the Democratic Party for backing it up.
What is NAFTA?
300
Although this piece of legislation passed in California to dramatically reduce property taxes seems like policy that would be supported only by conservatives, it in fact received bipartisan support and passed in a landslide.
What is Proposition 13?
300
President Reagan nominated this woman for the Supreme Court in 1981 and she soon became the first female justice on the Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
300
This conservative 1992 presidential candidate challenged President George H. W. Bush in the Republican Party primaries because he and the conservative wing of the party believed that Bush spent far too much money and because he raised taxes and famously promising not to.
Who is Patrick Buchanan?
300
This 1964 Republican Party presidential nominee emerged as the leader of the growing conservative wing of the party and wrote the book The Conscience of a Conservative.
Who is Barry Goldwater?
400
In the aftermath of 9/11, what came to be known as this called for the US to take preemptive military action to prevent future attacks.
What is the Bush Doctrine?
400
The Obama Doctrine stated that the US should not be the world's principal policeman, resembling the doctrine of this former president.
Who is Nixon?
400
Bush v. Gore, in which the Court ruled that the recount of the votes in the 2000 Presidential election should be stopped, was decided by this many justices over this many.
What is 5-4?
400
This third-party candidate for president in 1992 won 19 percent of the popular vote that year, a higher percentage than any third-party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt ran as a member of the Bull Moose Party in 1912.
Who is Ross Perot?
400
This elected official promised to reduce the federal debt but ended up cutting taxes and increasing spending on the military once elected to office, growing the debt to over 2.5 trillion dollars.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
500
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, passed in 1996 with President Clinton's signature and approval, addressed this major issue.
What is welfare reform?
500
President Obama's healthcare law, officially named this and often referred to as Obamacare, was created to make health insurance more affordable and healthcare more accessible.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
500
In National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, this surprising Justice sided with the more liberal justices to create a 5-4 majority deeming most of Obamacare to be constitutional.
Who is Chief Justice John Roberts?
500
This future Secretary of State ran against George W. Bush in 2004 and narrowly lost after Bush won Ohio by a slim margin, earning him 20 electoral votes.
Who is John Kerry?
500
This is the name for the set of morals that conservatives claimed to be fighting for, including being anti-abortion, opposing gay marriage, emphasizing gender roles, and reinstating prayer in public schools.