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Which of the following contributed to the powerful mystique that followed the presidency of John F. Kennedy?
Kennedy's 1963 assassination
Which of the following describes Title IX?
The legislation benefited women athletes
What was the outcome of the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973 and 1974?
Vietnam became communist but remained an independent nation
Who masterminded the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate complex?
Members of the Committee to Re-elect the President
The resurgence of Christian faith in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s has been labeled by historians as the
Fourth Great Awakening
Which of the following describes Johnson’s War on Poverty?
The program was Johnson's highest political priority, even more than civil rights advances
The 1969 Stonewall riot in New York City was a spontaneous protest led by
gay people
Which of the following was detrimental to expanding women’s rights in the 1970s and 1980s?
Phyllis Schlafly's STOP ERA
Why did President Ford pardon Nixon a month after Ford took office in 1973?
He wished to spare the country the agony of rehashing Watergate
Which of the following War on Poverty programs provided free nursery schools to prepare disadvantaged preschoolers for kindergarten?
Head Start
The 1963 report of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women
documented discrimination against women in the workplace and in education
From 1969 to 1972, Richard Nixon’s strategy to end the Vietnam War was to
reduce American troop involvement and turn over most of the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese army
How did the United States respond to the OPEC oil embargo in the early 1970s?
Congress passed a law limiting highway speeds to 55 miles per hour
Which of the following statements describes the feminist movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s?
Feminist activism addressed many issues, took a variety of forms, and affected millions of women
Which element of Barry Goldwater’s campaign platform did American voters find particularly alienating in the election of 1964?
His approach to foreign policy
Which of the following characterizes the 1968 Tet offensive?
Many Americans changed their opinions of the war after the Tet offensive
In the 1968 election and during the Nixon administration, the expression “silent majority” was used to refer to
Americans who were hardworking and avoided protest activities
The National Environmental Policy Act (1970) required developers to
file environmental impact statements on the effect of projects on ecosystems
In the case of Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), the Supreme Court struck down an 1879 state law prohibiting the purchase and use of
contraception
Which of the following was a goal of President Johnson’s environmental reforms?
Improving the nation's air and water
Women’s liberation activists modeled their ideas, goals, and tactics after the
Black Power movement
By the 1970s, schools in northern cities were more racially segregated than schools in the South because of
suburbanization
What accounted for the dramatic decline of the American labor movement in the 1970s and 1980s?
The process of deindustrialization
What happened to the typical American worker’s real wages between 1973 and the early 1990s?
Wages declined by 10 percent
Which of the following was the purpose of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
To authorize the president to take any action necessary to prevent further aggression in Vietnam