In the 1980s, for the first time in the twentieth century,
a. income gaps widened between the richest and the poorest Americans.
b. middle-class incomes rose.
c. the poor made economic gains.
d. the economy was uniformly healthy.
e. the majority of Americans were middle class.
Answer: A
The Resurgence of Conservatism
- The explosive Senate hearings that nearly prevented Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from being confirmed involved charges that Thomas was guilty of
- The result of the Persian Gulf War was that
- The United States joined its allies in the Persian Gulf War in order to
- In response to the collapse of the Soviet Union, President George Bush called for a "new world order" where
- Among the Democrats whom Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis defeated for the party's nomination to run against George Bush in 1988 were
- The Supreme Court cases of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services and Planned Parenthood v. Casey
- Which of the following was not among the ways that the "New Right" of the 1980s imitated the tactics and approaches of the "New Left" of the 1960s?
- Modem conservatism springs from
- All of the following issues or developments in the 1992 political campaign revealed popular disgust with incumbents except
- As one consequence of the demise of the Soviet Union,
- "Solidarity" was
- The Democrats' hopes for the 1988 election rose sharply because of major scandals in the Reagan administration involving
- In the cases of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Supreme Court
- The "new right" developed many of its tactical approaches by imitating the methods of
- Ronald Reagan's highest political objective as president was
- In 1986 Congress passed legislation mandating
- One of the greatest consequences of Reagan's expansion of the federal debt was
- The Iran-contra investigations revealed Ronald Reagan as a president who
- For the Soviet Union's new policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) to work, it was essential that the
- The first woman to receive the vice-presidential nomination of a major political party was
- To President Reagan, "the focus of evil in the modem world." was
- One consequence of the record-high deficits and high interest rates of the 19805 was
- The term "yuppies" was slang applied to
- The first results of Reagan's supply-side economics in 1982 was