The Democrats' hopes for the 1988 election rose sharply because of major scandals in the Reagan administration involving
a. bribes involving business deals in the Soviet Union.
b. election fraud.
c. the Iran-Contra affair and savings-and-loan banks.
d. kickbacks for oil leases on federal lands.
e. payoffs for U.S. hostages and campaign contributions from foreign corporations.
Answer: C
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
- 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
- In the 1980s, for the first time in the twentieth century,
- The term "yuppies" was slang applied to
- The first results of Reagan's supply-side economics in 1982 was