The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) failed to be ratified by the needed 38 states largely because
a. the Catholic Church opposed it.
b. many Americans realized that its goals had already been achieved without amending the Constitution.
c. an antifeminist backlash led by Phyllis Schlafly stirred sufficient opposition to stop it.
d. many suspected that it would require such things as rigid quotas and unisex bathrooms.
e. many Americans believed that equal gender treatment was a matter of changing attitudes, not creating laws.
Answer: C
The Stalemated Seventies
- Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) Arab oil embargo, (B) Iranian hostage crisis, (C) fall of Saigon, (D) invasion of Afghanistan.
- The most humiliating failure during the Iran hostage crisis came when
- The SALT II Treaty between the Soviet Union and the United States died in the Senate when the Soviets
- The "oil shocks" of the 1970s brought home to Americans the stunning fact that
- The first major trouble to afflict President Carter's foreign policy was
- President Carter believed that the fundamental problem of the American economy in the late 1970s was
- President Jimmy Carter's most spectacular foreign-policy achievement was the
- The guiding principle of President Carter's foreign policy was
- James Earl (Jimmy) Carter enjoyed considerable popularity when he won the presidency because
- The opposing major party candidates in the bicentennial presidential campaign of 1976 were
- On which of the following issues did nearly all "second wave" feminists agree?
- The "first wave" of feminism grew out of the __________ movement, and the "second wave" of feminism grew out of the ___________ movement.
- American Indian activists brought attention to their cause in the 1970s by seizing
- The supreme Court in the Bakke case held that
- The effect of the Supreme Court ruling in Milliken v. Bradley, which held that integration did not have to take place across school district lines, was to
- The most explosive domestic controversy of the 1970s centered around issues of
- The Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade declared state laws prohibiting abortion were unconstitutional because they
- The proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), passed by Congress in 1972 and eventually ratified by 35 states, stated the following:
- Title IX was passed by Congress in 1972 to
- While many of the social movements born in the 1960s declined or disappeared, the one that remained strong and even gathered momentum in the 1970s was
- When the North Vietnamese launched their full invasion of South Vietnam in 1975
- The people of the United States had provided just about everything for South Vietnam except
- The Helsinki accords, signed by Gerald Ford and leaders of thirty-four other nations,
- The most controversial action of Gerald Ford's presidency was