Women's Rights Movement

What was the focus of the earliest phase of the women's movement, led by Stanton and Anthony?

Voting rights

By the end of Carter's first term, many Americans had come to see their president as

weak and defeated.

What was the main idea of President Carter's "Crisis of Confidence" speech?

Americans expected the future to be worse than the past.

Which of the following statements are true of the 1980 election?

A. Regan won the large majority of states.

D. Evangelical voters were an important source of Reagan's support.

Put these events in the correct order that they would occur according to supply-side economics.

The order:

2, 3, 1, 5, 4

Which of the following changes contributed to Reagan's reelection in 1984?

C. an economic boom

What best describes national finances during President Reagan's time in office?

A. both federal spending and the national debt rose

Which of the following are examples of Reagan's conservative economic policies?

A. cutting school lunch programs

B. reducing government regulation

D. reducing funding for government agencies

The PATCO strike involved

air traffic controllers

The workers who refused to return to the job were

fired

Sandra _____ was the first woman to serve as a Supreme Court Justice.

Day O'Connor

Which changes were viewed as positive changes that took place during Reagan's presidency? Which were viewed as negative changes?

Positive

Negative

Negative

Positive

Positive

Which of these conditions helped to make Carter an unpopular president?

B. energy crisis

D. Iran hostage crisis

E. High inflation

Before running for president, Reagan was a

governor

1. ____'s campaign in 1980 struck a tone of optimism.

Ronald Reagan

2. During the election of 1980, ____ emphasized peacemaking.

Jimmy Carter

The map shows that _____ won the election in a landslide victory.

Ronald Reagan

This quote is from Reagan's announcement that he would be running for president. It shows that Reagan believed:

leaders such as President Carter were wrong about the nation's future.

According to Reagan, what is the step that sets this process in motion?

taxes are cut

What happens in box 2?

businesses prosper

The name for the theory illustrated in this diagram is

supply-side economics

Critics referred to this model as

"trickle-down" economics

Even though President Reagan campaigned on his plans to cut the size of government, government spending during his administration:

doubled

A primary contributor to government spending under President Reagan was:

High defense spending

What do the graphs show?

Federal spending was causing the national debt to grow.

President Reagan opposed the PATCO strike because:

the strike was illegal.

How did Reagan respond to the PATCO strike?

He fired those who did not obey his order to return to work.

Why was Sandra Day O'Connor important to Reagan's administration?

She was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.

From the list, identify programs or agencies whose budgets were cut under Reagan.

A. Medicaid

C. food stamps

D. the Environmental Protection Agency

Why did Reagan support deregulation of businesses?

to allow them to create more jobs

1) During Reagan's presidency, a new disease called _____ affected over 100,000 people.

2) In the 1980s, economic growth led to the rise of ____ in the United States.

1) AIDS

2) consumerism

What do you think were the keys to his support?

-Reagan's optimism and strength

-Reagan's beliefs about government

-Reagan's beliefs about taxes

-Reagan's beliefs about national defense

-Reagan's high spending and growing debt

-The economy's growth in the 1980s