APUSH Period 8: Chapter 29 - Statistics

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Hint Answer % Correct
Beat Ford in 1976 election, promised to never lie to the public Jimmy Carter
73%
Supreme Court overturns Texan law that prohibited abortion under any circumstances Roe vs. Wade
73%
Motioned for women's rights to be equal to male rights with an addition to the Constitution Equal Rights Amendment
64%
Nixon's VP, chosen after a scandal breaks out with Nixon's old VP. Becomes President after he resigns and gives Nixon a presidential pardon to keep him out of prison. Gerald Ford
64%
5 men affiliated with Nixon spy on the Democrat party during the 1972 Election, while he was not involved he does not prosecute them and tries to cover it up. Eventual resignation due to exposure of government lies Watergate
64%
Persian Gulf states form a cartel to protect oil prices; also formed in retaliation to US backing Israel in 1973 Yom Kippur War Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
55%
The combination of unemployment, stagnating consumer demand, and inflation Stagflation
55%
April 22nd, 1970, 20+ million gather to express support for a cleaner planet Earth Day
45%
Offshoot of 60's activism, comes about after the above begins: wanted a healthy environment and unspoiled nature Environmentalism
45%
Created the STOP ERA movement, concerned that women's rights were changing for the worse Phyllis Schlafly
45%
Procedures designed to take into account that disadvantaged position of minority groups; seen in recruiting/application processes Affirmative Action
36%
Published the Silent Spring Rachel Carson
36%
Northeast/Midwest regions strewn with abandoned factories due to the above Rust Belt
36%
Analysed pesticide DDT impact on human and natural food chains Silent Spring
36%
Reactor core comes extremely close to a nuclear meltdown, causes mass concern about nuclear energy. Environmentalists win battle to slow nuclear energy Three Mile Island
36%
Used radio and TV to spread the Gospel, led modern-day crusades that attracted millions of attendees. Helped spark the 4th Great Awakening Billy Graham
27%
Downsizing of industrial corporations, specifically the steel industry, making it a competitive market again Deindustrialization
27%
Required developers to file environmental impact statements assessing their projects' effects on ecosystems Environmental Protection Agency
27%
The realization that Earth's resources were not limitless Energy Crisis
18%
First openly gay man to be elected into public office, later assassinated Harvey Milk
18%
Rolls back property taxes, cap future increases for present owners, require that all tax measures have 2/3 majority in legislature Proposition 13
18%
Made to prevent the above from being ratified to the Constitution, argued that it would harm the traditional roles of women STOP ERA
18%
Citizens now have access to federal records, passed by Congress to counter abuses of Nixon administration Freedom of Information Act
9%
Court case that upheld the above but rejected a quota system Bakke vs. University of California
0%
Emphasized an intimate, personal salvation interpreted on the Bible Evangelicalism
0%
Conservative who proposed Proposition 13 Howard Jarvis
0%
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