USHC 8.4-8.6 Test Review

Which of the following was a part of Nixon's Southern Strategy?

• Establishing the Environmental Protection Agency

• Being critical of and calling for a moratorium (freeze) on forced school busing

• Traveling to China to open up trade

• Forcing the integration of southern schools that were still segregated in the South

Nixon believed __________________ gave him the right to refuse to cooperate with investigators and refuse to turn over the White House tapes of conversations.

• fake news

• the Warren Commission

• The Kerner Commission

• Executive Privilege

As a conservative Nixon promoted the idea that:

• The Great Society policies of Johnson were too expensive for America to continue to support.

• The environment would take care of itself and did not need a government agency to oversee regulations to keep the environment safe.

• Southerners must abide by desegregation and if they did not, they must be held responsible.

• The only way the country was going to get out of the economic problems it was in during the 1970s was more governmental programs to help out the less fortunate.

Nixon's claim of executive privilege was overruled by:

• The Kerner Commission

• The Pentagon Papers

• Nixon v United States

• The Great Society

After Nixon resigned: (choose two)

• Gerald Ford became president

• Nixon was impeached by the Senate

• Americans further lost faith in the American government

• Nixon's vice president Spiro Agnew became president

Both Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter were:

• Vice Presidents who later ran for Presidential office and won

• known for their honesty and integrity

• Republicans

• Democrats

The energy crisis which took place during Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations was spurred on by

• The shrinking oil reserves in Texas

• OPEC's oil embargo

• The invasion of Mexico

• America's rate of inflation

Democrats took back control of both houses of Congress in 1974 because:

• America was discontent with Republicans after the Nixon Administration.

• America was discontent with the Vietnam War.

• Gerald Ford was an untrustworthy politician that followed in Nixon's footsteps.

• There was a shift towards conservatism in the mid seventies.

Which President presided over the Camp David Accords?

• Johnson

• Nixon

• Ford

• Carter

Many saw which of the following as being Jimmy Carter's greatest diplomatic achievement?

• Camp David Accords

• The handling of the Iran Hostage Crisis

• Oil Crisis

• Election of 1980