The Nixon Presidency Exit Ticket

What is the Southern Strategy?

• An attempt to court people of color who were fighting for equality into the Democratic Party

• An attempt of the Republican Party to gather up white southern voters that were feeling alienated by the Civil rights emphasis of the Democratic Party,

• A strategy employed by General Robert E. Lee of the Confederate army during the Civil War

• A political strategy that stated that Southern states and votes weren't needed to win the presidency.

What was significant about Nixon's presidential election win in 1972?

• He won every Confederate state

• He won without any Confederate States

• He won 95% of the popular vote

• He was able to win by running as a Democrat

In the late 1960s/early 1970's the Republican and Democratic parties switched bases; the Democratic Party was now more liberal, supporting equality and Civil Rights, while the Republican Party became more Conservative, catering to White Southerners and Religious Conservatives.

• True

• False

Who visited China, initiated diplomatic exchanges that effectively ended the Cold War with China and opened significant trade with this nation?

• President Nixon

• President Lyndon B Johnson

• President Ford

• President Carter

What was the purpose of the Southern Strategy?

• To win the Civil War

• To promote Jim Crow

• To attract rural, Conservative voters

• To elect Democratic candidates

What does 'detente' mean?

• World War 3 is near

• A foreign policy of containment

• A French word, meaning 'at rest'.

• A reduction in the tension between the US and the USSR

In 1972, the US & USSR promised to reduce the amount of intercontinental ballistic missiles they would build and not to develop anti-ballistic missile systems

• True

• False