AP – United States History
Daily Quiz #9
S17
Chapters 36-37
Directions: Complete questions 1-30 on the answer sheet provided.
1.
The largest number of non-voters in the 1980 Presidential Election were . . .
A. churchgoers.
B. suburbanites.
C. Southerners.
D. working-class Democrats.
2.
A large demographic factor behind Ronald Reagan’s electoral success was . . .
A. the growth of the Hispanic population.
B. the declining percentage of people who attended Church.
C. population growth in the South and in the West.
D. the number of “Baby Boomers” who were reaching retirement.
3.
During the 1980s’, unions . . .
A. remained generally popular with the public.
B. manage to dramatically increase wages.
C. suffered steady declines in membership.
D. became a vital part of Reagan’s political coalition.
4.
In 1999, NATO air strikes helped stop “ethnic cleansing” in . . .
A. Kosovo.
B. Bosnia.
C. Romania.
D. Bulgaria.
5.
The primary purpose of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was to . . .
A. send United States jobs overseas.
B. reward Bill Clinton’s supporters in organized labor.
C. protect United States industries such as steel and textiles.
D. promote freer trade with those nations which border the United States.
6.
Bush’s major legislative victory in 2001 came with Congress’s passage of . . .
A. new environmental regulations.
B. health-care reform.
C. a tax cut.
D. banking industry regulation.
7.
The welfare-reform measure passed by Congress in 1996 . . .
A. quickly began to lower poverty rates.
B. limited the amount of time one could receive welfare payments.
C. significantly increased federal funding for welfare.
D. was applauded by liberals.
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Daily Quiz #9
S17
Chapters 36-37
8.
As George H. W. Bush prepared for the 1992 election, his greatest weakness became . . .
A. the end of the Cold War.
B. a major downturn in the economy.
C. his lack of a compelling vision for the future of the United States.
D. the continued threat from Saddam Hussein to the security of the United States.
9.
The issue that dominated the last few months of the 2008 presidential campaign was . . .
A. Iraq.
B. healthcare.
C. the war against al Qaeda.
D. the economic crisis.
10. The “housing bubble” of the early 2000s was inspired by all of the following EXCEPT:
A. subprime loans.
B. speculative behavior.
C. rising home prices.
D. people purchasing homes with large down payments.
11. By the time of his nomination for the presidency in 1988, George H.W. Bush had served the United
States as all of the following EXCEPT:
A. Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
B. Ambassador to the United Nations.
C. envoy to China.
D. Secretary of the Treasury.
12. President George W. Bush’s stated rationale for attacking Iraq in March of 2003 was . . .
A. Iraq’s presumed threat to the United States and its allies in the region.
B. the need to acquire Iraq’s oil reserves.
C. the desire to make Iraq a democracy.
D. revenge for Iraq’s involvement in the Attack on September 11, 2001.
13. In the late 1980s, a democracy movement in China . . .
A. was the major inspiration of reforms in the Soviet Union.
B. was brutally crushed by the government.
C. toppled the nation’s more extreme Communist leaders in favor of moderate leaders.
D. inspired China’s leaders to allow a freer national press corps.
14. By the end of his presidency, Reagan had . . .
A. dramatically shrunk the size of the federal government.
B. restored American confidence.
C. fulfilled the Religious Right’s agenda on issues such as school prayer.
D. abolished the Department of Energy.
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Daily Quiz #9
S17
Chapters 36-37
15. As a result of the growing national debt by the end of the 1980s . . .
A. President George H.W. Bush had to recommend a tax increase.
B. members of Congress passed a bill to reduce their salaries.
C. double-digit inflation returned.
D. the United States lost its ability to obtain credit for two years.
16. One major inspiration for President Ronald Reagan’s approach was . . .
A. Henry Clay’s “American System” of the early 19th Century.
B. the Republican “tax-reduction program” of the 1920s.
C. Theodore Roosevelt’s “New Nationalism” of the Progressive Era.
D. Eisenhower’s “Modern Republicanism” of the 1950s.
17. President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) . . .
A. involved the United States building even more powerful nuclear weapons.
B. made the United States invulnerable to attack.
C. forced the Soviet Union to spend extensively to keep pace with United States technology.
D. went into operation in 1984.
18. Which of the following dramatically decreased in the 1980s?
A. the number of homeless people.
B. personal savings.
C. military spending.
D. all kinds of debt.
19. The Bush Doctrine beginning in 2001 emphasized . . .
A. preemptive military action against terrorists and terrorist regimes threatening the United States.
B. strengthening the United States nuclear deterrent.
C. close coordination of United States foreign policy with the United Nations.
D. A determination to contain terrorism where it currently existed and keep it from spreading.
20. Bill Clinton’s emerging strategy in the 1992 Presidential Election was to . . .
A. take a more centrist positions to win middle-class white votes.
B. move leftward to win huge majorities among women and minorities.
C. claim he would be much tougher on foreign adversaries of the United States.
D. attack President George H. W. Bush’s character and fitness for office.
21. Revelations of the Iran-Contra Affair indicated that Reagan had violated his pledge to never . . .
A. negotiate with terrorists.
B. raise taxes.
C. lie to the American people.
D. needlessly send troops into battle.
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Chapters 36-37
22. One major factor working in President Ronald Reagan’s favor in his 1984 reelection bid was . . .
A. surpluses in the federal budget.
B. a robustly growing economy.
C. a deeply divided Democratic Party.
D. the potential collapse of the Soviet Union.
23. The Panamanian government of Manuel Noriega was at odds with the administration of George H.W.
Bush because of its . . .
A. threat to shut down the Panama Canal.
B. use of an embargo against Panama.
C. aggressive actions against it Central American neighbors supporting pro-Communist support.
D. involvement in the drug trade.
24. All of the following were features of the economy during the Bill Clinton Presidency EXCEPT:
A. declining worker productivity.
B. a proliferation of dot-com companies.
C. surging stock prices.
D. low unemployment.
25. When a United States marine barracks was bombed on October 23, 1983, during the Lebanese War with
Israel, President Reagan . . .
A. began to reassess the United States support for Israel.
B. soon pulled out remaining marines.
C. Froze Lebanese assets in the United States.
D. Increased the presence of United States forces in the region.
26. The centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s effort to restore the economy in 2009 was . . .
A. was rejected by a Republican-controlled Congress.
B. tax cuts for the wealthy.
C. a large economic stimulus package.
D. noncontroversial.
27. Anti-Feminist women in the 1970s and 1980s . . .
A. succeeded in keeping abortion illegal.
B. believed that Ronald Reagan were was too liberal.
C. believed in total separation of politics and religion.
D. helped defeat the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Daily Quiz #9
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Chapters 36-37
28. The Republican Contract with America . . .
A. revived the moderate Republicans Republicanism of the Eisenhower Era.
B. gave the Republican Party a winning platform for the 1996 election.
C. aimed to reduce big government and limit the welfare state.
D. stated general principles, but lacked specific proposals.
29. The 1991 Persian Gulf War resulted in . . .
A. President George H.W. Bush’s reduction in popularity.
B. a large number of United States casualties.
C. the United States capture and occupation of Baghdad.
D. Saddam Hussein’s remaining in power.
30. During the last 25 years of the twentieth century, all of the following increased in the United States
EXCEPT:
A. Latinos.
B. women doctors.
C. residents in California.
D. members of Congressional delegations in New England states.
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AP – United States History
Daily Quiz #9
S17
Chapters 36-37
Directions: Complete questions 31-40 on the answer sheet provided by matching the name in the left column
with the corresponding fact in the right column.
31. Alan Greenspan
32. Newt Gingrich
33. John McCain
34. Jerry Falwell
35. Saddam Hussein
36. Sandra Day O’Connor
37. H. Ross Perot
38. George H.W. Bush
39. Hillary Clinton
40. George W. Bush
A.
B.
C.
D.
led the “Moral Majority”
authored the “Contract with America”
championed women’s roles as wives and mothers
was the primary actor in the Iran-Contra Affair who
was later acquitted of any charges
E. was appointed as the Federal Reserve Chairman by
Ronald Reagan
AB. led the invasion of Kuwait in 1990 prompting the
first Gulf War
AC. as appointed as Secretary of State under Barack
Obama
AD. was appointed as the first “Drug Czar”
BC. carried Florida by 537 votes in a close presidential
election
BD. was tortured in Vietnam as a prisoner of war (POW)
and later ran for public office
BE. stated, “[My opponent] will raise taxes, and so will
I. He won’t tell you. I just did.”
CD. finished third as a candidate in the 1992 and 1996
presidential elections
CE. was the non-partisan lawyer involved heading the
Whitewater Scandal and sexual harassment case
against President Bill Clinton
ABC. was a Supreme Court Justice appointed by
Ronald Reagan
ABCD. was the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate
in the 1980 Presidential Election
ABCDE. Supreme Court Justice nominated by President
George H.W. Bush
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Daily Quiz #9
S17
Chapters 36-37
Answer Sheet
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