Name: _______________________________________________
Date: __________
Choose the letter of the best answer.
____ 1. President Nixon adopted a policy known as ___ in order to reduce the size and power of
the federal government.
A. détente
C. New Federalism
B. Stagflation
D. realpolitik
____ 2. In 1973, the OPEC nations cut off their supply of ___ to the United States.
A. grain
C. money
B. o i l
D. consumer goods
____ 3. Nixon's visit to ___ in 1972 to begin normalizing relations was a reversal of previous
American policy established in 1949.
A. the Soviet Union
C. East Germany
B. China
D. Vietnam
____ 4. Nixon's closest advisers included H. R. Halderman, John Mitchell, and ___.
A. John Sirica
C. Gerald Ford
B. Sam Ervin
D. John Ehrlichman
____ 5. In the event known as ___, Nixon ordered Attorney General Richardson to fire the special
prosecutor investigating the Watergate break-in.
A. the Saturday Night Massacre
C. the Southern strategy
B. impeachment
D. Black Monday
____ 6. When Nixon resigned, ___ became president.
A. Spiro Agnew
C. Gerald Ford
B. Ronald Reagan
D. Jimmy Carter
____ 7. President Carter's foreign policy was marked by a commitment to ___.
A. détente
C. compromise
B. free trade
D. human rights
____ 8. The Camp David Accords were an agreement between ___ and Israel.
A. Egypt
C. Syria
B. China
D. Iran
____ 9. After the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, the effects of ___ became an
increasing concern to many Americans.
A. nuclear weapons
C. stagflation
B. pesticides
D. Three Mile Island
____ 10. The U.S. government established the ___ to set and enforce pollution standards.
A. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
C. Environmental Protection Agency
B. Helsinki Accords
D. SALT I treaty
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____ 11. How many electoral votes did Carter win?
A. 44.6
B. 55.2
C. 240
D. 297
____ 12. What percent of the popular vote did Ford receive?
A. 44.6
C. 50.0
B. 48.0
D. 55.2
____ 13. Which of the following states did Carter win?
A. Texas
C. Virginia
B. California
D. New Jersey
____ 14. How many popular votes went to neither Ford nor Carter?
A. 1
C. 1,577,000
B. 57
D. 1,683,000
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____ 15. By how many electoral votes did Carter win the election?
A. 47
C. 240
B. 57
D. 297
____ 16. In 1949, how many federal employees were there for every 1,000 Americans?
A. 2.1
C. 13.9
B. 2.8
D. 40.0
____ 17. What was the total of state and local government expenditures in 1976?
A. $59.3 billion
C. $390.6 billion
B. $185 billion
D. $575.6 billion
____ 18. Which category saw a decrease from 1949 to 1976?
A. federal public sector employees per
C. state and local expenditures as percent
1,000 people
of GDP
B. state and local sector employees per
D. total public sector employees
1,000 people
____ 19. In 1949, what percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) were the combined federal,
state, and local expenditures?
A. 6.7
C. 22.1
B. 15.4
D. 31.5
____ 20. Which of the following categories showed the largest percentage change?
A. total public sector employees per 1,000 C. total public expenditures as percent of
population
GDP
B. total public sector employees in millions D. total dollar expenditures in billions
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____ 21. What is the westernmost state in the 48 contiguous states (not including Alaska and
Hawaii) that Carter won?
A. California
C. Minnesota
B. Texas
D. Massachusetts
____ 22. What was Carter's margin of victory over Ford in the popular vote?
A. 1,577,000
C. 39,148,000
B. 1,683,000
D. 40,831,000
____ 23. By how many percentage points did Ford lose the electoral vote?
A. 1.9
C. 10.6
B. 2.1
D. 44.7
____ 24. In which region of the country did Ford have the strongest showing?
A. North
C. South
B. East
D. West
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____ 25. Which state had the greatest population in 1976 and therefore the most electoral votes?
A. California
C. Pennsylvania
B. New York
D. Texas
____ 26. What was the total number of employees working in the public sector in 1949?
A. 2.1 million
C. 3.9 billion
B. 6 million
D. 6 billion
____ 27. By what percentage did the federal government's expenditures increase between 1949
and 1976?
A. 45%
C. 845%
B. 49%
D. 871%
____ 28. What happened to the number of state and local public sector employees per 1,000
population from 1949 to 1976?
A. It stayed roughly the same.
C. It decreased slightly.
B. It increased slightly.
D. It more than doubled.
____ 29. Which category saw the greatest percent change between 1949 and 1976?
A. federal dollar expenditures
C. state and local public sector employees
B. state and local dollar expenditures
D. federal public sector employees per
1,000 population
____ 30. Of the four major categories of growth shown in the
chart, in how many categories did the state and local total exceed the federal total in
1976?
A. one
C. three
B. two
D. four
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____ 31. What was the stated purpose of Nixon's revenue sharing proposal?
A. give federal government more control
C. give state and local governments fewer
over how federal dollars were spent
federal dollars
B. give state and local government more
D. give state and local governments more
control over how federal dollars were
federal dollars
spent
____ 32. Which of the following techniques was not used by the Nixon administration against
perceived enemies in the United States?
A. illegal wiretaps
C. audits of tax returns
B. arrest without cause
D. CIA investigations
____ 33. What was the purpose of Nixon's Southern strategy?
A. make the Supreme Court more liberal
C. extend voting rights to more African
Americans
B. speed up the process of desegregation
D. encourage discontented Democrats to
vote for Nixon
____ 34. What action did Nixon take that provided temporary relief from stagflation in 1971?
A. increased taxes
C. implemented wage and price controls
B. raised interest rates
D. reduced the federal budget
____ 35. Under the philosophy of realpolitik, what was the most important consideration in
formulating a relationship with another country?
A. its power
C. its natural resources
B. its location
D. its human rights record
____ 36. Which man was not forced out of his job during the Watergate scandal?
A. John Dean
C. Archibald Cox
B. Leon Jaworski
D. Elliot Richardson
____ 37. What has been the most lasting effect of Watergate?
A. Democratic control of the White House C. an economic downturn
B. Democratic control of Congress
D. public cynicism about government
____ 38. Why was Ford's "Whip Inflation Now" program unsuccessful?
A. It asked Americans to conserve energy. C. It provided no incentives for Americans
to conserve energy.
B. The public was not concerned about
D. Americans became impatient because
inflation.
it worked too slowly.
____ 39. Which of the following contributed least to Jimmy Carter's defeat in 1980?
A. his support of the National Energy Act
C. the Iranian hostage situation
B. his "malaise" speech
D. his agreement to give up the Panama
Canal
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____ 40. The first Earth Day, celebrated in 1970, was a response to what?
A. the incident at Three Mile Island
C. the failure of the Clean Air Act of 1963
B. the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act D. the growing concern over effects of
pollution
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