Question 1

Richard Nixon

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37th President of the United States who pushed the Republican Party to be more socially conservative to win support and was a part of the Watergate scandal, which led to his resignation.

Question 2

Silent Majority

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Americans President Nixon appealed to in order to build support who he thought were disaffected by civil rights, liberal court rulings, antiwar protests, black militants and youth counterculture.

Question 3

Southern Strategy

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President Nixon’s tactic to build Republican support in the South by appealing to Southern White frustrations with liberal court rulings that ended legal segregation.

Question 4

Election of 1972

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Presidential election in which President Nixon won reelection in a landslide victory, which marked the start of a major political realignment of Sun Belt and suburban voters to the Republican Party.

Question 5

Pentagon Papers

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Secret government study documenting the mistakes and deceptions of government officials in dealing with Vietnam, which was published by The New York Times in 1971 and sparked outrage.

Question 6

Watergate

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Political scandal involving President Nixon in which members of his reelection committee were caught breaking into and bugging the offices of the Democratic national headquarters.

Question 7

Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP)

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Reelection committee for President Nixon that worked with the Nixon Administration to conduct illegal activities and “dirty tricks” that benefited President Nixon.

Question 8

Plumbers

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Group created by President Nixon’s aides to stop more leaks like the Pentagon Papers and discredit opponents through inappropriate investigations by government agencies, such as the IRS.

Question 9

Impeachment

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Process where the House of Representatives holds an investigation and can vote to recommend the Senate remove a government official, which started to happen to President Nixon in 1974.

Question 10

Nixon White House Tapes

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President Nixon’s secret recordings of conversations held in the Oval Office that revealed his knowledge of and involvement in cover ups of political scandals such as Watergate.

Question 11

Gerald Ford

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President Nixon’s vice president after Vice President Agnew resigned over political corruption accusations who later became president and issued Nixon a pardon after President Nixon resigned.

Question 12

Pardoning of Nixon

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President Ford’s full and unconditional pardon for Nixon for any crime he may have committed, which sparked outrage because it was issued before any formal charges were made by a court.

Question 13

Jimmy Carter

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38th President of the United States who won election by campaigning as a honest political outsider against the imperial presidency, but he struggled to deal with many major issues once in office.

Question 14

Imperial Presidency

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Term used to describe the evolution of the modern presidency to be vastly more powerful than perhaps originally intended by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution.

Question 15

National Malaise

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Speech given by President Carter in 1979 in which he blamed the problems facing the United States on a “moral and spiritual crisis,” however, many Americans blamed weak leadership.

Question 16

Burger Court

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Transitional era of the Supreme Court that marked a conservative shift from the Warren Court, but included several landmark decisions that angered conservatives, such as Roe v. Wade.

Question 17

United States v. Nixon

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Landmark SCOTUS case under the Burger Court that ruled executive privilege is not absolute and required President Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes.

Question 18

Roe v. Wade

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Landmark SCOTUS case that struck down many state laws prohibiting abortions as a violation of a woman’s right to privacy, a decision that has become a major target for conservatives over the years.

Question 19

Televangelists

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Christian preachers with widely broadcasted services who preached about the need for traditional and conservative values in the face of the moral decay of American society.

Question 20

Moral Majority

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Political action group founded by evangelist Jerry Falwell in 1979 to finance campaigns to unseat liberal members of Congress.

Question 21

Religious Fundamentalists

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Traditional and often conservative Christians who attacked “secular humanism” as a root cause for moral decay and campaigned for the return of prayer and Bible readings in public schools.

Question 22

Think Tanks

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Business supported research organizations created to support certain political interests, such as the U.S Chamber of Commerce being created to lobby for pro-business legislation.

Question 23

Reverse Discrimination

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Belief by some White workers and students that they were being discriminated against by employers and admission offices because too much weight was being put in race and ethnicity.

Question 24

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

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Landmark SCOTUS case that upheld affirmative action programs, but ruled using racial quotas to admit students was unconstitutional.

Question 25

Proposition 13

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Law in California passed by voters in 1978 to cut property taxes, which many historians credit as the spark for a national taxpayer revolt that contributed to the election of President Reagan.

Question 26

Arthur Laffer

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Economist who believed that large tax cuts would greatly improve the economy and in turn increase government tax revenue, which became the basis for President Reagan’s tax cuts.

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Society in Transition

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