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| Nixon's name for middle Americans | Silent majority
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| Reason Nixon tried to place conservative judges on the federal courts | Southern strategy
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| Period of a stagnating economy and inflation | Stagflation
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| Plan to help African Americans overcome past discrimination | Affirmative action
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| Principle that the Pres. has the right to keep certain information to himself | Executive privilege
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| Group that placed an oil embargo on the United States | OPEC
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| Which Pres. believed that the people had tired of the "big government" of Johnson's Great Society? | Richard Nixon
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| Nixon's "New Federalism" | Federal money was given to states to fund social programs
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| Blue collar workers and southern whites | Groups targeted by Nixon during his presidency to expand his base of supporters
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| United States v. Nixon | Tape recordings of conversations in the Oval Office had to be turned over for review
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| Pres. Gerald Ford developed this plan to combat inflation? | WIN
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| Served as governor of Georgia before becoming Pres. of US | Jimmy Carter
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| The support of this group helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 election. | Christian fundamentalists
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| Anmesty | The granting of forgiveness to draft dodgers
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| Preached to millions of TV viewers during the 70's | Televangelists
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| Who granted Richard Nixon a pardon for his wrong doings while Pres. of the US | Pres. Gerald Ford
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| Gerald Ford faced these issues when he became Pres. | High inflation, skyrocketing prices, rising unemployment
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| Jimmy Carter's response to the nation's oil crisis | Ask people to conserve oil
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| How did the population of the US change during the 70's? | Immigrants form Latin American and Asia arrived
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| Basic rights every human being is entitled to have | Human rights
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| Why did religious conservatives oppose the Supreme Court ruling in Row V. Wade | Legalized abortion
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| Agreement between US an Soviets where they agreed to limit arms production | SALT II
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| Refugees who leave their country by boat | Boat people
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| Poor nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America | Developing world
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| Agreement between Egypt Pres. Anwar el-Sadat and Isreali prime minister Menochem Begin where Egypt formally recognized Isreal | Camp David Accords
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| 1975-US, Canada,European nations, and the Soviet Union agreed to support human rights | Helsinki Accords
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| Central concern of Pres. Carter's foreign policy | Expanding human rights in developing countries
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| Carter's greats foreign policy achievement | The agreement between Egypt and Israel that occurred at Camp David
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| Iran hostage crisis | Iranian radical students invaded US Embassy in Iran, took 66 Americans hostage because Pres. Carter allowed the Shah of Iran to enter the US for treatment of cancer.
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| Focus of Ford's policy/goal toward the Soviet Union | Pursue detente
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| Scandal that lead to Nixon's resignation | Watergate
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| Gerald Ford | Became Pres. when Nixon resigned
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| To officially forgive | Pardon
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| Jimmy Carter | Elected Pres. with the support of many Christian fundamentalists-cast him self as a fresh face
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| Lead a group of fundamentalist Islamic clerics who took power in Iran in 1979 | Ayatollah Khomeini
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| Proposed by Nixon to provide a guaranteed or minimum income to every American family | Family Assistance Plan
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| Goal of Nixon's southern strategy | Make the Republican party a powerful force in the South
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| Nixon was ordered to turn over his taped Oval Office conversation | Result of United States v. Nixon
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| Reason Pres. Ford stressed openness in his speech after gaining Presidency | To rebuild the public's trust in government
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| Gerald Ford continued... | Nixon's foreign policy
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| Change in American society during the 1970's | Many blue-collar workers moved to the Sunbelt
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| Carter's most controversial foreign policy decision | Return Panama Canal Zone to Panama
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| In 1979, the US faced a hostage crisis | In Iran
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| Established procedures for presidential succession | 25th Amendment
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| Penalties | Sanctions
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| Reflected Nixon's attitude toward "Big Government" | Proposal for revenue sharing with the states
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| Nixon's southern strategy involved... | Criticizing court ordered busing of school children
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| During Gerald Ford's term as Pres., Republican won many sears in this house of Congress | House of Representatives
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| One way American society changed during the 1970's | Divorce rate increased significantly
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| What caused the cooling of the US-Soviet relationship in the 1970's? | Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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| Migration of people from Cuba to United States | Mariel boatlift
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| What Egypt agreed to do to achieve peace with isreal | Formally recognize the nation of Isreal
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