Reagan and the 1980s — Quiz

Question 1

How did the strong economy that emerged during the Reagan years affect social change in the 1980s?

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New technology created a demand for new products.

Question 2

How did Americans’ perceptions of the candidates affect the presidential election of 1980?

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Many Americans viewed President Carter as negative and defeated.

Question 3

When Jimmy Carter was president in the late 1970s,

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the country experienced high inflation.

Question 4

Which best describes Reagan’s beliefs about economic growth?

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He believed that making government smaller would lead to growth.

Question 5

Reagan’s landslide victory in the presidential election of 1980 proved that

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Americans were ready for a change in leadership.

Question 6

President Reagan believed that more jobs would be created through deregulation, which meant

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removing rules and laws that govern businesses.

Question 7

Ronald Reagan’s conservative message

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made him popular with many Americans.

Question 8

The conservative movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s called for

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lowering taxes.

Question 9

When the AIDS crisis emerged in the early 1980s,

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the Reagan administration was slow to respond.

Question 10

President Reagan’s involvement in the strike by federal air traffic controllers in 1981

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prompted the firing of controllers who refused to return to work.

Reagan and the 1980s — Quiz Answers