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What is a group that aided political candidate who favored conservation religious goals?
Definition of Moral Majority
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What is president of the US in the 1980s?
Reagan
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What is a cut in spending on social programs?
Critics argued that this priority hurt children and the poor
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What is Prohibition?
Often referred to as the "noble experiment"
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What is a nativist?
a preference for native born people
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What was drawn up by House Republicans, and proposed laws including a reduction in social spending, and environmental regulations in addition to tax cuts.
Definition of "contract with America"
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Who is Bill Clinton?
42nd President of the US
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What is a return to traditional values?
Important due to religious emphasis within the conservatives
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What is the Central Powers?
Germany, Austria Hungary, Ottoman empire, Bulgaria during WWI
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What is a processing center in the US that processed Asian American immigrants?
angel Island
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What, negotiated by Bush, allowed free trade between Canada, the US and Mexico?
Definition of NAFTA
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Who is the oldest president alive today, president in the 1970s?
Jimmy Carter
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What is a reduction in regulations of businesses
The third goal of Reaganomics, included opposing all laws that required industries to install expensive antipollution devices
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What is trench warfare?
soldiers spend day after day shelling the enemy trench
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What is a processing center in the US that process European Immigrants?
Ellis Island
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What is Ronald Reagan's economic policy?
Definition of Reganomics
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Who was appointed to the Supreme Court by Reagan, retired in 2006, and won the Presidential Metal of Freedom in 2009?
Sandra Day O' Connor
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What is lower taxes?
First priority of Reagan's economic programs
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What is the Lusitania?
a British Passenger ship torpedoed by a German Submarine in WWI
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What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
name of act that banned Chinese immigration to the US between 1882 and 1943
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What is actions taken by a country's central bank to regulate the money supply?
Definition of monetary policy
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What is the founder of the Moral Majority?
Jerry Falwell
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What is a reduction in the size of the federal government?
Important to bring a balanced budget, caused a economic downturn since many people lost their jobs.
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What is the Black Hand?
terrorist group that started WWI
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What is urbanization?
the movement of population from farms to urban areas
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