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Issues of the Seventies

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20 questions
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  • Q1
    A formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office.
    impeachment
    30s
  • Q2
    An act of retiring or giving up a position.
    resignation
    30s
  • Q3
    A written, printed, or typed copy of words that have been spoken.
    transcript
    30s
  • Q4
    Republican, first non elected president and VP (1974-77), he pardoned Nixon.
    Gerald Ford
    30s
  • Q5
    39th president (1977-1981) who created the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. Because of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, he enacted an embargo on grain shipments to USSR and boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.
    Jimmy Carter
    30s
  • Q6
    United States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964)
    Rachel Carson
    30s
  • Q7
    In November 1979, revolutionaries stormed the American embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
    Iran Hostage Crisis
    30s
  • Q8
    Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries - An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum
    OPEC
    30s
  • Q9
    A person who believes government power, particularly in the economy, should be limited in order to maximize individual freedom.
    conservative
    30s
  • Q10
    The lifting of government restrictions on business, industry, and professional activities.
    deregulation
    30s
  • Q11
    To delay by being evasive.
    stall
    30s
  • Q12
    To bring back to rightness, order, or morality.
    reform
    30s
  • Q13
    first elected president in 1980 and elected again in 1984. He cut out many welfare and public works programs.
    Ronald Reagan
    30s
  • Q14
    An economic philosophy that holds the sharply cutting taxes will increase the incentive people have to work, save, and invest.
    supply-side economics
    30s
  • Q15
    Scandal including arms sales to the Middle East in order to send money to help the Contras in Nicaragua.
    Iran-Contra affair
    30s

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