Answer the Following Questions

question 14

Multiple Choice

Answer the following questions :
-Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA)

• A)A 1960 book that set forth an uncompromising conservatism and inspired a Republican grassroots movement in support of its author,Barry Goldwater.
• B)A conservative magazine founded in 1955 by editor William F.Buckley,who used it to criticize liberal policy.
• C)Politically active religious conservatives,especially Catholics and evangelical Christians,who became particularly vocal in the 1980s against feminism,abortion,and homosexuality and who promoted "family values."
• D)Crisis that began in 1979 after the deposed shah of Iran was allowed into the United States following the Iranian revolution.Iranians broke into the U.S.embassy in Teheran and took sixty-six Americans hostage.The hostage crisis lasted 444 days and contributed to President Carter's reelection defeat.
• E)A coalition supporting Ronald Reagan that included the traditional core of Republican Party voters,middle-class suburbanites and migrants to the Sunbelt states,blue-collar Catholics,and a large contingent of southern whites,an electorally key group of former Democrats that had been gradually moving toward the Republican Party since 1964.
• F)A political organization established by evangelist Jerry Falwell in 1979 to mobilize conservative Christian voters on behalf of Ronald Reagan's campaign for president.
• G)Blue-collar Catholics from industrialized midwestern states such as Michigan,Ohio,and Illinois who were dissatisfied with the direction of liberalism in the 1970s and left the Democratic Party for the Republicans.
• H)Economic theory that tax cuts for individuals and businesses encourage investment and production (supply)and stimulate consumption (demand)because individuals can keep more of their earnings.In reality,this economic theory created a massive federal budget deficit.
• I)Legislation introduced by President Reagan and passed by Congress in 1981 that authorized the largest reduction in taxes in the nation's history.
• J)The cumulative total of all budget deficits.
• K)The limiting of regulation by federal agencies.Prices in the trucking,airline,and railroad industries faced fewer regulations under President Carter in the late 1970s,and Reagan expanded this relaxation of regulations to include cutting back on government protections of consumers,workers,and the environment.
• L)A deadly disease that killed nearly a hundred thousand people in the United States in the 1980s.
• M)Term that includes food,beverage,and tourist industries,financial and medical service industries,and computer technology industries,which were the leading sectors of U.S.growth in the second half of the 1980s.This pattern represented a shift from reliance on the heavy industries of steel,autos,and chemicals.
• N)The democratically elected group in Nicaragua that President Reagan accused of threatening U.S.business interests.Reagan attempted to overthrow them by ordering the CIA to assist an armed opposition group called the Contras.
• O)An opposition group in Nicaragua that President Reagan ordered the CIA to assist.While Congress banned the CIA and all other government agencies from providing any military support to this group,a lieutenant colonel in the U.S.Marines,Oliver North,used the profits from the Iranian arms deal to assist the them,resulting in the Iran-Contra affair.
• P)Reagan administration scandal that involved the sale of arms to Iran in exchange for its efforts to secure the release of hostages held in Lebanon and the redirection-illegal because banned by American law-of the proceeds of those sales to the Nicaraguan Contras.
• Q)The policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s that involved greater openness and freedom of expression and that contributed,unintentionally,to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
• R)The economic restructuring policy introduced by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s that contributed,unintentionally,to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
• S)Values promoted by the Religious Right,including support for the traditional nuclear family and opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion.
• T)The 1991 war between Iraq and a U.S.-led international coalition that was sparked by the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.A forty-day bombing campaign against Iraq followed by coalition troops storming into Kuwait brought a quick coalition victory.

Grasp the concept of group norms and how they are established.

Recognize how group size and presence of dissenting voices impact conformity.

Identify and understand various social influence techniques such as the low-ball technique and the foot-in-the-door technique.

Understand the role of ambiguity and crisis situations in informational social influence.

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