Chapter 26 Eric Foner Exam Questions With Correct Answers
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New Federalism - answerConservatives applauded Nixon's new Federalism whcih offered
federal "Block grants" to the states to spend as they saw fit, rather than for specific purposes
dictated by Washington.
Enviromental Protection Agency ...
Chapter 26 Eric Foner Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
New Federalism - answer✔Conservatives applauded Nixon's new Federalism whcih offered
federal "Block grants" to the states to spend as they saw fit, rather than for specific purposes
dictated by Washington.
Enviromental Protection Agency - answer✔oversaw programs to combat water and air pollution,
cleaned up hazardous wastes, and required "environmental impact" statements from any project
that received federal funding.
Occupaitonal Safety and Health Administration - answer✔sent inspectors into the nations
workplaces.
National Transportation Safety Board - answer✔Instructed automobile makers on how to make
their cars safer.
Endangered Species Act - answer✔prohibited spending federal funds on any project that might
extinguish an animal species.
Clean Air Act - answer✔set air quality standards for carbon monoxide and other chemicals
released by cars and factories and led to a dramatic decline in air pollution.
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (ADFC) - answer✔Nixon's most startling inititative
was his proposal for a family assistance plan, or "negative income tax" that would replace Aid to
Families with Dependent Children by having the federal govenment guarantee a minimum
income for all Americans "welfare". This offered assistance to poor families who met local
eligibility requirements.
"Affirmative Action" - answer✔Programs to upgrade minority employment.
Philadelphia Plan - answer✔required that construction contractors on federal projects hire
specific numbers of minority workers. Trade unions of skilled workers like plumbers and
electrical workers, which had virtually no black members, strongly opposed this.
Warren Burger - answer✔federal court of appeals judge, that succeded the Earl Warren, chief
justice, court.
-Appointed by Nixon
Forced Busing in Boston- de facto segregation - answer✔Busing became a lightning rod for
protests. One of the most bitter fights took place in Boston in the mid 1970's. Residents of the
tightly knit Irish-Amercan community of South Boston demonstrated vociferiously and
sometimes violently against a busing plan decreed by a local judge.
San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez - answer✔5-4 court majority ruled that
the Constitution did not require equality of school funding.
Milliken v Bradley - answer✔the justices overturned a lower court order that required Detroit's
predominantly white suburbs to enter into a regional desegregation plan with the city's heavily
minority school system. By absolving suburban districts of responsibility for assisting in
integrating urban schools. the decision guaranteed that housing segregation would be mirrored in
public education. Public schools in the North were more segregated than those in the South.
reverse discrimination - answer✔Affirmative action programs came to be known as this. It
claimed that in violation of the 14th ammendment's equal protection clause, they granted
minorities special advantages over whites.
Griggs v. Duke Power Company - answer✔the Court ruled that even racially neautral job
requirements such as a written examination were illegal if the operated to exclude a
disproportionate number of non white applicants and were not directly related to job
performance.
United Steelworkers of America v. Weber - answer✔it upheld a program devised by the Kaiser
Aluminim and Chemical Corporation and its union that set quotas for training and hiring non
white workers in skilled jobs. Since this private, voluntary agreement did not involve
government action, the court ruled, it did not violate the 14th ammendment ban on state polocies
that discriminated among citizens.
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke - answer✔Court overturned an admissions
program of the University of California at Davis, a public university, which set aside 16 of 100
places in the entering medical school class for minority students.
Title IX - answer✔Banned gender discrimination in higher education
and the Equal Credit opportunity act which required that married women be given access to
credit in their own name.
"Me Decade" - answer✔writer: Tom Wolfe ASK
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