American Pageant 17th Edition Chapter 38- Vocab and People Study Guide
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American Pageant 17th Edition Chapter
38- Vocab and People Study Guide
Proposition 13 - Answer️️ -A californian "tax revolt" in which they
demanded lower property taxes and forced painful cuts in government
services.
boll weevils - Answer️️ -conservative democratic southerners who
inc...
American Pageant 17th Edition Chapter
38- Vocab and People Study Guide
Proposition 13 - Answer✔️✔️-A californian "tax revolt" in which they
demanded lower property taxes and forced painful cuts in government
services.
boll weevils - Answer✔️✔️-conservative democratic southerners who
increasingly voted for Republican issues during the Carter and Reagan
administration.
Tax Reform Act - Answer✔️✔️-A tax law passed by Reagan which approved
leaner budgets and lower taxes.
Supply Side Economics - Answer✔️✔️-The name for Reagan's massive push
for lower taxes. They argued that lower tax and budgetary discipline
would eventually stimulate investment.
Strategic Defense Initiative - Answer✔️✔️-Reagan's name for his high tech
missile defense system, also known as star wars because of how unrealistic
it was, basically like a real life death star. This was never accomplished.
Sandinistas - Answer✔️✔️-anti-American revolutionaries in Nicaragua who
launched a civil war in 1979.
contras - Answer✔️✔️-counterrevolutionary group in Nicaragua that
opposed the Sandinistas and supported the United States.
glasnost - Answer✔️✔️-"openness" this policy aimed at opening up the strict
policies of the soviet union and permitting the freedom of speech.
Perestroika - Answer✔️✔️-"restructuring" aimed to restructure the Soviet
economy by allowing free markets to boost the economy.
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - Answer✔️✔️-Arms limitation
agreement settled by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev after several
attempts. The treaty banned all intermediate-range nuclear missiles from
Europe and marked a significant thaw in the Cold War.
Iron-Contra Affair - Answer✔️✔️-Major political scandal of Ronald Reagan's
second term. An illicit arrangement of selling "arms for hostages" with Iran
and using money to support the contras in Nicaragua, the scandal deeply
damaged Reagan's credibility.
Moral Majority - Answer✔️✔️-A group started by Jarry Falwell which
preached against sexual permissiveness, abortion, feminism, and the
spread of gay rights.
Identity Politics - Answer✔️✔️-using ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, or
religion for personal gain in the field of politics.
Black Monday - Answer✔️✔️-Monday, October 19, 1987, when stock
markets around the world crashed, shedding a huge value in a very short
time.
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