Unit Ten Study Guide - The Eighties and Beyond
Unit 10 Exam Date: 5/14
NC Final Exam date: 5/20
Topic
5/8
Ronald Reagan
5/9
The Persian Gulf War
5/12 The Nineties
essential question
How did Reagan’s economic policy impact America?
Why did the U.S. go to war with Iraq in 1991?
How did the internet impact the American economy?
5/13
5/14
5/15
5/16
5/19
5/20
What challenges face the country today?
The 2000s/Review
Unit 10 Exam
Test Corrections & Review
Review
Review
NC Final Exam, 7:30 am
HW – On your paper, restate the question and answer in complete sentences.
Due Fri 12/6 p. 949-953
HW 10.1 – The Reagan Revolution
1. Explain the theory of supply-side or “trickle-down” economics.
2. How did Reaganomics effect the economy from 1980 to 1983?
3. What was the effect of Reagan’s increased defense spending on the deficit and the
national debt?
4. What new disease did the nation face in the Eighties?
5. Who won the election of 1984?
Due Mon 12/9 p. 961-965
HW10.2 – Foreign Policy after the Cold War
1. How did President George Bush Sr. continue to fight the war on drugs?
2. How did the Chinese government react to the pro-democracy rallies in Tiananmen
Square?
3. How did the United States help end apartheid in South Africa?
4. What event in August of 1990 caused the United States to build a coalition?
5. How did the Persian Gulf War end?
*BRING BACK YOUR TEXTBOOK*
Key Terms :
1. affirmative action
2. trickle-down
economics
3. Strategic Defense
Initiative
4. AIDS
5. Operation Desert
Storm
6. NAFTA
10. “moral majority”
7. Bill Gates
8. urban flight
9. Rodney King
Important Questions
1. What were the beliefs of the “moral” majority?
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How did Ronald Reagan’s economic plan affect the national debt?
What was the cause of the Rodney King riots?
What problems did George Bush Sr. face on the domestic front?
Explain the health care reform Clinton pushed for. How did America react?
What are some of the criticisms of NAFTA?
How did the Whitewater investigation lead to the Lewinski scandal?
Who was responsible for the September 11th attacks?
Review Terms Unit 10 exam will consist of 25 multiple-choice questions covering the Eighties
to present and 25 questions that review the previous nine units. The review questions will come
from the following topics. You may use one page of hand-written notes (front and back) on the
exam.
 George Washington’s Farewell
 Platform of Populist party
Address
 Plessy v. Ferguson
 Views of Federalists and
Republicans
 Progressive Amendments (16-19)
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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Open Door Policy
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Causes of the War of 1812
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Roosevelt Corollary
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Missouri Compromise
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Platt Amendment
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Manifest Destiny
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Treaty of Versailles and League of
Nations
Nullification crisis, tariff of
abomination
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Nativism in the Twenties
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Monroe Doctrine
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Scopes Monkey Trial
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Compromise of 1850
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Harding’s scandals
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Republican platform in election of
1860
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Hoover’s reaction to the Great
Depression
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Congressional versus Presidential
Reconstruction
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Cash and Carry, Lend-Lease
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Compromise of 1877
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D-Day
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Laissez-faire economics
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Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan
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Homestead Act
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Sputnik
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New Immigrants
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Brown v. Board
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Social Darwinism
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Great Society
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Booker T. Washington and W.E.B
Dubois
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Tet Offensive