Author Question: The emerging conservative coalition that created alliances among groups with different concerns and ... (Read 93 times)

KWilfred · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Jerry Falwell's book America Can Be Saved illustrated a new connection between __________.

A) the silent majority and Democratic converts to the Republican Party
B) neoconservatives and feminism
C) religious fundamentalism and political activism
D) the Moral Majority and environmentalism

Question 2

What was President Roosevelt referring to when he stated that capitalism was saved in those eight days?

A) The bank holiday that he imposed upon entering office
B) The amount of time it took to pass the Social Security Act
C) The creation of the National Recovery Administration that suspended antitrust laws
D) The appointment of his cabinet and the Brain Trust who advised him on financial issues

Question 3

What did Sitting Bull mean when he stated in his 1877 speech at the Powder River Council that we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they whites threaten to take that from us also?

A) Railroad companies and entrepreneurs virtually eliminated the buffalo from the Great Plains.
B) The federal government violated treaties declaring Indian lands off limits to white settlement.
C) The defacement of the earth made by farmers and miners was sacrilegious.
D) The encroaching white culture was more civilized than the Sioux culture.

Question 4

The emerging conservative coalition that created alliances among groups with different concerns and views of what American and its government should be and reshaped the Republican Party in the process was known as the __________.

A) New Right
B) Sagebrush Rebellion
C) Moral Majority
D) Religious Right