1. A Conservative Movement Emerges SMART Assessment
Mr. White’s US History 2

2. Question #1
During the early 1980s, conservatives objected to what they believed were excesses in:
big business.
free enterprise.
military spending.
government regulation.

3. Question #2
In the 1980s, conservatives began to attack government entitlement programs as a drain on the country’s resources. Which of these is an example of a government entitlement program?
Medicare and Medicaid
The Stock Market
Car insurance provided by a private company
Congress

4. Question #3
Which of the following is the result of an entitlement program?
a Social Security check
the signing of the INF Treaty
the creation of the Moral Majority
the funding of the Strategic Defense Initiative

5. Question 4
Affirmative action is a philosophy that is designed to provide for equality by reducing the historical disadvantage that minorities face in the United States. Which of these best describes the conservative attitude toward affirmative action?
It is necessary and desirable to reduce inequality
It results in reverse discrimination against majority groups
It is too great a limitation on the federal government’s power

6. Question #5
Members of the Moral Majority were mostly conservative Christians who supported a return to Christian and family values in the United States. On the next slide, choose all choices that Members of the Moral Majority would have been likely to support.

7. Question #5
Choose all that Members of the Moral Majority would have been likely to support.
State-sponsored prayer in schools
Legal protections for women’s right to choose an abortion
The teaching of the theory of evolution in schools
Restrictions on pornography

8. Question #6
One of Ronald Reagan’s presidential issues was the United States military. Which of the following best describes Reagan’s plans for the United States military?
To reduce military spending
To increase military spending