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3. Peanuts - $100 Running as a Dem
Peanuts - $100 Running as a Dem. On the ticket “I’ll never lie to you”, he beat Jerry Ford in 1976?
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James Earl Carter

4. Peanuts - $200 Carter’s 1st act as President was?
Pardon American draft dodgers

5. Peanuts - $300 Carter’s new Federal Agency?
Department of Energy

6. Peanuts - $400 Carter brought the leaders of Israel and Egypt together and got a tentative peace. This is called?
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Camp David Accords

7. Turned the Canal over to Panama
Peanuts - $500 Carter’s give away of the Monroe Doctrine resulted in this?
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Turned the Canal over to Panama

8. A cartel Oil Producing and Exporting Countries
The Outsider - $100 Carter had to deal with OPEC over rising costs. What is OPEC?
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A cartel Oil Producing and Exporting Countries

9. The Outsider - $200 This climbed to 20% in 1980. It is?
The prime rate

10. Muslims take hostages at the American Embassy in Tehran
The Outsider - $300 Carter’s largest crisis occurred in Iran. What was it?
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Muslims take hostages at the American Embassy in Tehran

11. American self-esteem plummeted as the rescue helicopters crashed.
The Outsider - $400 Carter decided to rescue the hostages. What happened?
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American self-esteem plummeted as the rescue helicopters crashed.

12. The Outsider - $500 The Soviets began aggressively moving toward the Persian Gulf. Carter responded by?
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Embargoing grain and technology. Then by boycotting the Moscow Olympic Games

13. 1980 - $100 On the platform of ABC, Teddy Kennedy fought it out with Carter. What does ABC mean?
Anybody but Carter

14. 1980 - $200 The Reps. ran this “former” Governor of California
$200 The Reps. ran this “former” Governor of California Who was he?
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Ronald Reagan

15. 1980 - $300 What happened the day that Reagan was inaugurated?
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Iranian Hostages were freed

16. 1980 - $400 Reagan was devoted to this economic program. Name it?
Fiscal Fitness also called supply side economics (Later Reaganomics)

17. 1980 - $500 What was Reagan’s approach to government?
Anti-federalism (states rights)

18. Taxes Anyone? - $100 Cutting deeply into Johnson’s Great Society, Congress made huge cuts in this?
Social Programs

19. Democrats who voted Rep. mostly from the South
Taxes Anyone? - $200 Thanks to “boll weevils”, Reagan got a huge 25% tax reduction through Congress. Who were the boll weevils?
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Democrats who voted Rep. mostly from the South

20. Taxes Anyone? - $300 New investment, greater productivity, and dramatic growth caused by lower taxes. This new economics was called?
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Supply side economics (Reaganomics) It flew in the face of Keynesian economics

21. Taxes Anyone? - $400 Reagan redirected huge amounts of money to this Federal Department?
Department of Defense

22. Taxes Anyone? - $500 Reaganomics ultimately resulted in an improved economy, but also this?
A huge Federal deficit

23. Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
Trouble Abroad- $100 Reagan’s “trump” hand in the continuing war of words with the Soviets?
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Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

24. Trouble Abroad - $200 Poland tried to gain freedom from the Soviets using labor unions called this?
Solidarity

25. Granada and El Salvador
Trouble Abroad - $300 Two trouble spots in the Western hemisphere where Reagan invoked the Monroe Doctrine?
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Granada and El Salvador

26. Perestroika - Restructuring
Trouble Abroad - $400 In his 2nd term Reagan had to deal with Mikhail Gorbechev & these two new terms?
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Glasnots – openness
Perestroika - Restructuring

27. Trouble Abroad - $500 Reagan’s worst handling of Foreign Affairs was this international boondoggle?
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Iran-Contra Affairs

28. The Home Front - $100 Nothing harmful could stick to Pres
The Home Front - $100 Nothing harmful could stick to Pres. Reagan earning him this nickname?
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The Teflon President

29. The Home Front - $200 Reagan appointed the 1st woman to the Supreme Court. Her name is?
Sandra Day O’Connor

30. The Home Front - $300 These were the Presidential candidates in 1988 and their parties?
Michael Dukakis – Dem.
George H.W. Bush – Rep.

31. A kinder, gentler America
The Home Front - $400 In seeming opposition to Reagan, Bush called for this?
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A kinder, gentler America

32. The Home Front - $500 These world events happened in Bush’s 1st year as Pres.?
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Germany was reunited, Berlin Wall came down, E. Europe & Russia freed from Communist control, End of Cold War