One of George Bush’s most effective campaign strategies in the 1988 election was to portray his opponent, Michael Dukakis, as soft on crime. communist. too inexperienced. out of touch with American values.

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Question 1

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One of George Bush’s most effective campaign strategies in the 1988 election was to portray his opponent, Michael Dukakis, as
soft on crime.
communist.
too inexperienced.
out of touch with American values.

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Reagan won reelection handily in 1984, in large part because
Answers: the economy had temporarily improved.
Americans liked his strong anti-communist stance.
he had ended the Cold War.
he had developed a friendly relationship with the leader of the Soviet Union.

·       Question 6

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The Iran Contra affair involved clandestine sales of American armaments to provide money for a guerilla group in
Answers: Iraq.
Israel.
Nicaragua.
Syria.

·       Question 7

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The fact that the possession of only small amounts of crack cocaine carried the same penalties as possession of considerably larger amounts of cocaine indicated that
Answers: in the war against drugs, public officials began to target the poor more than the wealthy.
Americans were terrified that the entire younger generation would be lost to drugs.
gang wars would escalate exponentially.
the American criminal justice system was not functioning effectively.

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When the Soviet Union removed its troops from Afghanistan as part of Gorbechev’s Perestroika policy,
Answers: the American-supported Mujahideen took temporary control before the country fell to the Taliban.
Iran tried to invade the mountainous state from the west, with no luck.
it met one of the demands Reagan had made for the resumption of disarmament talks.
it did so only because Soviet leaders realized that it would eventually gain control of Afghanistan another way, with American assistance.

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Which of these is NOT a true statement about the Persian Gulf War?
Answers: It began when Saddam Hussein attempted to reestablish Iraq’s control over the Middle East.
Hussein took over the oil-rich country of Kuwait, which led Bush to fear for American oil supplies.
It ended when Bush decided to invade Iraq.
It was a very brief war ? one that lasted just days.

·       Question 11

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Why did manufacturers claim they left northern cities during the 1980s for the South and West?
They wanted to establish well-organized, union-run shops.
They sought a cheap labor supply and lower taxes.
Those regions offered incentives to lure businesses to relocate.
All of these choices.

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The temporary improvement in the American economy during Reagan’s early tenure was mainly the result of
Answers: defense spending.
tax cuts.
the success of supply-side economics.
the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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The term used for the complete expulsion of an entire ethnic population from a particular area is
ethnic devolution.
ethnic cleansing.
perestroika.
ethnic containment.

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All of the following Supreme Court Justices were on the bench between 1980 and 1992, EXCEPT:
Answers: Anthony Kennedy.
Antonin Scalia.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Sandra Day O’Connor.

·       Question 17

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Reagan was the perfect conservative candidate and president because of his belief in
traditional family values.
anticommunism.
reducing social programs.
All of these choices.

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All of the following are true statements about Reagan’s economic programs except
Answers: His trickle-down theory was ultimately proven a vital strategy for dealing with economic downturns.
His cuts to government spending focused on social programs such as welfare and unemployment compensation.
He dramatically increased defense spending.
His policies led to an increasing number of billionaires in America.

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Hezbollah was the terrorist organization responsible for
leading the fight against the Soviets inside Afghanistan.
an attack on a Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed 241 American troops.
attacking American oil tankers in the Persian Gulf.
helping Iran fight off the Iraqi invasion.

·       Question 22

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The disputes over the different visions of America put forth by New Right Conservatives and their left-wing opposition have been labeled
Answers: People for the American Way.
the “culture wars.”
the Cold War.
America Comes of Age.”

·       Question 23

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All of the following are true statements about the Savings and Loan crisis except
Answers: It was caused by allowing S&Ls to invest in risky ventures such as shady real estate deals.
One of the biggest S&L failures was investing in large companies that used the money to buy up weaker competitors.
Millions of Americans lost all their savings.
President Bush created a plan to resolve the crisis ? at a taxpayer cost of $500 million.

·       Question 24

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It could plausibly be stated that Reagan was at least partly to blame for the
Answers: success of the Polish Solidarity movement.
lack of a peace settlement in the Middle East.
bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983.
Savings and Loan debacle.

·       Question 26

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The first European country to demonstrate that the Soviet Union was losing control over the countries in its “sphere of influence” was
Answers: Germany
Poland
Romania
Lithuania

·       Question 27

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The first woman on a national presidential ticket was
Answers: Phyllis Schlafly.
Geraldine Ferraro.
Sarah Palin.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

·       Question 29

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The distinction held by the Persian Gulf War of 1991 was that
Answers: it was the first televised war.
it demonstrated the effectiveness of U.S. military hardware and troops.
it was the first war to be televised in real time.
it was conducted by the United States and a large number of other countries.

·       Question 30

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Which drug appeared in the mid-1980s and quickly took hold of inner city youth?
Answers: crack
opium
methamphetamines
LSD

·       Question 32

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Several issues plagued Carter in his bid for reelection, including all of the following except
Answers: his moralism and bid for austerity.
the apparent weakness of the United States in comparison to the Soviet Union.
Reagan’s personality.
the Iran hostage crisis.

·       Question 34

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The New Right that emerged in the 1980s concentrated on
fighting desegregation.
social justice.
electoral reform.
popular culture and moral issues.

·       Question 37

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The pro-democracy rallies in China’s Tiananmen Square
led to strained U.S.-China relations due to the Chinese government’s response.
demonstrated that the Chinese were willing to liberalize some policies, especially in the area of economics.
disenchanted and dismayed the communist party members.
None of these choices.

·       Question 38

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Reagan’s supply-side economics program focused first on
Answers: providing extra time for people on unemployment.
cutting taxes to generate investments in the economy.
increasing federal revenues.
increasing protective tariffs.

 

According to the textbook, Habakkuk’s interaction with God is a reminder that the life of faith often involves lament, complaint, and the pouring out of one’s honest emotions and feelings to God

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Set 2019:

1. In Malachi, the Lord promised that He would send the prophet _________ prior to the future Day of the Lord to restore His people.

2. According to the textbook, Habakkuk’s interaction with God is a reminder that the life of faith often involves lament, complaint, and the pouring out of one’s honest emotions and feelings to God.

3. One lament in Lamentations features a beleaguered individual who probably is the personification of the city of Jerusalem.

4. In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as the true vine.

5. Habakkuk was a contemporary of

6. Isaiah is the most referenced Old Testament book in the New Testament, with approximately 100 citations and 500 allusions.

7. The book of Ezekiel ends with a vision of an eschatological temple where God dwells with his people and a life-giving river flows out from this temple.

8. In Malachi, God denounces His people by raising the question of

9. In his first vision, Zechariah saw a flying scroll that measured thirty feet by fifteen feet and was covered with written curses against those who had broken God’s commandments

10. In Malachi, God denounces His people by raising the question of

11. During an extravagant banquet Belshazzar desecrated the temple vessels taken from
Jerusalem.

12. The enormity of the temple rebuilding process, economic hardships, and opposition from the surrounding peoples stalled the project for sixteen months.

13. The Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah makes clear that this is not a typical human child because he is described as an “Everlasting Father.”

14. Critical scholarship has argued for multiple authorship of the book and has viewed chapters 40–66 as coming after the time of Isaiah.

15. Ezekiel’s vision of _____________ confirmed the Lord’s promise to restore and spiritually renew the people of Israel.

16. Micah was a prophet in Judah and a contemporary of the prophet ________.

17. The Immanuel prophecy depicts one whose reigns forever.

18. The moral failure of Judah’s leadership had little impact on the spiritual corruption of the nation. However, the same could not be said for Judah’s priests.

19. According to Micah, because the rich deprived the poor of their land, the Lord would now do the same to them.

20. According to our textbook, the overall theme of Daniel is God’s sovereignty over the people of Israel and the nations of the world.

21. The judgment of the Edomites is a reminder that God stands opposed to all forms of human arrogance and pride.

22. Daniel and his three friends were placed in a three-year training program to learn the language, literature, and the sciences of the Babylonians.

23. In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as the coming conqueror.

24. Hosea charged Israel with three separate indictments. One of these indictments indicated that “They have broken the covenant; they were unfaithful to me there.” (Hos. 6:7)

25. In Zechariah, the Lord promised that He would “return” to His people if they would “return” to Him.

26. Habakkuk’s third question was:

27. The questions in the book of Malachi follow the pattern of: (1) accusation, (2) refutation, (3) interrogation, and (4) conclusion.

28. In Malachi, God denounces His people by raising the question of

29. Peter cites and quotes from Isa 53:4–5, 9, 11–12 (“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth,” and “by his wounds you have been healed”) in 1 Peter 2:21-25 as evidence that Jesus is Isaiah’s suffering servant.

30. The poems in the book of Lamentations most closely resemble the communal laments in the _____________.

31. The book of Jonah is a two-part story. The first part of the book is about God’s mercy to His disobedient prophet. The second part of the book is about God’s mercy to the wicked people of Nineveh.

32. Eventually, King Nebuchadnezzar would go temporarily insane and behave in an animal-like manner.

33. Nahum delivered his messages during the reign of Josiah around the same time Daniel commenced his prophetic ministry.

34. The story of Jonah is a reminder that the Lord’s plan of salvation extends beyond Israel to include all the nations, even those who were Israel’s greatest enemies.

35. The name Immanuel means “God for us.”

36. During Hosea’s life Israel’s political size and economic stability increased, these were not indicators of spiritual vitality.

37. Rather than rejoicing in his successful preaching mission and the salvation of the Ninevites, Jonah was angered that the Lord spared the city.

38. Amos was a prophet to the southern kingdom of Judah.

39. Luke 22:37 quotes from Isa 53:12 (“And he was numbered with the transgressors”) as evidence that Jesus is Isaiah’s suffering servant.

40. God’s promise in Jeremiah 29:11 (“For I know the plans I have for you . . . to give you a future and a hope) addresses the impending exile and the future restoration of Judah because God loved His people with an eternal love.

41. Daniel’s three friends were Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

42. Habakkuk’s second question was:

43. Jeremiah told Judah that they would be able to resist the Babylonians. However, submission to Babylon was the only way Jerusalem would be spared from destruction.

44. Jonah is scandalized that the Lord would show the same grace he has shown to Israel to the people of Nineveh.

45. The ultimate fulfillment of the Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah was the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, who was literally God incarnate and who would preserve the line of David forever.

46. According to Micah, the Lord was angry that social injustice became common in Israel. He was worried this would soon spread to Judah.

47. Like a con artist, Nineveh had seduced other nations into alliances and then had
betrayed them because of her greed and lust for wealth.

48. Amos concluded his prophecies of unrelenting judgment with a message of hope concerning Israel’s future restoration. God promised:

49. Lamentations reveals that, as the Divine Warrior, the Lord poured out His anger on the city of Jerusalem. However, He would not abandon the Temple for it was His own sanctuary.

50. The ____________ were descendants of Esau and had a stormy relationship with Israel throughout their history.

SET 2018:

1. Zechariah called the people to repent and return to the Lord. Without true spiritual renewal on the people’s part, rebuilding the temple was useless.

2. Peter cites and quotes from Isa 53:4–5, 9, 11–12 (“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth,” and “by his wounds you have been healed”) in 1 Peter 2:21-25 as evidence that Jesus is Isaiah’s suffering servant.

3. God commanded Hosea to marry a promiscuous and unfaithful wife, who subsequently gave birth to three children with symbolic names. Both the woman and the children were metaphors of Israel’s covenant unfaithfulness toward the Lord. Israel had prostituted itself by turning away from the Lord and following other gods.

4. Isaiah ministered in to the southern two tribes known as Judah.

5. The Lord commissioned Isaiah as a prophet in the year of King Uzziah’s death.

6. The ultimate fulfillment of the Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah was the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, who was literally God incarnate and who would preserve the line of David forever.

7. The Immanuel prophecy depicts one whose reigns forever.

8. During an extravagant banquet Belshazzar desecrated the temple vessels taken from

9. Jerusalem

10. Habakkuk’s third question was:

11. Because of his strong preaching, Jeremiah was appreciated by kings, priests, and the people of Judah.

12. Nahum delivered his messages during the reign of Josiah around the same time Daniel commenced his prophetic ministry.

13. In Haggai’s final message the Lord promised to bless Zerubbabel who was the weak governor of Judah and a member of the house of David.

14. The questions in the book of Malachi follow the pattern of: (1) accusation, (2) refutation, (3) interrogation, and (4) conclusion.

15. According to Lamentations, Jerusalem’s fate was worse than that of Sodom.

16. In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as the healer of the nations.

17. Jeremiah told Judah that they would be able to resist the Babylonians. However, submission to Babylon was the only way Jerusalem would be spared from destruction.

18. During an extravagant banquet Belshazzar saw a divine handwritten message that appeared on the plaster wall of the palace. This message indicated that his kingdom had been numbered, weighted, and divided.

19. The book of Jonah is a two-part story. The first part of the book is about God’s mercy to His disobedient prophet. The second part of the book is about God’s mercy to the wicked people of Nineveh.

20. Hosea compared Israel’s unfaithfulness to spoiled grapes, a wild vine, a trained heifer, and a rebellious daughter.

21. The book of Lamentations is a series of five separate laments over the fall of Jerusalem to the __________.

22. Amos concluded his prophecies of unrelenting judgment with a message of hope concerning Israel’s future restoration. God promised:

23. In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as a suffering servant.

24. Habakkuk was a contemporary of

25. Amos opened his book of prophecies with the startling image of God as a ___________. Rather than protecting them, Yahweh would roar out in judgment against them.

26. Zephaniah highlights the judgment of God by detailing how God will reverse his work of creation and destroy all living things.

27. Ezekiel came from a priestly family, which helps explain his emphasis on sin as uncleanness and defilement and his interest in the rebuilding of the future temple.

28. The King of Babylon has a dream about four empires that is only successfully interpreted by Daniel.

29. The name Immanuel means “God for us.”

30. Jonah is scandalized that the Lord would show the same grace he has shown to Israel to the people of Nineveh.

31. Ezekiel’s vision of _____________ confirmed the Lord’s promise to restore and spiritually renew the people of Israel.

32. Like a con artist, Nineveh had seduced other nations into alliances and then had

33. betrayed them because of her greed and lust for wealth.

34. Micah likened the greed and disagreed of Israel’s leaders for the poor to cannibals that chopped the people up and made them into stew.

35. Zephaniah’s preaching thus helped influence perhaps the greatest revival in Judah’s history.

36. In Zechariah, the Lord promised that He would “return” to His people if they would “return” to Him.

37. Rather than rejoicing in his successful preaching mission and the salvation of the Ninevites, Jonah was angered that the Lord spared the city.

38. The king and people of Nineveh took Jonah’s warning of destruction seriously and expressed their repentance by fasting from food and drink, wearing sackcloth, crying out to God, and turning from their violent behavior.

39. Jeremiah prophesied until Judah’s last days as a nation and warned of the coming Babylonian exile as the Lord’s punishment for Judah’s sins.

40. Daniel and his three friends were given Babylonian names in order to acclimate them to Babylonian life and culture.

41. In Malachi, God denounces His people by raising the question of

42. Ezekiel also delivered a series of oracles against Egypt.

43. Lamentations 1–4 are acrostic poems.

44. One lament in Lamentations features a beleaguered individual who probably is the personification of the city of Jerusalem.

45. Luke 22:37 quotes from Isa 53:12 (“And he was numbered with the transgressors”) as evidence that Jesus is Isaiah’s suffering servant.

46. During Hosea’s life Israel’s political size and economic stability increased, these were not indicators of spiritual vitality.

47. According to Micah, the Lord was angry that social injustice became common in Israel. He was worried this would soon spread to Judah.

48. In the Zechariah third vision he saw a man with a measuring rod, surveying Jerusalem in preparation for the rebuilding of its walls.

49. Jesus quoted from both “halves” of Isaiah and attributed them to Isaiah the prophet.

50. In his first vision, Zechariah saw a flying scroll that measured thirty feet by fifteen feet and was covered with written curses against those who had broken God’s commandments

51. Amos concluded his prophecies of unrelenting judgment with a message of hope concerning Israel’s future restoration. God promised:

52. The poems in the book of Lamentations most closely resemble the communal laments in the _____________.

What were the major arguments in support of the Constitution given by the Federalists? What were the major arguments against the Constitution put forth by the Anti-Federalists? (The Ratification Debate and the Origin of the Bill of Rights

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1. Only use this book. (ebook attached) DO NOT USE ANY OUTSIDE SOURCE!!)

2. Use question-answer format—write out the question, then write a short essay answering it.  Do that for each question.

3. Use quotes and page citations for each chapter (essays that don’t will be graded down).

4. I would like 70-90% of the answers are quotes for each question. The rest can be your own writing with very simple English PLEASE!

5. The essay needs to be total of 8 pages minimum.

6. Double spaced Please.

 

Questions:

Ch.6, The Revolution Within

1. In what ways did political and religious liberties expand after the Revolution? (Democratizing Freedom + Toward Religious Toleration)

2. How did the Revolution affect the status of women? (Daughters of Liberty)

Ch.7, Founding a Nation (1783-1789)

1. What events and ideas led to the belief in 1786 and 1787 that the Articles of Confederation were not working well? (America Under the Confederation)

2. What were the major arguments in support of the Constitution given by the Federalists? What were the major arguments against the Constitution put forth by the Anti-Federalists? (The Ratification Debate and the Origin of the Bill of Rights)

Ch.14, A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War (1861-1865)

1. Describe how the North’s war aims evolved between 1861 and 1863, changing from simply preserving the Union to also ending slavery. What role did blacks play in winning the Civil War?  (The Coming of Emancipation)

 

2. How did the war effort and leadership problems affect the society and economy of the Confederacy?  (The Confederate Nation)

What characteristics does your chosen religions share with the others? What makes it unique?

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Select a religion that is not your own and interview a person of that faith. If possible, visit a place of worship and interview a person of that institution. As an alternative, the interview may be conducted by telephone, written communication (e.g., email exchange) or, web/video conference.

 

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word informative paper on world religions.

 

Compare your selected religion with the other religions studied in this class.

 

  • What characteristics does your chosen religions share with the others? What makes it unique?
  • How is religion in general, and your chosen religions specifically, responding to challenges of the modern world?

 

Include a summary of your interview containing the following elements:

 

  • Introduction of the religion, including the history
  • Date, time and method of interview
  • Name of the person interviewed
  • Name, location and review of the site if applicable.
  • Interview summary
  • References

 

Cite at least five references in addition to the textbook.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.