Q1:
What assumptions about the relationship between government and society underlay Johnson’s Great Society programs?

Q2:
What light does the Montgomery bus boycott shed on the goals and strategies of the 1950s civil rights movement?

Q3:
Should Richard Nixon be considered an environmentalist? Why or why not?

Q4:
What factors combined to produce enormous increases in American economic productivity in the 1950s? Who benefited the most from increased productivity? Who did not benefit? Why?

Q5:
How did the Nixon administration appeal to the conservative movement?

Q6:
What impact did Nixon s strategies in Vietnam have on the United States?

Q7:
What did voters find appealing about Ronald Reagan in 1980? What groups were most attracted to his message?

Q8:
Is it fair to describe the Carter administration as a “failed presidency”? Why or why not?