70s Decade Quiz

What style of music was growing more popular throughout the 70s?

Disco

rock

Rap

Country

Ford granted Nixon a ______.

Full pardon

Resignation

Fair trial

Press conference

What was there a worldwide shortage of in the 70s?

Oil

Fresh water

Iron

Coal

Which president was proven to be involved with the Watergate scandal?

Nixon

Ford

Carter

Kennedy

What year did America pull their last troops out of Vietnam?

1974

1983

1984

1973

Ford was the only president to

Born in the US

In a political career before

Married

have not been elected vice president or president

What movie is Steven Spielberg famous for directing in 1975?

Jaws

Home Alone

The First Jurassic Park

Who were the journalists famous for uncovering the Watergate Scandal?

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

Tom Johnson and Earl Wilson

Woody Woodpecker and the Berenstain Bear

David Brinkley and Howard Cosell

What was the name of the amendment passed that helped women in 1972?

The Equal Rights Amendments

The Fair Treatment Amendment

The Kinda Fair Rights Amendment

The Equality Amendment

Who was the female tennis player who became a symbol for women’s equality?

Billie Jean King

Wilma Rudolph

Ronda Rousey

Serena Williams

What best describes America’s economy under Ford?

Rapid inflation and high interest rates

Modest inflation and low interest rates

Modest inflation and declining interest rates

Rapid inflation and stable interest rates

Nixon’s foreign policy supported all of the following except?

The United States would gradually leave the Vietnam War

Calm tensions between the United States and Soviet Union

Establish a new relationship with the Middle East

Increasing the military arms and weapons

How was many of the minority groups discriminated against?

Traditionalist viewpoints that caused racial bias

Economic disparity in income

Supreme court decisions in public education

All of the above

What amendment failed to be ratified for women in the 1970s?

19th Amendment

Equal Right Amendment (1972)

20th Amendment

17th Amendment

70s Decade Quiz

More Quizzes