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Reagan and Conservatism (College Board AP® US History): Exam Questions

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A man in a suit points at a chart titled "Your Taxes," illustrating changes over time. An American flag is visible in the background.
President Ronald Reagan addresses the Nation from the Oval Office on Tax Reduction Legislation, National Archives Catalog, 27th July 1981

The policies outlined in the image have been termed by historians as 

  • The Square Deal

  • The Fair Deal

  • Reaganomics

  • The Great Society

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A man in a suit points at a chart titled "Your Taxes," illustrating changes over time. An American flag is visible in the background.
President Ronald Reagan addresses the Nation from the Oval Office on Tax Reduction Legislation, National Archives Catalog, 27th July 1981

Policies outlined in the image are most directly associated with

  • Supply-side economics to promote economic growth 

  • Contractionary fiscal policy 

  • Monetarist policies to control inflation

  • Deficit spending as a tool for economic recovery

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A man in a suit points at a chart titled "Your Taxes," illustrating changes over time. An American flag is visible in the background.
President Ronald Reagan addresses the Nation from the Oval Office on Tax Reduction Legislation, National Archives Catalog, 27th July 1981

Policies outlined in the image are most comparable with 

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal policies

  • Lyndon B Johnson’s War on Poverty

  • The Progressive Era’s focus on government intervention in business

  • Herbert Hoover’s approach to the Great Depression 

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A man in a suit points at a chart titled "Your Taxes," illustrating changes over time. An American flag is visible in the background.
President Ronald Reagan addresses the Nation from the Oval Office on Tax Reduction Legislation, National Archives Catalog, 27th July 1981

The policy outlined in the image has had the least direct effect on which of the following developments?

  • National debt

  • The New Right Movement

  • Deregulation

  • Growing income inequality

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A man in a suit points at a chart titled "Your Taxes," illustrating changes over time. An American flag is visible in the background.
President Ronald Reagan addresses the Nation from the Oval Office on Tax Reduction Legislation, National Archives Catalog, 27th July 1981

Which limitation applies most directly to the image?

  • There is no indication of how much money, on average, a family would have annually as a result of the Economic Recovery Tax Act 

  • The image highlights the reduction in taxes. However, it does not address other significant policies that would contribute towards the decrease in taxes such as reduced government spending 

  • The image does not identify the role of the government in the reduction of taxes 

  • There is no outline of the other social and political effects that the reduction of taxes would have on an average family, such as social welfare schemes

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