CHAPTER 31: Quick Study Guide
Progress Monitoring Online
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- Watergate in Review
Issues |
Consequences |
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- Presidential abuse of power (FBI wiretaps of “enemies”)
- Limits of executive privilege
- Supreme Court’s power to rule on presidential actions
- Willingness of Congress to confront presidential power
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- Shook public confidence in government
- Damaged the reputation of the presidency
- Confirmed the independent power of legislative and judicial branches
- Demonstrated strength of checks and balances system
- Prompted laws to govern independent counsel investigations and reform election finance practices
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- Economic Problems of the 1970s
Slow economic growth |
Inflation |
Energy crisis |
Foreign competition |
- International Relations in the 1970s
- Domestic Controversies in the 1970s
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