The Culture Wars of the 1990s were battles over the moral values of Americans. The Christian Coalition was organized in opposition to what it perceived as an attack on “traditional” American values. These organized counterattacks were against which tenets of perceived social liberalism?Correct Answer(s)secularismabortion clinicsgay rightsgovernment subsidies to corporations

Which political ideology places a particular value on traditional religious beliefs and practices?social conservatismpopulismliberalismclassical liberalism

Conservative pundit, and former presidential candidate, Pat Buchanan called for a “religious war for the soul of America” in 1992. Which types of issues did Buchanan and other cultural conservatives believe would ruin the moral character of the country?Correct Answer(s)voting rightsmilitary spendinggay rightssecularism in schools

“In the decades following the Civil War, American capitalism began to produce a distinct culture, unconnected to traditional family or community values, to religion in any conventional sense, or to political democracy. It was a secular business and market-oriented culture, with the exchange and circulation of money and goods at the foundation of its aesthetic life and of its moral sensibility. . . .“By World War I, Americans were being enticed into consumer pleasure and indulgence rather than into work as the road to happiness. . . . For generations, America had been portrayed as a place of plenty, a garden in which all paradisiacal longings would be satisfied. . . . By the early 1900s this myth was being transformed, urbanized and commercialized, increasingly severed from its religious aims and focusing ever more on personal satisfaction and even on such new pleasure palaces as department stores, theaters, restaurants, hotels, dance halls, and amusement parks. . . . This new era heralded the pursuit of goods as the means to all ‘good’ and to personal salvation.”William Leach, historian, Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture, 1993QuestionWhich of the following long-term developments in the second half of the 1800s best helps to explain the change in United States culture depicted in the excerpt?ResponsesSome Americans began to move away from urban areas to form utopian communities.Some Americans began to move away from urban areas to form utopian communities.The formation of farmers’ cooperatives increased resistance to the business practices of corporations.The formation of farmers’ cooperatives increased resistance to the business practices of corporations.Some wealthy Americans used the doctrine of Social Darwinism began to justify economic inequality.Some wealthy Americans used the doctrine of Social Darwinism began to justify economic inequality.The creation of new manufacturing methods allowed factories to greatly increase production.

A far-right wing political perspective characterized by the belief that society and government should return to the past is?*LiberalismConservatismReactionismRadicalism

Values of Protestant Christianity were often used to justify ________. Question 1Select one: a. mercantilism b. business success during the Industrial Revolution c. secular humanism