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The 2000 election results were decided

when the Supreme Court ended all efforts to recount the votes in Florida

In 1983, the Reagan administration responded to a terrorist bombing of American military barracks in Beirut by

withdrawing the remaining Marines

In the 1980 presidential election, Ronald Reagan

won on a slim majority of the popular vote

Which of the following is true of DNA?

All of these answers are correct -DNA is unique in every individual -DNA can be used to identify through blood, semen, skin, or hair -DNA can be used in criminal investigations

The term "terrorism" was first used in

France in the 1790s

On the day of the 2000 election

Al Gore won popular vote

During the 1980s, the American economy benefited from

All of these answers are correct - the virtual collapse of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries cartel -staggering federal budget deficits -years of tight money policy by the Federal Reserve Board

Which of the following was true of poor inner-city African Americans in the first decade of the twenty-first century?

All of these answers are correct -In 2006, less than half of inner-city blacks completed high school -60% of young, inner city blacks were unemployed in 2006 -In 2010, only 34% of black children lived with both their parents -The number of black children living with both their parent had been steadily declining since before the 1970s

The Internet grew out of

All of these answers are correct -a program known as ARPANET -federal government defense programs -work headed by J C R Licklider

During its first months, the Clinton administration face controversy over

All of these answers are correct -attempt to end policy barring gays and lesbians from serving in the military -the suicide of a White House counsel and longtime friend of the president -a banking and real estate venture involving the Clintons from the 1980s -several early appointments, which Clinton was forced to withdraw

In 1980, the "Sunbelt" region of the nation

All of these answers are correct -contained a strong populist tradition -included both the Southeast and the Southwest -continued to grow dramatically

In his foreign policy, President Ronald Reagan

All of these answers are correct -denounced SALT II -honored the provisions of SALT II -argued that armaments negotiations must be linked to good Soviet behaior in other areas

In 1976, Jimmy Carter appealed to votes by emphasizing

All of these answers are correct -his personal honesty -his lack of experience in federal gov -his religious piety

In the 1980s, record national budget deficits resulted from

All of these answers are correct -increased military spending -increased entitlement spending on programs such as Social Security -increased health care costs -large tax cuts

In 1986, the Reagan administration suffered a serious political scandal after the White House admitted it had

All of these answers are correct -secretly sold weapons to the revolutionary government of Iran -secretly helped finance money from arms sales -illegally funneled money from arms sales

Which of the following is true of DNA?

All of these answers are correct -the structure of DNA is unique in every individual -DNa can be used to identify individuals through their blood, semen, skin, or hair -DNA can be used in criminal investigations

Between 1994 and 2000, economic growth in the United States

All of these answers are correct -was at times very substantial -experienced its longest continual peacetime rise in the nation's history -recorded growth in every quarter of every year

In 1999, nearing the end of his presidency, Bill Clinton

All of these answers are correct had endured many scandals and setbacks throughout his administration -saw his personality popularity higher than when he took office -faced another crisis in the Balkans

The most pressing foreign policy issue of the first years of the Clinton administration concerned

Civil war in Bosnia

Bill Clinton was the first Democrat to win two terms as president since

Franklin Roosevelt

All of the following persons are directly associated with the discovery of DNA and its properties EXCEPT

Gregor Mendel

Regarding the development of the personal computer,

IBM hired Microsoft in the late 1970s to design an operating system for its computers

The microprocessor first introduced in 1971 by

Intel

In the 1980 presidential campaign

Jimmy Carter had to hold off a strong challenge to his re-nomination

Before the terrorist attacks of 9/11, US had never experienced

None of these answers are correct

In April 1995, former Marine Timothy McVeigh, who had become part of a militant antigovernment movement, killed 168 people when he blew up a van in front of a federal building in

Oklahoma City

In the 1996 election results

President Bill Clinton failed again to receive a majority of the popular vote

The 1996 presidential election saw

President Clinton aided by a significant reduction in the federal deficit

As a result of the 1994 elections,

Republicans won majorities in both houses of Congress

In the 1976 presidential election,

Ronald Reagan mounted a powerful challenge against President Ford

In 1979, Iranians who took American hostages demanded, in return for their release,

The United States' return of the shah of Iran

In 1992, Ross Perot made the best third-party showing in American politics since

Theodore Roosevelt in 1912

The "supply-side" economic theory embraced by President Ronald Reagan called for

a reduction of personal and corporate taxes

In the 1980s and 1990s, the most divisive cultural issue in the United States was

abortion

In 1988, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signaled his desire to change past policies by

agreeing to a significant nuclear arms reduction treaty

As president, Gerald Ford angered many right-wing conservatives by

appointing Nelson Rockefeller as vice president

In 1995, the Clinton administration and congress

both favored reductions in federal spending

The recession of 1990-1992

caused an unusually high number of bankruptcies

Regarding scandals surrounding President Bill Clinton,

charges of impropriety had existed throughout his term in office

The most impassioned opposition to globalization in the West

claimed it was not economically beneficial

The Human Genome Project

completed its gene identification project in 2003

In late 1995 and early 1996, the public largely blamed a budget impasse that shut down the federal government on

congressional Republicans

The weakening of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s was encouraged by the Soviet policy of

glasnost and perestroika

In the first decade of the twenty-first century,

half of all African Americans were members of the middle class

George H W Bush's 1988 presidential victory was primarily the result of

his repeated attack on his opponent's "liberalism"

As president, President Jimmy Carter called for a foreign policy that stressed the importance of

human rights

In 1979, the United States responded responded to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan by

imposing economic sanctions on the Soviet Union

After the Gulf War, President George H W Bush's high popularity quickly faded because of his

inability to contain a worsening recession

Regarding his view of Mikhail Gorbachev, President Ronald Reagan was

initially skeptical, but gradually concluded that Gorbachev was a sincere reformer

On the economic front, during the Carter administration

interest rates rose to their highest level in American history

During the 1980s and 1990s, American corporations sought to become more competitive by reducing

labor costs

The crisis of American hostages being held in Iran

lasted over a year

The Reagan doctrine of opposing communism

led the US to intervene in several Latin America nations

President Ronald Reagan argued that the Strategic Defense Initiative would

make nuclear war obsolete

In the late 19080s, drug use began to decline significantly among

middle-class Americans

In the late 1980s, in foreign affairs, President George H W Bush

moved toward far reaching arms reduction agreements with the former Soviet Union

Between 1980 and 2000, the United States' economy saw

none of these answers are correct -its gross national product nearly double rate of inflation average 4% per yr - Dow Jones Industrial Average almost quintuple

In the late 1980s, the spread of AIDS in the United States

occurred most rapidly among heterosexuals

The 2000 election campaign was notable for the

opinion polls that indicated the election would be very close

In its first year in office, the Bush administration

passed the largest tax cuts in American history

In the late 1970s, members of the so-called Sagebrush Rebellion

portrayed the West as a victim of government control

Proposition 13 in California, in 1978, dealt with

property taxes

In 1998, the federal budget

saw its first surplus in thirty years

Supporters of the 1978 Proposition 13 in California successfully

separated the issue of taxes from the issue of what taxes supported

As president, Ronald Reagan

succeeded in making his personality a central feature of his presidency

All of the following statements regarding the Gulf War of 1991 are true EXCEPT that

the Allied ground offensive focused on dislodging Iraqi forces dug-in along the Kuwait border

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter supported treaties in which the United States gave up control of

the Panama Canal

All of the following were part of the 1984 election EXCEPT

the Republicans making large gains in the Senate and House

The country President Ronald Reagan described as an "evil empire" in the early 1980s was

the Soviet Union

In 1992, Bill Clinton's presidential campaign focused on

the condition of the economy

During the Ford administration,

the price of oil rose dramatically

President Gerald Ford's foreign policy actions included

the signing of an arms control agreement with the Soviet Union

Beginning in April 2001, there was a significant drop in the US in

the value of technology stocks

In 2001, regarding an international treaty signed in Kyoto, Japan, to reduce emissions in the atmospheres, President George W Bush

unilaterally withdrew the treaty from consideration

In the 1990s and 2000s, opponents of globalization on the left charged the nation was

using its military to advance its economic interests

In the 1990s, medical treatment for AIDS in the United States

was unavailable for many poor victims

During President Ronald Reagan's first term, the course of the American economy

went through a severe recession that gave way to a strong recovery

During the Reagan presidency, "neo-conservatives"

were a small but disproportionately influential group of intellectuals

In the late 1970s, the "Christian right"

were alarmed by many Supreme Court rulings

The first computer to be widely available to the public was introduced in 1977 by

Apple

In the late 1980s, challenges to communist rule were LEAST successful in

China

Of the following, the Reagan doctrine was most actively applied in the nation of

Grenada

In 1974, former President Richard Nixon was pardoned by

The President - Ford

The World Wide Web, which helped establish an orderly system for both the distribution and retrieval of electronic information on the Internet was introduce by British scientist

Tim Berners-Lee

In his first year as president, Bill Clinton secured from Congress all of the following EXCEPT

a national health reform plan

Since the 1970s, the primary goal of Islamic fundamentalists in the world has been to

defend their traditional cultures from the West

One of the most significant markers of the "two-tiered economy" of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries was

disparities between educated and uneducated workers

All of the following foreign policy events occurred during the Carter administration EXCEPT the

ratification of a new SALT II arms agreement with the Soviet Union

When Bill Clinton assumed the presidency in 1993, he

brought a highly ambitious domestic political agenda

Between 1980 and 2005, average family incomes

declined for the poorest 20% of the population

The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton

ended with no charge attracting a majority of votes in the Senate

As president, Jimmy Carter gave much of his attention to

energy and the economy

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter

gave a national address in which he criticized the spirit of the nation

The Gulf War of 1991 had its origins in an Iraqi decision to

invade Kuwait

On December 1, 1998, the House voted along partisan line to impeach President Clinton for

lying to a grand jury and obstructing justice

In 1998, following charges that President Bill Clinton had a sexual relationship with a White House intern, his public approval rating

rose to record levels and remained high

In 1996, significant reform legislation was passed by Congress concerning

welfare programs

By 2010, well over __________ computers were in use around the world, with _________ in the United states

1 billion; about 250 million