Unit 8 DC US History II
The worst urban violence in the 1900s occurred in the
1992 south central Los Angeles rioting
Al Qaeda's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, led to each of the following EXCEPT:
A renewed concern for civil liberties
Which of the following represented the leading modern art movement of the early post -World War II period that included American artists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning?
Abstract expressionism
In the election of 2000:
Al Gore lost the electoral vote and won the popular vote
All of the following were true of U.S. action in Iraq EXCEPT
American solders were greeted as liberators and Saddam's ouster led to flowering democracy across the Middle East
President Clinton attempted to promote peace negotiations and better relations between all of the following EXCEPT
China and Taiwan
How did federal government respond to the epidemic of violence plaguing American society in the 1990s?
Clinton and Congress passed a gun-control Brady Bill, and a $30 billion anti-crime bill that contained a ban on several types of assault weapons
Which of the following represented a significant political victory for -President Clinton at the beginning of the Clinton administration?
Congressional passage of the 1993 deficit-reduction bill
Which of the following was NOT among the areas where President Clinton's foreign policy stumbled in the first years of his presidency?
Developing strong relations with America's allies Germany and France
Which of the following was NOT among the controversial actions taken by the Bush administration in the immediate aftermath of 9/11?
Establishing restrictions on free speech and assembly for American anti-Iraq war organization
Bill Clinton became the first two-term Democratic president since
FDR
All of the following are true about the presidential election of 2000 except
Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris immediately called for a quick recount
All of the following were true of debates over immigration EXCEPT
George Bush vetoed a law to establish guest worker programs for undocumented workers and create a plan to citizenship, albeit after paying a fine
Which president initiated Operation Desert Storm?
George H. W. Bush
The third party candidate who garnered nearly 20 percent of the vote in the election of 1992 was
H. Ross Perot
President Bill Clinton's efforts early in his first term in this area failed to gain congressional support:
Healthcare
The affair between Monica Lewinsky and President Bill Clinton ultimately led to Clinton's:
Impeachment
The city that was especially rocked by serious racial conflicts and riots in the 1990s was
Los Angeles
Most of the new immigrants of the late 20th century came to the United States from countries like
Mexico and India
In the 1990s, a virtual monopoly on computer-operating systems was achieved by
Microsoft
What prompted the first wave of heavy criticism and verbal be hurled at First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton during the onset of the Clinton administration?
Mrs. Clinton developing an excessively complex health care plan that was quickly dropped by Congress 8inton
What was one reasonable charge that critics of multiculturalism in American education made about its possible impact on American society?
Multiculturalism may cause a loss of national cohesion and appreciation of shared American values.
The leader of the right-wing movement that won a sweeping victory for Republicans in the 1994 Congressional elections was
Newt Gingrich.
The campaign slogan " Yes, We Can" was used
Obama 2008
Which of the following was NOT among the polarizing conservative policies pursued by President George W. Bush as he assumed the presidency?
Passing the No Child Left Behind education reform law
What was the primary political legacy of President Clinton, according to some historians?
President Clinton consolidated the Reagan-Bush revolution by encouraging reduced expectations of government.
What important legal boost was given by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003 to African Americans' goal of achieving access to higher education?
Rigid quotas and point systems constructed for admissions programs were constitutional as long as they were developed to correct past discrimination at a college or university.
At some point during President Clinton's two administrations, American troops were committed to all of the following countries EXCEPT
Rwanda
America sent peacekeeping troops to Bosnia because
Serbs and Muslims were involved in a bloody civil war
What revelation in 2004 concerning the Iraq War prompted a deep escalation of anti-American sentiment in Iraq and throughout theta the Arab world?
The revelation that some American soldiers and abused Iraqi captives in the Abu Ghraib prison
George W. Bush defeated Albert Gore in the Electoral College but not in the popular vote.
True
Scandals related to President Clinton included all the following except
White House expense reports
Match the person with the proper description Answer Question Selected Matc William J. Clinton Osama bin Laden Saddam Hussein Richard Cheney William Rehnquist Hillary Rodman Clinton President Clinton Robert Dole Newt Gingrich Slobodan Milosevic John McCain the first baby boomer president Long-time Iraqi dictator who was overthrown by invading American armies in 2003 George W. Bush's vice president who vigorously promoted conservative domestic policies and the invasion of Iraq Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who presided at the impeachment trial of first presidential spouse to be given major policy responsibilities and to be win election to the United States Senate 1996 Republican presidential nominee who was soundly defeated by Bill Clinton Fiery Republican Speaker of the House who led his party to great victory in 1994 but resigned after Republican losses in 1998 Serbian president who conducted vicious ethnic cleansing campaigns and was eventually forced from office Veteran reform-minded senator who won the Republican Party presidential nomination in 2008 wealthy Saudi Arabian exile who formed a global terrorist network that assaulted the United States
William J. Clinton H. the first baby boomer president Saddam Hussein D. Long-time Iraqi dictator who was overthrown by invading American armies in 2003 Richard Cheney A. George W. Bush's vice president who vigorously promoted conservative domestic policies and the invasion of Iraq William Rehnquist B. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who presided at the impeachment trial of President Clinton Hillary Rodman Clinton J. first presidential spouse to be given major policy responsibilities and to be win election to the United States Senate Robert Dole I. 1996 Republican presidential nominee who was soundly defeated by Bill Clinton Newt Gingrich E. Fiery Republican Speaker of the House who led his party to great victory in 1994 but resigned after Republican losses in 1998 Slobodan Milosevic C. Serbian president who conducted vicious ethnic cleansing campaigns and was eventually forced from office John McCain F. Veteran reform-minded senator who won the Republican Party presidential nomination in 2008 Osama bin Laden G. wealthy Saudi Arabian exile who formed a global terrorist network that assaulted the United States
What did the u.s. Supreme Court cite as its reasoning for taking the unprecedented action of prohibiting further recounting of Florida's popular vote and awarding the 2000 election to George W. Bush?
a legal finding that Florida's inconsistent standards for evaluating the disputed ballots violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution
The end result of House Speaker Newt Gingrih's militantly conservative "Contract with America" was
a sharp political backlash that led to President Clinton's landslide victory in 1996
The 2008 presidential election was unique in the nation's history because
an African American was the presidential candidate of a major party
All of the following proved to be characteristics of the new information age EXCEPT
an end to the boom-or-bust capitalist business cycle.
Those responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
carried out the attack in response to the federal government's assault on the Branch Davidian religious sect in 1993
The decline of the Enron Corporation
cast a harsh light on the aggressive business practices of the previous decade
One of George W. Bush's first moves as president was to push for
civil rights
Despite numerous victories of feminists in the 1990s and 2000s, women continued to feel frustrated by their level of workplace progress for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that they
continued to bear the greatest responsibilities for the Velfare of children.
Despite his rhetorical emphasis on social justice and racial harmony, President Clinton actually helped consolidate the conservative trend in American politics by
discouraging the public from expecting America's social or moral problems to be solved by the government
As the presidential election of 2004 approached, President Bush
embraced increasingly conservative positions on divisive social issues
George Bush successfully won reelection in 2004 over Senator John Kerry by claiming all of the following EXCEPT that he
enjoyed nearly universal support among foreign leaders, including the political leadership of Germany and France, while Kerry could not win the confidence of these foreign leaders.
All of the following were true of the terrorists attacks on September 11, 2001 EXCEPT
even before 9/11, the United States had pursued military action against Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network in response to its bombings of Americans in East Africa and Yemen.
Environmental activists in the last twenty-five years of the twentieth century focused on all of the following issues except
exposing global warming as a myth promoted by big business
One major sign of the pressures facing American families in the late 20th century was that
families were much slower to form in the first place
All of the following were true of the disputed Election of 2000 EXCEPT
for the first time in American history, a candidate had won the White House getting fewer popular votes than his opponent
The Human Genome Project set out to
identify over 100,000 human genes by 2005
According to scholarly studies, which of the following is true about the illegal immigrants living in the United States
illegal immigrants pay more dollars in federal taxes than they claim in benefits, but do not often burden local government services
Support for the Iraq War declined for the following reasons except
lack of continued support for American military personnel
The primary issue that enabled Bill Clinton to defeat President Bush and Ross Perot in the 1992 election was Bush's
management of a seriously slumping economy.
All of the following were true of the "Contract with America" EXCEPT
most, but not all, incumbent Republican gubernatorial, senatorial and congressional candidates were reelected
In the 1970s and 1980s, the ideal of the American melting pot came under severe assault from advocates of
multi-culturalists who encouraged minority groups to retain their cultural inheritance
The controversy over President's launching of war against Iraq escalated when
no weapons of mass destruction were found in the country
The two charges on which President Clinton was impeached and then acquitted after a Senate trial in January and February 1999 were
perjury before a grand jury and obstruction of justice.
All of the following were true of George W. Bush's Social Security reform plan EXCEPT
plans to reshape the Social Security system were enacted into law just before the mid-term Congressional elections of 2006
The Mexican government worked to slow the Americanization of Mexican immigrants to the United States by
promoting Spanish-language schools and the celebration of holidays such as Cinco de Mayo
The NAFTA and GATT treaties showed political support for
promoting free trade and open markets
A new demographic profile of the American population emerged during the 1970s and 1980s as the
proportion of elderly citizens grew markedly
Which of the following were NOT among the strongly ideological conservative policies that President George W. Bush pursued soon after taking office in 2001?
proposing a restructuring and partial privatization of the Social Security System
All of the following were early Bush administration actions regarding the environment EXCEPT
removing several hundred thousand of acres of protected land from national forest registries
Early in the war against terrorism, American and anti-Taliban forces \
scored a quick victory that drove the Taliban from Kabul
What was the primary reason that George W. Bush's plan to privatize Social Security in 2005 was defeated?
seniors had substantial political power and there was a strong American commitment to a broad safety net.
All of the following constituted U.S. government responses to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, EXCEPT
suspension of Americans' First Amendment right to protest against government policies.
The Clinton administration experienced early problems in all of the following areas except
tax increases
In his first State of the Union address, President Bush identified the "axis of evil" as including all of the following EXCEPT
the Communist party in Russia
By the 2000s, the traditional nuclear family unit was under going severe strain for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 encouraged many mothers to seek part-time work outside the home.
The razor-thin election of 2000 between George W. Bush and Al Gore was finally resolved when
the U.S. Supreme Court ended further vote recounts in Florida, giving Bush the electoral vote victory.
All of the following acts of terrorism plagued the Clinton Administration EXCEPT
the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
Writers Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston and Jhumpa Lahri all explored in different ways, through their fiction, the issue of
the challenges and conflicts of generations created by Asian immigrant experience
The economic depression that began in the United States in 2007 was caused in large part by
the collapse of the housing market and banks that provide home morgages
The economic recession that began in the United States in 2007 was caused in part
the collapse of the housing market and banks that provided home mortgages
In 1999 world opinion was aroused by
the gruesome nature of the civil war in Kosovo
The most striking change in the immigration patterns of the 1970s and 1980s was
the increase in the numbers of Hispanics and Asians
Why did the Latino population maintain its linguistic and cultural identities better than most previous groups?
the large numbers of Latinos and the regional geographic concentration of Latinos in America facilitated the maintenance of their native languages and culture
All of the following are true of the U.S. Latino population EXCEPT
the most populous group of Latinos derives from Cuba, many of them refugees from the communist dictatorship of Fidel Castro
Which of the following best characterizes one key overall effect of the electronic new media in the early twenty- first century?
the new media have had a democratizing effect for ordinary citizens who desire to obtain and disseminate information and to influence opinion about a wide variety of topics.
One aspect of the O. J. Simpson trial was
the public's disagreement about the trial with opinions clearly divided along racial lines
U.N. Resolution 1441 authorized
the resumption of weapons inspections in Saddam Hussein's Iraq
Which action during the first year of the Republican-led Congress led to an emerging public consensus that the Republicans had overreached with their conservative policies?
the shutdown of the federal government during a dispute between the Republican congressional leadership and President Clinton over the federal budget
Bill Clinton's greatest strength in his first term was
the success of the economy and reduced federal budget
The gap between rich and poor Americans widened in the 1980s and 1990s for all the following reasons EXCEPT
the tax policies of the Carter and Clinton administrations.
All of the following were true of the dilemmas facing 21st century America EXCEPT
the terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001, violently heralded the dawn of new of a new Cold War because it was planned by a rouge terrorist nation
All of the following were true of the dilemmas facing 21st century America EXCEPT
the terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001, violently heralded the dawn of new of a new Cold War because it was planned by a rouge terrorist nation
One outcome of the election of 2000 was
the validity of electoral technology was called into question
What was one key reason that more African American politicans were winning electoral offices in the 1990s and 2000s?
they began to appeal to a wide variety of voters with diverse political, economic, and social concerns.
During the last weeks in office in 2000, President Clinton attempted to
to negotiate a peace in the Middle East with Israel and Palestine
In response to the 1994 elections, Bill Clinton shifted his political position to
to the center calling for tax cuts and a balanced budget
On May 1, 2003 abroad an aircraft carrier, President George W. Bush
triumphantly announced that "major combat operations in Iraq had ended"
All of the following were true of America's complex web of ethnicities in the early 21st century EXCEPT
unemployment and alcoholism no longer blighted reservation life for Native Americans because tribes opened gambling casinos for the general public on reservation lands
What did the U.S. military encounter in Iraq Saddam Hussein from power?
violent resistance from Iraqi insurgents ( militants who had been drawn to the country
By 2005, the use of the Internet in the United States
was a part of life for about 200 million Americans
Before September 11, 2001, most Americans thought that terrorism
was a problem that mainly plagued other nations
The welfare of the Social Security System
was threatened in the 19990s by the fact that benefits had risen so high, and the ratio of active workers to retirees had dropped so low, that drastic adjustments were necessary
All of the following were true of ways the Internet has transformed the lives of ordinary Americans EXCEPT
when the dot com bubble began to deflate, the Internet began to lose its hold on the lives of ordinary Americans
The democratizing effect of the Internet is evident in all of the following ways EXCEPT
young people flocked to social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook to make connections, often, with people in foreign countries
