Chapter 31 LC

What did Patrick Buchanan mean when he talked about "a culture war" in the 1980s?

A struggle between liberalism and Christian morality

In 1998, Congress enacted the Defense of Marriage Act, which had what effect?

Allowing states to refuse to recognize gay marriages or civil unions

Why did President Bill Clinton move to the right in 1995?

Democrats had lost significantly in the 1994 midterm elections.

Why did the former Communist nation of Yugoslavia, in the Balkans region of Europe, break into several different states?

Ethnic differences

Why did profits of the American financial industry rise from less than 10 percent of total national business profits in the 1950s to more than 40 percent in the 1990s?

Financial deregulation

Which factor has been most important for the global integration of the world's economies?

Global financial markets became integrated.

Proposition 187, passed by the California voters in 1994, focused on what issue related to multiculturalism?

Illegal immigration

How did the new immigrants from the Western Hemisphere help shape the emerging global economy in the late twentieth century?

Immigrants' remittances increased the flow of dollars overseas.

What proposition won overwhelming support by California voters in 1998 to eliminate bilingual education in the state's public schools?

Proposition 227

How did President Obama's judicial appointments affect the composition of the U.S. Supreme Court?

They increased both the number of women justices and the Court's ethnic diversity.

How did President Bill Clinton's health-care task force respond to the potency of Reagan Republican attacks on big government?

They proposed "managed competition."

Why did critics warn against the massive tax cuts of the Bush administration in 2001?

They warned that the cuts would plunge the government into debt.

Why did 50,000 protesters gather at the annual meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999?

They were protesting unequal distribution of costs and benefits of globalization.

During the 1990s, the people of the state of California expressed their anxieties over multiculturalism by

passing a series of laws and regulations ending affirmative action.