CHAPTER TWENTYEIGHT

Which entity was responsible for disaster planning and relief within the United States at the time of Hurricane Katrina?

Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The Kyoto Protocol of 1997:

addressed the issue of global warming and was rejected by President Bush.

In 2008 testifying before Congress, Alan Greenspan, the former head of the Federal Reserve Bank:

admitted that there had been a "flaw" in his long-held conviction that free markets would produce the best results.

What term did the Occupy movement introduce into American political vocabulary in 2011 and 2012?

"The 1 percent."

How much did the war in Iraq cost the United States by the time the last American combat troops left at the end of 2011?

$2 trillion

How did opponents describe the plans for a new Islamic Cultural Center near the World Trade Center in 2010?

As a "Trojan Horse."

How did President Bush characterize the toppling of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan?

As only the beginning of the war on terror.

All of the following statements about the 2008 Democratic primaries are true EXCEPT:

Barack Obama was a well-known senator from Illinois when the campaign began.

In 2001-2002, all of the following policymakers were determined to oust Hussein from power EXCEPT:

Colin Powell.

Which of the following actions won President Obama wide acclaim in May 2011?

He authorized the raid on a Pakistani compound that killed Osama Bin Laden.

All of the following statements about President Obama's inaugural address are true EXCEPT:

He spoke about freedom repeatedly.

Which of the following statements about Saddam Hussein turned out to be true?

He was a horrible tyrant who ruled Iraq ruthlessly.

Which of the following was a job category the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicted strong growth for in 2012?

Home health aides.

What made Bush's 2002 "National Security Strategy" fundamentally different from previous American policy?

It advocated the use of preemptive war.

Why is the characterization of the war on terror as a "clash of civilizations"—the West vs. Islam—unhistorical?

It denies a long past of cultural exchanges between the two.

Why did Goldman Sachs have to pay a fine of half a billion dollars in 2010?

It had knowingly sold toxic mortgage-based securities and then bet on their failure.

What made Barack Obama's presidential campaign "the first political campaign of the twenty-first century"?

Its widespread use of the Internet to raise money and communicate directly with voters.

All of the following statements about John Kerry and the 2004 presidential campaign are true EXCEPT:

Kerry was very in touch with the people and embraced by the common man.

Which state's supreme court ruled that homosexual marriages must receive legal recognition, spurring a moral values debate during the 2004 presidential election?

Massachusetts.

After the September 11 attacks, who authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to listen to domestic telephone conversations without a court warrant?

President Bush.

The claims of conservative Tea Party activists in 2010 included:

President Obama was born in Africa, not the United States.

Early in Bush's first term, his administration did which of the following?

Rejected the Kyoto Protocol.

Who among the cabinet members strongly urged President Bush to ban torture in the war on terror—with certain exceptions provided?

Secretary of State Colin Powell.

All of the following contributed to the banking crisis of 2008 EXCEPT:

The Federal Reserve Bank and other regulatory agencies slowed the speculative frenzy.

How did the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico illustrate the downsides of globalization and deregulation?

The Korean-built oil rig was operated by a Swiss company under contract with BP.

All of the following statements about President Obama's first year in office are true EXCEPT:

The Obama administration abolished the military tribunals Bush had established.

Which statement about Hurricane Katrina is true?

The mayor of New Orleans was slow to order an evacuation of the city.

The Hurricane Katrina disaster highlighted which of the following to Americans in 2005?

The nation and its economic recovery remained dependent on the price of oil.

Why did American consumers cut back on borrowing and spending after 2008?

The net worth of Americans had shrunk by trillions of dollars in the great recession.

Why did the number of Americans receiving food stamps rise after 2008?

The number of needy Americans skyrocketed with the recession.

Which of the following actions of the Obama administration in his first term disappointed his most ardent supporters?

The president chose his economic advisers from Wall Street.

Why did several Republican-controlled states pass new voter ID laws after the 2010 election?

They alleged epidemic voter fraud.

Which statement is true about illegal immigrants?

They mostly work as domestic, construction, and agricultural workers.

How did immigrants respond to the House of Representatives bill that made it a felony to be in the country illegally and a crime to offer aid to illegal immigrants?

They put on a series of massive popular demonstrations demanding their right to remain in the United States.

What happened at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq?

Under the supervision of U.S. military personnel, many prisoners were mistreated, humiliated, and tortured; some even died.

Which of the following was a liability for President Obama as he entered his reelection campaign of 2012?

Unemployment remained high even though the recession was officially over.

What did the Justice Department label the captured members of Al Qaeda in order to get around the Geneva Conventions?

Unlawful combatants.

Which of the following was not a contender for the Republican presidential ticket of 2012?

Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan.

By 2012, American troops or planes were involved in the war on terror in:

Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, and Afghanistan.

Operation Enduring Freedom was launched in October 2001:

against Afghanistan, because the nation was harboring Osama bin Laden.

Senator John McCain, the Republican nominee, selected Sarah Palin as his running mate:

because he sought to draw Democratic women into the Republican Party.

Early in 2003, President Bush announced that the United States would go to war against Iraq:

because it was believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

During the first term of President Obama, illegal immigration from Mexico:

ceased almost entirely.

In the midst of the stock market crash of 2008 and the housing crisis, most Americans:

cut back on spending, leading to business failures and a rapid rise in unemployment.

In response to the nation's economic woes, the Bush administration:

cut taxes and interest rates.

In response to the terrorist attacks on Washington, D.C., and New York City on September 11, 2001, President Bush:

declared a war on terrorism.

The USA Patriot Act:

expanded the rights of law enforcement agencies to conduct secret searches and detain suspected aliens.

In a September 20, 2001 speech, President Bush announced that "freedom and ____________ are at war."

fear

In the 2008 election, when Barack Obama "redrew the nation's political map":

he won in states that had been reliably Republican for years as well as in Democratic strongholds.

Two landmark Supreme Court cases in 2003 dealt with:

homosexuality and affirmative action.

In Lawrence v. Texas (2003), the Supreme Court extended the right of freedom to:

intimate conduct.

By 2011, the rate of black unemployment remained ______ that of whites.

nearly double

President George W. Bush insisted that the war on terror was:

not a war on Islam.

During his first year in office, George W. Bush:

persuaded Congress to enact the largest tax cut in American history.

In a Supreme Court decision in 2003, the right to use affirmative action in college admissions was:

reaffirmed.

George Bush became the first president since Herbert Hoover to

see the economy lose jobs over a four-year term.

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld ruled that:

the president had to uphold the Geneva Conventions.

Who was America's sole ally during the initial phase of the Iraq War?

Great Britain.

Which industry saw its overall workforce drop from 520,000 in 1970 to 120,000 in 2004?

Steel.

By mid-2003, the American economy:

was mixed, as the recession ended but the unemployment rate rose.

Banks that the Federal Government labeled as "too big to fail":

were interconnected with other institutions, and the government argued that their collapse would drive the economy into a depression.