Smartbook Chp 32

One of the strongest indicators of Internet access in the home is

parents' education level

What caused a spike in emigration out of Central America in the 1980s?

political unrest

The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001

quickly brought down the Taliban but failed to secure the capture of Osama bin Laden

Although the U.S. Supreme Court case of Gratz v. Bollinger did not allow the University of Michigan to use a point system to provide minorities preference in admissions, the Court did allow

race to be used as a consideration in the admissions process.

What emerged as a primary foreign policy problem of the Clinton administration?

regional ethnic conflicts

The debate over immigration in the mid-2000s revealed a split particularly among

republican

As the population of the United States grew more diverse,

some questioned whether new immigrants' minority cultures would influence the traditional majority cultures.

By the end of the twentieth century, Latino immigrant communities in the United States were

spread across urban and suburban areas.

In 1990, Lawrence Auster revived old nativist arguments in his book The Path to National Suicide in which he warned of

the "browning of America."

The idea of Net neutrality states that

the Internet should be free for all to use and not dominated by large companies.

George W. Bush won the presidential election of 2000 because

the U.S. Supreme Court ended the recount of Florida's votes and awarded the state to Bush.

By the twenty-first century the biggest economic divide was between

the college-educated and noncollege-educated.

The "new debate" over immigration in 2006 centered upon

the fate of 11 million illegal immigrants who were living in the U.S.

George W. Bush's foreign policy sought to engage the world on its own terms and not through consensus, an approach known as

unilateralist.

After 1994 the proposals from the "Contract with America"

were largely passed in the Republican-controlled House but were less successful in the Republican-controlled Senate.

By 2001, the Hindu population of the U.S. was about

1 MIL

In the 1960s, business spending on technology was about 3 percent. By the mid-1990s, it was

45%

In the presidential election of 2000, who led in the popular vote nationwide?

Al Gore

The presidential election of 2000 was ultimately decided by the U.S. Supreme Court because of an electoral stalemate in the state of

Flordia

What actions did the U.S. government take in Yugoslavia in the 1990s?

The United States participated in a NATO bombing campaign against Serbia and sent troops as part of a NATO peacekeeping operation in Kosovo.

How did efforts to impeach presidents Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon differ?

The impeachment of Clinton was largely a partisan effort.

Following legal challenges in 1996 and 2003, affirmative action

faced serious limitations but survived as a policy.

A key component of the Clinton health care reform effort was

health care coverage for all Americans.

Proposition 209, passed in California in 1996, eliminated racial and gender preferences in which of the following?

hiring & college admissions

When George W. Bush took office, he pushed for an agenda that appealed to

his political base on the right.

Immediately following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the United States worried about attacks from

hostile groups who disagreed with U.S. policies.

Latin American immigrants tended to settle in enclave communities where

immigrants from the same country supported each other.

By 1992, the currency flow of the global oil trade was the largest in volume. The currency flow of what was second largest?

immigrants sending funds

What is the reason the Middle East peace initiative under Bill Clinton failed to achieve lasting peace?

increased suspicion and violence by extremists

In 1995, the Republicans' decision to force the government to shut down rather than compromise on the budget

led the public to turn its back on the Republican revolutionaries.

What did the Immigration and Control Act of 1986 do?

made American employers responsible for determining whether employees were legal residents; granted amnesty to illegal immigrants who had arrived in the country before 1986; granted legal residency status to illegal immigrants who had arrived before 1986

Which of the following was among the countries to which U.S. troops were deployed in the early 1990s?

Haiti

What accurately describes Bill Clinton?

He was the first baby boomer president. He called for reform of the welfare and health care systems. His wife, Hillary, had a full-time career.

The Clinton administration's health care proposal was created by a task force headed by

Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Among Asian immigrants to the United States, those from ______ have more easily adapted to American society because many had college degrees and previous knowledge of English.

India

By the early 2000s, the largest number of Muslim immigrants to the U.S. came from

Pakistan and South Asia.

Bill Clinton appointed ______ to the Supreme Court.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

What was the result of the investigation into allegations about Whitewater during Clinton's first term?

The special prosecutor did not find any evidence of illegal actions by the Clintons.

Although some argued that the United States had to enter Yugoslavia to stop the violence, others feared that

U.S. troops could become entangled in another conflict like the Vietnam War.

Three-quarters of the almost 1 million refugees who arrived in the U.S. by 1990 were from where?

Vietnam

What was the result of the attempt to impeach Bill Clinton?

What was the result of the attempt to impeach Bill Clinton?

Early advocates of the Internet saw it as

a democratic and free technology.

The failure of health care reform under Bill Clinton in 1993 led to

a disenchantment with Congress, which in turn led to Republican victories in the 1994 midterm elections.

Osama bin Laden was dismayed that his home country of Saudi Arabia

allowed the United States to stage attacks on Iraq from Saudi lands.

In the 1990s, young Mexican immigrants gathered to listen to what type of music?

banda

Why can the profile of Asian immigration to the United States be described as resembling an hourglass?

because most of the immigrants are either relatively well off or extremely poor

President Bill Clinton's political skills

conflicted with other aspects of his personality.

What caused a spike in emigration out of Mexico in the 1980s?

economic downturn

In the 1980s, Central Americans joined the northward flow of Mexican illegal immigrants because of ______ in their home countries.

economic issues

In Yugoslavia a terrible consequence of Bosnia gaining its independence was the mass killing of rival populations, a practice called

ethnic cleansing

During the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, special prosecutor Kenneth Starr said that Bill Clinton should be put on trial for

obstruction of justice and perjury.