Chap. 23
Which of the following correctly describes candidate Donald Trump?
-He had faced dozens of lawsuits for nonpayment of debts. -He had never held political office. -He had at least four bankruptcies.
Which of the following accurately describes Bill Clinton?
-He was the first baby boomer president -He wife, Hillary, had a full-time career -He called for reform of the welfare and health care systems
By 2001, the Hindu population of the United States was about _____.
1 million
By 2012, the chief executive officers of the 350 largest corporations earned ______ times more, annually, than the average worker.
273
In the 1960s, business spending on technology was about 3 percent. By the mid-1990s, it was ______.
45 percent
Which virus was the cause of the 2020 pandemic?
COVID-19
What measures were taken to address income inequality during Obama's second term?
Congress passed a slight increase in tax rates for incomes over $250,000.
Among Asian immigrants to the United States, those from ______ were more acculturated upon arrival because many had college degrees and previous knowledge of English.
India
After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq,
Iraq fractured along religious and ethnic lines.
Trump was impeached for appearing to pressure the head of Ukraine to investigate the actions of an associate of which political rival?
Joe Biden
In the 2004 presidential election, George W. Bush defeated Democrat ______.
John Kerry
Arguing that it would put an unfair burden on American businesses, the Bush administration rejected an international agreement from 1997 to curb global warming. This agreement was called the ______.
Kyoto Protocol
Fulfilling his promise to provide opportunities for women to participate in his administration, Bill Clinton appointed ______ as the first female secretary of state.
Madeleine Albright
Of which group of people did Trump say "They're bringing drugs," he said of Mexicans. "They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."?
Mexicans
Speaker of the House ______ led the 1994 Republican majority in the House of Representative and introduced a series of 10 proposals to Congress he called "The Contract with America."
Newt Gingrich
One infamous militant who traveled to Afghanistan to join Afghan rebels fighting the Soviet Union in the 1980s was ______, who was born in Saudi Arabia.
Osama bin Laden
Bill Clinton appointed ______ to the Supreme Court.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
By the early 2000s, the largest number of Muslim immigrants to the United States came from Arab states and ______.
South Asia
What actions did the U.S. government take in Yugoslavia in the 1990s?
The United States participated in a NATO bombing campaign against Serbia.
Which of the following is true about the invasion of Iraq in the early 2000s?
U.S. troops led a limited coalition into war against Iraq.
Why did Afghanistan become an important base for Islamic terrorists?
Western nations trained and armed Muslim radicals there to fight the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
Early advocates of the Internet saw it as ______.
a democratic and free technology
It was determined that the September 11, 2001, attacks were coordinated and carried out by ______.
al-Qaeda
President Bill Clinton's political skills ______.
conflicted with other aspects of his personality
The response by George W. Bush's administration to Hurricane Katrina was ______.
criticized as slow and ineffective, causing the president to lose public and political support
Following legal challenges in 1996 and 2003, affirmative action _______.
faced serious limitations but survived as a policy
The economy of the late 1990s and early 2000s ______.
favored those at the top of the wage scale over other American workers
Which of the following banking practices contributed to the 2008 financial crisis?
giving loans to prospective homeowners who lacked the capacity to make monthly payments
The Brady Bill required a waiting period for _______.
gun purchases
Bill and Hillary Clinton supported the decisions of Roe v. Wade, a ruling that _____.
legalized abortions in the United States
The Bush administration argued that Iraq possessed dangerous weapons, such as nuclear weapons, which the administration referred to as weapons of ______.
mass destruction
One of the strongest indicators of Internet access in the home is _______.
parents' education level
The Paris Agreement ______.
was a climate accord designed to limit emission of greenhouse gases
Which of the following were objections raised by critics of the tax cuts proposed by Bush?
-The cuts did little to spur the creation of jobs. -The cuts favored those in high-income brackets. -The cuts erased the Clinton-era budget surpluses.
Proposition 209, passed in California in 1996, eliminated racial and gender preferences in which of the following?
-college admissions -hiring
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."
In the 2006 midterm elections, ______.
the Democrats took control of the House and Senate
By the twenty-first century the biggest economic divide was between ______.
the college-educated and noncollege-educated.
The Paris Agreement called for limitations on greenhouse gases to keep global temperatures from rising by more than 2 degrees Celsius. Most climate scientists considered this goal ______.
the minimum that was necessary
Which of the following was not a power given to the government under the USA Patriot Act?
the right to arrest U.S. citizens without a warrant
Clinton's first economic proposal was for deficit reduction and economic stimulus, but _______.
the stimulus portion was blocked by Senate Republicans
Which of the following did Trump promise during his presidential campaign?
to repeal the Affordable Care Act
George W. Bush's foreign policy sought to engage the world on its own terms and not through consensus, an approach known as ______.
unilateralist
The beating of Rodney King by four white police officers _______.
was captured on videotape and led to a trial and riots
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
In the presidential election of 2000, who led in the popular vote nationwide?
Al Gore
President George W. Bush hoped to impose conservative values on judicial rulings by ______.
appointing justices Roberts and Alito to the Supreme Court
When President Obama called for reform of the health care system in 2009, around 40 million Americans ______.
did not have health insurance
One of the key reasons Bill Clinton faced impeachment was ______.
he committed perjury in denying sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky
In 2009 liberals called for spending as much as one trillion dollars in the United States in order to ______.
help restore the economy
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
Latino immigrants tended to settle in enclave communities where ______.
immigrants from the same country supported each other
The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 ______.
quickly brought down the Taliban but failed to secure the capture of Osama bin Laden
After a jury acquitted the defendants in the Rodney King case, ______.
riots erupted in Los Angeles
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 area
During the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, political pundits argued that Bill Clinton should be impeached for ______.
-his affair with Monica Lewinsky -lying under oath
What were some of President Obama's proposals in 2009 for dealing with the collapsing economy?
-spending on infrastructure -tax cuts -expanded unemployment benefits
Which of the following proposals from the "Contract with America" passed the House of Representatives?
-tax curs -a balanced-budget amendment -a broader application of the death penalty
At the Senate trial, how many Republican senators voted to convict Trump?
1
Beginning in the 1990s, immigrants to the United States were most likely to come from which two regions of the world?
Asia and Latin America
Which of the following statements regarding global warming is true?
Conservatives and industry leaders continued to express skepticism over global warming.
Trump blocked a path to citizenship for a group known as ____, children of immigrants who had entered the country illegally and were now integrated into American life.
Dreamers
True or false: The influx of immigrants who came to the United States between 1990 and 2020 raised the nation's foreign-born population to its highest level ever.
False It raised the foreign-born population to about 12%. The high-water mark was 20% in 1900.
The presidential election of 2000 was ultimately decided by the U.S. Supreme Court because of an electoral stalemate in the state of ______.
Florida
The United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001 in part to capture Osama bin Laden, who was affiliated with the Afghanistan group the ______.
Taliban
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.
Osama bin Laden was dismayed that his home country of Saudi Arabia ______.
allowed the United States to stage attacks on Iraq from Saudi lands
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
What was the "Lincoln Project?"
disillusioned Republicans who campaigned against Trump
After the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the U.S. economy ______.
entered a serious recession
The health reform law enacted in 2010 gave 16 million low-income people insurance by ______.
extending Medicaid coverage
After their initial success in Iraq, U.S. forces ______.
faced difficulty in creating a viable Iraqi government while striving to contain violence
Following new waves of immigration to the United States in the late twentieth century, mainline Protestant and Catholic churches ______.
often welcomed immigrant communities
After the United States reported its first COVID-19 death and the stock market plummeted, who led the charge to adopt more progressive measures to combat the virus?
state governors
A major cause of the housing market's collapse was the overuse of ______.
subprime mortgages
