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Bill Clinton's presentation of himself as a "new" democrat was designed to emphasize his commitment to reversing past Democratic party positions on civil rights

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False

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Clinton's ambitious reform goals suffered a sever setback when his health-care proposal failed to pass Congress

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True

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After victory in the 1994 congressional elections, the militant conservatism of Speaker Newt Gingrich stumbled when it shut down the federal government for a time.

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True

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Clinton's liberal reforms put conservative Republicans on the defensive and led to the substantial Democratic gains in the 1994 mid-term Congressional elections

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False

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The Oklahoma City bombing of 1995 and the Columbine High School shootings of 1999 led to new public demands for tougher gun laws

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True

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The struggling economy of the 1990s led Clinton to support increased protectionism and restrictions on the export of American jobs overseas

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False

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The Clinton administration's major foreign policy success came in laying the groundwork for a peace settlement between Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East

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False

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The two charges on which president Clinton was impeached and then acquitted were perjury before a grand jury and obstruction of justice

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True

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In the 2000 election, George W. Bush defeated Albert Gore in the Electoral College but not in the popular vote

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True

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The Supreme Court's majority ruling that settle the 2000 election controversy was based on the idea that Florida's counting violated the equal Protections clause of the 14th amendment

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True

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Once in office, President George W. Bush pursued strongly conservative policies on abortion, the environment, and taxes.

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True

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Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks, was an afghan Taliban leader who had originally fought the Soviet invasion of his country

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False

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The UN in 1993 declined to authorize the use of force against Iraq to compel compliance with its resolutions.

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False

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The USA-Patriot Act passed in response to September 11 authorized the detention and deportation of immigrants suspected of terrorism

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True

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In the cases of Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger, the Supreme Court banned numerical affirmative action university admissions policies but permitted more flexible approaches

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True

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"Centrist" Democratic organization that promoted Bill Clinton's candidacy as a "new" democrat

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Democratic Leadership Council

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Shorthand phrase for compromise policy that emerged after Clinton's failed attempt to end ban on gays and lesbians in the military

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"Don't Ask Don't Tell"

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Fundamentalist group whose compound in Waco, Texas, was assaulted by federal agents in 1993

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Branch Davidians

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Colorado High School were a deadly shooting in 1999 stirred a national movement against guns and gun violence

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Columbine

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Conservative campaign platform that led to a sweeping victory in the 1994 mid-term elections

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Contract with America

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H. Ross Perot's third party that in 1996 received less than half the votes Perot had garnered in 1992

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Reform Party

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International trade Organization that prompted strong protests from anti-global trade forces in Seattle, Washington, in 1999

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WTO

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Caribbean nation where Clinton sent twenty thousand American troops to restore ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power

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Haiti

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Clinton Arkansas investment deal that spurred a federal special prosecutor and led to widespread investigations of his administration

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WhiteWater

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Third party led by environmentalist Ralph Nader that took votes from Democratic presidential nominee Albert Gore in 2000 election

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Green Party

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Constitutional institution for choosing presidents that came under sever criticism after the 2000 popular vote winner failed to win the office

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Electoral College

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The other side of direct attack on September 11, 2001, besides the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center

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The pentagon

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The international terrorist network headed by Osama Bin Laden

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Al Qaeda

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Controversial law restricting civil liberties passed in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks

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Patriot Act

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Iraqi prison where alleged American abuse of Iraqi prisoners inflamed anti-American sentiment in Iraq and beyond

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Abu Ghraib

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William J. Clinton

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The first "baby boomer" president who was the first Democratic elected two full terms since Franklin Roosevelt

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H. Ross Perot

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Texas billionaire who won nearly 20 percent of the popular vote as a third-party candidate in 1992

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Hillary Rodham Clinton

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First presidential spouse to be given major policy responsibilities and to win election to the U.S. Senate

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Robert Dole

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1996 Republican presidential nominee who was soundly defeated by Bill Clinton

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Newt Gingrich

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Fiery republican speaker of the house who led his party to great victory in 1994 but resigned after republican losses in 1998

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John McCain

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Moderate Republican Senator who led the crusade for campaign finance reform but lost 2000 presidential nomination to George W. Bush

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Slobodan Milosevic

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Serbian president who conducted vicious "ethnic cleansing" campaigns and was eventually forced from office

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Monica Lewinsky

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Young White House intern whose sexual affair with President Clinton led to his impeachment

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William Rehnquist

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Chief Justice of the U.S. who presided at the impeachment trial of President Clinton

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Al Gore

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President Clinton's loyal vice president who won the most popular votes but lost the election of 2000

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George W. Bush

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Son of a former president whose narrow election in 2000 did not prevent him from pursuing a strong conservative agenda in office

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Richard Cheney

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George W. Bush's vice president who vigorously promoted conservative domestic policies and the invasion of Iraq

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Osama Bin Laden

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Wealthy Saudi Arabia exile who formed a global terrorist network that assaulted the U.S.

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Saddam Hussein

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Long time Iraqi dictator who was overthrown by invading American armies in 2003

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John Ashcroft

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George W. Bush's controversial attorney general who sharply restricted civil liberties and detained or deported immigrants suspected of terrorism.

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The communications and genetic revolution in postwar America created new social and moral dilemmas as well as widespread economic growth

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True

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After World War II, America's leading research universities concentrated on basic research and scholarship , while scientist in private industry focused on applied research and product development

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True

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The gap between America's wealthiest citizens and its poorest continued to grow in the 1990s and 2000s.

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True

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By the year 2000, almost all women without children at home were employed, but a majority of mothers with small children remained outside the workplace

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False

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One of the greatest issues facing the character of American families in the 1990s and after was the growing poverty of the nation's elderly

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False

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One factor that made Hispanic immigration to the U.S.unique was the close proximity of Mexican Americans to their former homeland across the border

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True

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The percentage of foreign born people in the U.S. at the end of the 1990s was the highest ever in American history.

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False

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By the mid-1990s, a majority of Americans lived in suburbs rather than central cities or rural areas.

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True

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African Americans attained considerable success in being elected to both local and national political leadership politics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries

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True

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Immigration from latin america and asia along with Black disillusionment with racial integration created a focus on "Multiculturalism" rather than the traditional melting pot

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True

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The rise of television and rock music caused a sharp decline in the number of Americans who patronized the "high culture" of museums and symphony orchestras

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False

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The tradition of fictional and nonfiction writing about the American West declined sharply in the late twentieth century

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False

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The center of the American and international art world after World War II was San Fransisco

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false

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The greatest challenge to American values posed by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was how to maintain national security without eroding traditional freedoms and isolating the U.S. in the world

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True

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The computer corporation that symbolized the U.S. economy in the 1990s much as U.S. steel did in 1900

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Microsoft

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Health care program for the elderly, enacted in 1965, that created large economic demands on the American economy by the 1990s.

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Medicare

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Law of 1986 that granted amnesty to past illegal immigrants and penalized employers of future illegal workers

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Immigration reform & control Act

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The largest of the "new immigrant" groups

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Hispanic

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Organization headed by Cesar Chavez that worked to improve conditions for migrant workers

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United Farm Workers

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American region that saw a particularly rich literary revival beginning in the 1980s

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West

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Tax-funded federal agency created in 1965 that provided support for American art and artists

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Endowment for the Arts

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Avant-garde painting movement pioneered by Jackson Pollock and others in the 1940s and 1950s

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Abstract expressionism

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Oil tanker whose 1989 spill of the coast of Alaska sparked deep concern over oil drilling and transportation on the world's oceans

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Exxon Valdez

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O.J. Simpson

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Former football star whose murder trial became a focus of racial tension

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L. Douglas Wilder

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The first African American state governor

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Carol Mosely-Braun

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First African American women elected to the U.S. Senate

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Larry McMurtry

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Western picture writer who portrayed small towns in Last Picture Show and the cattle-drive era in Lonesome Dove

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Norman MacLean

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Former English professor who wrote memorble tales of his montana boyhood

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August Wilson

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African American playwright who portrayed the psychological costs of the northern migration

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Toni Morrison

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Author of Beloved and winner of the nobel prize for Literature

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N. Scott Momaday

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Leading Indian writer, author of House made up dawn

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David Mamet

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Playwright who deployed gritty American slang in socially critical dramas like Glengurry Glen Ross

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Eve Ensler

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Feminist playwright whose vagina monologues blended comedy and sharp social commentary

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Jackson Pollock

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Pioneer artistic creator of "artistic expressionism" in the 1940s and 1950s

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Frank Gehry

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Leading twenty-first century American architect whose works like the Disney Concert Hall used fanciful metallic forms

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Decline of factory jobs and higher pay for workers

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Contributed to sharply increased income inequality in the U.S.

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The computer revolution and the new trend toward "genetic engineering"

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Expanded the economy but threatened many traditional jobs while creating new ethical dilemmas for society

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Expanding economic opportunities for women

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Changed both child-rearing patterns and men's social roles

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Rise of the median age of the population since the 1970s.

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Made the elderly a powerful political force

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Growing numbers and political powers for Hispanic Americans

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Made the American Southwest increasingly a "bicultural" zone

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The growth of the African American middle class and their migration to the suburbs

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Further isolated the poverty-stricken lower class in the inner cities

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Poverty and economic upheavals in Latin America and Asia

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Created the highest rates of immigration to the U.S. since the early 1900s.

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The resentment against many affirmative action measures

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Led california voters to pass measures restricting the use of racial categories.

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The reaction against integration and the rise of "multiculturalism"

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Led to sharp attacks on "Eurocentrism" in American education

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The success of modernist American art movements since the 1940s.

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Made NYC the art capital of the world

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