Test Answers on Chapter 41 – Flashcards
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Bill Clinton
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42nd President advocated economic and healthcare reform; second president to be impeached
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Al Gore
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Clinton's vice president; presidential nominee in 2000
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Democratic Leadership Council
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Created by Clinton and other centrist Democrats to point the party away from its traditional antibusiness, dovish, champion-of-the-underdog orientation and toward progrowth, strong defense, and anticrime policies.
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George HW Bush
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President from 1989-1993
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Danforth Quayle
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Bush's VP candidate in 92
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H. Ross Perot
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independent candidate
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Carol Moseley Braun
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first black woman in senate
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Janet Reno
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first female attorney general
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Donn Shalala
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First woman sec of health and human services
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Henry Cisneros
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served in Clinton's cabinet as secretary of housing and urban development
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Ron Brown
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black sec of commerce
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Clinton's nomination for supreme court woman
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Don't ask don't tell
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Under Clinton administration. Concerns allowing gays into military but forbids begin openly homosexual.
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Hillary Clinton
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Clinton's wife
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Brady Bill
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gun control law
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Oklahoma City bombing
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Bombing of Murrah Federal Building. The blast, set off by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, killed 168 people, including 19 children in the building's day-care center.
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Branch Davidians
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cult led by David Koresh, sieged by federal agents, had illegal firearms, building caught fire and no one survived
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Columbine High School
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A number of students and a teacher were murdered; there was increased security at schools; awareness of dangers at school
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National Rifle Association
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against Clinton on gun laws, a powerful lobby that advocates the right to own and bear arms and rejects any gun regulation by the government
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Michael Moor's Bowling fo rColumbine
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documentary about gun control
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Newt Gingrich
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Gingrich was the Republican speaker in the House. He pushed for more conservative legislation during Clinton's presidency.
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unfunded mandates
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federal laws that imposed new obligations on state and local governments without providing new revenues
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Welfare Reform Bill
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bill reluctantly signed by Clinton that gave the responsibility of caring for dependent children to states
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Robert Dole
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republican candidate in 96
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Proposition 209
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A measure intended to end the affirmative action programs in California.
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Hopwood v texas
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ruled that admission policies discriminated against whites
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North American Free Trade Agreement
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Agreement entered into by Canada, Mexico, and the United States in December 1992 and which took effect on January 1, 1994 to eliminate the barriers to trade in, and facilitate the cross-border movement of goods and services between the countries.
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World Trade Organization
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An international agency which encourages trade between member nations, administers global trade agreements and resolves disputes when they arise.
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John McCain
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This Arizona Senator and war hero was runner-up to Gearoge W. Bush for the GOP presidential nomination in 200 and was the nominee in 2008
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Somalia
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American troops sent here because of rebels
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Jean Bertrand Aristide
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This person won the first election in Haiti in 1990.
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Slobodan Milosevic
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President of Serbia from 1989 to 1997 and of Yugoslavia 1997 to 2000. A key figure in the ethnic conflicts in the Balkans in the 1900's.
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Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat
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israeli premier and PLO leader who agree on self rule for palestines within israel
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Madeline Albright
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first woman sec. of state by Bill Clinton
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Whitewater Land Corporation
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Clinton had a failed real estate investment in this.
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Monica Lewinsky
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White House intern whose affair with Bill Clinton led to his impeachment
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Kenneth Starr
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prosecutor against Clinton in the Lewinsky scandal
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William Rehnquist
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chief justice in monica lewinsky scandal
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Joseph Lieberman
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Gore's running mate in 2000
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Ralph Nader
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green party candidate
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George W. Bush
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pres 2000-2008
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Richard Cheney
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Bush's VP
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September 11, 2001
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terrorist attacks on the united states that killed thousands of people
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Osama bin Laden
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head of Al Qaeda
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Taliban
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a group of fundamentalist Muslims who took control of Afghanistan's government in 1996
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Asymmetrical warfare
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new war tactic in War on Terror, Military action between a superpower using strategies dependent on high-technology weapons and the low technology and guerilla tactics used by small insurgent groups.
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anthrax
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respiratory disease caused by 9/11
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USA Patriot Act
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law passed due to 9/11 attacks; sought to prevent further terrorist attacks by allowing greater government access to electronic communications and other information; criticized by some as violating civil liberties
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Department of Homeland Security
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new cabinet position post 9/11
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Abu Ghraib
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One of Saddam's most notorious prisons for dissenters; when Americans took over, it became notorious for a place of torment and humiliation for detainees
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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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Arnold Schwarzenegger
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elected governor of CA
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Gratz v Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger
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numerical benefits cannot be used to admit minorities into college, but race can be a plus factor in making those decisions
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No Child Left Behind Act
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Federal law enacted in January 2002 that introduced new accountability measures for elementary and secondary schools in all states that wish to receive federal aid.
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John Kerry
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candidate against Bush in 2004
