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The campaign slogan " Yes, We Can" was used

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Obama 2008

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During the last weeks in office in 2000, President Clinton attempted to

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to negotiate a peace in the Middle East with Israel and Palestine

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All of the following were true of ways the Internet has transformed the lives of ordinary Americans EXCEPT

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when the dot com bubble began to deflate, the Internet began to lose its hold on the lives of ordinary Americans

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The affair between Monica Lewinsky and President Bill Clinton ultimately led to Clinton's:

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Impeachment

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In the 1970s and 1980s, the ideal of the American melting pot came under severe assault from advocates of

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multi-culturalists who encouraged minority groups to retain their cultural inheritance

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President Bill Clinton's efforts early in his first term in this area failed to gain congressional support:

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Healthcare

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Most of the new immigrants of the late 20th century came to the United States from countries like

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Mexico and India

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All of the following are true of the U.S. Latino population EXCEPT

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the most populous group of Latinos derives from Cuba, many of them refugees from the communist dictatorship of Fidel Castro

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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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All of the following were true of the "Contract with America" EXCEPT

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most, but not all, incumbent Republican gubernatorial, senatorial and congressional candidates were reelected

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Those responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995

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carried out the attack in response to the federal government's assault on the Branch Davidian religious sect in 1993

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All of the following were true of debates over immigration EXCEPT

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George Bush vetoed a law to establish guest worker programs for undocumented workers and create a plan to citizenship, albeit after paying a fine

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The primary issue that enabled Bill Clinton to defeat President Bush and Ross Perot in the 1992 election was Bush's

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management of a seriously slumping economy.

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How did federal government respond to the epidemic of violence plaguing American society in the 1990s?

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Clinton and Congress passed a gun-control Brady Bill, and a $30 billion anti-crime bill that contained a ban on several types of assault weapons

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The democratizing effect of the Internet is evident in all of the following ways EXCEPT

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young people flocked to social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook to make connections, often, with people in foreign countries

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All of the following were true of America's complex web of ethnicities in the early 21st century EXCEPT

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unemployment and alcoholism no longer blighted reservation life for Native Americans because tribes opened gambling casinos for the general public on reservation lands

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Writers Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston and Jhumpa Lahri all explored in different ways, through their fiction, the issue of

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the challenges and conflicts of generations created by Asian immigrant experience

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The economic depression that began in the United States in 2007 was caused in large part by

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the collapse of the housing market and banks that provide home morgages

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All of the following were true of the dilemmas facing 21st century America EXCEPT

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the terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001, violently heralded the dawn of new of a new Cold War because it was planned by a rouge terrorist nation

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Match the person with the proper description Answer Question Selected Matc William J. Clinton Osama bin Laden Saddam Hussein Richard Cheney William Rehnquist Hillary Rodman Clinton President Clinton Robert Dole Newt Gingrich Slobodan Milosevic John McCain the first baby boomer president Long-time Iraqi dictator who was overthrown by invading American armies in 2003 George W. Bush's vice president who vigorously promoted conservative domestic policies and the invasion of Iraq Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who presided at the impeachment trial of first presidential spouse to be given major policy responsibilities and to be win election to the United States Senate 1996 Republican presidential nominee who was soundly defeated by Bill Clinton Fiery Republican Speaker of the House who led his party to great victory in 1994 but resigned after Republican losses in 1998 Serbian president who conducted vicious ethnic cleansing campaigns and was eventually forced from office Veteran reform-minded senator who won the Republican Party presidential nomination in 2008 wealthy Saudi Arabian exile who formed a global terrorist network that assaulted the United States

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William J. Clinton H. the first baby boomer president Saddam Hussein D. Long-time Iraqi dictator who was overthrown by invading American armies in 2003 Richard Cheney A. George W. Bush's vice president who vigorously promoted conservative domestic policies and the invasion of Iraq William Rehnquist B. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who presided at the impeachment trial of President Clinton Hillary Rodman Clinton J. first presidential spouse to be given major policy responsibilities and to be win election to the United States Senate Robert Dole I. 1996 Republican presidential nominee who was soundly defeated by Bill Clinton Newt Gingrich E. Fiery Republican Speaker of the House who led his party to great victory in 1994 but resigned after Republican losses in 1998 Slobodan Milosevic C. Serbian president who conducted vicious ethnic cleansing campaigns and was eventually forced from office John McCain F. Veteran reform-minded senator who won the Republican Party presidential nomination in 2008 Osama bin Laden G. wealthy Saudi Arabian exile who formed a global terrorist network that assaulted the United States

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The city that was especially rocked by serious racial conflicts and riots in the 1990s was

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Los Angeles

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Al Qaeda's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, led to each of the following EXCEPT:

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A renewed concern for civil liberties

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The 2008 presidential election was unique in the nation's history because

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an African American was the presidential candidate of a major party

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The Mexican government worked to slow the Americanization of Mexican immigrants to the United States by

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promoting Spanish-language schools and the celebration of holidays such as Cinco de Mayo

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In the election of 2000:

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Al Gore lost the electoral vote and won the popular vote

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Bill Clinton became the first two-term Democratic president since

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FDR

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All of the following were early Bush administration actions regarding the environment EXCEPT

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removing several hundred thousand of acres of protected land from national forest registries

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Environmental activists in the last twenty-five years of the twentieth century focused on all of the following issues except

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exposing global warming as a myth promoted by big business

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All of the following constituted U.S. government responses to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, EXCEPT

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suspension of Americans' First Amendment right to protest against government policies.

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Despite numerous victories of feminists in the 1990s and 2000s, women continued to feel frustrated by their level of workplace progress for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that they

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continued to bear the greatest responsibilities for the Velfare of children.

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Before September 11, 2001, most Americans thought that terrorism

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was a problem that mainly plagued other nations

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Which of the following were NOT among the strongly ideological conservative policies that President George W. Bush pursued soon after taking office in 2001?

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proposing a restructuring and partial privatization of the Social Security System

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President Clinton attempted to promote peace negotiations and better relations between all of the following EXCEPT

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China and Taiwan

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What revelation in 2004 concerning the Iraq War prompted a deep escalation of anti-American sentiment in Iraq and throughout theta the Arab world?

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The revelation that some American soldiers and abused Iraqi captives in the Abu Ghraib prison

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The gap between rich and poor Americans widened in the 1980s and 1990s for all the following reasons EXCEPT

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the tax policies of the Carter and Clinton administrations.

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In his first State of the Union address, President Bush identified the "axis of evil" as including all of the following EXCEPT

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the Communist party in Russia

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The Clinton administration experienced early problems in all of the following areas except

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tax increases

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All of the following were true of the "Contract with America" EXCEPT

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most, but not all, incumbent Republican gubernatorial, senatorial and congressional candidates were reelected

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The worst urban violence in the 1900s occurred in the

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1992 south central Los Angeles rioting

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What did the U.S. military encounter in Iraq Saddam Hussein from power?

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violent resistance from Iraqi insurgents ( militants who had been drawn to the country

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The economic recession that began in the United States in 2007 was caused in part

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the collapse of the housing market and banks that provided home mortgages

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America sent peacekeeping troops to Bosnia because

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Serbs and Muslims were involved in a bloody civil war

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George Bush successfully won reelection in 2004 over Senator John Kerry by claiming all of the following EXCEPT that he

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enjoyed nearly universal support among foreign leaders, including the political leadership of Germany and France, while Kerry could not win the confidence of these foreign leaders.

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Bill Clinton's greatest strength in his first term was

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the success of the economy and reduced federal budget

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What was the primary political legacy of President Clinton, according to some historians?

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President Clinton consolidated the Reagan-Bush revolution by encouraging reduced expectations of government.

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Why did the Latino population maintain its linguistic and cultural identities better than most previous groups?

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the large numbers of Latinos and the regional geographic concentration of Latinos in America facilitated the maintenance of their native languages and culture

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Support for the Iraq War declined for the following reasons except

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lack of continued support for American military personnel

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What was one reasonable charge that critics of multiculturalism in American education made about its possible impact on American society?

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Multiculturalism may cause a loss of national cohesion and appreciation of shared American values.

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Which of the following best characterizes one key overall effect of the electronic new media in the early twenty- first century?

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the new media have had a democratizing effect for ordinary citizens who desire to obtain and disseminate information and to influence opinion about a wide variety of topics.

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The end result of House Speaker Newt Gingrih's militantly conservative "Contract with America" was

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a sharp political backlash that led to President Clinton's landslide victory in 1996

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The two charges on which President Clinton was impeached and then acquitted after a Senate trial in January and February 1999 were

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perjury before a grand jury and obstruction of justice.

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What was one key reason that more African American politicans were winning electoral offices in the 1990s and 2000s?

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they began to appeal to a wide variety of voters with diverse political, economic, and social concerns.

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The NAFTA and GATT treaties showed political support for

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promoting free trade and open markets

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By 2005, the use of the Internet in the United States

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was a part of life for about 200 million Americans

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Which of the following represented a significant political victory for -President Clinton at the beginning of the Clinton administration?

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Congressional passage of the 1993 deficit-reduction bill

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According to scholarly studies, which of the following is true about the illegal immigrants living in the United States

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illegal immigrants pay more dollars in federal taxes than they claim in benefits, but do not often burden local government services

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All of the following were true of U.S. action in Iraq EXCEPT

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American solders were greeted as liberators and Saddam's ouster led to flowering democracy across the Middle East

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All of the following acts of terrorism plagued the Clinton Administration EXCEPT

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the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001

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All of the following proved to be characteristics of the new information age EXCEPT

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an end to the boom-or-bust capitalist business cycle.

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All of the following were true of the terrorists attacks on September 11, 2001 EXCEPT

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even before 9/11, the United States had pursued military action against Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network in response to its bombings of Americans in East Africa and Yemen.

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U.N. Resolution 1441 authorized

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the resumption of weapons inspections in Saddam Hussein's Iraq

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Which president initiated Operation Desert Storm?

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George H. W. Bush

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The third party candidate who garnered nearly 20 percent of the vote in the election of 1992 was

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H. Ross Perot

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One of George W. Bush's first moves as president was to push for

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civil rights

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A new demographic profile of the American population emerged during the 1970s and 1980s as the

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proportion of elderly citizens grew markedly

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At some point during President Clinton's two administrations, American troops were committed to all of the following countries EXCEPT

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Rwanda

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Early in the war against terrorism, American and anti-Taliban forces

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scored a quick victory that drove the Taliban from Kabul

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One aspect of the O. J. Simpson trial was

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the public's disagreement about the trial with opinions clearly divided along racial lines

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All of the following were true of the dilemmas facing 21st century America EXCEPT

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the terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001, violently heralded the dawn of new of a new Cold War because it was planned by a rouge terrorist nation

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By the 2000s, the traditional nuclear family unit was under going severe strain for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

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the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 encouraged many mothers to seek part-time work outside the home.

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The razor-thin election of 2000 between George W. Bush and Al Gore was finally resolved when

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the U.S. Supreme Court ended further vote recounts in Florida, giving Bush the electoral vote victory.

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All of the following are true about the presidential election of 2000 except

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Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris immediately called for a quick recount

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Despite his rhetorical emphasis on social justice and racial harmony, President Clinton actually helped consolidate the conservative trend in American politics by

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discouraging the public from expecting America's social or moral problems to be solved by the government

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The welfare of the Social Security System

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was threatened in the 19990s by the fact that benefits had risen so high, and the ratio of active workers to retirees had dropped so low, that drastic adjustments were necessary

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One major sign of the pressures facing American families in the late 20th century was that

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families were much slower to form in the first place

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What prompted the first wave of heavy criticism and verbal be hurled at First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton during the onset of the Clinton administration?

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Mrs. Clinton developing an excessively complex health care plan that was quickly dropped by Congress 8inton

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All of the following were true of the disputed Election of 2000 EXCEPT

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for the first time in American history, a candidate had won the White House getting fewer popular votes than his opponent

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How did federal government respond to the epidemic of violence plaguing American society in the 1990s?

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Clinton and Congress passed a gun-control Brady Bill, and a $30 billion anti-crime bill that contained a ban on several types of assault weapons

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Which of the following was NOT among the areas where President Clinton's foreign policy stumbled in the first years of his presidency?

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Developing strong relations with America's allies Germany and France

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The Human Genome Project set out to

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identify over 100,000 human genes by 2005

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The decline of the Enron Corporation

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cast a harsh light on the aggressive business practices of the previous decade

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What was the primary reason that George W. Bush's plan to privatize Social Security in 2005 was defeated?

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seniors had substantial political power and there was a strong American commitment to a broad safety net.

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Which of the following represented the leading modern art movement of the early post -World War II period that included American artists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning?

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Abstract expressionism

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The primary issue that enabled Bill Clinton to defeat President Bush and Ross Perot in the 1992 election was Bush's

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management of a seriously slumping economy.

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One outcome of the election of 2000 was

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the validity of electoral technology was called into question

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What did the u.s. Supreme Court cite as its reasoning for taking the unprecedented action of prohibiting further recounting of Florida's popular vote and awarding the 2000 election to George W. Bush?

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a legal finding that Florida's inconsistent standards for evaluating the disputed ballots violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution

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In the 1990s, a virtual monopoly on computer-operating systems was achieved by

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Microsoft

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Scandals related to President Clinton included all the following except

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White House expense reports

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What important legal boost was given by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003 to African Americans' goal of achieving access to higher education?

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Rigid quotas and point systems constructed for admissions programs were constitutional as long as they were developed to correct past discrimination at a college or university.

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All of the following were true of George W. Bush's Social Security reform plan EXCEPT

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plans to reshape the Social Security system were enacted into law just before the mid-term Congressional elections of 2006

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The most striking change in the immigration patterns of the 1970s and 1980s was

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the increase in the numbers of Hispanics and Asians

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On May 1, 2003 abroad an aircraft carrier, President George W. Bush

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triumphantly announced that "major combat operations in Iraq had ended"

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Which of the following was NOT among the polarizing conservative policies pursued by President George W. Bush as he assumed the presidency?

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Passing the No Child Left Behind education reform law

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Which action during the first year of the Republican-led Congress led to an emerging public consensus that the Republicans had overreached with their conservative policies?

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the shutdown of the federal government during a dispute between the Republican congressional leadership and President Clinton over the federal budget

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The controversy over President's launching of war against Iraq escalated when

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no weapons of mass destruction were found in the country

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In 1999 world opinion was aroused by

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the gruesome nature of the civil war in Kosovo

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In response to the 1994 elections, Bill Clinton shifted his political position to

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to the center calling for tax cuts and a balanced budget

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The leader of the right-wing movement that won a sweeping victory for Republicans in the 1994 Congressional elections was

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Newt Gingrich.

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Which of the following was NOT among the controversial actions taken by the Bush administration in the immediate aftermath of 9/11?

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Establishing restrictions on free speech and assembly for American anti-Iraq war organization

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As the presidential election of 2004 approached, President Bush

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embraced increasingly conservative positions on divisive social issues

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Which of the following events was primarily responsible for reversal of the strong political gains with Latino voters that President George W. Bush had made on behalf of the Republican party in 2004?

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The Clinton administration experienced early successes in getting Congress to pass all of the following measures except

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substantial Social Security benefit increases

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In 1997, scientists in Scotland announced that they had

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cloned a sheep from one cell of an adult ewe

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Which of the following most accurately characterizes the rise of Big Science in the post-World War II era?

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close alliance among the federal government, defense-oriented industries, and American research universities

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Which of the following political decisions by President Clinton aroused the hostility and ire of many liberals in his own party?

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President Clinton's signing of the welfare reform bill, which included work requirements and time limits for welfare benefits

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