Give Me Liberty! Chapter 28

81. In response to the terrorist attacks on Washington, D.C., and New York City on September 11, 2001, Pres. Bush

b. declared a war on terrorism.

82. During his first year in office, George W. Bush

c. persuaded Congress to enact the largest tax cut in American history.

83. The Kyoto Protocol of 1997

b. addressed the issue of global warming, but was rejected by Pres. Bush.

84. In a September 20, 2001 speech, Pres. Bush announced that "freedom and ____________ are at war."

d. Fear

85. Operation Enduring Freedom was launched in October 2001

a. against Afghanistan, because the nation was harboring Osama bin Laden.

86. What made Bush's 2002 "National Security Strategy" fundamentally different from previous American policy?

d. It advocated the use of preemptive action.

87. Pres. Bush characterize the toppling of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan as

d. only the beginning of the war on terror.

88. Concerning the events surrounding U.S. relations with Iraq and its leader in the early 2000s, all of the following statements are true, EXCEPT:

a. In opposition to Colin Powell, Pres. Bush, VP Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz all were determined to oust Saddam Hussein from power.

89. Who was America's sole ally during the initial phase of the Iraq War?

b. Great Britain

90. The USA Patriot Act

b. expanded the rights of law enforcement agencies to conduct secret searches and detain suspected aliens.

91. After the September 11 attacks, this person authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to listen to domestic telephone conversations without a court warrant.

d. Pres. Bush

92. What did the Justice Department label the captured members of Al Qaeda in order to get around the Geneva Conventions?

b. Unlawful combatants

93. Who among the cabinet members strongly urged Pres. Bush to ban torture in the war on terror—with certain exceptions provided?

b. Sec. of State Powell

94. This event took place at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

c. Under the supervision of U.S. military personnel, many prisoners were mistreated, humiliated, and tortured.

95. Which statement is NOT TRUE concerning the economy in the 2000s?

b. The economy was especially strong in the technology sector.

96. All of the following statements about John Kerry and the 2004 presidential campaign are true, EXCEPT:

b. He was very in touch with the people and embraced by the common man.

97. Which state's supreme court ruled that homosexual marriages must receive legal recognition, spurring a moral values debate during the 2004 presidential election?

d. Massachusetts

98. Surrounding the disaster of Hurricane Katrina, which of the following statements is INACCURATE?

b. The mayor of New Orleans was slow to order an evacuation of the city.

99. Which statement is true about the immigration issue?

d. all of these

(a. Both legal and illegal immigrants pay taxes and mostly work at jobs that other Americans don't want because of lower wages.

b. The House of Representatives passed a bill in 2006 that made it a felony to be in the country illegally and a crime to offer aid to illegal immigrants.

c. In reaction to the bill, both legal and illegal immigrants engaged in several popular demonstrations demanding their right to remain in the United States.)

100. Why is the characterization of the war on terror as a "clash of civilizations"—the West vs. Islam—unhistorical?

c. It denies a long past of cultural exchanges between the two.

101. Pres. George W. Bush insisted that the war on terror was not

b. a war on Islam.

102. How did opponents describe the plans for a new Islamic Cultural Center near the World Trade Center in 2010?

b. As a "Trojan Horse"

103. In a Supreme Court decision in 2003, the right to use affirmative action in college admissions was

b. reaffirmed.

104. In Lawrence v. Texas (2003), the Supreme Court extended the right of freedom to

c. intimate conduct.

105. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld ruled that

a. the president had to uphold the Geneva Conventions.

106. All of the following contributed to the banking crisis of 2008, EXCEPT:

b. The Federal Reserve Bank and other regulatory agencies slowed the speculative frenzy.

107. In the midst of the stock market crash of 2008 and the housing crisis, most Americans

a. cut back on spending, leading to business failures and a rapid rise in unemployment.

108. Why did Goldman Sachs have to pay a fine of half a billion dollars in 2010?

c. It had knowingly sold "toxic" mortgage-based securities and then bet on their failure.

109. In 2008 testifying before Congress, Alan Greenspan, the former head of the Federal Reserve Bank,

b. admitted that there had been a "flaw" in his long-held conviction that free markets would produce the best results.

110. Banks that the Federal Government labeled as "too big to fail"

a. were interconnected with other institutions, and the government argued that their collapse would drive the economy into a depression.

111. Why did the number of Americans receiving food stamps rise after 2008?

c. The number of needy Americans skyrocketed with the recession.

112. All of the following statements about the 2008 Democratic primaries are true, EXCEPT:

d. Barack Obama was a well-known senator from Illinois when the campaign began.

113. Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee, selected Sarah Palin as his running mate because

b. he sought to draw Democratic women into the Republican Party.

114. In the 2008 election, when Barack Obama "redrew the nation's political map," he

d. won in states that had been reliably Republican for years as well as in Democratic strongholds.

115. All of the following statements about Pres. Obama's inaugural address are true, EXCEPT:

d. He repeatedly spoke about freedom.

116. How did the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico illustrate the downsides of globalization and deregulation?

c. The Korean-built oil rig was operated by a Swiss company under contract with British Petroleum.

117. Why did American consumers cut back on borrowing and spending after 2008?

d. The net worth of Americans had shrunk by trillions of dollars in the great recession.

118. By 2011, the rate of black unemployment remained ______ that of whites.

c. nearly double

119. All of the following statements about Pres. Obama's first year in office are true, EXCEPT:

a. The Obama administration abolished the military tribunals Bush had established.

120. Which of the following actions won Pres. Obama wide acclaim in May 2011?

c. He authorized the raid on a Pakistani compound that killed Osama Bin Laden.

121. By 2012, American troops or planes were involved in the war on terror in

b. Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, and Afghanistan.

122. Of the claims conservative Tea Party activists put forth in 2010 was one that maintained that Pres. Obama

a. was born in Africa, not the United States.

123. During the first term of Pres. Obama, illegal immigration from Mexico

a. ceased almost entirely.

124. The Occupy movement

c. introduced to the nation the political term "The 1 percent."

125. Which of the following was a liability for Pres. Obama as he entered his reelection campaign of 2012?

c. Unemployment remained high even though the recession was officially over.

126. It is evident that for the foreseeable future, the United States will

a. remain a major player in global affairs.