US HISTORY STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS

What did Clinton believe lowering interest rates would do?

Enable businesses and consumers to borrow more money

What did Clinton’s plan for reducing the deficit include?

Raising taxes on middle and upper income and placing new taxes on gas heating and natural gas

What task force did Hillary Rodman Clinton head and what group opposed it?

National healthcare reform opposed by Congress insurance companies

Who created the contract with America and what words elements?

Created by new Greenwich and Republicans and they wanted to reduce government spending cut taxes and implement welfare reform

In focusing on students, what did Clinton ask to provide?

$500 per child tax credit

What piece plan was signed to put an end fighting of an ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia

Date and agreement

How many unauthorized immigrants resided in the US by 1990?

3.5 million

What department ended up in charge of immigration as result of the USA patriot act

Department of Homeland security

How many Cubans flood to the US in the 25 years following the Cuban revolution

1.4 million

What countries did more than 600,000 immigrants arrive from as a result of the Vietnam war

US Canada, France, and Australia

What issues were Americans divided over concerning illegal immigrants?

Border security, economic impact in pathic citizenship

What two Men cofounded on Microsoft and what product did they produce?

Bill Gates and Paul Allen created windows operating system

What are the Internet start as?

System of network computers for a US defense department

what happened to American workers after the US join NAFTA?

Some jobs were out sourced leading to job losses in certain industries

What did the US in many other nations agreed to phase out in 1987 because it might be weakening the ozone layer

Chlorofluorocarbons

What was the Kyoto protocol?

International treaty to reduce greenhouse, gas emissions

why did President Clemson send it to the Senate for ratification?

The Senate opposed it due to potential harm to the US economy

Who was the Republican presidential vice presidential candidate in the 2000 election?

George Bush for president Dick Cheney for vice president

Who were the Democratic presidential and vice presidential candidates in the 2000 election?

Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman

What election promises did both presidential candidates make?

Cut taxes improved public education support plans to help seniors pay for prescription drugs

What group did the US begin Sending a to aid Afghanistan?

northern alliance

What organization to command of peacekeeping in Afghanistan in 2003

NATO

what countries were part of the axis of evil according to Bush?

Iraq, Iran and North Korea

What did Iraq agreed to do in November 2002?

readmit UN weapons inspectors

What to UN security council members refused to back a resolution authorizing use of force

France and Russia

What allies refused to allow the US To attack Iraq from their territory

Saudi Arabia and turkey

What was the fate of Saddam Hussein?

He was captured convicted of massive executions and executed in 2006

What tactics did the insurgency use?

Gorilla warfare

What religion is the majority in Iraq population?

Shia Muslim

What fact added to the growing controversy as to whether the war was a mistake

Failure defined any WMDs

Why did the Geneva records not apply to enemy combatants

Because they weren’t a part of any nations armed forces

Who began wire taping domestic phone calls as part of the war on Terror creating a controversy when it became public in 2005

NSA

How did Bush want to reform Social Security?

Propose that workers be allowed to put 4% of their income in private accounts other than Social Security

In what city did rising Waters flood the city and after hurricane Katrina and who is fired by President Bush for not handling this situation

New Orleans and he fired the head of FEMA

What US Supreme Court chief Justice died in 2005 and who replaced him?

William Renquist replaced by Roberts

What happened as results of the midterm 2006 elections

Americans groove frustrated with Congress

Who were the Republican presidential vice presidential candidates in the 2008 election

John McCain and Sarah palin

What was Obama‘s main priority in regard to domestic issues?

Reform and expand the healthcare system

What were the provisions of the affordable care act?

Lower healthcare cost introduced better procedures for delivering care and ensure all Americans

Why was Obama’s approval rating at a low point in 2010 midterm elections

Because conservatives felt the stimulus and healthcare bills were too expensive and not strengthening the economy

What 2010 Supreme Court ruling saw many of the limits that Congress had sat on campaign financing lifted

Restricted freedom of speech

Why did the increased use of remote control drone aircraft in Afghanistan Iraq cause protests

Concerned for civilian casualties and collateral damage concerns

In the euro crisis, what did debt or governments have to agree to in order to get financial support from wealthy nations?

Strict Austerity measures

Who drove people from their homes in Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and other nations of the Middle East?

Isis military action

What city was rocked by a series of suicide bombings and gunfire attack in November 2015

Paris

What movement was sparked by the winding gap between income groups?

Occupied Wall Street movement

What 2010 Supreme Court case ruled that the second amendment also applies to the states

McDonald’s versus city of Chicago guarantees right to bear arms

Nation presented a huge potential market for American goods

China

How many Cubans fled to the US in the 25 years following the Cuban rev

800k

What countries did more than 600,000 immigrants arrive from as a result of the Viet war

Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia

What happened to the number of illegal immigrants 20 years after the amnesty program?

It more than tripled

What Supreme Court strike down Hamadan be rumsfield 2006

Miltary tribunals