US HISTORY STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS

What did Clinton believe lowering interest rates would do?

Enable businesses and consumers to borrow more money

What did about half of our government spending go towards and why were these programs so difficult to cut?

Entitlement programs because so many people needed them

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

what was AmeriCorps?

National service program

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

After Clinton vote several Republican budget proposals what happened to the federal government?

They shut down

What was much of Clinton’s second term devoted to

Foreign policy and struggling against personal scandal

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

$500 per child tax credit

What two articles of impeachment did the House of Representatives pass against Bill Clinton?

Perjuring obstruction of justice

What country did the Clinton administration intervene in landing troops to serve peacekeepers and convincing the UN to impose a trade embargo

Haiti

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

Date and agreement

What were the key provisions of the immigration act of 1965?

Eliminated quotes that favored Europeans, skill-based access, and preferences

Words of the immigration reform and control act of 1986 do

Establish penalties for employers who knowingly hired illegal immigrants

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

What were the top five countries for legal immigration of the US by 2001?

Philippines, Mexico, China, India in the Dominican Republic

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 happened to the number of unauthorized immigrants in the 20 years after the amnesty program of 1986?

It increased significantly

What issues were Americans divided over concerning illegal immigrants?

Border security, economic impact in pathic citizenship

What was the first practical and affordable home computer?

Apple II

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