Quiz 13 Study for A or 90% and higher.

For A or 90% and higher.

How did Mikhail Gorbachev react when pro-democracy movements started across eastern Europe?

d. He made it clear that the Soviet Union would not intervene.

During Bill Clinton’s first term, what federal economic policy helped lift millions out of poverty?

d. the Earned Income Tax Credit

What was the Contract with America?

c. a 1994 Republican plan to steeply cut taxes and environmental programs

Bill Clinton was easily reelected in 1996 because he

e. embraced popular Republican policies.

Bill Clinton’s foreign policy centered on

a. elevating human rights to a central place in international relations.

What was the Balkan crisis?

a. the wars and ethnic cleansing campaigns that followed the collapse of Yugoslavia

What was one demand of the demonstrators in the “Battle of Seattle”?

a. international standards for working conditions

Which of the following describes what happened after the Soviet Union dissolved?

a. Fifteen new independent nations arose in its place.

What were the student protesters who occupied Tiananmen Square in Beijing in June 1989 demanding?

d. democracy

Countless corporate scandals and stock frauds stemmed directly from the 1999 repeal of which New Deal measure?

a. the Glass-Steagall Act

The North American Free Trade Agreement

a. created a free-trade zone for the United States and Latin America OR e. led to companies continuing to shift manufacturing from the United States to countries overseas.

Which of the following is true about school segregation in the 1990s?

b. It increased as a result of housing patterns.

In the 1990s, the prison population

d. grew as state governments increased penalties for crimes.

Which of the following is FALSE about the Rodney King case?

b. He had a handgun and was threatening to shoot the police officers.

By the year 2000, the AIDS epidemic

c. was spreading less rapidly among gay Americans.

Where did more than half of all Latinos live in the United States by the turn of the twenty-first century?

d. the suburbs

What was the impact of the creation of Indian casinos?

e. Most individual Indians did not benefit from casinos and remained poor.

What was one area where multiculturalism had a strong influence, bringing about dramatic change in the 1990s?

e. higher education

Proposition 187, approved by California voters in 1994,

a. denied illegal immigrants and their children access to welfare and education.

By the turn of the century, Latinos in the United States

c. were poorer than the general population.

The 2000 presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore was

a. finally decided by the Supreme Court.

In the twenty-first century, how were public schools mainly funded?

b. property taxes

Which of the following groups was mostly at a disadvantage because of state laws disfranchising persons with felony convictions?

c. Black men

Operation Enduring Freedom was launched in October 2001

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

Which of the following statements about Saddam Hussein turned out to be true?

c. He ordered the killing of many Iraqis during his reign.

What did the USA Patriot Act empower law enforcement agencies to do?

b. wiretap and spy on citizens without their knowledge

How did revelations about the U.S. military prison in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, change the position of the United States in the world?

c. The incident undermined the reputation of the United States as a nation that adhered to accepted standards of behavior and the rule of law.

What setback did the Bush administration suffer in its war on terror in 2008?

d. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Guantanamo Bay detainees could invoke rights under the U.S. Constitution.

In 2010, women typically earned more than men

d. as postal clerks and special education teachers.

What was one sign of U.S. strength in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks?

d. The United States outpaced the rest of the world in military, economic, and cultural power.