Chapter 31 - The United States in a Global Age 1992-Present

Multiculturalism movement

________ that has emphasized the unique characteristics and achievements of the past recent immigrants and marginal groups.

Obama

________ was born in 1961 and born in Hawaii to a Kenyan father, a white Kansan mother.

African American

On 20 January 2009 the first ________ president of the country was Barack Hussein Obama.

Clinton

________ had many conservative challenges to his moral conduct during his presidency.

President Bush

________ directed the FEMA to coordinate the federal support for state and local governments.

World Trade Organization

The ________, establishing rules on international trade, was created in 1995 by the second trade agreement.

Race links

continued to profit much less, on average, from the economic boom of the 1990s, with Africans and Latinos than non-Hispanic Whites

9/11

Two jetliners crashed into New York's World Trade Center towers on 11 September 2001 and a third airliner slammed into Virginia's Pentagon

Bush recession

darkest shadow in Bush's last years