American Pageant Chapter 40 by Ashton Wong

What two factors led to the economy nearing full employment in the 1990s?

the financial sector and information technology firms

Who was the democratic nominee in the 1992 election?

Who was his vice-presidential running mate?

William Jefferson ("Bill") Clinton

Al Gore

What two types of accusations was Clinton subjected to during his 1992 presidential campaign?

womanizing and draft evasion

What did Clinton claim to be after evaluating his party's long exile in the political wilderness?

a "New Democrat"

What did Clinton establish that pointed the Democrats away from antibusiness, dovish, underdog orientation and towards pro growth, strong defense, and anti crime policy?

Democratic Leadership Council (DLC)

What dominated American politics in the last decades of the 20th century?

market-oriented thinking and policies

Who did the Republicans nominate in 1992?

Who was his running mate?

What did they emphasize?

George H.W. Bush

J. Danforth Quayle

"family values"

What was Clinton's principal campaign theme?

"It's the economy, stupid"

What Texas billionaire became the independent presidential candidate and garnered nearly 20% of the vote in 1992?

H. Ross Perot

Who was the last third-party candidate before Perot to show relatively strongly in the election?

What was his party that said person ran on?

Theodore Roosevelt

Bull Moose Party

Clinton was the first what to become President?

baby boomer

Who joined Sandra Day O'Connor to become the second woman on the Supreme Court?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

How did President Clinton create a hornet's nest of controversy?

by advocating the end to a ban on gays and lesbians in the armed services

What discriminatory policy, repealed in 2010, did Clinton adopt in order to prevent more controversy in the realm of gay rights and the military?

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Who did Clinton appoint to direct the redesigning of the medical-service industry?

his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton

What did Hillary Clinton become in 2000?

Senator of New York

(First First Lady to ever hold elective office)

What bill did the Clinton administration pass in order to cage the ravenous deficit monster?

a deficit reduction bill that cut spending and taxed the wealthy

What unfamiliar asset was America forced to deal with by 1998?

federal budget surpluses

What did President Clinton's anti-crime bill do for America?

funded 100,000 new police officers, increased prison count, banned some assault weapons (ban expired in 2004)

What was the U.S. incarceration rate in comparison to the world in 2014?

25% of all prison inmates

What did America's antigovernment mood lead to?

Oklahoma City bombing

What did the Oklahoma City bombing take place in response to?

Where did this event take place?

a 1993 standoff between Fundamentalists (Branch Davidians) and federal agents

Waco, Texas

Who became the first person executed by the federal government in nearly 40 years?

Timothy McVeigh

What did the Supreme Court rule on term-limit laws in 1995?

states didn't have rights to restrict federal officeholders term limits

What did Newt Gingrich propose that promised an all-out assault on budget deficits and radical reductions in welfare programs?

a "Contract with America"

What position would Gingrich take in 1994?

Speaker of the House

What legislation did the Republican Congress make Clinton sign that cut welfare grants and made welfare recipients find employment?

Welfare Reform Bill

What two legislative initiatives reflected the "rising tide of anti-immigrant sentiment" in America?

Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (1996) and a proposal to make English the country's "official language"

What nickname was given to the rise in conservative sentiment largely set off by Gingrich's legislative proposals?

"Republican Revolution"

What events triggered a government shutdown for 27 days from late 1995 to early 1996?

clashes over proposed cuts to Medicare and education spending

What 1996 bill badly split Clinton's Democrats? What did it become known as after it was signed into law?

Welfare Reform Bill

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act

What Kansas WWII veteran did the Republicans nominate in 1996?

Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole

What two characteristics of Dole ailed his campaign?

his dry wit and deadpan demeanor

Who did both candidates fight for in the 1996 election?

"Swing Voters"

What term emerged during the 1996 campaign largely as a result of most Americans living in the Suburbs and was introduced by female suburbanites?

"soccer moms"

What party did Ross Perot run for in the 1996 election?

Reform Party

Clinton became the first democratic President to be re-elected since who?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

What emerged in 1998 as a result of soaring tax revenues that hadn't been seen in three decades?

a balanced federal budget

What was Clinton's professed goal concerning affirmative action?

to "mend it, not end it"

What action in California prohibited affirmative action preferences in government and higher education, which resulted in less minority students in state universities?

Proposition 209

What federal appeals court decision reflected the same sentiments in Texas as Proposition 209 did in California, drawing the disapproval of Clinton in the process?

Hopwood vs Texas

For which groups of minorities did Los Angeles become a magnet?

Asians and Latin Americans

What did the acquittal of white officers who had beaten a black suspect result in?

What did blacks have lose faith in?

South Central LA riots

American justice system

What famous former football star's 1995 trial fed white disillusionment with the state of race relations?

O.J. Simpson

What was presumably expressed by involved officers that led to the court ruling in favor of Simpson?

racist sentiments

What cities boomed with finance, technology, and biotech economics during rise of the information age?

What cities struggled to replace their once thriving basic industries?

New York, Boston, and San Francisco

Detroit and Cleveland

What achievements did blacks garner at the turn of the century?

more than 9,000 elected officials and advancement into higher education

What two factors helped to sustain the largest economic growth period in American history in 2000?

Federal Reserve Board's low interest policies and Internet ("dot-com") businesses

What did the Clinton administration and Republican Congress agree on in the boom-time atmosphere of the late 1990s?

financial deregulation

What were the new-fangled instruments that federal regulation was trading in called?

"derivatives"

What Depression-era legislation was repealed by the Republican Congress in coalition with Clinton?

Glass-Steagall Act

What did Clinton sign in 1993 that showed political courage and created a free-trade zone with Mexico, Canada, and the U.S.?

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

What did Clinton promote as another step towards a global free-trade system, a goal of free trade advocates?

What was it supposed predecessor?

World Trade Organization (WTO)

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

Where was the meeting of the WTO and the site of much protest against it held?

Seattle, Washington

What was passed in 2000 that allowed China to become a full-fledged trading partner with the United States?

a China trade bill

What was the iconic corporation of the 1990s?

Microsoft

What was the old industrial age giving way to?

"information age"

What did Clinton claim was a "force of nature," like wind and water?

globalization

What jobs were listed in the book as those in danger of becoming casualties of the computer?

postal carriers, travel agents, store clerks, bank tellers, and stockbrokers

Where could high-tech engineering and financial service jobs be "outsourced" to?

Ireland and India

What group was most profoundly affected by the economic boom?

women

What was the name given to the group of women who took lower paying and lower prestige jobs?

"pink-collar ghetto"

Who was the first woman to receive a three-star rank in the U.S. military?

Who was the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state?

Carol Mutter

Madeleine Albright

Who were two woman tennis players that enthralled the world as individual champions and a doubles team in the 1990s?

Serena and Venus Williams

What act mandated job protection for parents taking time off for family-related reasons?

Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993

What country did Clinton send troops to in following with Bush's precedent? What country did he notably not send troops to despite the presence of a genocide?

Somalia

Rwanda

What European region was racked by ethnic conflict in the 1990s and early 2000s?

The Balkans

What country did the U.S. commit troops to as part of a NATO peacekeeping contingent?

Bosnia

What countries became a part of NATO after its expansion?

Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic

What Serbian president unleashed a new round of "ethnic cleansing?"

Against which group was this attack directed?

Where were they located?

Slobodan Milosević

Albanians

Kosovo

Before what organization was Milosević tried after being arrested in 2001? What was this trial located?

International Criminal Court

The Hague, Netherlands

Between what two Middle Eastern leaders did Clinton preside over a meeting?

Which leader was assassinated two years later?

Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasir Arafat

Rabin

What terror group was the most effective culmination of anti-American sentiment in the Middle East?

What did their name translate to in Arabic?

Al Qaeda

"the base"

In what two countries did Al Qaeda carry out bombings of the American embassies in 1998?

What ship did they bomb two years later?

Kenya and Tanzania

USS Cole (in Yemen)

What did Osama bin Laden of Saudi Arabia issue in 1998 that declared war against all Americans and their allies?

a "fatwa"

What did Clinton help broker an end to in Northern Ireland?

"the Troubles" (violent conflict between Catholics and Protestants)

What was the name given to the potentially scandalous real estate deal that Clinton may have been involved with while governor of Arkansas?

Whitewater

What was the name of the White House intern with whom Clinton had a sexual affair with?

How many grounds of impeachment were presented in the report that followed?

Monica Lewinsky

11

(this is known as the Lewinsky Affair)

What two articles of impeachment were passed in the Senate against Clinton?

perjury before a grand jury and obstruction of justice

What cries filled the air during the Clinton impeachment process?

"honor the Constitution" and "sexual McCarthyism"

Who was the last president to be part of the impeachment process 130 years ago before Clinton?

Andrew Johnson

Who resigned his post in 1998 following Democratic victories in the midterm elections?

Newt Gingrich

Who did the Democrats nominate for the presidency in 2000?

Who was his running mate and the first Jew on a presidential ticket?

Vice President Albert Gore

Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman

Who did the Republicans nominate for the 2000 election?

Who was his vice-presidential nominee?

George W. Bush

Richard Cheney

What did Bush, in a clear jab at Clinton, promise to do?

"restore dignity to the White House"

What did Bush urge that America should act as in the realm of foreign affairs?

"a humble nation"

What state determined the outcome of the 2000 presidential election?

Florida (Sunshine State)

What united many aspects of American culture?

diversity

What early 20th-century "cultural pluralists" set an example for the later creed of "multiculturalism?"

Horace Kallen and Randolph Bourne

What did the Census Bureau declare that census respondents could identify as?

biracial or multiracial

What two celebrities proclaimed their mixed heritage as a point of pride?

Tiger Woods and Rosario Dawson

Who wrote in 1995 about the complex racial implications of having a Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother?

What was his memoir called?

Barack Obama

"Dreams from My Father"

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