United States History Chapter 27: Facing a New Millennium

family and medical leave act

required businesses to give employees up to twelve weeks of unpaid leave to care for newborn children or seriously ill family members

Brady Bill

mandated that before a gunshop could sell a gun, the buyer had to wait five days and undergo a background check

North American Free Trade Agreement

agreement that Bill Clinton helped usher in that opened free trade with mexico and canada through Congress

Hillary Clinton

lost a presidential election

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oh also advocated Bill Clinton’s healthcare bill that was bad

National Voter Registration Act

commonly called the Motor Voter Act — required states to allow voters to register to vote when they applied for or renewed a driver’s license

Christian Coalition

most prominent organization of the religious right led by Pat Robertson

Contract With America

ten bills that house republicans promised to pass should they be elected in 1994

Newt Gingrich

Republican Speaker of the House in 1994 who pushed to complete the contract with America

Defense of Marriage Act

secured federal benefits for spouses in traditional marriages ONLY, denying any status to homosexual unions

Welfare Reform Act of 1996

republican-sponsored legislation that required welfare recipients to go back to work within two years and restricted federal aid past five years per individual

Bob Dole

Senate Majority Leader nominated by the republican party in the election of 1996

Lewinsky scandal

in which clinton was bad and hence impeached

Al Gore

Bill Clinton’s vice president

George W. Bush

candidate in 1992 who ran on the theme of compassionate conservatism

Richard Cheney

Wyoming congressman who served as chief of staff for Gerald Ford

“coalition of the willing”

alliance of those who stood against Iraq

John Kerry

Democratic nominee for president who flip flopped

faith-based initiatives

programs that Bush pushed forward that were religious

Hurricane Katrina

big disaster, bad pr for Bush, lots of death and destruction

John G. Roberts Jr.

Bush’s supreme court nominee who replaced Rehnquist

Samuel Alito Jr.

Bush’s supreme court nominee who replaced O’Connor

Joe Biden

Obama’s vice president

John McCain

Republican nominee in 2008

Troubled Asset Relief Program

bill that provided 700 billion dollars in government assistance to prevent some of the nation’s financial institutions from collapsing

“Great Recession”

economic downturn in 2009 that Obama tried to fix

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)

legislation that required all Americans to either obtain health insurance or pay a fine

Sonia Sotomayor

Obama’s supreme court nominee who replaced Souter

Elena Kagan

Obama’s supreme court nominee who replaced Stevens

Tea Party

large rallies staged by conservative groups calling for reductions in government size and power

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)

name (acronym); radical muslims that captured Iraqi cities in the wake of the American pull out

Mitt Romney

Republican nominee in 2012