Deck 18: 2000 and Beyond

Question 1

Because of _______, Al Gore essentially had to run against Bill Clinton in the 2000 presidential election.

A) The state of the economy
B) Clinton's scandals and impeachment
C) Clinton's week foreign policy record
D) 9/11

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The 2000 election became a contest of

A) Foreign policy experience
B) Economic plans
C) Policies on technology
D) Personality

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The 2000 election hung on the state of

A) Virginia
B) Ohio
C) Florida
D) Texas

Answer 3

C

Question 4

-This image of _______ represents how close the vote was in Florida

A) Election officials examining questionable ballots
B) Lawyers arguing over legal briefs
C) A judge deciding which candidate won Florida
D) Poll watchers arguing over ballots

Question 5

Regarding the 2000 Election, the Supreme Court decided

A) That George W. Bush had won
B) That Florida had to recount every ballot to determine who had won
C) That ballot counting had to stop in Florida, ensuring that Bush would be declared the winner
D) That Al Gore had won

Question 6

George W. Bush's agenda consisted of

A) Old Right objectives on tax cuts and the environment
B) New Right goals on abortion and homosexuality
C) "America First" unilateralism
D) All of the above

Question 7

Clinton-era budget surpluses were eaten by _______ during the Bush administration.

A) Tax cuts
B) The war in Iraq
C) The dot-com bust
D) The cost of 9/11

Question 8

The September 11 attacks were

A) The work of maverick individuals
B) Thoroughly planned
C) Acts of desperation on the part of the attackers
D) Successful despite shoddy planning

Question 9

Osama bin Laden dedicated his life to the destruction of the US after

A) The Iranian coup of 1979
B) The US bombing of Beirut
C) The US invasion of Iraq in the First Gulf War
D) The US refusal to help the Afghan mujahideen

Question 10

Bush's reaction to September 11 evoked Cold War rhetoric of

A) The battle of good against evil
B) A endless war
C) A clash of ideologies
D) All of the above

Question 11

The multilateral response to September 11, the invasion of Afghanistan, was masterminded by

A) Bush himself
B) Dick Cheney
C) Donald Rumsfeld
D) Colin Powell

Question 12

The US invaded Iraq in 2002 because

A) Iraq had hosted terrorists who helped plan 9/11
B) The Iraqi government had taken part in 9/11
C) The Bush administration had identified eliminating Saddam Hussein as a top priority, and 9/11 provided a useful justification for doing so
D) Iraq was building weapons of mass destruction

Question 13

-This map illustrates one of the problems that US forces had with pacifying Iraq,

A) Ethnic divisions
B) Lack of support for government
C) Awkward terrain
D) Weather

Question 14

_______ finally concluded that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction.

A) Iraqi researchers
B) A US arms inspector
C) An independent UN commission
D) An inspection by a coalition of Arab states

Question 15

In the 2004 election, _______ became the champion ofa return to FDR liberalism.

A) Howard Dean
B) John Kerry
C) John Edwards
D) George Bush

Question 16

Kerry's biggest mistake in the 2004 election was trying to make it a referendum on

A) Economic growth
B) The war in Iraq
C) Unilateralism
D) Social issues

Question 17

Bush's tax proposals came under attack because

A) The majority of the benefits of tax cuts went toward the rich
B) They included no plans to pay for the war on terror
C) They were increasing the national debt
D) All of the above

Question 18

Hurricane Katrina emphasized

A) The failures of leadership in the Bush White House
B) The high poverty level in New Orleans
C) The number of American poor who were also Black
D) All of the above

Question 19

A nationwide consensus that the war in Iraq had been a mistake developed by

A) 2003
B) 2006
C) 2008
D) 2014

Question 20

Bush's strength as a leader was

A) His sense of mission
B) His intellectual curiosity
C) His deep understanding of the issues America faced
D) His ability to weigh the differing perspectives of his advisors