Deck 32: The Age of Globalization Key

Question 1

After a difficult battle,Clinton won approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement (or NAFTA),which eliminated most trade barriers among

A) the United States, Canada, and Mexico
B) the United States and Mexico.
C) the United States and the Latin American Countries of South America.
D) the United States and Canada.
E) the United States and most of the countries of Western Europe.

Answer 1

the United States, Canada, and Mexico

Question 2

Following charges that President Bill Clinton had a sexual relationship with a White House intern,his public approval rating

A) immediately dropped to historic lows.
B) rose slightly and then dropped sharply.
C) rose to record levels.
D) gradually dropped more precipitously as details emerged.
E) remained largely unchanged.

Answer 2

rose to record levels.

Question 3

In 1999,nearing the end of his presidency,Bill Clinton

A) both saw his personal popularity higher than when he took office, and faced another crisis in the Balkans.
B) faced another crisis in the Balkans.
C) All these answers are correct.
D) had endured many scandals and setbacks throughout his administration.
E) saw his personal popularity higher than when he took office.

Answer 3

All these answers are correct.

Question 4

Which of the following is true of the 1999 conflict in Kosovo?

A) Most of the United States' western European allies opposed any intervention in the conflict.
B) The Serbian leader agreed to a cease-fire after little more than a week of bombing.
C) The U.S. bombed the separatist groups in Kosovo to try to force them to reunite with Serbia.
D) President Clinton showed little interest in working through international bodies like NATO or the UN to deal with the conflict.
E) The U.S. committed more ground troops to the conflict than it did for the first Iraq War.

Question 5

The 2000 presidential election was characterized by the

A) presence of a strong third political party.
B) difficulty George W. Bush had in gaining the Republican nomination.
C) extreme policy positions taken by the major party candidates.
D) failed Senate bid by former First Lady Hillary Clinton.
E) sensational controversy over its results.

Question 6

On December 19,1998,the House voted to impeach President Clinton for

A) lying to a grand jury.
B) corrupting America's youth.
C) obstructing justice.
D) lying to a grand jury and obstructing justice.
E) engaging in an illicit affair.

Question 7

Regarding scandals surrounding President Bill Clinton,

A) the Lewinsky affair marked the first in a series of scandals to plague the president.
B) few charges of impropriety were leveled at the president until his 1996 re-election.
C) charges of impropriety had existed throughout his term in office.
D) Clinton admitted to corruption during his first weeks in office.
E) the public seemed ready to condemn Clinton based on his previous reputation when allegations of sexual impropriety were leveled against him.

Question 8

When Bill Clinton assumed the presidency in 1993,he

A) enjoyed a powerful mandate from the American voters.
B) benefited from strong and resilient Democratic majorities in Congress.
C) had few perceived political weaknesses.
D) faced an adversarial Republican majority in Congress.
E) brought a highly ambitious domestic political agenda.

Question 9

The 1996 presidential election saw

A) Bob Dole appear to take a commanding lead in the early public opinion polls.
B) President Bill Clinton shift to the political left to gain support among his party.
C) President Clinton's campaign gain momentum in the final weeks.
D) President Clinton find his greatest campaign strength in a strong economy.
E) Ross Perot nearly double the number of votes he received in 1992.

Question 10

The 2000 election results were decided

A) after the House of Representatives voted to choose George W. Bush as the winner.
B) when the Supreme Court ended all efforts to recount the votes in Florida.
C) after the Republican secretary of state of Florida certified Bush as the winner.
D) after a national recount showed that George W. Bush had won a narrow victory.
E) when Al Gore dropped his efforts to have further recounts in Florida.

Question 11

In late 1995 and early 1996,the public largely blamed a budget impasse that shut down the federal government on

A) First Lady Hillary Clinton.
B) both Democrats and Republicans equally.
C) congressional Republicans.
D) President Bill Clinton.
E) congressional Democrats.

Question 12

As a result of the 1994 elections,

A) President Clinton proposed a national health care plan.
B) Republicans in Congress moved toward the political center.
C) President Clinton reaffirmed his commitment to big government.
D) President Clinton moved toward the political left.
E) Republicans won majorities in both houses of Congress.

Question 13

A pressing foreign policy issue of the first years of the Clinton administration concerned a civil war in

A) Panama.
B) Egypt.
C) Taiwan.
D) Bosnia.
E) the Ukraine.

Question 14

In his first year as president,Bill Clinton secured from Congress all of the following EXCEPT

A) an international free-trade agreement.
B) a significant reduction in many areas of government spending.
C) an expansion of tax credits to low-income working people.
D) a national health reform plan.
E) a large tax increase on the wealthy.

Question 15

In 1995,the Clinton administration and Congress

A) had a smooth political relationship.
B) each favored reductions in federal spending but could not agree on a budget.
C) could not agree on whether or not to cut taxes.
D) were both moving to the political left.
E) passed a dramatic welfare reform bill.

Question 16

On the day of the 2000 election,

A) George W. Bush won the Electoral College.
B) Al Gore won the popular vote.
C) Pat Buchanan gave up his votes to George W. Bush.
D) Ralph Nader urged his supporters to vote for Al Gore.
E) All these answers are correct.

Question 17

In 1998,the federal budget

A) set a record for deficit spending.
B) saw its first surplus in thirty years.
C) was one-third smaller than it had been six years earlier.
D) had cut military spending in half from its Cold War peak.
E) had paid off the national debt.

Question 18

Bill Clinton was the first Democrat to win two terms as president since

A) Woodrow Wilson.
B) Grover Cleveland.
C) Franklin Roosevelt.
D) Lyndon Johnson.
E) Harry Truman.

Question 19

In the 1996 election,

A) Democrats regained control of the House but not the Senate.
B) President Bill Clinton failed to receive 50 percent of the popular vote.
C) the Reform Party emerged as a powerful third political party.
D) Bob Dole placed third in the race.
E) President Clinton barely eked out a victory in the electoral vote.

Question 20

In 1996,significant legislation was passed by Congress concerning

A) welfare programs.
B) rising health care costs.
C) occupational health care.
D) primary school education.
E) the criminal appeals process.

Question 21

Which presidential administration(s)supported and won congressional support for the Troubled Asset Relief Program?

A) All these answers are correct.
B) Obama
C) Bush and Obama
D) Bush
E) Clinton and Bush

Question 22

In the first decade of the twenty-first century,

A) African Americans constituted three percent of the nation's college population.
B) there was little-to-no economic disparity between black and white professionals.
C) half of all African Americans lived in poverty as members of the "underclass."
D) half of all African Americans were members of the middle class.
E) the percentage of black high school graduates going to college still lagged significantly behind that of white high school graduates.

Question 23

The World Wide Web,which helped establish an orderly system for both the distribution and retrieval of electronic information on the Internet,was introduced by British scientist

A)Bill Gates.
B)J.C.R.Licklider.
C)Tim Berners-Lee.
D)Francis Crick.
E)Colin MacLeod.

Question 24

In the late 1980s,drug use began to decline significantly among

A) poor inner-city Americans.
B) rural Americans.
C) white Americans.
D) middle-class Americans.
E) southern Americans.

Question 25

The Human Genome Project

A) had identified and classified over 100,000 human genes by 2003.
B) was opposed by the Bush administration on ethical grounds.
C) was created during the Clinton administration.
D) was funded solely by private sources.
E) originally hoped to identify all the specific genes in humans by 2015.

Question 26

By 2012,well over ________ computers were in use around the world.

A) 500 million
B) 700 million
C) 250 million
D) 1 billion
E) 2 billion

Question 27

All of the following persons are directly associated with the discovery of DNA and its properties EXCEPT

A) Oswald Avery.
B) Francis Crick.
C) Colin MacLeod.
D) Gregor Mendel.
E) Maclyn McCarty.

Question 28

In their first year in office,the Bush administration

A) liberalized scientific restrictions on stem-cell research.
B) primarily relied on Republican moderates for support.
C) worked hard to build coalitions across party lines.
D) passed the largest tax cut in American history.
E) reduced federal budget deficits considerably.

Question 29

In the late 1980s,the spread of AIDS in the United States

A) remained largely confined to gay communities in large cities.
B) occurred most rapidly among heterosexuals.
C) began to level off and then decline.
D) was concentrated in the Northeast.
E) was transmitted almost exclusively through sexual contact.

Question 30

Which of the following was true of poor inner-city African Americans in the first decade of the twenty-first century?

A) In 2010, only 35 percent of black children lived with both their parents.
B) The number of black children living with both their parents had been steadily declining since before the 1970s.
C) Sixty percent of young, inner-city blacks were unemployed in 2006.
D) All these answers are correct.
E) In 2006, less than half of inner-city blacks completed high school.

Question 31

Regarding the development of the personal computer,

A) as PCs came to dominate the computer market, IBM was the principal beneficiary.
B) initially DOS and Macintosh software were quite similar.
C) Macintosh dominated the market for personal computers in the late 1980s.
D) Macintosh software was developed years before DOS software.
E) IBM hired Microsoft in the late 1970s to design an operating system for its computers.

Question 32

All of the following are true about the Affordable Care Act EXCEPT that

A) only one Republican congressman supported the bill.
B) many Republican state's attorneys sued to stop the health bill.
C) Republicans largely opposed the law, frustrating Obama's desire for bipartisanship.
D) the Supreme Court ruled against the bill twice, in 2012 and 2015.
E) the law ensured that almost all Americans would have access to health care insurance.

Question 33

In the 1980s and 1990s,the most divisive cultural issue in the United States was

A) gun control.
B) prayer in schools.
C) gay marriage.
D) racial relations.
E) abortion rights.

Question 34

The first personal computer to be widely available to the public was introduced in 1977 by

A) Intel.
B) Microsoft.
C) Apple.
D) Compaq.
E) IBM.

Question 35

The microprocessor was first introduced in 1971 by

A) IBM.
B) Apple.
C) Microsoft.
D) Compaq.
E) Intel.

Question 36

In the mid-1990s,medical treatment for AIDS in the United States

A) failed to significantly improve the health of most patients.
B) allowed for dramatic improvement for most patients through protease inhibitors.
C) led researchers to claim they had found a cure.
D) eliminated the disease entirely.
E) had made few advances since the mid-1980s.

Question 37

Other than tax cuts,one of President George W.Bush's most significant domestic accomplishments was the

A) rejection of the Kyoto Protocol.
B) passage of the "No Child Left Behind" Act.
C) Iraq War.
D) appointment of a more conservative Supreme Court.
E) banning of stem-cell research.

Question 38

The Internet grew out of

A) the computer revolution.
B) federal government program called ARPANET.
C) All these answers are correct.
D) a federal government agency called ARPA.
E) the development of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).

Question 39

President Obama's main policy initiative to shore up the faltering economy was

A) a massive drop in interest rates.
B) an increase in the minimum wage.
C) a massive stimulus package.
D) a sweeping program of deregulation.
E) huge tax cuts.

Question 40

During the 1980s and 1990s,American corporations sought to become more competitive by reducing

A) labor costs.
B) both labor costs and mergers.
C) None of these answers is correct.
D) investments in technology.
E) mergers.

Question 41

The term "terrorism" was first used in

A) America in the 1860s.
B) Ireland in the 1960s.
C) France in the 1790s.
D) Palestine during the 1940s.
E) Germany in the 1870s.

Question 42

George W.Bush clearly won the popular vote in the election of 2000,but the electoral vote remained in dispute.

Question 43

Before the terrorist attacks of September 11,2001,the United States had never experienced

A) terrorism anywhere.
B) terrorism enacted by Islamic fundamentalists.
C) None of these answers is correct.
D) terrorism within its borders.
E) any of these: terrorism caused by Islamic fundamentalists, or terrorism within its borders or anywhere.

Question 44

George W.Bush spent his first term governing as a moderate and trying to build coalitions across party lines.

Question 45

In the mid-1980s,Apple dominated the personal computer market.

Question 46

In the 1990s and 2000s,opponents of globalization on the left charged the nation was

A) All these answers are correct.
B) allowing itself to be swayed by the interests of other nations.
C) using its military to advance its economic interests.
D) ceding too much power to international organizations.
E) wrongly getting involved in places like Somalia and the Balkans.

Question 47

In April 1995,U.S.veteran Timothy McVeigh,who had become part of a militant antigovernment movement,killed 168 people when he blew up a van in front of a federal building in

A) Topeka.
B) Chicago.
C) Oklahoma City.
D) New Orleans.
E) Charlotte.

Question 48

In 2002,President George W.Bush described an "axis of evil" made up of Iraq,Iran,and

A) North Korea.
B) Syria.
C) Libya.
D) Somalia.
E) Lebanon.

Question 49

All of the following are true of the Iraq War EXCEPT that

A) Iraq's rumored supply of "weapons of mass destruction" was uncovered by American troops in 2005.
B) George W. Bush declared victory in the Iraq war in May 2003.
C) over 4,000 American soldiers died in Iraq after Bush's "mission accomplished" speech.
D) support for the war steadily declined in the years after the first claim of victory.
E) Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003.

Question 50

The 1994 elections saw the Republicans win control of both houses of Congress.

Question 51

Since the 1970s,the primary goal of Islamic fundamentalists in the world has been to

A) modernize their economies.
B) encourage international funding and development in their home nations.
C) improve the political status of women.
D) defend their traditional cultures from the West.
E) reduce the levels of poverty within their societies.

Question 52

President Clinton responded to the 1994 election results by moving to the left.

Question 53

With help from Republicans in Congress,George W.Bush won passage of the largest tax cut in American history.

Question 54

In 2001,convinced that it harbored Al Qaeda terrorists,NATO,led by the United States,attacked

A) Iran.
B) Syria.
C) Libya.
D) Afghanistan.
E) Iraq.

Question 55

In his first year in office,President Clinton won a tax increase on the wealthy and tax credits for the working poor.

Question 56

The 1996 welfare reform bill ended a fifty-year federal guarantee of assistance to families with dependent children.

Question 57

The most impassioned opposition to globalization in the West

A) argued it gave too much freedom to individuals and communities abroad.
B) asserted it weakened the profitability of large corporations.
C) argued it was turning American workers into poorly-paid "slave laborers."
D) favored free-trade agreements.
E) claimed it was an economic threat.

Question 58

Bill Clinton became the third president,after Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon,to have an impeachment trial.

Question 59

In the election of 2000,when a court-ordered deadline for the Florida recount arrived,the Florida secretary of state certified Bush the winner in Florida by a little more than 500 votes,even though the recount was not complete.

Question 60

In 2001,regarding an international treaty signed in Kyoto,Japan,to reduce emissions in the atmosphere,President George W.Bush

A) reluctantly agreed to abide by the treaty.
B) refused to participate in the agreement.
C) wanted stronger controls on greenhouse emissions than the treaty provided for.
D) sent the treaty to Congress but was defeated by Republican opposition.
E) wholeheartedly endorsed the treaty.

Question 61

Public support for the Iraq War remained steady in the years after the initial March 2003 invasion.

Question 62

George Bush's "mission accomplished" speech aboard an American aircraft carrier marked the end of major U.S.military personnel losses in Iraq.

Question 63

In the election of 2008,Obama won the popular vote 53 percent to 46 percent and the electoral vote by an even larger margin.

Question 64

The Internet originated with a group of college-student computer "hackers" spread across the country.

Question 65

What agenda did Bill Clinton bring to the presidency in 1992? What were his successes and failures in enacting that agenda?

Question 66

Other than Katrina,what else accounted for the political woes faced by the Bush administration in their second term? How might they have ameliorated or even avoided these political problems?

Question 67

Characterize the controversies in the 2000 presidential election.Do you agree or disagree with the manner in which the final result was determined? Why?

Question 68

Describe the key differences among the post-Cold War foreign policies of the first Bush,Clinton,and second Bush administrations.

Question 69

By the early twenty-first century,the percentage of black high-school graduates going on to college was virtually the same as that of white high-school graduates.

Question 70

The year 1981 marked the first documentation of the AIDS virus.

Question 71

What accounted for the high degree of public support for President Clinton? Why did scandals and the impeachment trial fail to erode his support?

Question 72

Consider television and the personal computer: Which product has been of more significance in altering American society?

Question 73

Well before September 2001,America had witnessed home-grown terrorism in the actions of militants on the American left and Timothy McVeigh,among others.

Question 74

Was Bill Clinton a Democrat in the New Deal tradition,or the Great Society tradition,or something else?

Question 75

Soon after the September 2001 attacks,it became unquestionably clear that Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq was sheltering and supporting Osama Bin Laden and the Al Qaeda organization.

Question 76

Part of the Bush administration's public case for invading Iraq in 2003 involved removing "weapons of mass destruction" from Saddam Hussein's arsenal.

Question 77

The activists involved in Occupy Wall Street developed their concerns into a movement with broad popular support.

Question 78

Describe the effect of Hurricane Katrina on public perception of the Bush administration.Do you think this perception was fair? How could the administration have handled events differently?

Question 79

What accounted for the Republican resurgence in 1994? How did President Clinton respond to this and how successful was his response?

Question 80

The most severe impact of Hurricane Katrina was felt in the city of Pensacola,Florida.