Deck 17: 1993-2000: The Road to the Twenty-First Century

Question 1

Ross Perot captured 19 percent of the popular vote in the 1992 presidential election.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Media played a decisive role in the 1992 presidential election.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The Cold War began to ebb in the 1970s.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Computer technology resulted in greater government control over the flow of money.

Question 5

The 1990s saw the rich grow richer, the poor poorer.

Question 6

Immigration to the United States declined in the 1990s.

Question 7

Bill Clinton succeeded in passing a health-care reform bill.

Question 8

Bill Clinton remained committed to liberal reform throughout his presidency.

Question 9

Bill Clinton reversed many of George Bush's foreign policies.

Question 10

The early 1990s saw great progress made in establishing peaceful relations between Israel and the Palestinians.

Question 11

What lay behind the immigration crisis of the 1990s?

Question 12

What was "family leave policy"?

Question 13

Was Congress justified in bringing impeachment proceedings against President Clinton? Were they right to dismiss the charges?

Question 14

Bill Clinton was governor of what state before being elected president?

A) Ohio
B) Arkansas
C) Louisiana
D) Missouri

Question 15

In what field did Ross Perot make his fortune?

A) Industry
B) Investment
C) Technology
D) All of the above

Question 16

What state was Ross Perot from?

A) Texas
B) New York
C) California
D) Washington

Question 17

Ross Perot belonged to what political party?

A) Republican
B) Democrat
C) Independent
D) Reform

Question 18

The black majority of South Africa finally came to power in what year?

A) 1989
B) 1990
C) 1991
D) 1992

Question 19

In 1995, the federal building in Oklahoma City was bombed by individuals from what nation?

A) The United States
B) Mexico
C) Iraq
D) Afghanistan

Question 20

Who invented the game of basketball?

A) George Mikan
B) Adolph Rupp
C) James Naismith
D) John Wooden

Question 21

Who signed the "Contract with America"?

A) Democrats
B) Republicans
C) The President
D) The Supreme Court

Question 22

Bill Clinton deployed U.S. forces in which of the following areas?

A) Somalia
B) Japan
C) The Taiwan Straits
D) All of the above

Question 23

Who ran against Bill Clinton in the 1996 presidential election?

A) George Bush
B) Dan Quayle
C) Bob Dole
D) Ralph Nader

Question 24

Bill Clinton performed particularly well among what group(s) in the 1996 presidential election?

A) Business leaders
B) The elderly
C) Women
D) All of the above

Question 25

Who was the independent counsel assigned to investigate the Clintons's dealings in Whitewater?

A) Kenneth Starr
B) Paula Jones
C) Newt Gingrich
D) Janet Reno

Question 26

Clinton was one of only two U.S. presidents to be impeached. Who was the other?

A) Richard Nixon
B) Andrew Johnson
C) Andrew Jackson
D) Herbert Hoover

Question 27

When was al-Qaeda formed?

A) 1970s
B) 1980s
C) 1990s
D) 2001

Question 28

When was the first time terrorists targeted the World Trade Center?

A) 1978
B) 1987
C) 1993
D) 2001

Question 29

The World Trade Organization was founded by what president?

A) Ronald Reagan
B) George Bush
C) Bill Clinton
D) George W. Bush

Question 30

Who did Bill Clinton appoint as Secretary of State in 1997?

A) Madeline Albright
B) Janet Reno
C) Richard Holbrooke
D) Robert Rubin

Question 31

The health-care reform bill presented to Congress in the early 1990s was how many pages long?

A) 231
B) 984
C) 1,342
D) 1,982

Question 32

In 1993, the foreign-born accounted for how much of Miami's population?

A) 15 percent
B) 27 percent
C) 33 percent
D) 45 percent

Question 33

Talk About:
-Al-Qaeda

Question 34

Talk About:
-Bill Clinton

Question 35

Talk About:
-Bill Gates

Question 36

Talk About:
-California Proposition 187

Question 37

Talk About:
-"Contract with America"

Question 38

Talk About:
-Dayton Accords

Question 39

Talk About:
-"don't ask, don't tell"

Question 40

Talk About:
-European Union

Question 41

Talk About:
-family values

Question 42

Talk About:
-Kenneth Starr

Question 43

Talk About:
-Kosovo

Question 44

Talk About:
-Osama bin Laden

Question 45

Talk About:
-Ross Perot

Question 46

Talk About:
-Somalia

Question 47

Talk About:
-Taliban

Question 48

Talk About:
-Welfare Reform Act of 1996

Question 49

Talk About:
-Whitewater

Question 50

Talk About:
-World Trade Organization (WTO)

Question 51

Talk About:
-Yugoslavia

Question 52

We have seen how the tenor of the times fluctuates rapidly, from the complacency of the 1950s to the radicalism of the 1960s, through the go-go '80s and the optimistic '90s. How much of this fluctuation can be accounted for in economic terms? Is the "tenor of the times" a function of the strength or weakness of the economy?

Question 53

In the late 1960s, Richard Nixon--a Republican--found himself moving leftward as president. In the 1990s, Bill Clinton--a Democrat--found himself moving rightward as president. How can we explain this change?