Deck 32: The Age of Globalization

Question 1

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

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

Answer 1

Franklin Roosevelt.

Question 2

In its first year in office,the Bush administration

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

Answer 2

passed the largest tax cut in American history.

Question 3

On the day of the 2000 election,

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

Answer 3

Al Gore won the popular vote.

Question 4

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 aided by a significant reduction in the federal deficit.
D)Ross Perot nearly double the number of votes he received in 1992.
E)President Clinton's campaign gain momentum in the final weeks.

Question 5

In 1998,the federal budget

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

Question 6

In 1996,significant reform legislation was passed by Congress concerning

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

Question 7

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

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

Question 8

The 2000 election results were decided

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

Question 9

In the 1996 election,

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

Question 10

In 1998,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)gradually dropped more precipitously as details emerged.
C)remained largely unchanged.
D)rose slightly and then dropped sharply.
E)rose and remained high.

Question 11

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

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

Question 12

Regarding scandals surrounding President Bill Clinton,

A)charges of impropriety had existed throughout his term in office.
B)Clinton admitted to impropriety during his first weeks in office.
C)charges of corruption were leveled against the president but not his aides.
D)all of the charges of impropriety involved the president's personal behavior.
E)few charges of impropriety were leveled at the president until his 1996 reelection.

Question 13

In 1995,the Clinton administration and the Congress

A)were far apart on the issue of tax cuts.
B)had a smooth political relationship.
C)were both moving to the political left.
D)both favored reductions in federal spending.
E)passed a dramatic welfare reform bill.

Question 14

The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton

A)was marked by its highly cooperative character.
B)ended with no charge attracting a majority of votes in the Senate.
C)was widely supported by the American public.
D)ended with no votes taken on the charges.
E)was the first since the trial of Richard Nixon in 1974.

Question 15

In 1993,when Bill Clinton assumed the presidency,he

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

Question 16

During its first months,the Clinton administration was faced with controversy over

A)its attempt to end the policy barring gays and lesbians from serving in the military.
B)the suicide of a White House counsel and longtime friend of the president.
C)a banking and real estate venture involving the Clintons from the 1980s.
D)several early appointments,which Clinton was forced to withdraw.
E)All these answers are correct.

Question 17

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

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

Question 18

The most pressing foreign policy issue of the first years of the Clinton administration concerned

A)civil war in Bosnia.
B)tensions between China and Taiwan.
C)terrorism in the Middle East.
D)the drug trade in Panama.
E)lawlessness in the former Soviet Union.

Question 19

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

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

Question 20

As a result of the 1994 elections,

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

Question 21

Between 1980 and 2000,the United States' economy saw

A)its Gross National Product (GNP)nearly double.
B)its rate of inflation average 4 percent per year.
C)the Dow Jones Industrial Average almost quintuple.
D)all of these: its Gross National Product (GNP)nearly double,its rate of inflation average 4 percent per year,and the Dow Jones Industrial Average almost quintuple.
E)None of these answers is correct.

Question 22

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

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

Question 23

In the 1990s,opponents of globalization

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

Question 24

The Human Genome Project

A)originally hoped to identify all the specific genes in humans by 2015.
B)was opposed by the Bush administration on ethical grounds.
C)was created during the Clinton administration.
D)set out to identify all of the more than 100,000 human genes.
E)was funded solely by private sources.

Question 25

One of the most important demographic characteristics of the American population in the early twenty-first century is

A)its growing prime workforce.
B)a rapid increase of the native-born.
C)increasing agedness.
D)decreasing foreign-born population.
E)a significant increase in the percentage of white residents.

Question 26

In 2010,poor inner-city blacks in the United States

A)saw only half of their number complete high school.
B)experienced an unemployment rate of 60 percent.
C)saw a radical increase in the number of single-parent households.
D)both saw only half of their number complete high school,and experienced an unemployment rate of 60 percent.
E)All these answers are correct.

Question 27

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

A)failed to significantly improve the health of most patients.
B)was unavailable for many poor victims.
C)had made little advance since the mid-1980s.
D)had led researchers to claim they had found a cure.
E)completely eradicated the virus in infected patients.

Question 28

By 2012,it was estimated that there were well over ________ computers in use in the world,and virtually all of them were connected to the Internet.

A)250 million
B)500 million
C)700 million
D)750 million
E)one billion

Question 29

In the United States beginning in April 2001 there was a significant drop in

A)traffic on the Internet.
B)the value of technology stocks.
C)business inventories.
D)service industry wages.
E)the labor supply.

Question 30

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

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

Question 31

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

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

Question 32

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

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

Question 33

In understanding the origins of terrorism,the term was first used in

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

Question 34

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

A)remained largely confined to gay communities in large cities.
B)killed more than three million Americans.
C)infected more than ten million Americans.
D)began to level off and then decline.
E)was spreading most rapidly among heterosexuals.

Question 35

In the 2004 election,George W.Bush

A)again lost the popular vote,but won the electoral vote.
B)won the popular vote because of a steep decrease in Democratic voters.
C)narrowly won both the popular and electoral vote.
D)lost the popular vote by a large margin,but won enough large states' electoral votes to win the election.
E)hardily won because the electorate was united behind him.

Question 36

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

A)claimed the treaty had been weakened and would be ineffective.
B)unilaterally rejected the treaty.
C)insisted that treaty be renegotiated.
D)reluctantly agreed to abide by the treaty.
E)wholeheartedly endorsed the treaty.

Question 37

In 1977,the first personal computer was introduced by

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

Question 38

By the early twenty-first century,regarding African Americans,

A)half of all African Americans lived in the middle-class.
B)African Americans constituted 3 percent of the nation's college population.
C)there was little-to-no economic disparity between black and white professionals.
D)half of all African Americans lived in poverty as members of the "underclass."
E)the percentage of black high school graduates going to college still lagged significantly behind that of white high school graduates.

Question 39

The microprocessor was first introduced in 1971 by

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

Question 40

Regarding the development of the personal computer,

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

Question 41

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

Question 42

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

A)George W.Bush declared victory in the Iraq war in May 2003.
B)Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003.
C)as many as 3,600 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)Iraq's rumored supply of "weapons of mass destruction" was uncovered by American troops in 2005.

Question 43

One of the most significant setbacks for Obama's agenda was the

A)failure to pass a stimulus passage.
B)waning support of the Tea Party movement.
C)polarization of the political parties.
D)inability to lower unemployment rates at any point.
E)Supreme Court ruling regarding his health-care bill.

Question 44

Like Reagan in 1984,President Clinton was able to campaign in 1996 as the champion of peace,prosperity,and national well-being.

Question 45

In 1993,President Clinton enjoyed no powerful mandate to govern.

Question 46

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

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

Question 47

Which of the following statements regarding the 2008 election is NOT true?

A)Barack Obama won because he was the only one to offer a clear solution to the financial crisis.
B)Barack Obama benefited from George W.Bush's unpopularity.
C)Barack Obama ran a highly disciplined campaign.
D)Barack Obama won a decisive victory in both the popular and electoral vote.
E)Barack Obama was the first Democratic candidate since Lyndon Johnson to win by such a large margin.

Question 48

Despite scandal,President Clinton's public approval rating was consistently among the highest of any postwar president.

Question 49

The 2008 presidential election was the first since 1952 that

A)had candidates that were ideologically similar.
B)took place in a positive economic climate.
C)did not include an incumbent president or vice president.
D)had an African American candidate.
E)had an extremely short primary contest on both sides.

Question 50

Independent counsel Kenneth Starr was hired to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct by President Clinton.

Question 51

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

Question 52

In April 1995,a militant anti-government militiaman named Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people when he blew up a federal building in

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

Question 53

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

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

Question 54

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

Question 55

By 1994,President Clinton had dispatched American troops to keep the peace in the Middle East and in Haiti.

Question 56

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

Question 57

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

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

Question 58

The growth of the financial crisis of 2008 was fueled in large part by

A)the war in Iraq.
B)a downturn in the housing market.
C)the export of U.S.jobs overseas.
D)President Bush's tax cut.
E)the burst of the "tech bubble."

Question 59

Other than tax cuts,President George W.Bush's major accomplishment was the

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

Question 60

President Clinton's first year following his reelection marked the low point in his popularity.

Question 61

The bursting of the "tech bubble" in April 2001 eventually affected the economy at large.

Question 62

The 2000 presidential election was one of the most controversial in American history.

Question 63

Hurricane Katrina represented a turning point in President Bush's political fortunes,and was a major catastrophe in its own right.

Question 64

The origin of the Internet was a group of college student computer "hackers" spread across the country.

Question 65

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

Question 66

A large part of the Bush administration's election strategy in 2004 was to appeal to the large community of conservative,evangelical Christians and mobilize them to vote.

Question 67

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

Question 68

The World Wide Web,the first system to provide for the orderly sharing of information on the Internet,was introduced by Tim Berners-Lee.

Question 69

Since the 1960s,the number of middle-class African Americans has sharply increased.

Question 70

The Gore campaign originally responded to the Florida controversy by asking for hand recounts of punch-card ballots across the state.

Question 71

In the Supreme Court case of Bush v.Gore,the Court voted 5-4,dividing sharply along party and ideological lines.

Question 72

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

Question 73

In the last decades of the twentieth century,the American economy experienced a serious retraction.

Question 74

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

Question 75

In the election of 2004,George W.Bush won a decisive victory over Democrat John Kerry,winning an electoral vote margin of over 100.

Question 76

Due to controversy,the federal government refused to appropriate any funds to the mapping of human genes.

Question 77

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

Question 78

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

Question 79

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

Question 80

Many of the features in the operating system used for the first Apple computers were borrowed from Microsoft Windows.