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The Clinton years were a time of |
| | A) | liberal domination of the federal government. |
| | B) | bitter partisan struggles. |
| | C) | conservative control despite a Democratic president. |
| | D) | bipartisan accomplishment in Congress. |
| | E) | liberal domination of the presidency but conservative control of the House and Senate. |
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President Clinton's approach to trade was to |
| | A) | create protectionist tariffs through the negotiation of NAFTA. |
| | B) | isolate the United States from the global market as much as possible. |
| | C) | support a global economic perspective and strongly advocate free trade through documents such as NAFTA. |
| | D) | pursue a moderate course that combined general free trade principles with high tariffs to protect the most vulnerable American industries. |
| | E) | dismiss the idea of free trade. |
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What major domestic initiative of the first two years of the Clinton administration was a political failure? |
| | A) | mental health |
| | B) | child welfare |
| | C) | educational improvements |
| | D) | health care reform |
| | E) | workplace equality |
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By his second term, President Clinton |
| | A) | had failed to significantly reduce the budget deficit. |
| | B) | had succeeded in reducing the deficit to some degree, but had not managed to balance the budget. |
| | C) | achieved a balanced budget. |
| | D) | achieved the first budget surplus of the twentieth century. |
| | E) | failed to achieve a balanced budget. |
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The efforts to impeach President Clinton |
| | A) | made no progress in either the House or the Senate. |
| | B) | achieved considerable support in both houses but led to no indictments. |
| | C) | were successful. |
| | D) | led the House to indict the president and the Senate to convict him. |
| | E) | led to two indictments in the House but an acquittal in the Senate. |
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Among the most significant changes in the political culture of the 1990s was/were |
| | A) | the expanding role of scandal in American politics. |
| | B) | the blurring of the distinction between public and private behavior. |
| | C) | the American electorate's increased unwillingness to tolerate scandal. |
| | D) | the decreased role of economic issues in the voting considerations of the American public. |
| | E) | the expanding role of scandal in American politics and the blurring of the distinction between public and private behavior. |
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In the presidential election of 2000, |
| | A) | Al Gore won the popular vote. |
| | B) | George W. Bush won the popular vote. |
| | C) | John McCain won the popular vote. |
| | D) | it could not be determined who won the popular vote. |
| | E) | Al Gore won both the popular and electoral vote. |
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In the election of 2000, the state where the outcome of the voting became most confused was |
| | A) | California. |
| | B) | Texas. |
| | C) | New York. |
| | D) | Florida. |
| | E) | Ohio. |
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The Supreme Court's decision on the presidential election of 2000 |
| | A) | was unanimous. |
| | B) | allowed the recounts to continue until the winner of the election could be determined. |
| | C) | argued that the standards for evaluating the disputed ballots were too arbitrary to withstand constitutional scrutiny. |
| | D) | was greeted with nearly unanimous support by an American public that had tired of the controversy. |
| | E) | immediately halted the recounts. |
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President George W. Bush |
| | A) | instituted the largest tax cut in American history in his first year in office. |
| | B) | refused to cut taxes even after he promised to do so during the campaign. |
| | C) | increased the income tax but reduced the nation's sales tax. |
| | D) | instituted the largest tax increase in the nation's history. |
| | E) | instituted the second largest tax increase in the nation's history, after his father's. |
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The American economy in the period of the late 1980s and early 1990s was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT |
| | A) | the highest rate of poverty in the post-World War II era. |
| | B) | a decline in the relative importance of heavy manufacturing. |
| | C) | an increase in the number of families needing more than one income to maintain their desired standard of living. |
| | D) | an unequal distribution of wealth and income, with the middle 40 percent experiencing a decline in wealth. |
| | E) | the lowest rate of poverty in the post-World War II era. |
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Between 1980 and 1999, The Dow Jones Industrial Average |
| | A) | decreased by more than 25% |
| | B) | remained relatively static. |
| | C) | increased by more than 100%. |
| | D) | increased by more than 1000%. |
| | E) | decreased by more than 50%. |
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According to the text, one of the primary causes of the economic downturn in 2001 was |
| | A) | the Enron scandal. |
| | B) | the sell-off of "dot.com" stocks. |
| | C) | the growing disparity between rich and poor. |
| | D) | the collapse of the steel industry. |
| | E) | Bush's large tax cuts. |
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Each of the following was a result of the scientific and technological boom of the late twentieth century EXCEPT |
| | A) | the Internet. |
| | B) | the personal computer. |
| | C) | the Human Genome Project. |
| | D) | the cure for Alzheimer's disease. |
| | E) | Microsoft. |
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During the late twentieth century, the American population |
| | A) | was growing older. |
| | B) | was getting younger. |
| | C) | had a vastly increased birth rate. |
| | D) | had a birth rate that remained relatively static. |
| | E) | was becoming less diverse. |
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From 1965 to the early 1990s, there was significant relative and actual increase in immigration by all of the following groups EXCEPT |
| | A) | Asians. |
| | B) | Mexicans. |
| | C) | Puerto Ricans. |
| | D) | Europeans. |
| | E) | Latinos. |
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Which of the following best represents the economic status of African Americans by the 1980s? |
| | A) | Despite the efforts of the 1960s, all classes of blacks were falling further behind whites. |
| | B) | Working-class blacks made limited strides and failed to match their white counterparts. |
| | C) | Working-class blacks made significant strides but white-collar options remained closed, so middle-class blacks made little gain. |
| | D) | Except in the South, average family income for blacks matched that of whites by the 1990 census. |
| | E) | The black middle class made significant gains, but the gap between the black middle class and underclass was accentuated. |
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In the early stages of the AIDS epidemic, which of the following groups showed the greatest number of incidents? |
| | A) | homosexual men |
| | B) | homosexual women |
| | C) | heterosexual men |
| | D) | heterosexual women |
| | E) | homosexual men and women |
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The forces opposed to legalized abortion were generally known as the ____________ movement. |
| | A) | abstinence |
| | B) | birthright |
| | C) | baby alive |
| | D) | right-to-life |
| | E) | pro-choice |
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The Three Mile Island accident involved |
| | A) | the biggest automobile accident and traffic tie up in U.S. history on the New York City suburban freeways. |
| | B) | the release of DDT into irrigation canals in California. |
| | C) | an oil tanker running aground along the inner passage of Alaska. |
| | D) | the AIDS epidemic. |
| | E) | a nuclear power plant episode in Pennsylvania. |
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Political correctness refers to |
| | A) | the litmus test issues that Newt Gingrich tried to enforce on Republican members of Congress. |
| | B) | the centrist positions that President Clinton adopted after the Democratic setbacks in 1994. |
| | C) | the attempt by some radical feminists and others to limit public discourse that they regarded as contrary to their views of women and minorities. |
| | D) | the tendency of the upper middle class to avoid political involvement altogether as long as their privileged economic interests are not threatened. |
| | E) | the promotion of correct information about the AIDS epidemic. |
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