| A | B |
|---|
| technology-dominated stock index | NASDAQ |
| sought to facilitate Mexico-Canada-US trade | NAFTA |
| most prominent entrepreneur of the 1990s | Bill Gates |
| leaving the city for the suburbs | urban flight |
| helped to create giant media outlets | Telecommunications Act |
| cut off benefits for illegal immigrants | Proposition 187 |
| Third-party candidate in the 1992 presidential election | Ross Perot |
| A goal of Clinton's that he failed to achieve during his first term | universal health care |
| Creator of the Contract With America | Newt Gingrich |
| Nation brought into an existing free-trade zone by NAFTA | Mexico |
| Example of an entitlement program | Social Security |
| Head of President Clinton's task force on universal health care | Hillary Rodham Clinton |
| The main reason that some of U.S. businesses moved their operations to other countries during the 1990s | lower wages |
| The trade agreement that lowered trade barriers and established the World Trade Organization | GATT |
| Company founded by Bill Gates | Microsoft |
| Percent decline in union membership from 1993-1998 | twenty percent |
| group that suffered the highest rates of unemployment during the 1990s | young people |
| President Clinton signed a bill that reformed _____ by ending a 61 year guarantee of federal aid to the poor | welfare |
| The _____ ended the tightly contested presidential election of 2000 by prohibiting any further recounts | Supreme Court |
| Pres. George W Bush pushed through a _____ that amounted to $1.35 trillion | tax cut |
| The African American leader who ran for Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 | Jesse Jackson |
| the nation's most prominent health epidemic during the 1980s | AIDS |
| The nation's fastest growing minority during the 1980s | Latinos |
| The city that exploded in racial violence in 1992 after the acquittal of white police officers | Los Angeles |
| In 1989, the people of Berlin tore down the _____ | Berlin Wall |
| The Reagan administration scandal involving the sale of arms to Iran was known as the _____ affair | Iran-Contra |
| The Persian Gulf War involved a U.S.-led effort to liberate _____ from Iraq | Kuwait |
| As the Soviet Union collapsed, the countries once under its control became known as the _____ | Commonwealth of Independent States |
| The U.S. took military action in _____ to help oust its corrupt leader, General Manuel Antonio Noriega | Panama |
| This person was the 1984 Democratic vice-presidential candidate | Geraldine Ferraro |
| this person became the nation's first African American governor | L. Douglas Wilder |
| This organization aims to end racism toward Asian Americans | Asian Women United |
| the basis of a system proposed by unions and women's rights organizations to close the income gap | pay equity |
| intended to correct the efforts of discrimination, both past and present | affirmative action |
| According to the theory of supply-side economics, _____ is the first step toward creating a healthy economy | cutting taxes |
| The main purpose of the tax cuts Reagan supported was to _____ | stimulate private investment |
| _____ was the goal of the program known as Star Wars | national defense |
| During the 1980s, the conservative coalition tended to support _____ | government deregulation |
| _____ is an example of a result of an entitlement program | the receipt of the Social Security check |
| Organization formed by Jerry Fallwell | the Moral Majority |
| During Reagan's presidency, federal spending increased most for | defense and the military |
| In the 1980s, reports on education revealed that U.S. schools were | performing worse than those of most other industrialized nations |
| The Strategic Defense initiative was an extremely costly | missile defense system |
| During the early 1980s, conservatives objected to what they believed were excesses in | government regulation |
| Reason why Ford's "whip inflation now" program was unsuccessful | It provided no incentives for Americans to conserve energy |
| contributed least to Jimmy Carter's defeat in 1980 | support for the National Energy Act |
| The Camp David Accords were an agreement between _____ and Israel | Egypt |
| President Carter's foreign policy was marked by a commitment to | human rights |
| The U.S. government established the _____ to set and enforce pollution standards | Environmental Protection Agency |
| U.S. anger over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan led to the collapse of the | SALT II Treaty |
| 1978 Supreme Court decision that dealt a setback to affirmative action by declaring racial quotas unconstitutional | Regents of the University of California v. Bakke |
| The "moral equivalent of war" is how President Carter described the nation's battle against | the energy crisis |
| The first African american to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations | Andrew Young |
| agreements signed during the Ford presidency that promised greater cooperation between Eastern and Western Europe | Helsinki Accords |
| a yearly celebration of the environment | Earth Day |
| site of 1979 American nuclear disaster | Three Mile Island |
| wrote "Silent Spring" | Rachel Carson |
| site of significant oil discovery in 1968 | Alaska |
| controversial pesticide outlawed in 1972 | DDT |
| one who works to protect the environment | environmentalist |
| the most lasting effect of Watergate | public cynicism about government |
| the stated purpose of President Nixon's revenue sharing proposal | give state and local government more control over how federal dollars were spent |
| When Nixon resigned, _____ became president | Gerald Ford |
| Nixon's policy to reduce the size and power of the federal government | New Federalism |
| In 1973, the OPEC nations cut off their supply of _____ to the U.S. | oil |
| Five men are caught breaking into the Democratic campaign headquarters located in the _____ complex in Washington, D.C | Watergate |
| Nixon announces the resignations of John Erlichman and _____, two of his closest advisors | H.R. Haldeman |
| _____ testifies that Nixon was deeply involved in the coverup | John Dean |
| Special prosecutor _____ sues the president to obtain audio tapes | Archibald Cox |
| Nixon releases _____ of his conversations, but they fail to satisfy investigators | edited transcripts |
| The Supreme Court orders Nixon to surrender _____ | unedited tapes |
| Nixon's plan to reduce the supervisory role of the government and make welfare recipients responsible for their own live | Family Assistance Plan |
| a philosophy in which foreign policy should be based solely on consideration of power | realpolitik |
| the dual problems of rising unemployment and inflation encountered during the Nixon years | stagflation |
| Nixon's advisor for national security affairs | Henry Kissinger |
| organization of oil producers | OPEC |
| refers specifically to the foreign relations policy adopted by the U.S. during the Nixon administration | detente |
| the basis of a bill that allowed state and local governments to spend their federal dollars | revenue sharing |
| refers to Nixon's attempts to attract conservative voters by slowing down or reversing civil rights policies | Southern strategy |
