1. Chapter Forty-One America Confront the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2004

2. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-2 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 The key issue on which William Clinton defeated President George H. W. Bush in the 1992 election was 1. violence and terrorism. 2. the economy. 3. abortion and gay rights. 4. health care.

3. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-3 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 The key issue on which William Clinton defeated President George H. W. Bush in the 1992 election was 2. the economy. Hint: See page 990.

4. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-4 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 The third-party presidential candidate who garnered nearly 20 percent of the vote in the election of 1992 was 1. John McCain. 2. J. Danforth Quayle. 3. H. Ross Perot. 4. Ralph Nader.

5. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-5 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 The third-party presidential candidate who garnered nearly 20 percent of the vote in the election of 1992 was 3. H. Ross Perot. Hint: See page 990.

6. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-6 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 The Branch Davidians were 1. a terrorist group responsible for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. 2. a radical environmental organization that attacked corporate logging and staged conflicts with polluters on the oceans. 3. an offshoot of David Rockefeller’s Chase Manhattan Bank that promoted investment in Latin America. 4. a fundamentalist sect whose Texas compound was destroyed by the federal government in 1993.

7. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-7 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 The Branch Davidians were 4. a fundamentalist sect whose Texas compound was destroyed by the federal government in 1993. Hint: See page 991.

8. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-8 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 The end result of House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s militantly conservative “Contract With America” was 1. a sharp political backlash that led to President Clinton’s landslide victory in 1996. 2. a series of major tax cuts that helped to usher in the prosperity of the late 1990s. 3. the passage of bills to force women off welfare and send their children to orphanages. 4. the emergence of sharp conflict in the Republican party between its conservative and moderate wings.

9. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-9 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 The end result of House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s militantly conservative “Contract With America” was 1. a sharp political backlash that led to President Clinton’s landslide victory in 1996. Hint: See pages 992–993.

10. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-10 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 During his second term, President Clinton’s greatest political asset was 1. his warm support for the Welfare Reform Act. 2. the popularity of his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton. 3. the highly prosperous economy. 4. his success in reducing the level of violence in American society.

11. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-11 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 During his second term, President Clinton’s greatest political asset was 3. the highly prosperous economy. Hint: See pages 994–995.

12. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-12 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 At some point during President Clinton’s two administrations (1993– 2001), American troops were committed to all of the following countries except 1. Haiti. 2. Somalia. 3. Rwanda. 4. Serbia.

13. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-13 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 At some point during President Clinton’s two administrations (1993– 2001), American troops were committed to all of the following countries except 3. Rwanda. Hint: See pages 995–996.

14. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-14 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 The two charges on which President Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives were 1. accepting illegal campaign contributions and arranging vote fraud in Arkansas. 2. perjury and obstruction of justice. 3. sexual harassment and illegal sexual relations with a female employee. 4. lying to the American public and violating his oath to faithfully execute the law.

15. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-15 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 The two charges on which President Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives were 2. perjury and obstruction of justice. Hint: See page 996.

16. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-16 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 Despite his rhetorical emphasis on social justice and racial harmony, President Clinton actually helped consolidate the conservative trend in American politics by 1. supporting cutbacks in affirmative action and upholding racial isolation in “gated communities.” 2. discouraging the public from expecting America’s social or moral problems to be solved by government. 3. calling for federal budget surpluses to be eliminated through substantial tax cuts for the middle class. 4. emphasizing national security and military spending and criticizing an excessive emphasis on civil liberties and protest.

17. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-17 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 Despite his rhetorical emphasis on social justice and racial harmony, President Clinton actually helped consolidate the conservative trend in American politics by 2. discouraging the public from expecting America’s social or moral problems to be solved by government. Hint: See pages 996–998.

18. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-18 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 The key issue that caused the paralysis and controversy in Florida during the presidential election of 2000 was 1. whether Florida officials obstructed or prevented minority voters from casting their ballots. 2. whether there should be a complete hand recount of all contested election ballots. 3. whether the faulty design of some counties’ ballots had misled citizens into voting for the wrong candidate. 4. whether the Florida legislature could cast the state’s electoral votes for Governor Bush even if the recount favored Senator Gore.

19. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-19 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 The key issue that caused the paralysis and controversy in Florida during the presidential election of 2000 was 2. whether there should be a complete hand recount of all contested election ballots. Hint: See page 999.

20. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-20 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 Which of the following were not among the strongly ideological conservative policies that President George W. Bush pursued soon after taking office in 2001? 1. withdrawing American support from international health care programs that sanctioned abortion 2. repudiating American support for the international Kyoto “global warming” agreements 3. passing a massive $1.3 trillion tax cut in the face of looming federal deficits 4. proposing a restructuring and partial privatization of the Social Security System

21. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.41-21 Kennedy, The American Pageant Chapter 41 Which of the following were not among the strongly ideological conservative policies that President George W. Bush pursued soon after taking office in 2001? 4. proposing a restructuring and partial privatization of the Social Security System. Hint: See pages 1000–1002.