Unit 29

Question 1

Of what state was Bill Clinton governor?

Answer 1

Arkansas

Question 2

Who was Clinton’s vice presidential running mate in 1992?

Answer 2

Al Gore

Question 3

Who was the candidate for President of the Reform Party in 1992 and 1996?

Answer 3

Ross Perot

Question 4

What was the name of the commitment for change made by Republican House candidates in 1994?

Answer 4

The Republican Contract with America

Question 5

What significant change took place in the 1994 congressional election?

Answer 5

Democrat losses were huge, while Republicans captured both houses of Congress, the first time since 1952

Question 6

What is a free trade zone among the countries of North America?

Answer 6

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Question 7

Who was the Republican candidate for President in 1996?

Answer 7

Bob Dole

Question 8

What is a reading of the value of stock based on the stocks of thirty of America’s largest and most important businesses?

Answer 8

Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)

Question 9

What controls inflation and keeps the economy growing at a strong but moderate rate by lowering the rate it charges for banks or increasing discount rates when needed?

Answer 9

The Federal Reserve Board, or Feds

Question 10

From where is most of the new immigration coming?

Answer 10

Latin America

Question 11

A young boy from which country was at the center of an immigration controversy in 1999-2000?

Answer 11

Cuba

Question 12

What group was in a compound in Waco, Texas in a standoff with Federal officials?

Answer 12

Branch Davidians

Question 13

What domestic terrorist attack was a response to the Waco incident?

Answer 13

A huge truck bomb exploded outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building

Question 14

What serious problem surfaced repeatedly in public schools in the 1990s?

Answer 14

School shootings

Question 15

When was the first electronic computer built?

Answer 15

1944

Question 16

Where did the United States attempt to implement the policy of nation-building?

Answer 16

Somalia

Question 17

Who was the president of Haiti when the U.S. helped?

Answer 17

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Question 18

What is the giving control of land to the Palestinians in exchange for greater security for Israel against Muslim attacks?

Answer 18

Land-for-Peace

Question 19

With what country did Israel sign a treaty in 1994?

Answer 19

Jordan

Question 20

Who was the Israeli prime minister assassinated in 1995?

Answer 20

Yitzhak Rabin

Question 21

What country included Serbia and Montenegro?

Answer 21

Yugoslavia

Question 22

What leader of Yugoslavia was charged with war crimes?

Answer 22

Slobodan Milosevic

Question 23

What province of Yugoslavia wanted independence?

Answer 23

Kosovo

Question 24

What is the ethnic and religious majority of Kosovo?

Answer 24

Muslim

Question 25

What multi-national force took action against Yugoslavia in 1998?

Answer 25

NATO

Question 26

What Arkansas resort project was the target of an investigation that involved the Clintons?

Answer 26

The Whitewater Development Company

Question 27

Who sued President Clinton over his alleged misconduct while he was governor of Arkansas?

Answer 27

Paula Jones

Question 28

With what intern was President Clinton linked?

Answer 28

Monica Lewinsky

Question 29

What articles of impeachment were passed by the House against Clinton?

Answer 29

Two articles of perjury, and two articles of obstruction of justice and lying to Congress

Question 30

What was the outcome of the impeachment trial in the Senate?

Answer 30

Both articles failed to receive the necessary 2/3 majority