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Chapter 25-26
Section 1
Question | Answer |
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Nation brought into an existing free-trade zone by NAFTA | Mexico |
Presidents Reagan and Bush were most successful in meeting their goal of | Making the supreme court more conservative |
During Reagan's presidency, federal spending increased most for | Defense and the military |
When George H.W. Bush ran for president in 1988, his opponent was | Michael Dukakis |
The Strategic Defense Initiative was an extremely costly | Missile defense system |
Head of President Clinton's task force on universal health care | Hillary Rodham Clinton |
Fundamentalist Christian leader and televangelist Jerry Falwell formed the organization called | The Moral Majority |
In an attempt to fill the Supreme Court with conservatives, Ronald Reagan nominated this first woman ever nominated to the Supreme Court | Sandra Day O'Connor |
During the 1980's, conservatives objected to what they believed were excesses in | Government Regulation |
People who support pay equity argue that women should be paid | the same as men for doing the same job |
Creator of the Contract with America | Newt Gingrich |
The Third-party candidate in 1992 presidential election | Ross Perot |
In the 1980's, reports on education revealed that U.S. Schools were | Performing worse than those of most other other industrialized nations |
President Reagan made a point of appointing administrators to the Environmental Protection Agency who were | Sympathetic to business interests |
The aging of America's population will strain the government's ability to | Pay Social Security benefits |
In election 2000, Al Gore first conceded defeat based on predictions made by | Television networks |
All of the following are true statements about illegal immigrants today EXCEPT: 1) Many were helped by Proposition 187 in California 2)Many come from Mexico and other Central America Countries 3) Many are willing to take the lowest paying jobs | Many were helped by Proposition 187 in California |
Bill Clinton became the second president in history to be | Impeached by the House |
President Clinton can best be described as a | Conservative Liberal |
New High-Tech businesses based on the growth of the Internet are called | dotcoms |