Chapter 27 Quiz - Give me liberty! Questions and Answers. HIST-1302 PDF

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Give Me Liberty! – Chapter 27 Questions and Answers 1) Question: By the end of the century, school desegregation in America was complete, with high schools across the country enjoying interracial student bodies. Answer: False

2) Question: Because of the 1965 changes in immigration laws, thirty-five years later the immigrant population in the United States: Answer: increasingly came from Asia and Latin America.

3) Question: The “Freedom Revolution” was: Answer: the Republican victory at the 1994 congressional elections.

4) Question: Operation Desert Storm: Answer: quickly drove the Iraqi army out of Kuwait.

5) Question: Why was the bitter political partisanship in Washington, D.C., in the 1990s so unexpected? Answer: The new president, Bill Clinton, was moving clearly toward the political center.

6) Question: Health care reform during Clinton’s first term: Answer: was opposed by drug companies, insurance companies, and doctors.

7) Question: The third-party candidate Ross Perot:

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Answer: received the most votes for a third-party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt.

8) Question: Investors in the 1990s were deeply skeptical of the new “dot coms,” companies that did not seem to actually produce anything. Answer: False

9) Question: What, according to author Eric Foner, would be the best possible outcome of the Rwandan genocide and the ethnic cleansing during the Balkan wars in the mid-1990s? Answer: A more effective international system for the protection of human rights.

10) Question: How could many of the security frauds of the late 1990s and early 2000s have been prevented? Answer: With the extension of the Glass-Steagall Act....