Unit 5 - New Millennium

Which was one effect of reducing the size and cost of computers?

• They were easily operated by everyone.

• Many ordinary people could buy and use them.

• Computer companies lost money.

• Software and operating systems became much more complicated.

Which development opened the Internet to popular usage?

• Google

• World Wide Web

• Yahoo

• Arpanet

Which business practice of the 1990s changed U.S. production?

• Outsourcing

• reverse assembly lines

• a series of special tariff agreements

• hiring contractors rather than employees

Which treaty removed trade barriers between the U.S., Canada, Mexico?

• American Economic Cooperation Treaty

• U.S. Free Trade Initiative

• Enterprise for American Economic Action

• North American Free Trade Agreement

In which foreign crisis did President Clinton commit U.S. troops to lead a multinational force to restore a democratically elected president and eventually send former President Carter to negotiate?

• Haiti

• Rwanda

• Somalia

• Bosnia

What nationality were the terrorists that blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City?

• Saudi Arabian

• American

• Sudanese

• Syrian

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision not to allow a vote recount in Florida led to _________________ winning the 2000 presidential election.

• Al Gore

• Bill Clinton

• George W. Bush

• Barack Obama

Which was a domestic policy initiative of the George W. Bush administration?

• signing a bill making faith-based initiatives illegal

• No Child Left Behind Act

• federal funding for stem-cell research

• major tax increases

Who was responsible for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the U.S.?

• Muammar Gaddafi

• Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols

• Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda

• Saddam Hussein

How did the United States respond to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks?

• Congress passed a selective service bill to draft men into the military.

• It persuaded the Afghan government to locate the terrorists and extradite them to the United States.

• It asked the Russians for assistance in locating the terrorists.

• It took military action in Afghanistan, where the terrorists responsible were believed to be hiding.