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WorksheetsU.S. History: The 1990s
Total questions: 55
Worksheet time: 30mins
What war was the United States and coalition forces involved in between 1990-91?
Afghanistan War
Persian Gulf War
Vietnam War
Grenada War
The Persian Gulf War was the U.S. and coalition forces fighting against _______ after they invaded the neighboring country of ________.
Afghanistan; Iran
Israel; Lebanon
Iraq; Kuwait
Saudi Arabia; Syria
The Persian Gulf War was codenamed Operation __________.
Overlord
Freedom Eagle
Desert Storm
Eagle Claw
Who was president during the Persian Gulf War?
George W. Bush
Who won the presidential election of 1992?
Bill Clinton
George H.W. Bush
Ross Perot
Ronald McDonald
TRUE OR FALSE: President Clinton championed/supported both liberal and conservative causes, attempting to embrace the political "center."
TRUE
FALSE
The Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993 _____.
provides job-protected and paid leave for one year for qualified medical and family reasons
provides the ability to have father and mother take off a total of 6-months combined paid leave for new children
provides insurance to help people pay bills after pregnancy
provides job-protected and unpaid leave for twelve weeks for qualified medical and family reasons
On March 3, 1991, a Black man named _________ was beaten by LAPD officers after a high-speed chase during his arrest for drunk driving and it was caught on tape.
Roger Stone
Reggie Taylor
Jesse Reynolds
Rodney King
When a police officer or officers use more force than is reasonably necessary to arrest a suspect, such as what many people felt happened with Rodney King, that is called _____.
chain of command
constructive possession
curtilage
excessive force
After the Rodney King beating, a 15-year-old girl named Latasha Harlins was shot dead in a convenience store when the clerk accused her of _____.
swearing at her
destroying property
attacking someone else
stealing
The acquittal of the police officers in the beating of Rodney King and the tension from the death of Latasha Harlins were two factors that lead to what become known as the ________ of 1992.
D.C. Riots
Philadelphia Riots
L.A. Riots
NYC Riots
The L.A. Riots ended many days later only after ______.
the president went on TV and asked for citizens to remain calm
Rodney King's family asked residents to stop the violence
the California National Guard and U.S. military were deployed to help end the unrest.
The riots were throughout much of Los Angeles, but which neighborhood faced the most significant damage during the LA Riots?
Hollywood
Malibu
Koreatown
Burbank
Where did hip hop originate?
the Bronx (NYC)
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
Cleveland
What issues did much of early hip hop music deal with in its lyrics and themes?
social and political issues
money and clubs
sports
fashion
Which hip hop artist sang the song "Changes," which covered themes including the war on drugs, police brutality, racism, poverty, and violence in black neighborhoods?
Biggie Smalls
Ice Cube
Tupac
Ice-T
Who were the founders of Apple Computer?
Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak
Bill Gates & Paul Allen
Michael Dell & Elon Musk
Jeff Bezoz & Warren Buffett
Who were the founders of Microsoft?
Bill Gates & Paul Allen
Larry Bird & Magic Johnson
Jeff Bezos & Warren Buffett
Michael Dell & Hewlett Packard
Who invented the World Wide Web debuting it in the early-90s?
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
Jeff Bezos
Tim Berners-Lee
Who were the founders of Amazon?
Jeff Bezos & MacKenzie Scott
Larry Page & Sergey Brin
Bill Gates & Steve Jobs
Elon Musk & Jeff Besoz
Who were the founders of Google?
TRUE OR FALSE: The World Wide Web and the internet are the exact same thing.
TRUE
FALSE
In 1992, U.S. Marshals went to apprehend Randy Weaver on his property, leading to a gunfire that killed his son and wife and eventually leading to an 11-day stand-off. This incident is known as _______.
Waco
Ruby Ridge
The Unabomber
Oklahoma City Bombing
The Branch Davidian religious cult ended up in a 51 day stand-off and siege by the ATF and FBI, before the compound caught fire killing 76 (including 25 children). This is known as _____.
Waco
Ruby Ridge
Oklahoma City bombing
Unabomber
In 1995, the Oklahoma City bombing of a federal building, killing 168 people, was masterminded by ______ who was angered by the events at Ruby Ridge & Waco. He was caught and later executed.
Osama bin Laden
Ted Kaczynski
Eric Rudolph
Timothy McVeigh
In 1996, the Unabomber, whose real name was _______, was caught. For years, he had mailed or delivered homemade bombs, killing 3 and injuring 23. He was using violence to protest “modern technology and industrialization.”
Ted Kaczynski
Timothy McVeigh
Osama bin Laden
Eric Rudolph
In 1996, there was a bombing at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, GA, killing 2 and injuring 200. It took until 2003 before they caught _________, a "serial bomber" and a white supremacist who was associated with extremist Christian Identity Movement.
Timothy McVeigh
Ted Kaczynski
Eric Rudolph
Randy Weaver
In the 1990s, a group of white supremacist extremists robbed banks to fund their neo-Nazi organization. They were called the ____.
Aryan Republican Army (ARA)
White Knights of American (WKA)
Brotherhood of Skinheads (BS)
National Socialist Movement (NSM)
In 1993, terrorists connected to al-Qaeda exploded truck bomb in the underground parking garage of the ______, killing 6 and injuries over 1,000.
Empire State Building
Sears Tower
World Trade Center
Capitol Building
The 1999 murders at _________ High School took the lives of 12 students and a teacher which, at the time, made it the deadliest school shooting in U.S. History.
Columbine
Parkland
Sandy Hook
Stoneman Douglas
Under most of the Clinton presidency the economy was ______ and unemployment was _______.
suffering; high
booming; low
For four years of President Clinton's presidency, the federal government spent LESS than brought in in tax revenue. This is called a budget ____.
What divisive 1994 law, championed by Clinton, made free trade between Canada-US-Mexico?
Free Trade in the Americas (FTA)
The American Free Trade Compact (AFTC)
Mexico-US-Canada Trade Agreement (MUCTA)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Bill Clinton was/was not reelected to a second term in 1996.
was
was not
The term for politicians being reluctant to compromise with political opponents is called _____ politics.
Who was the Speaker of the House in the 1990s who fueled partisan politics (not willing to compromise with the other political party)?
Mitch McConnell
In December 1998, the House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against President Clinton: perjury and obstruction of justice. This was over comments he made under oath about _____.
illegally raising money for his campaign
involvement with the Russian government
getting involved in a Middle Eastern conflict
an affair with a 22-year-old intern
During his impeachment trial, President Clinton was ______.
found guilty
acquitted
The leader of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda was named ____.
Saddam Hussein
Osama bin Laden was from the country of ____.
Afghanistan
Osama bin Laden left his home country to fight against the Soviet Union who had invaded ______ in 1979.
Afghanistan
Iran
Israel
Iraq
TRUE/FALSE: The United States supported bin Laden and the fighters in Afghanistan in their war against the Soviet Union.
TRUE
FALSE
In the 1990s, al-Qaeda set up training camps in the country of ____.
Iran
Osama bin Laden increasingly became angry at the United States following the _________, due to keeping military in his home country, supporting Israel, and a few other issues, eventually leading to his declaration of a "holy war" against the U.S. in 1996.
election of Ronald Reagan
Persian Gulf War
What computer program massively began the transformation of the music industry beginning in 1999?
The _______ scare was over fears of computer systems malfunctioning at the turn of the century.
Millennium
Apocalypse
Computer Glitch
According to reports at the time, what percentage of Americans were Y2K "hoarders" or "preppers?"
10%
20%
30%
40%
The 2000 Election was between _____ & _____.
Bill Clinton & Ronald Reagan
Put these presidents in chronological order:
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Put these events in chronological order of WHEN they happened in the 1990s.
The Persian Gulf War takes place.
Bill Clinton defeats George H.W. Bush to become president.
The World Wide Web is released to the public.
The Oklahoma City bombing kills 168.
The Columbine school shooting happens.
Identify the country in red.
Iraq
Iran
Israel
Saudi Arabia
Identify the country in red.
Lebanon
Identify the country in red.
Identify the country in red.
Identify the country in red.
Syria
