WorksheetsWeek 17 Review: Modern America (VUS.14-15)
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 12mins
Over the last three decades, the American workforce has had to acquire and improve skills in –
Computer technology
Automobile repair
Heavy machinery
Medical equipment
Televised news -> ??? -> better informed rural population
Which innovation best completes this diagram?
radio
newspaper
satellite dish
compact disc
President Bush met with his national security advisers and with leading members of Congress. He also telephoned the leaders of Great Britain, Canada, France, Germany, China, and Russia as the first steps toward building an international coalition against terrorism. — State Department records, September 12, 2001
What type of this action is described by this quotation?
independence investigations
diplomatic relations
economic sanctions
strategic attacks
In recent years, advances in technology have changed employers’ expectations for job applicants so that most U.S. employers now
by attracting more medical professionals to rural areas
By creating more blue-collar jobs in rural areas
By providing better access to information
By lowering the cost of housing
This President was in office during the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism?
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
William J. (Bill) Clinton
George W. Bush
This man was declared to be the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks?
Osama Bin Laden
Sadaam Hussein
Vladimir Putin
Adolf Hitler
The 9/11 attacks were four coordinated attacks on what two US sites?
Capitol Building and Pentagon
Pentagon and World Trade Center
World Trade Center and White House
Pentagon and USS Cole
This act gave the NSA unprecedented spying powers on American citizens?
COVID-19 Bailout Bill
Agenda 22
PATRIOT Act
No Child Left Behind
curing yellow fever
What regions are the source of MOST RECENT immigration to the United States?
Which part of the national government controls the supply of money in the economy?
Congress
Treasury Department
Federal Reserve
President
Match the following modern presidents with highlights of their terms.
Ronald Reagan
Tax cuts, responsibility to states
George H.W. Bush
Fall of communism, Persian Gulf War
William J. (Bill) Clinton
NAFTA, restored relations with Vietnam
George W. Bush
9/11 terror attack, No Child Left Behind
Barack Obama
ACA, economic recovery during recession
The addition of each of these justices adds diversity to the Supreme Court except...
Neil Gorsuch
Clarence Thomas
Sandra Day O'Connor
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
