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History Week 28 Clinton Era

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

American businessman best known for running as an independent presidential

candidate in 1992

a)

David Koresh

b)

Newt Gingrich

c)

Ross Perot

d)

Bill Clinton

e)

Kenneth Start

2.

president known as "the comeback kid" whose term witnessed economic

strength and moral poverty

a)

David Koresh

b)

Newt Gingrich

c)

Ross Perot

d)

Bill Clinton

e)

Kenneth Start

3.

Speaker of the House from 1995-1999 and the co-author of the Contract with

America

a)

David Koresh

b)

Newt Gingrich

c)

Ross Perot

d)

Bill Clinton

e)

Kenneth Starr

4.

lawyer appointed to investigate the Whitewater scandal and produced

evidence leading to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton

a)

David Koresh

b)

Timothy McVeigh

c)

Ross Perot

d)

Bill Clinton

e)

Kenneth Starr

5.

leader of the Branch Davidians of Waco, Texas, who locked themselves

in their compound to await the end of the world and were raided by the FBI

a)

David Koresh

b)

Timothy McVeigh

c)

Ross Perot

d)

Bill Clinton

e)

Kenneth Starr

6.

American terrorist convicted and executed for detonating a truck bomb in

front of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995

a)

David Koresh

b)

Timothy McVeigh

c)

Ross Perot

d)

Bill Clinton

e)

Kenneth Starr

7.

legislation that rolled back guarantees for the poor by setting time limits for

benefits and work requirements

a)

Dayton Acords

b)

NAFTA

c)

Economic Recovery Act

d)

Welfare Reform Act

8.

fragile peace agreement that put an end to the Bosnian War in the Balkans

a)

Dayton Acords

b)

NAFTA

c)

Economic Recovery Act

d)

Welfare Reform Act

9.

agreement between Canada, the US, and Mexico that opened free trade with

Mexico

a)

Dayton Acords

b)

NAFTA

c)

Economic Recovery Act

d)

Welfare Reform Act

10.

10 Republican bills presented to the public during the 1994 Congressional

elections with a promise to bring them to a vote in the first 100 days

a)

Republican Resolution

b)

10 in 100

c)

Contract with America

d)

Gingrich Promis

11.

real estate controversy involving President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary

a)

Whitewater

b)

Watergate

c)

Teapot Dome

d)

Iran-Contra Affair

12.

the forced removal of ethnic or religious groups from a given territory by a

more powerful ethnic group, with the intent of making it ethnically pure

a)

Purification Rite

b)

Holocaust

c)

Dispersement

d)

Ethnic Cleansing

13.

nation in the Balkans that broke up into 5 countries after a political crisis and

rise of nationalism in the 1980s, resulting to the ethnic cleansing

a)

Kosovo

b)

Yugoslavia

c)

Mogadishu

d)

Somalia

14.

Yugoslavian province that was the site of ethnic cleansing in 1999 at the hands

of the Serbian gov't, requiring NATO intervention and peacekeeping efforts

a)

Kosovo

b)

Yugoslavia

c)

Mogadishu

d)

Somalia

15.

African country that became famine-stricken in 1992 and required a UN relief

mission to prevent widespread starvation

a)

Kosovo

b)

Yugoslavia

c)

Mogadishu

d)

Somalia

16.

battle that took place during the humanitarian mission in Somalia as UN troops

clashed w/Somali warlords & clans, resulting in the deaths of 18 US soldiers

a)

Kosovo

b)

Yugoslavia

c)

Mogadishu

d)

Somalia

17.

What type of "New Democrat" did Bill Clinton claim to be?

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18.

How was this "New Democrat" political view different from the old one?

4 lines