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Question 21

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How did the poverty level change in the U.S. from the end of the 1970s to 2013?

A) It remained at a constant 20 percent, which it had since World War II.
B) It continued to drop, as it had since World War II.
C) It rose from about 12 percent of the population to 15 percent.
D) It nearly doubled, from 10 percent to 20 percent.
E) It fluctuated wildly based on economic strength, constantly rising and falling during that period.

F) C) and E)
G) A) and D)

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In the 1990s and 2000s, opponents of globalization on the left charged the nation was

A) using its military to advance its economic interests.
B) allowing itself to be swayed by the interests of other nations.
C) ceding too much power to international organizations.
D) wrongly getting involved in places like Somalia and the Balkans.
E) All these answers are correct.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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The first system to provide for the orderly sharing of information on the Internet was called the World Wide Web, invented by British scientist ________.

In January 2002, President Bush spoke of an "axis of evil" that included Iraq, Iran, and North Korea.

Consider television and the personal computer: Which product has been of more significance in altering American society?

On the day of the 2000 election,

Evaluate the Bush administration's rationale and handling of the Iraq War. How does it compare to the first Bush administration's handling of the 1991 Gulf War? What would you have done differently?

By the early twenty-first century, the percentage of black high-school graduates going on to college was virtually the same as that of white high-school graduates.

Since the 1960s, the number of middle-class African Americans has sharply increased.

George Bush's "mission accomplished" speech aboard an American aircraft carrier marked the end of major U.S. military personnel losses in Iraq.

The Reagan and the two Bush administrations were generally hostile to the pro-choice position, but they did not reduce federal funding for abortion.

Beginning in the late 1980s, drug use declined significantly among middle-class people, but much more slowly among poor people.

All of the following are true of the Iraq War EXCEPT that

Evaluate the role of immigrants and immigration in the U.S. How and why did the U.S. population look different in 2010 than it had looked in 1965?

Bill Clinton became the third president, after Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon, to have an impeachment trial.

What economic changes have highlighted the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries? How have those changes altered American society?

Though its influence began to decline in the first decade of the twenty-first century, "globalization" of the economy had been the driving force in the great prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s.

In its first year in office, the Bush administration

The World Wide Web, which helped establish an orderly system for both the distribution and retrieval of electronic information on the Internet, was introduced by British scientist

President Bush faced an enormous political setback in his second term with the natural disaster of ________, which devastated the city of New Orleans in particular.