Which of the following ultimately determined the outcome of the ...

[joesmith1212]

Question 1

How did Americans in the bottom half of the income ladder fare in the 1990s?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What was the Contract with America? How did President Clinton respond to Republican efforts to implement the programs outlined in the Contract?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 3

What was made clear by the 2000 presidential election in Florida?
 
  A) the widespread flaws in the voting system
  B) the widespread existence of in-person voter fraud
  C) the widespread disfranchisement of working-class whites
  D) the widespread bribery of election officials

Question 4

Justice Stephen Breyer argued that the majority ruling that halted the Florida recount __________.
 
  A) was a clear case of corruption
  B) was the only possible ruling
  C) would undermine the publics faith in the judicial system
  D) would end the controversy over the 2000 election

Question 5

Which of the following was true of the 2000 election?
 
  A) Al Gore won the popular vote.
  B) The election was resolved in the House of Representatives.
  C) George Bush won an electoral college landslide.
  D) Voter intimidation in California and Texas swung the election to George Bush.

Question 6

Which of the following ultimately determined the outcome of the 2000 election?
 
  A) the Supreme Court of the United States
  B) the House of Representatives
  C) the U.S. Senate
  D) the Florida legislature

[cegalasso]

Answer 1

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  In the 1990s, the bottom 60 percent of the population saw their real income decline, even as the economy boomed.
  


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  The top 1 percent of Americans owned more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined.
  


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  Middle-class black families had fewer assets and resources, making their hold on middle-class status more precarious than that of their white peers.
  


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  The rate of unemployment was more than twice as high for blacks as for whites.
  


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  Recent immigrants from Asia, Africa, and Latin America joined African Americans in jobs at the bottom of the economy.
  


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  Workers at the bottom of the labor force gained little or nothing from the economic boom of the 1990s.
  

Answer 2

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  The Republican Contract with America called for welfare reform, a balanced budget, more prisons and longer sentences, increased defense spending, an end to legal abortion, and other conservative measures.
  


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  Republican victories in the 1994 mid-term election gave them control of both houses of Congress.
  


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  The new Republican Congress passed a large tax cut and a tough anticrime bill, increased military spending, and reduced federal regulatory power over the environment.
  


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  Clinton used his veto power to limit the Republican agenda, but he also took on some conservative issues as his own, such as free trade and welfare reform.
  

Answer 3

Answer: A

Answer 4

Answer: C

Answer 5

Answer: A

Answer 6

Answer: A

[joesmith1212]

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