Exam 41: The American People Face a New Century, 2001-2014

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -stem cell research

Major advances in genetic and stem-cell research led to all the following except

Describe and state the historical significance of the following: -Al Qaeda

​The Republican Tea Party faction in Congress

The money used to provide Social Security payments to retirees comes from

Americans experienced a great wave of national unity and solidarity in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Yet within a few years they were very bitterly divided over both political goals and tactics. What was the primary cause of these divisions? Were they debates over longstanding cultural and moral differences, or were the divisions directly related to the specific policies and conduct of the Bush administration?

Describe and state the historical significance of the following: -​Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)

Describe and state the historical significance of the following: -Abu Ghraib

Describe and state the historical significance of the following: -USA-Patriot Act

What was the central rationale and goal of the American invasion of Iraq, according to the Bush administration? What did critics of the American invasion of Iraq assert was the central rationale and goal? What did critics assert about the multiple supplemental rationales for the invasion of Iraq offered by the Bush administration? Who had the more persuasive argument about the primary American rationale and goal in its invasion of Iraq? Defend your argument with specific examples.

Describe and state the historical significance of the following: -​Tea Party

The new cabinet-level agency charged with protecting America against foreign terrorist attacks was the

The original home of Osama bin Laden, the organizer of Al Qaeda and presumed organizer of the September 11 attacks, was

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -weapons of mass destruction

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​Joseph Biden

​What were the causes of the widening income gap between the wealthy and the poor in America between the late 1960s and 2012? What role, if any, did government economic policies during that period have in exacerbating the income gap? What government policies and programs might have narrowed the gap during that period?

Compare the greatest challenges that American democracy faced in 1808, 1908, and 2008. Which challenges are essentially the same, and which are radically new?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​John McCain

​The deployment of an additional thirty thousand soldiers in Afghanistan and the implementation of a new counterinsurgency strategy by American armed forces in the country during President Obama's first term

How did the Bush administration respond at home and abroad to the terrorist attacks of 2001? Which elements of its response were met with general approval, and which caused heightened political controversy?