Question 1

Why did Goldman Sachs have to pay a fine of half a billion dollars in 2010?

Accepted Answer

A)  It had underwritten most of the subprime mortgages during the real estate boom. 
B)  It had failed to document its business structure to the Securities and Exchange Commission. 
C)  It had knowingly sold toxic mortgage-based securities and then bet on their failure. 
D)  It had illegally financed the presidential campaign of Democratic president Obama. 
E)  It had failed to reform its management and business practice in the wake of the mortgage crisis. 
A)  It had underwritten most of the subprime mortgages during the real estate boom. 
B)  It had failed to document its business structure to the Securities and Exchange Commission. 
C)  It had knowingly sold toxic mortgage-based securities and then bet on their failure. 
D)  It had illegally financed the presidential campaign of Democratic president Obama. 
E)  It had failed to reform its management and business practice in the wake of the mortgage crisis.

Question 2

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Hillary Clinton

Accepted Answer

A) sponsored a bill banning the use of torture 
B) Bush's secretary of state 
C) House majority leader 
D) Obama appointee to the Supreme Court 
E) inability to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency effectively
F)Democratic presidential candidate in 2008
G)compassionate conservative
H)chief political adviser
I)attorney general
J)chief justice of the Supreme Court
K)Republican activist and lobbyist
L)elected president in 2008 
A) sponsored a bill banning the use of torture 
B) Bush's secretary of state 
C) House majority leader 
D) Obama appointee to the Supreme Court 
E) inability to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency effectively
F)Democratic presidential candidate in 2008
G)compassionate conservative
H)chief political adviser
I)attorney general
J)chief justice of the Supreme Court
K)Republican activist and lobbyist
L)elected president in 2008

Question 3

Write an essay that analyzes the successes and failures of Mexican immigration since the 1930s,paying close attention to the debates surrounding Mexican immigration today.

Accepted Answer

Mexican immigration to the United States

Question 4

Had President George W.Bush kept his focus on the issue that most concerned the foreign policy "realists" in his administration,he would have:

Accepted Answer

A)  continued the pursuit of Al Qaeda, which was maintaining its capabilities. 
B)  kept the world's attention on North Korea. 
C)  prepared a liberation of the Darfur region in western Sudan. 
D)  invaded Iran. 
E)  continued his fight for an independent Tibet. 
A)  continued the pursuit of Al Qaeda, which was maintaining its capabilities. 
B)  kept the world's attention on North Korea. 
C)  prepared a liberation of the Darfur region in western Sudan. 
D)  invaded Iran. 
E)  continued his fight for an independent Tibet.

Question 5

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-John Roberts

Accepted Answer

A) sponsored a bill banning the use of torture 
B) Bush's secretary of state 
C) House majority leader 
D) Obama appointee to the Supreme Court 
E) inability to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency effectively
F)Democratic presidential candidate in 2008
G)compassionate conservative
H)chief political adviser
I)attorney general
J)chief justice of the Supreme Court
K)Republican activist and lobbyist
L)elected president in 2008 
A) sponsored a bill banning the use of torture 
B) Bush's secretary of state 
C) House majority leader 
D) Obama appointee to the Supreme Court 
E) inability to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency effectively
F)Democratic presidential candidate in 2008
G)compassionate conservative
H)chief political adviser
I)attorney general
J)chief justice of the Supreme Court
K)Republican activist and lobbyist
L)elected president in 2008

Question 6

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Michael Brown

Accepted Answer

A) sponsored a bill banning the use of torture 
B) Bush's secretary of state 
C) House majority leader 
D) Obama appointee to the Supreme Court 
E) inability to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency effectively
F)Democratic presidential candidate in 2008
G)compassionate conservative
H)chief political adviser
I)attorney general
J)chief justice of the Supreme Court
K)Republican activist and lobbyist
L)elected president in 2008 
A) sponsored a bill banning the use of torture 
B) Bush's secretary of state 
C) House majority leader 
D) Obama appointee to the Supreme Court 
E) inability to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency effectively
F)Democratic presidential candidate in 2008
G)compassionate conservative
H)chief political adviser
I)attorney general
J)chief justice of the Supreme Court
K)Republican activist and lobbyist
L)elected president in 2008

Question 7

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Kyoto Treaty

Accepted Answer

A) global warming 
B) significantly reduced workforce 
C) rules of war and treatment of prisoners 
D) terrorist group 
E) Afghanistan
F)U.S.prison in Iraq
G)Cuba
H)2008 financial crisis
I)housing bubble
J)revealed the deep poverty in America
K)declared the Geneva Conventions the law of the land
L)preemptive strike 
A) global warming 
B) significantly reduced workforce 
C) rules of war and treatment of prisoners 
D) terrorist group 
E) Afghanistan
F)U.S.prison in Iraq
G)Cuba
H)2008 financial crisis
I)housing bubble
J)revealed the deep poverty in America
K)declared the Geneva Conventions the law of the land
L)preemptive strike

Question 8

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-George W.Bush

Accepted Answer

A) sponsored a bill banning the use of torture 
B) Bush's secretary of state 
C) House majority leader 
D) Obama appointee to the Supreme Court 
E) inability to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency effectively
F)Democratic presidential candidate in 2008
G)compassionate conservative
H)chief political adviser
I)attorney general
J)chief justice of the Supreme Court
K)Republican activist and lobbyist
L)elected president in 2008 
A) sponsored a bill banning the use of torture 
B) Bush's secretary of state 
C) House majority leader 
D) Obama appointee to the Supreme Court 
E) inability to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency effectively
F)Democratic presidential candidate in 2008
G)compassionate conservative
H)chief political adviser
I)attorney general
J)chief justice of the Supreme Court
K)Republican activist and lobbyist
L)elected president in 2008

Question 9

What did "freedom" mean for Americans in the early twenty-first century? Was America an "exceptional" nation? How so? Describe the range of freedoms people experienced,or perhaps did not experience.How would Americans describe their status at home and in the world by the end of the Obama presidency? Explain.

Accepted Answer

In the early twenty-first century, "free

Question 10

The Hurricane Katrina disaster highlighted which of the following to Americans in 2005?

Accepted Answer

A)  The housing crisis was a minor problem compared to natural disaster. 
B)  Global warming required immediate action and generous government funds. 
C)  The nation and its economic recovery remained dependent on the price of oil. 
D)  Racial segregation in the lower wards of New Orleans had not changed since the 1950s. 
E)  A Democratically dominated Congress was as unsympathetic to the poor as a Republican one. 
A)  The housing crisis was a minor problem compared to natural disaster. 
B)  Global warming required immediate action and generous government funds. 
C)  The nation and its economic recovery remained dependent on the price of oil. 
D)  Racial segregation in the lower wards of New Orleans had not changed since the 1950s. 
E)  A Democratically dominated Congress was as unsympathetic to the poor as a Republican one.

Question 11

The unemployment rate for African-Americans was double that for whites.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Which of the following statements about Saddam Hussein turned out to be true?

Accepted Answer

A)  He possessed a mobile chemical weapons laboratory. 
B)  He had hidden weapons of mass destruction in his many palaces. 
C)  He was a horrible tyrant who ruled Iraq ruthlessly. 
D)  He was hiding in his palace as a safe haven from the war. 
E)  He was seeking to acquire uranium in Africa to build nuclear weapons. 
A)  He possessed a mobile chemical weapons laboratory. 
B)  He had hidden weapons of mass destruction in his many palaces. 
C)  He was a horrible tyrant who ruled Iraq ruthlessly. 
D)  He was hiding in his palace as a safe haven from the war. 
E)  He was seeking to acquire uranium in Africa to build nuclear weapons.

Why did Goldman Sachs have to pay a fine of half a billion dollars in 2010?

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Hillary Clinton

Write an essay that analyzes the successes and failures of Mexican immigration since the 1930s,paying close attention to the debates surrounding Mexican immigration today.

Had President George W.Bush kept his focus on the issue that most concerned the foreign policy "realists" in his administration,he would have:

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -John Roberts

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Michael Brown

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Kyoto Treaty

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -George W.Bush

The Hurricane Katrina disaster highlighted which of the following to Americans in 2005?

The unemployment rate for African-Americans was double that for whites.

Which of the following statements about Saddam Hussein turned out to be true?

A New World

Beginnings of English America,1607-1660

Creating Anglo-America,1660-1750

Slavery,Freedom,and the Struggle for Empire to 1763

The American Revolution,1763-1783

The Revolution Within

Founding a Nation,1783-1791

Securing the Republic,1790-1815

The Market Revolution,1800-1840

Democracy in America,1815-1840

The Peculiar Institution

An Age of Reform,1820-1840

A House Divided,1840-1861

A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War,1861-1865

What Is Freedom?”: Reconstruction,1865-1877

America’s Gilded Age,1870-1890

Freedom’s Boundaries,at Home and Abroad,1890-1900

The Progressive Era,1900-1916

Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I,1916-1920

From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties,1920-1932

The New Deal,1932-1940

Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II,1941-1945

The United States and the Cold War,1945-1953

An Affluent Society,1953-1960

The Sixties,1960-1968

The Triumph of Conservatism,1969-1988

From Triumph to Tragedy,1989–2001

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Exam 28: A New Century and New Crises

Why did Goldman Sachs have to pay a fine of half a billion dollars in 2010?

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Hillary Clinton

Write an essay that analyzes the successes and failures of Mexican immigration since the 1930s,paying close attention to the debates surrounding Mexican immigration today.

Had President George W.Bush kept his focus on the issue that most concerned the foreign policy "realists" in his administration,he would have:

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -John Roberts

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Michael Brown

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Kyoto Treaty

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -George W.Bush

The Hurricane Katrina disaster highlighted which of the following to Americans in 2005?

The unemployment rate for African-Americans was double that for whites.

Which of the following statements about Saddam Hussein turned out to be true?

A New World

Beginnings of English America,1607-1660

Creating Anglo-America,1660-1750

Slavery,Freedom,and the Struggle for Empire to 1763

The American Revolution,1763-1783

The Revolution Within

Founding a Nation,1783-1791

Securing the Republic,1790-1815

The Market Revolution,1800-1840

Democracy in America,1815-1840

The Peculiar Institution

An Age of Reform,1820-1840

A House Divided,1840-1861

A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War,1861-1865

What Is Freedom?”: Reconstruction,1865-1877

America’s Gilded Age,1870-1890

Freedom’s Boundaries,at Home and Abroad,1890-1900

The Progressive Era,1900-1916

Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I,1916-1920

From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties,1920-1932

The New Deal,1932-1940

Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II,1941-1945

The United States and the Cold War,1945-1953

An Affluent Society,1953-1960

The Sixties,1960-1968

The Triumph of Conservatism,1969-1988

From Triumph to Tragedy,1989–2001

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