Allowed U.S to have increased economic productivity as well as involvement worldwide
economic opportunities
What are the advantages of digital communication?
100
Coordinated attacks that claimed the lives of more than 3,000 Americans.
What is 9/11?
100
prohibited any law that increased or decreased the salary of members of Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives.
What is 27th Amendment?
100
Face of the conservatives in the US; elected president of the US in 1980.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
100
Court upheld a law from Missouri that prohibited public employees from performing abortions, unless the life of the women was threatened.
What is Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
200
Shifted the way of life of many Americans by allowing electronic commerce to gain popularity.
What is a result of the Internet
200
International treaty to reduce greenhouse gases emissions.
What is the Kyoto Accord?
200
Act implemented to cut taxes from individuals, reduce maximum income tax rate, and expand individual retirement account.
What is Economic Recovery Tax Act
200
Soviet Union Leader that allowed for improvement in the relations between the US and the USSR
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
200
This trial in 1995 brought on a lot of racial tensions because most whites believed the accused was guilty while most blacks believed he was innocent.
What is O.J Simpson Trial?
300
Disease that became the catalyst for scientific research in the 1980s.
What is AIDS?
300
Attempt to capture Osama bin Laden and other Al Qaeda members
What is the purpose of the War in Afghanistan?
300
Law passed in 1993 requiring a waiting period on sales of handguns, along with a criminal background check on the buyer.
What is the Brady Handgun Bill
300
Involved in the most controversial presidential election vs George W Bush
Who is Albert Gore
300
Supreme Court case establishing that a sitting President of the United States has no immunity from civil law litigation against him or her, for acts done before taking office and unrelated to the office.
What is Clinton v. Jones
400
The explosion of the Space Shuttle "Challenger"
What was the biggest disaster in the aeronautics field in the 1980s?
400
Glasnot & Perestroika
What are the two major reforms that ended the costly arms race between the U.S and Soviet Union
400
Agreement that eliminated trade barriers among the US, Mexico, and Canada and created the largest free trade zone in the world.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
400
Iraq's leader overthrown and killed by US military forces
Who was Saddam Hussein?
400
The court ruled that manual recounts of presidential ballots in the Nov. 2000 election could not proceed because inconsistent evaluation standards in different counties violated the equal protection clause.
What is Bush v. Gore
500
National institution was blamed in 2015 for spying US citizens and violating their privacy
What was National Security Agency (NSA) controversy?
500
"Axis of Evil"
What is name that Bush utilized to describe Iraq, North Korea, and Iran in his 2002 State of the Union address?
500
Reform that ended the Aid to Family with Dependent Children program, created time-based assistance limits, and instituted "workfare", which required work and exchange for relief.
What was the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act?
500
First women to serve as secretary of state
Who is Madeleine Albright
500
Court ruling that said if the plaintiff showed that discrimination played a "motivating part" in an employment decision, the employer can avoid liability only by proving by a preponderance of the evidence that it would not have made the same decision in the absence of the discriminatory motive.