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The 2000 Presidential election require a hand-recount of ballots in Florida to determine which of these two candidates to be the victor?
Who are George W. Bush and Al Gore?
Formed in 1992, when 12 countries in Western Europe agreed to operate as a single economy with a shared currency.
What is the European Union?
Terrorist attacks on the World's Trade Center, Pentagon, and a failed attempt on Flight 93.
What is September 11, 2001 (9/11)?
Republican candidates promised to balance the federal budget, combat crime, reform the welfare system, cut taxes, create jobs, and minimize lawsuits.
What is the Contract With America?
The shift in the Democratic Party platform policy from liberal to moderate during the Presidency of Bill Clinton.
What is New Democrat?
A terrorist organization whose aim is to transform the world into a global caliphate under shari'ah law.
What is the Islamic State?
Asian nation whose government was overthrown by the Taliban and transformed into a Theocratic Muslim State.
Where is Afghanistan?
During the 21st century, the Executive and Legislative Branches of the federal government were frequently controlled by opposing political parties who refused to negotiate and compromise creating this situation in government.
What is gridlock?
This law limited the amount of time a family could receive welfare payments to 5 years.
What is Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)?
An attempt by the government to inject money into the economy to encourage growth.
What is a stimulus?
An international terrorist organization lead by Osama bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi Arabian and Muslim extremist.
What is al Qaeda?
The location of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising against authoritarian regimes.
Where is North Africa?
George W. Bush's foreign policy shift post-9/11 to attack not only terrorists and terrorists cells, but also the governments that supported them.
What is the War on Terror?
An education policy of the George W. Bush Administration that shifted accountability to the results of high stakes standardized testing.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)?
The maximum amount of debt that the federal government is allowed to accumulate - by law.
What is the debt ceiling?
People who gathered to opposed another group who were actively protesting an issue.
Who are counter protesters?
State that held the 2000 Presidential Election in suspense as a mandated hand recount of ballots ran on for 2 months following the November election date.
What is Florida?
A series of international agreements made between 1864 and 1949 on the proper conduct towards civilians, sick and wounded soldiers, and prisoners of war.
What are the Geneva Conventions?
A free-trade zone among the United States, Mexico, and Canada that would lower or eliminate tariffs and other trade barriers.
This organization set rules for trade policies and mediates disputes among more than 160 member nations.
What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
A legal doctrine that shields public officials from being sued, based on the 1967 Supreme Court case Pierson v. Ray.
What is qualified immunity?
This second military engagement in the Middle East was based on the belief that Dictator Saddam Hussein was developing and stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.
What is the Iraq War (Second Gulf War)?
The law authorized the military to create commissions used to try detainees and set rules for these trials.
What is the Military Commissions Act of 2006?
This law loosened many restrictions on intelligence gathering, especially on United States citizens.
What is the USA Patriot Act?
A new centralized federal agency and coordinated the functions of 22 existing federal intelligence agencies.
What is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)?