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Party like its' 1999
Foreign and Domestic
Money, Money, Money
Welcome to America
Bonus Questions
100
This state was the first to legalize medical marijuana.
What is California?
100
This well-known act, passed in 2001, permitted telephone and email surveillance and authorized the deportation of immigrants suspected of terrorism.
What is the USA PATRIOT Act?
100
This act, passed in 1996, made deep cuts in welfare grants and required able-bodied welfare recipients to find employment.
What is the Welfare Reform Bill?
100
While many critics blamed Reagan's tax cuts and programs for the 1980-1981 recession, this was the real reason.
What is President Carter's tight monetary policies?
100
The current national deficit.
What is $19 trillion?
200
This music genre, originating in the inner city South Bronx, contemplated social political issues through rapping.
What is hip hop?
200
This agreement created a free trade zone between Mexico, Canada and the US.
What is North American Free Trade Agreement?
200
Reagan's system of reducing the growth of government spending, cutting taxes, deregulation of business, and tightening the money supply in order to reduce inflation.
What is side supply economics?
200
This president's immigration reform included a guest worker program and a path to citizenship but did not satisfy liberals and conservatives.
What is George W. Bush's immigration policy?
200
The Ceiling
What is the roof?
300
This woman championed the "Just say no campaign" against the war on drugs.
Who is Nancy Reagan?
300
Failure of this action left the US on the sidelines during genocide in Rwanda that resulted in the death of over half a million people.
What is the US Somalian peacekeeping mission?
300
This day featured stock markets all around crashing in 1987.
What is Black Monday?
300
This religious political organization represented conservative ideals by speaking out against sexual permissiveness, abortion, feminism, and gay rights.
What is the Moral Majority?
300
In 1980, the first 1 GB hard drive was released, costing $40,000, and it weighed this much.
What is 500 lbs?
400
The share of women in the workforce increased from 30% in 1950 to this amount by 2000?
What is 47%? (anywhere between 45 and 50 is acceptable)
400
This event produced tensions that caused Congress and President Clinton to commit American troops to a NATO peacekeeping contingent.
What is ethnic violence in the Balkans and Southeastern Europe?
400
This act, passed in 1999, repealed the Glass-Steagall Act and furthered deregulation by removing the separation of commercial banks and investment firms and failing to give to any financial regulatory agency the authority to regulate large investment bank holding companies.
What is the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act?
400
This act, passed during Reagan's Administration, required employers to attest to their employees' immigration status, made it illegal to hire or recruit illegal immigrants knowingly and legalized certain seasonal agricultural illegal immigrants.
What is the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986?
400
A song written and performed by American musician Billy Joel released in 1983, on his ninth studio album An Innocent Man.
What is Uptown Girl?
500
This state was the first to legalize gay marriage within its borders in 2003?
What is Massachusetts?
500
This area of the US budget received the worst of the Reagan budget cuts.
What are social welfare programs?
500
This act, passed by President Bush (43), lowered tax rates and simplified retirement and qualified plan rules such as for individual retirement accounts, 401(k) plans, 403(b), and pension plans.
What is the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001?
500
This court case, settled in 1992, asserted that a woman has a right to abortion until fetal viability, rejecting some of Roe v. Wade's restrictions.
What is Planned Parenthood v. Casey?
500
Shaq's height.
What is 7 feet 1 inch?