New Millennium

How was the 2000 Presidential election decided?

• Gore won by a landslide
• Bush won after the Supreme Court ruled against the recount in Florida
• Gore was able to get the Florida Supreme Court to rule in his favor
• Bush won in a landslide

What did President Bush do to revitalize the economy?

• Nothing
• He raised taxes, and had the Federal Reserve Board raise interest rates
• cut taxes, and had the Federal Reserve Board drop interest rates
• He encouraged the government to buy stock in technologies

How many flights were hijacked on September 11, 2001?

• 4
• 2
• 8
• 0

Who claimed responsibility for the attacks on 9/11?

• Nobody
• George W. Bush
• Saddam Hussein and Iraq
• Osama Bin Laden and Al-Queda

How did President George W. Bush respond to the attacks on 9/11?

• He wrote a sternly worded letter
• He vowed a War On Terror that included the formation of the TSA, Department of Homeland Security, and the USA Patriot Act of 2001
• He did nothing
• He declared war on Syria

20B- What was the historical significance of the Presidential Election of 2000?

• The Electoral College ended in a tie.
• A third-party candidate won several electoral votes.
• The winner of the popular vote became President.
• The US Supreme Court intervened to prevent a recount that might have changed the result.

19D- The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, led the federal government to pass the--

• Endangered Species Act
• Community Reinvestment Act
• USA Patriot Act
• No Child Left Behind Act

18B- One similarity between Presidents Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush was that both Presidents--

• faced the threat of terrorist attacks
• vetoed increases in Social Security payments
• appointed women to the US Supreme Court
• had to deal with serious economic crisis

US invasion to topple feared dictator Saddam Hussein and prevent him from providing chemical and biological weapons to terrorists groups

• Gulf War
• War in Iraq
• Afghanistan Invasion
• 9/11

former Illinois Senator, first African-American elected President in 2008

• Hillary Clinton
• John McCain
• Barack Obama
• George W. Bush