Chapter 40 Focus Questions
1. As you read, try to assess the effects of the end of the Cold War on U.S. foreign policy.
2. Compare and contrast post 1965 migration patterns within and to the U.S. with the 1840s-1850s and the 1880-1920s.
3. As a new Democrat centrist, William Jefferson Clinton did more to consolidate than reverse the Reagan -Bush conservative revamping of New Deal liberalism. Support, refute, or modify this statement.
4. Assess the degree to which new migrants supplied the economy with an important labor force even as they became the focus of intense political, economic, and cultural debates.
5. Document the growing importance of the American South and West politically, economically and culturally as population shifted to those areas.
6. Trace increasing globalization and the accompanying economic instability and major policy, social, and environmental challenges.
7. Discuss the debates over free trade agreements (pro and con T chart) and how continued conflict in the Middle East led to debates over dependence on imported fossil fuels.
8. Explain the factors that led to increased computer technology and the Internet. What were the impacts of these changes on social behaviors and networks?
9. Explain how demographic changes intensified debates about gender roles, family structures, and racial and national identity.
10. Identify the Democratic Leadership Council and assess its influence on the national Democratic party in the 1990s.
11. What was so significant about the election of 1992? Map 40.1 should help on pg 958
12. Identify the Contract with America and explain why it had such strong appeal.
13. Identify the Oklahoma City bombing as discuss the point of view of a gov't worker, christian minister, Army vet and your personal reaction to the tragedy.
14. Read Makers of America: The Latinos and discuss the importance and impact of Latinos on U.S. culture, art, music, work, and politics.
15. Identify and discuss the importance of the Welfare Reform Act and relate this info. to number 3 above. Why did Democrats back this bill?
16. Read Shelby Steele's quote o pg 965 and and relate it to affirmative action. How would Jesse Jackson respond to Steele?
17. Create a T chart and have a list of African -American achievements since the Civil Rights era of the 1950s-1960s on one side and a list of areas that still need improvement, like the rates of Black incarceration, on the other.
18. Identify NAFTA, GATT, and the WTO. Evaluate Globalization on the U.S. by looking at it from the points of view of organized labor, republicans, democrats, corporate business.
19. Since the 1970s and the failure of the ERA amendment, assess the subject of women in the military, women in sports and women in politics. Create a list of achievements by women in these three areas.
20. Explain the U.S. response to conflicts in Somalia, Rwanda, and Bosnia and relate to number 1 above. Was the U.S. response adequate or inadequate?
21. Brainstorm a list of terrorists events in U. S. history prior to those listed on pg 971. Explain how U.S. military and economic involvement in the developing world and issues such as terrorism have changed U.S. foreign policy goals since the 1950s.
22. Identify the primary causes of Clintonian Impeachment. How is it alike and different from the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1867?
23. Identify and explain election 2000 and compare it to the elections of 1876 and 1824.
Chapter 41 Focus Questions
1. To what extent was Sept. 11, 2001 a turning point in U.S. history? Compare this attack to the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7,1941 and the surprise attack on Washington D.C. in the War of 1812.
2. Discuss the continuities and changes present in U.S. foreign policy since 1980.
3. How do attempts to improve security and restrictions on civil liberties after 9/11 compare to the ones in WWI and WWII?
4. Explain how the war on terror sought to improve security within the United States but also raised questions about the protection of civil liberties and human rights.
5. Identify and Explain foreign policy and military efforts agains terrorism in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
6. Explain about how growing concerns regarding climate change led to debates about the impact of economic consumption on the environment. Does climate change exist and if so, to what degree is modern man responsible for it?
7. Identify and give examples of weapons of mass destruction. (WMD)
8. List and explain ten events that are responsible for 9/11. Put them in chronological order first and do a causation exercise then rank them in order of importance and justify your ranking.
9. Identify the Patriot Act and Dept of Homeland Security and explain their link to 9/11.
10. Identify and explain the Axis of Evil in a speech by George W. Bush.
11. Read Examining the Evidence: The National Security Strategy, 2002 on pg 983. How did the administration describe and justify its departure from previous historical practice? How might future historians of the Bush presidency analyze the report? What is the tone suggest about the author's view of the U.S. and its place in the world?
12. Analyze the No Child Left Behind Act. What was the purpose? How has it affected students today?
13. What challenges did Bush face in his second term?
14. What factors made the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe so complex?
15. Why did Americans grow so dissatisfied with the U.S. involvement in Iraq?
16. Identify Abu Ghraib. Read Thinking Globally on pgs 990-91. Assess why many no longer viewed the U.S. as a global champion of justice, democracy and human rights. Create a T chart with those reasons on one side and what the U.S. should do to restore this feeling on the other.
17.Identify the Great Recession, TARP, deleveraging, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. What were the reasons for the Great Recession? What were the pros and cons of President Bush bailing out two mortgage and one insurance company?
18. To what extent is 2008 a turning point in U.S. history?
19. Create a T chart listing the pros and cons of Obamacare/Affordable Care Act.
20. Compare FDR's attempts to deal with the Great Depression with Obama's attempts to deal with the Great Recession. Create three columns-the first column is the problem, the second column is FDR's response and the third column is Obama's response. Create a new chart comparing FDR's and Obama's detractors.
21. Look at the photo of the White House situation room during the raid that took out Osama Bin Laden. Analyze this famous photo.
22. Discuss the growing emergence of ideologically disparate movements like Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, Black Lives Matter and others. What are the causes of the growth of these groups?
23. Look at the data in table 41.2. What has happened to the middle class since 1980? What are the causes behind this shift? Rank them in order of importance.
24. Look at table 41.3. What do you notice? Can this trend continue?
25. List and Explain the causes of legislative gridlock in the second term of the Obama administration.
26. Why is section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 unconstitutional? the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act?
27. What event, the end of the Cold War, the spread of computer technology, terrorists attacks on the WTC on 9/11 best represents the beginning of the 21st century? why?
1. As you read, try to assess the effects of the end of the Cold War on U.S. foreign policy.
2. Compare and contrast post 1965 migration patterns within and to the U.S. with the 1840s-1850s and the 1880-1920s.
3. As a new Democrat centrist, William Jefferson Clinton did more to consolidate than reverse the Reagan -Bush conservative revamping of New Deal liberalism. Support, refute, or modify this statement.
4. Assess the degree to which new migrants supplied the economy with an important labor force even as they became the focus of intense political, economic, and cultural debates.
5. Document the growing importance of the American South and West politically, economically and culturally as population shifted to those areas.
6. Trace increasing globalization and the accompanying economic instability and major policy, social, and environmental challenges.
7. Discuss the debates over free trade agreements (pro and con T chart) and how continued conflict in the Middle East led to debates over dependence on imported fossil fuels.
8. Explain the factors that led to increased computer technology and the Internet. What were the impacts of these changes on social behaviors and networks?
9. Explain how demographic changes intensified debates about gender roles, family structures, and racial and national identity.
10. Identify the Democratic Leadership Council and assess its influence on the national Democratic party in the 1990s.
11. What was so significant about the election of 1992? Map 40.1 should help on pg 958
12. Identify the Contract with America and explain why it had such strong appeal.
13. Identify the Oklahoma City bombing as discuss the point of view of a gov't worker, christian minister, Army vet and your personal reaction to the tragedy.
14. Read Makers of America: The Latinos and discuss the importance and impact of Latinos on U.S. culture, art, music, work, and politics.
15. Identify and discuss the importance of the Welfare Reform Act and relate this info. to number 3 above. Why did Democrats back this bill?
16. Read Shelby Steele's quote o pg 965 and and relate it to affirmative action. How would Jesse Jackson respond to Steele?
17. Create a T chart and have a list of African -American achievements since the Civil Rights era of the 1950s-1960s on one side and a list of areas that still need improvement, like the rates of Black incarceration, on the other.
18. Identify NAFTA, GATT, and the WTO. Evaluate Globalization on the U.S. by looking at it from the points of view of organized labor, republicans, democrats, corporate business.
19. Since the 1970s and the failure of the ERA amendment, assess the subject of women in the military, women in sports and women in politics. Create a list of achievements by women in these three areas.
20. Explain the U.S. response to conflicts in Somalia, Rwanda, and Bosnia and relate to number 1 above. Was the U.S. response adequate or inadequate?
21. Brainstorm a list of terrorists events in U. S. history prior to those listed on pg 971. Explain how U.S. military and economic involvement in the developing world and issues such as terrorism have changed U.S. foreign policy goals since the 1950s.
22. Identify the primary causes of Clintonian Impeachment. How is it alike and different from the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1867?
23. Identify and explain election 2000 and compare it to the elections of 1876 and 1824.
Chapter 41 Focus Questions
1. To what extent was Sept. 11, 2001 a turning point in U.S. history? Compare this attack to the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7,1941 and the surprise attack on Washington D.C. in the War of 1812.
2. Discuss the continuities and changes present in U.S. foreign policy since 1980.
3. How do attempts to improve security and restrictions on civil liberties after 9/11 compare to the ones in WWI and WWII?
4. Explain how the war on terror sought to improve security within the United States but also raised questions about the protection of civil liberties and human rights.
5. Identify and Explain foreign policy and military efforts agains terrorism in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
6. Explain about how growing concerns regarding climate change led to debates about the impact of economic consumption on the environment. Does climate change exist and if so, to what degree is modern man responsible for it?
7. Identify and give examples of weapons of mass destruction. (WMD)
8. List and explain ten events that are responsible for 9/11. Put them in chronological order first and do a causation exercise then rank them in order of importance and justify your ranking.
9. Identify the Patriot Act and Dept of Homeland Security and explain their link to 9/11.
10. Identify and explain the Axis of Evil in a speech by George W. Bush.
11. Read Examining the Evidence: The National Security Strategy, 2002 on pg 983. How did the administration describe and justify its departure from previous historical practice? How might future historians of the Bush presidency analyze the report? What is the tone suggest about the author's view of the U.S. and its place in the world?
12. Analyze the No Child Left Behind Act. What was the purpose? How has it affected students today?
13. What challenges did Bush face in his second term?
14. What factors made the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe so complex?
15. Why did Americans grow so dissatisfied with the U.S. involvement in Iraq?
16. Identify Abu Ghraib. Read Thinking Globally on pgs 990-91. Assess why many no longer viewed the U.S. as a global champion of justice, democracy and human rights. Create a T chart with those reasons on one side and what the U.S. should do to restore this feeling on the other.
17.Identify the Great Recession, TARP, deleveraging, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. What were the reasons for the Great Recession? What were the pros and cons of President Bush bailing out two mortgage and one insurance company?
18. To what extent is 2008 a turning point in U.S. history?
19. Create a T chart listing the pros and cons of Obamacare/Affordable Care Act.
20. Compare FDR's attempts to deal with the Great Depression with Obama's attempts to deal with the Great Recession. Create three columns-the first column is the problem, the second column is FDR's response and the third column is Obama's response. Create a new chart comparing FDR's and Obama's detractors.
21. Look at the photo of the White House situation room during the raid that took out Osama Bin Laden. Analyze this famous photo.
22. Discuss the growing emergence of ideologically disparate movements like Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, Black Lives Matter and others. What are the causes of the growth of these groups?
23. Look at the data in table 41.2. What has happened to the middle class since 1980? What are the causes behind this shift? Rank them in order of importance.
24. Look at table 41.3. What do you notice? Can this trend continue?
25. List and Explain the causes of legislative gridlock in the second term of the Obama administration.
26. Why is section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 unconstitutional? the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act?
27. What event, the end of the Cold War, the spread of computer technology, terrorists attacks on the WTC on 9/11 best represents the beginning of the 21st century? why?