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SOL REVIEW: AMERICAN
HISTORY
Reagan-Clinton
The "supply side" economics of President Ronald
Reagan and President George Bush favored
1. raising tariffs to increase the number of imports
2. increasing Federal taxes to support social welfare
programs
3. providing incentives to stimulate business growth
4. establishing government programs to provide jobs
for the unemployed
In 1988, Congress voted to pay $20,000 to each of
the surviving Americans of Japanese descent who
were interned during World War II because
1. the danger of war with Japan no longer existed
2. all of the interned Japanese Americans eventually
became American citizens
3. the World Court ordered the United States to pay
reparations
4. many Americans believed the internment was
unjust and unnecessary
A primary reason for the increase in federal debt
between 1980 and 1996 was
1. the cost of sending United States troops to
Bosnia
2. instability of the stock market
3. lower sales tax revenues collected by state
governments
4. high levels of spending by the federal
government
During the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan used
the ideas of supply-side economics to justify
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increases in social welfare spending
expansion of the Social Security program
tax cuts for businesses
reductions in military spending
President Ronald Reagan’s supply-side
economic policy was successful in
1. increasing government spending on social
programs
2. lowering tax rates on personal and business
income
3. reducing defense spending
4. enforcing stricter environmental regulations
One important conclusion that can be drawn as a result of
the United States experience in both the Spanish-American
War (1898) and the Persian Gulf War (1991) is that
1. only the President should decide issues of war and
peace
2. the media are a powerful influence in shaping
American public opinion toward war
3. the public has little confidence in the ability of the
American military
4. international organizations play a decisive role in
determining the outcome of a war
For the United States, the breakup of the
Soviet Union has had the greatest effect on
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import quotas
immigration policies
advances in technology
defense spending
One direct result of the Persian Gulf War was that
the United States
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gained control of oil resources in the Middle
East
liberated Kuwait from Iraqi control
brought about peaceful relations between
Israel and its neighbors
obtained overseas colonies in the Middle East
The growth of modern technology has resulted
in
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a decrease in the population of the world
increasing interdependence among nations
a growing need for unskilled labor
a sharp decline in the need for oil and coal
The Korean War and the Persian Gulf War were
similar in that both
1. represented United Nations efforts to assist
nations in repelling aggressors
2. involved unilateral military action by the United
States
3. were military defeats for the United Nations
4. brought about lasting solutions to problems in
each region
Support for the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) reflected the United States
commitment to
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globalization
Manifest Destiny
collective security
isolationism
In 1991, one of the reasons President George H. W.
Bush committed United States troops to the Persian
Gulf War was to
1. maintain the flow of trade through the Suez Canal
2. fulfill military obligations as a member of the
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
3. contain the spread of communism in the Middle
East
4. assure the flow of Middle East oil to the United
States and its allies
The point of view expressed in this cartoon is that
1. President and Mrs.
Clinton have made
Chicago their new home
2. President Clinton
supports adoption over
abortion
3. Republican issues
should not be part of
the Democratic National
Convention
4. Democrats were looking
to adopt bipartisan
policies
The beginning of the collapse of communism in
Eastern Europe is most closely associated with the
1. fall of the Berlin Wall
2. admission of Warsaw Pact nations to the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
3. intervention of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) in Yugoslavia
4. formation of the European Union