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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Kyoto Treaty


A) global warming
B) significantly reduced workforce
C) rules of war and treatment of prisoners
D) terrorist group
E) Afghanistan
F) U.S.prison in Iraq
G) Cuba
H) 2008 financial crisis
I) housing bubble
J) revealed the deep poverty in America
K) declared the Geneva Conventions the law of the land
L) preemptive strike

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Why did Goldman Sachs have to pay a fine of half a billion dollars in 2010?


A) It had underwritten most of the subprime mortgages during the real estate boom.
B) It had failed to document its business structure to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
C) It had knowingly sold toxic mortgage-based securities and then bet on their failure.
D) It had illegally financed the presidential campaign of Democratic president Obama.
E) It had failed to reform its management and business practice in the wake of the mortgage crisis.

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -John Roberts


A) sponsored a bill banning the use of torture
B) Bush's secretary of state
C) House majority leader
D) Obama appointee to the Supreme Court
E) inability to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency effectively
F) Democratic presidential candidate in 2008
G) compassionate conservative
H) chief political adviser
I) attorney general
J) chief justice of the Supreme Court
K) Republican activist and lobbyist
L) elected president in 2008

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Which of the following statements about Saddam Hussein turned out to be true?


A) He possessed a mobile chemical weapons laboratory.
B) He had hidden weapons of mass destruction in his many palaces.
C) He was a horrible tyrant who ruled Iraq ruthlessly.
D) He was hiding in his palace as a safe haven from the war.
E) He was seeking to acquire uranium in Africa to build nuclear weapons.

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Hillary Clinton


A) sponsored a bill banning the use of torture
B) Bush's secretary of state
C) House majority leader
D) Obama appointee to the Supreme Court
E) inability to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency effectively
F) Democratic presidential candidate in 2008
G) compassionate conservative
H) chief political adviser
I) attorney general
J) chief justice of the Supreme Court
K) Republican activist and lobbyist
L) elected president in 2008

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -George W.Bush


A) sponsored a bill banning the use of torture
B) Bush's secretary of state
C) House majority leader
D) Obama appointee to the Supreme Court
E) inability to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency effectively
F) Democratic presidential candidate in 2008
G) compassionate conservative
H) chief political adviser
I) attorney general
J) chief justice of the Supreme Court
K) Republican activist and lobbyist
L) elected president in 2008

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Michael Brown


A) sponsored a bill banning the use of torture
B) Bush's secretary of state
C) House majority leader
D) Obama appointee to the Supreme Court
E) inability to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency effectively
F) Democratic presidential candidate in 2008
G) compassionate conservative
H) chief political adviser
I) attorney general
J) chief justice of the Supreme Court
K) Republican activist and lobbyist
L) elected president in 2008

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The unemployment rate for African-Americans was double that for whites.

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What did "freedom" mean for Americans in the early twenty-first century? Was America an "exceptional" nation? How so? Describe the range of freedoms people experienced,or perhaps did not experience.How would Americans describe their status at home and in the world by the end of the Obama presidency? Explain.

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Write an essay that analyzes the successes and failures of Mexican immigration since the 1930s,paying close attention to the debates surrounding Mexican immigration today.

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Had President George W.Bush kept his focus on the issue that most concerned the foreign policy "realists" in his administration,he would have:


A) continued the pursuit of Al Qaeda, which was maintaining its capabilities.
B) kept the world's attention on North Korea.
C) prepared a liberation of the Darfur region in western Sudan.
D) invaded Iran.
E) continued his fight for an independent Tibet.

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The Hurricane Katrina disaster highlighted which of the following to Americans in 2005?


A) The housing crisis was a minor problem compared to natural disaster.
B) Global warming required immediate action and generous government funds.
C) The nation and its economic recovery remained dependent on the price of oil.
D) Racial segregation in the lower wards of New Orleans had not changed since the 1950s.
E) A Democratically dominated Congress was as unsympathetic to the poor as a Republican one.

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