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Unit 10 Exam Overview

Unit 10 Exam Overview. “This is my Life” Timeline (take-home part of exam) due on Thursday (125 points) In-class portion of exam on Friday (50 points) 35 Multiple Choice Questions (1 point each) Chapters 28, 29, 30, 31 2 Short Answer Questions (a 10 point question and a 5 point question)

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Unit 10 Exam Overview

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  1. Unit 10 Exam Overview • “This is my Life” Timeline (take-home part of exam) due on Thursday (125 points) • In-class portion of exam on Friday (50 points) • 35 Multiple Choice Questions (1 point each) • Chapters 28, 29, 30, 31 • 2 Short Answer Questions (a 10 point question and a 5 point question) • We will have a detailed review in class on Thursday

  2. Clinton Years

  3. Clinton’s Agenda • Focus on Five Areas: • Economy • Family • Education • Crime • Health Care

  4. Economy • Fix the federal deficit • Under Reagan and Bush the deficit nearly quadrupled • Lower interest rates, cut spending, raise taxes • Tax hike very unpopular after he campaigned to cut taxes • Raised taxes on middle and upper income Americans • New taxes on gasoline, heating oil, and natural gases

  5. Health Care Reform • 15% of Americans lacked health insurance • Task force headed by Hillary Rodham Clinton • Plan to guarantee health benefits for all Americans • Burden of paying for it on employers (Small-businesses feared this) • Doctors and insurance industry campaigned against plan • Republicans against it, Democrats divided, no plan passed

  6. Families • Family Medical Leave Act • Up to 12 weeks/year of unpaid family leave for birth or adoption of a child or for illness of a family member • AmeriCorps • Students to work improving low-income housing, teaching children to read, and cleaning up the environment • Volunteers earn a salary and get a scholarship to improve education

  7. Crime and Gun Control • Gun-control laws (Brady Bill) • Waiting period before purchases • Background checks • Funding for new prisons and for 100,000 more officers on the streets • Also banned 19 assault weapons and provided money for crime prevention programs

  8. Republicans gain control of Congress • Clinton unpopular but successful • Raised taxes, failed to fix health care, economy improving • Newt Gingrich: Contract with America • Lower taxes, welfare reform, anticrime laws, term limits for Congress, and balanced budget amendment • Most passed in now GOP led House, but were shot down in Senate or vetoed by Clinton

  9. Budget Battles • Clinton vetoes Republican budget • Gingrich refuses to negotiate or bend • Assumes Clinton will not allow gov’t to shutdown • Clinton holds ground, government closes • Republicans realize they need to work with President Clinton • Clinton regains support from Americans for holding his ground

  10. 1996 Campaign • Clinton works with Republicans for Health Coverage laws and Welfare Reform • Clinton takes credit for economic boom: longest sustained growth in US history • Unemployment and inflation fell to lowest levels in 40 years • Markets soaring, crime falling

  11. And the results are…

  12. Clinton’s Second Term • Economy continues to grow • Balanced budget…even a surplus! • Putting Children First • Cigarette advertising bans • Health Insurance programs • Increase in Student Grants

  13. Impeachment • Independent Counsel led by Kenneth Starr to look into Clinton potentially arranging illegal loans while Arkansas Governor • Scandal about personal relationship with WH intern and whether he committed perjury • Perjury: Lying under Oath • Starr concludes study and says Clinton obstructed justice, abused powers as president, and committed perjury

  14. Impeachment Hearings • House of Reps passed two articles of impeachment and case moved to Senate for trial • Perjury: 55-45 not guilty • Obstruction of Justice: 50-50 • Both fell far short of 2/3 vote needed

  15. Foreign Policy • Haiti • Influx of refugees • UN trade embargo to try to restore democracy • Role of Jimmy Carter • Bosnia: Christian Serbs begin ethnic cleansing Bosnian Muslims (brutal expulsion of an ethnic group for a geographic area) • Some cases of slaughter instead of moving Muslims • Dayton Accords for peace

  16. Kosovo • Serbs v. Albanians • Albanians want Kosovo separate from Serbia • Milosevic (Serbian Leader) cracks down on movement • Albanians organize army to fight • NATO gets involved, Serbs pull out of Kosovo

  17. Middle East • Saddam Hussein and the Kurds • Israel and Palestine • Rabin and Arafat • Declaration of Principles to form Palestinian Gov’t • Opposition to agreement common; Rabin killed • Barak (new Prime Minister) meets with Arafat • Jordan and Israel

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