Unit 6, Chapter 40

Question 1

Democratic leadership council (DLC)

Answer 1

• nonprofit organization of Centris Democrats founded in the mid-1980s
• attempted to push the party toward progrowth, strong defense, and anti crime policies

Question 2

Don’t ask, don’t tell (1993-2010)

Answer 2

• policy affected homosexuals in the military
• emerged as a compromise between the standing prohibition against homosexuals in the Armed Forces and President Clinton’s push to allow all citizens to serve regardless of sexual orientation

Question 3

Oklahoma City bombing (1995)

Answer 3

-truck bomb explosion that killed 169 people in a federal office building on April 19, 1955-perpetrated by right wing and antigovernment militant Timothy mcveigh

Question 4

Contract with America (1944)

Answer 4

• Multi point program offered by republican candidates and sitting politicians in the 1994 midterm election
• significant blow to the Clinton administration
• Led to the Republican Party’s takeover of both houses of Congress for the first time in half a century

Question 5

welfare reform bill (1996)

Answer 5

-legislation that made deep cuts in welfare grants and required able bodied welfare recipients to find employment

Question 6

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Answer 6

• past despite opposition from protectionists and labor leaders
• lower tariffs and easier trade

Question 7

World trade organization(WTO) (1995)

Answer 7

-International body to promote and supervise liberal trade among nations

Question 8

Whitewater

Answer 8

-A series of scandals during the Clinton administration that stemmed from a failed real-estate investment from which the Clintons were allegedly to have illicitly profited

Question 9

Lewinsky affair (1998-1999)

Answer 9

• political sex scandal in Bill Clinton’s impeachment and trial by Congress
• Clinton lied under oath about an affair with Monica Lewinsky