Miss Harris Worksheet Molly

The Clinton Agenda Worksheet
26:1-2 Pgs 892-906
• The domestic concerns were skyrocketing ______________________, increase in __________ and ________ related crimes, and a need for _______________________.
• For the first time in ____ years, there was no ________ threat, but that was overshadowed by our _______________.
• Bush made Clinton out to be a ____________________________________.
• Clinton attacked Bush’s _________________________________________.
• The Brady Act (named after Reagan’s press secretary, who was permanently injured after an attempt on Reagan’s life in 1981) passed in November, 1993. It required a waiting period for the purchase of ______________ in order to allow time for a ______________________________________________________.
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Communist Yugoslavia, made up, began to dissolve when Slovenia, Croatia, and Macedonia declare their independence in 1991. In 1992 Bosnia-Herzegovina did the same. The last two republics, Serbia and Montenegro declared their independence, but nobody listened to them.
• All of this triggered long-standing rivalries among three major groups: _______, _______, and ___________________. For six months the brutal fighting went on until the United States and ______ declared an ________ on all the Balkan republics.
• In 1991, Haitian military had overthrown the nation’s first _______________________, Jean Bertrand Aristide, and instituted a policy of _____________.
• In the fall of 1994, the UN allowed the United States to invade Haiti in order to keep the peace. We returned Aristide to power, and the Haitians elected _____________ to follow Aristide. We left in ______. All was normal in _______.
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Congress went under some extreme changes, mostly from the majority being Democratic (258 to 176) to the Republicans now having the majority (230-204). This meant new leadership at all levels.
• ____________________- A group of Republicans and Democrats working together on issues.
• __________________- the first 100 days in office where the Republican controlled congress passed 34 bills (Two of which had Democratic support) .
(**The first of these two laws required that all laws that applied to the nation applied to the Congress. This brought the House and Senate together in compliance with civil rights and equal employment regulations, appealing to the public because it symbolized greater accountability of elected officials.**)
• What the voters saw was our government mired over three critical issues - __________________________, _______________________________, and ______________________________.
• ___________________- Laws and projects that bring jobs and money into legislators’ districts, thus increasing their popularity.
• The Comeback Kid -
• T or F - Clinton was reelected as the first Democrat to be reelected since FDR.
• T or F - Clinton’s opponent, Perot, had 159 in the electoral count.