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Required Reading
Foner Chapter 27
Zinn Chapter 25
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Assignment
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Identify the major international initiatives of the Clinton administration after the Cold War.
Explain the forces that drove the economic resurgence of the 1990s.
Examine the cultural conflicts that emerged in the 1990s.
Discuss how divisive political partisanship affected the election of 2000.
Why was 1980 one of the most momentous in the twentieth century?
Describe the different visions of the U.S role in the post-Cold War world as identified by President George H.W. Bush and President Clinton.
Explain Clinton's political strategy of combining social liberalism with conservative economic ideas.
What are the causes and consequences of the growing "prison-industrial complex"?
Identify the factors that, in the midst of the 1990s prosperity, increased the levels of inequality in the United States.
What are the similarities and differences between immigration patterns of the 1990s and earlier?
What main issue gave rise to the Culture Wars of the 1990s?
Assess the role of the Supreme Court in the Presidential Election of 2000.
What is globalization, and how did it affect the United States in the 1990s?