1. 2-5: BIPARTISANSHIP AND The 1990S

2. Objectives
MIG 1.0 Explain the causes of migration to colonial North America, and later, the United States, and analyze immigration’s effects on U.S. society.
MIG 2.0 Analyze causes of internal migration and patterns of settlement in what would become the United States, and explain how migration has affected American life.
POL 3.0 Explain how different beliefs about the federal government’s role in U.S. social and economic life have affected political debates and policies.
WOR 2.0 Analyze the reasons for and results of U.S. diplomatic, economic, and military initiatives in North America and overseas.
WXT 2.0 Explain how patterns of exchange, markets, and private enterprise have developed, and analyze ways that governments have responded to economic issues.

3. Key Concept
Moving towards the end of the 20th century, the nation experienced significant technological, economic, and demographic changes.

4. Overview Domestic Policy Foreign Policy
Debates over free trade and the social safety net
Consequences of demographic shifts
Foreign Policy
New diplomatic relationships
Peacekeeping interventions

5. The Clinton years: prosperity and partisanship
Election of 1992
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Ross Perot
Results
Clinton’s First Term
Failure of Legislative Agenda
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Family and Medical Leave Act
Brady Bill

6. The Clinton years: prosperity and partisanship
Republicans Take Over Congress
“Contract with America”
Deficit Reduction and Surplus
Maintained Social Security and Medicare benefits
Welfare reform
Higher minimum wage
Technology Boom
Increase in service jobs, decrease in manufacturing
Stock market bubble
Impeachment
Globalization
NAFTA and the WTO

7. American society by 2000 Migration Immigration
“Rust belt” to “Sun belt” movement
Increased political, economic, and cultural influence of the South and West
Immigration
Increase from Latin America and Asia
Illegal immigration and worker status
Paid below minimum wage
Pay no taxes
Require costly entitlement benefits
Aging and Social Security
Income and Wealth Disparities