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Jeopardy Economy Presidents Baby boom World Other Q $100 Q $100 Q $100
Final Jeopardy
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$100 Question from H1 Many workers felt less
secure in the 1990s because
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$100 Answer from H1 many companies were downsizing.
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$200 Question from H1 One result of the global economy
is that American workers now compete for jobs with
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$200 Answer from H1 workers in other countries.
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$300 Question from H1 The North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) and the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) have encouraged countries to
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$300 Answer from H1 participate in the global economy
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$400 Question from H1 Which of the following BEST
completes the following sentence: Opponents of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) worried that it would cause ____.
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$400 Answer from H1 American jobs to be moved to Mexico
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$500 Question from H1 According to the theory of supply-side
economics, ___ is the first step toward creating a healthy economy.
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$500 Answer from H1 cutting taxes
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$100 Question from H2 Bill Clinton became the second
president in U.S. history to be
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$100 Answer from H2 impeached by the House.
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$200 Question from H2 In an attempt to fill the Supreme
Court with conservatives, Reagan nominated ___, the first woman ever appointed to the Court.
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$200 Answer from H2 Sandra Day O'Connor
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$300 Question from H2 During Reagan’s second term,
United States relations with the Soviet Union
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$300 Answer from H2 improved
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$400 Question from H2 What was a major reason that President
George Bush responded forcefully to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait?
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$400 Answer from H2 He wanted to protect the flow of oil to the West.
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$500 Question from H2 During the campaign for President
in 1988, George Bush promised that he would
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$500 Answer from H2 not raise taxes.
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$100 Question from H3 The aging of America's population
will strain the government's ability to
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$100 Answer from H3 pay Social Security benefits.
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$200 Question from H3 The aging of the baby boom generation
will most likely result in
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$200 Answer from H3 an increase in Social Security spending
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$300 Question from H3 the rapidly growing number of Americans
over 65 years old has posed the greatest threat to___________ during the 1990s?
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$300 Answer from H3 Social Security and Medicare
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$400 Question from H3 What changes in American society
have caused problems for the Medicare program?
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$400 Answer from H3 rising costs and number of recipients
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$500 Question from H3 As a result of the Iran-Contra
Affair, President Reagan
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$500 Answer from H3 saw his personal popularity collapse
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$100 Question from H4 In the election of 2000, Al Gore first
conceded defeat based on predictions made by
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$100 Answer from H4 television networks.
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$200 Question from H4 The Strategic Defense Initiative
was an extremely costly
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$200 Answer from H4 missile defense system.
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$300 Question from H4 Presidents Reagan and Bush were
most successful in meeting their goal of
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$300 Answer from H4 making the Supreme Court more conservative.
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$400 Question from H4 In 1987, Soviet president Mikhail
Gorbachev announced his plans for ___, or a restructuring of the Soviet economy and government.
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$400 Answer from H4 perestroika
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$500 Question from H4 A direct result of the glasnost
policy might be ___.
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$500 Answer from H4 freedom of the press or speech
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$100 Question from H5 During the early 1980s, conservatives
objected to what they believed were excesses in
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$100 Answer from H5 government regulation.
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$200 Question from H5 The Persian Gulf War began when Saddam Hussein
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$200 Answer from H5 invaded Kuwait.
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$300 Question from H5 The North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) and the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) have encouraged countries to
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$300 Answer from H5 participate in the global economy
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$400 Question from H5 What was the main goal of Clinton’s
plan to reform the healthcare system?
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$400 Answer from H5 health insurance for every American
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$500 Question from H5 In the 1990’s under the leadership of
Boris Yeltsin, Russia attempted to become
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$500 Answer from H5 a democracy with a market economy
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Final Jeopardy Who decided the outcome of the 2000 election?
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Final Jeopardy Answer Supreme Court
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