America in the New Millennium

5. a severe economic downturn caused by the collapse of the U.S. housing market and risky financial practices, leading to widespread bank failures and recession.
7. refers to doing business on the internet, which is a method gradually replacing many brick and mortar forms of business.
8. one of the most damaging natural disasters in U.S. history. Some believe the federal government was too slow to help.
9. --- of 2001, a government measure in response to the threat of terrorism giving the federal government greater surveillance powers.
10. when pollutants in the atmosphere prevent heat from escaping into space, which has permanently raised global temperatures to dangerous levels.
11. resulted in the 1st African American President, Barak Obama
13. a company that has set up local companies, or subsidiaries, in several countries in order to sell their products around the world.
14. --- Act of 2009, designed to jumpstart the American economy with more than $700 billion to be spent by the federal government in a bailout package.

1. an attack on the United States planned and carried out by Osama Bin Laden and his organization, al-Qaeda.
2. a federal agency created during the Bush administration to manage security at US airports in response to 9/11.
3. the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice and the third woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
4. the response by President Bush and allies to invade Afghanistan for protecting the planner of the 9/11 attacks, Osama Bin Laden.
6. passed during the Obama Administration, which sought to make health care available to more Americans.
11. closest election in U.S. History. Al Gore won the popular vote but George W. Bush won the electoral vote.
12. required states to test all students in English and mathematics each year from the third to the eighth grade.