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- 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.
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- 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.